Notices by Public Enemy Exposed (pee@mastodon.online)

Very impressed and very surprised, one of my service providers sent me a spreadsheet in '.ods' today. 👏👏. #SouthAfrica #LibreOffice #OpenOffice #Collabora #OpenSource #FOSS

"This data can be collected for any purpose, or even for none at all. And taken in the aggregate, this data can paint a detailed picture of your daily life—a picture that is more cheaply and easily accessed by the government than ever before."

"When we spend time fighting the expansion of Automated License Plate Readers capable of tracking cars as they move, or the growing ubiquity of both public and private surveillance cameras, we often hear a familiar refrain: “you don’t have an expectation of privacy in public.” This is not true." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/you-really-do-have-some-expectation-privacy-public #Surveillance #Privacy

"Because of this, we’re at risk of exposing more information about ourselves in public than we were in decades past. This, in turn, affects how we think about privacy in public. While your expectation of privacy is certainly different in public than it would be in your private home, there is no legal rule that says you lose all expectation of privacy whenever you’re in a public place."

"This is where mass surveillance comes in. While it is unreasonable to assume that everything you do in public will be kept private from prying eyes, there is a real expectation that when you travel throughout town over the course of a day—running errands, seeing a doctor, going to or from work, attending a protest—that the entirety of your movements is not being precisely tracked, stored by a single entity, and freely shared with the government." #MassSurveillance #VumaCam #Vumatel #SouthAfrica