• aggelalex@lemmy.world
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      Cameras with microphones. Once a loud vehicle is detected the license plate has to be photographed.

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        It reminds me of the case in NY where they charged someone for murder because they caught his license plate while he was driving near a shooting with no evidence whatsoever other than being near the shooting.

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        Great, for added big brother points, the government could literally listen to every conversation on every street corner…

        Edit. Perhaps someone could enlighten me as to why the police having live recording microphones everywhere is a good idea, generally you’d need a warrant to record citizens.

        But sure, this is just for loud exhausts and has no other possible uses. Lol!

        I always ask myself with these sorts of things, what would the CCP do?

        China’s ambition to collect a staggering amount of personal data from everyday citizens is more expansive than previously known, a Times investigation has found. Phone-tracking devices are now everywhere. The police are creating some of the largest DNA databases in the world. And the authorities are building upon facial recognition technology to collect voice prints from the general public.

        https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/21/world/asia/china-surveillance-investigation.html

        I don’t think it’s wise to install potential dual use surveillance tech that a future government/leader could use

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          Have you been sleeping under a rock for the last 15 years? If the government wants to listen to you, they’ll just use the microphone in your pocket. Or better: they don’t listen to your incoherent ramblings and go straight for your search history, which is much more interesting than what you are generally talking about.

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            I don’t know if you know this, but it’s pretty easy for someone to make private their phone, search history, etc. You just need to be a little dedicated and sacrifice some usability.

            You cannot do the same with microphones listening everywhere that you do not own.

            Have some sense.

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                Unless there’s something beyond switching DNS, using a VPN and your own router/modem. It’s maybe 100$ up front and ~3-5 per month to be able to circumvent any telecom.

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                  You mean the VPN advertising everywhere, who gives out the user data whenever a goverment agency knocks on the door? Or the other big name VPN, where the company owner has another business that makes money by selling users internet data?

                  Yeah, i’m sure they will bend over backwards and file lawsuits to “protect your privacy” for $5/month…

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                  Switching DNS does jack squat for your privacy. Any telecom worth their salt can read all DNS requests no matter which DNS you talk to. They only don’t filter content on alternative DNSes because they don’t care about filtering/blocking in general unless forced to by law.

                  Using a VPN doesn’t add privacy, it just swapps out who is monitoring your traffic. Many VPN services are actually owned/run by secret services or cooperate with them (like NordVPN). Others are directly run by criminals who use them to steal data or inject malware. Also, VPN providers also have ISPs that reside in countries. In the very best case it’s not your ISP spying on you, but the VPN’s ISP. In the worst case, you now have an ISP and a VPN provider spying on you.

                  Your own router/modem again does nothing at all for your privacy.

                  That’s what I mean: people think they are doing privacy enhancing things, but actually what they are doing isn’t helping at all.

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                    As someone who knows a bit more about privacy in networking than watching the sponsored bits in YouTube videos, I agree with the examples you posed, but there are other technologies to fix your DNS leaking to your ISP. One of them being DNS over HTTPS. It’s default in Firefox, and pretty hard to crack just like any other HTTPS query. All your ISP can know is that you’re potentially making a DNS query. Another option is a local DNS server cache. Choose some domains you wanna be able to access, and diligently update your local cache using HTTPS from existing DNS servers every fortnight. Your DNS queries will never escape your LAN.

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              Your ISP knows all the websites you go to. They might not know the contents due to encryption, but they do know websites.

              And for search, well, google knows everything. Unless you use something else than google. But few people do, and bing isn’t much better.

              That’s even assuming the phones themselves don’t have backdoors. Unless you run a custom android OS… which definitively almost nobody does.

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                All of those things are within the dedication to privacy. A lot of upfront time commitment but near effortless after the fact. On desktop it’s even easier.

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            The fact that we have a technology such that do not justify his use nor an expansion of the surveillance. Au contraire it is the time to fight back.

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              Well then fight back. Relinquish your phone first, as it’s the easiest thing to.

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          This can be done without constantly recording or transmitting what the microphone perceives. It can simply start recording sound and picture when a noise is detected that is loud enough / matches the pattern we’re looking for. This can be done just on the device. No big brother tech needed.

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            None needed, but that doesn’t stop autocratic regimes from doing mass surveillance.

            China’s ambition to collect a staggering amount of personal data from everyday citizens is more expansive than previously known, a Times investigation has found. Phone-tracking devices are now everywhere. The police are creating some of the largest DNA databases in the world. And the authorities are building upon facial recognition technology to collect voice prints from the general public.

            https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/21/world/asia/china-surveillance-investigation.html

            I don’t think it’s wise to install potential dual use surveillance tech that a future government/leader could use

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          A system like this isn’t any less harmful to privacy than speed cameras, is it?assuming it’s not implemented with a bunch of other non privacy friendly features (which I’d argue isn’t an issue with the microphone)

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      Many of them in a grid.

      One microphone would be like having 1 ear. If you’ve ever known someone who is deaf in 1 ear, they have trouble locating the direction sounds come from. IIRC, the implementation involves something like ~50—100 or so microphones. If you have a lot of noise entering your house you can point the thing towards a window and it will generate a heat map image showing red color where the noise is the highest.