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Shouldn’t Elon’s public surveillance on wheels get more focus than things we have personal control over, like Facebook? (belgae.social)

submitted 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) by autonomousPunk@belgae.social to c/ETS@europe.pub

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Although I applaud efforts like this to regulate the technofeudal fiefdoms, it’s disturbing how that movement has so much attention in comparison to the fact that Tesla’s cars impose surveillance on everyone who travels outside of their home.

I can escape Facebook to a sufficiently good enough extent by not creating an account. The fact that FB tries to track non-users is minor in the big scheme of things.

Where I have zero control is when I am out on the street, and a Tesla or Google car intersects my path. The robocams take a pic of me, likely performs facial recognition (I assume), and then my realtime location and face are captured by Tesla or Google without my knowledge or consent. Then if I want to send them a GDPR right to be forgotten request everytime their car passes me, I have to send them a copy of my ID to prove my identity, as well as my address so I can receive my reply.

This situation is fucked up in so many ways. There is no personal action I can take to protect myself other than to not leave my home. This is where regulation is most needed.

(edit) Well, I suppose I could wear a ski mask everywhere. But I don’t suppose the police would leave me alone in that case -- considering the burqua is banned in Belgium due to police being unable to ID someone whose face is covered.

The Enshittificator in c/enshitification@slrpnk.net

[–] autonomousPunk@belgae.social 21 points 1 day ago

Grabbed the PDF and commented over here with:

The Norweigans missed the most important (and easiest!) action:

Public services themselves need to get off Facebook & Twitter. If they can’t walk the walk and take their own advice, it’s not just an optical embarrassment. As someone who already boycotts the shitty gatekeepers (Cloudflare, google, ms, fb, apple, twtr), I am already free from enshittification

except when I must interact with a public service.

WTF?! The only unmanagable evil force I must deal with comes from the gov itself, who imposes shitty gatekeepers in the course of doing public tasks. I can’t boycott the government.

Belgian public services ALL use Microsoft for their email. So you should do everything on paper in Belgium. But what do they do? They scan paper letter/form/submissions and then they email it to themselves via Microsoft’s server. I shit you not. Microsoft is inescapable even by the most disciplined. And it’s only because the government itself will not ditch the motherfuckers.

Exceptionally, it’s somewhat redeeming that the Norweigans mention that public services should use open source. But that just scratches the surface. The very first thing they should do is get off Facebook and Twitter.

Breaking free: European digital rights groups start new campaign to reduce dependency on big tech and warn about the risks of deregulation in c/Europe@europe.pub

[–] autonomousPunk@belgae.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The Norweigans missed the most important (and easiest!) action:

Public services themselves need to get off Facebook & Twitter. If they can’t walk the walk and take their own advice, it’s not just an optical embarrassment. As someone who already boycotts the shitty gatekeepers (Cloudflare, google, ms, fb, apple, twtr), I am already free from enshittification

except when I must interact with a public service.

WTF?! The only unmanagable evil force I must deal with comes from the gov itself, who imposes shitty gatekeepers in the course of doing public tasks. I can’t boycott the government.

Belgian public services ALL use Microsoft for their email. So you should do everything on paper in Belgium. But what do they do? They scan paper letter/form/submissions and then they email it to themselves via Microsoft’s server. I shit you not. Microsoft is inescapable even by the most disciplined. And it’s only because the government itself will not ditch the motherfuckers.

Exceptionally, it’s somewhat redeeming that the Norweigans mention that public services should use open source. But that just scratches the surface. The very first thing they should do is get off Facebook and Twitter.