Increasingly, surveillance is being normalized and integrated in our lives. Under the guise of convenience, applications and features are sold to us as being the new better way to do things. While some might be useful, this convenience is a Trojan horse. The cost of it is the continuous degradation of our privacy rights, with all that that entails.

Parking apps is an interesting one:

  • it is very convenient to not have to run back and put more money in the meter if your appointment / event goes over time
  • there are some significant privacy issues
  • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
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    2 days ago

    The worst one, for me, is banking. All banks in my country discontinued development of their in-browser online banking. They replaced it with smartphone apps (that are itself webviews 🤔), making android or apple phones the only way to do online banking. Even jailbroken ones they detect.

    Then my government forced the banks to hand over balance and transactions to the tax department (1).

    The mass surveilance machine is being build before our eyes, and no one cares, as it’s all for solidarity and equality, ofcourse.