Been trying to stress this point for years...

[ggmcbg@mstdn.plus]

@chrisafk

Yup. It was always "you have nothing to worry about if you're not doing anything wrong." That was a sickening chorus from yogurt-faced wads after Trayvon Martin was shot dead by some dirty stalking pest.

[chrisafk@fosstodon.org]

@normjess something that always comes to mind for me is the sheer completeness of Facebook profile data. All your beliefs, opinions, your identity, your close family and friends, your frequented locations... Its only a matter of time before all this data is used for some large scale, systematic, potentially life ending manifestation of human cruelty

[punissuer@universeodon.com]

@chrisafk they don't even need to change anything - there are more than 3.500 federal criminal statues and over 300.000 federal regulations that carry criminal penalties.
It's just a matter of time until anyone trips over something.
—https://rightoncrime.com/when-everything-is-a-crime-why-the-count-the-crimes-to-cut-act-matters/

[octothorpe@mastodon.online]

@chrisafk @DeliaChristina ::says without blinking and smelling vaguely of piss::

“I know the names of your children and when they leave for school, the route they take and the time and route they come home.”

Still want those cameras?

[claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social]

@chrisafk I'm adding this comment because something unusual happened to my computer after playing that TikTok video: my monitor display went black. It recovered and my machine notified me that the driver had stopped working and then recovered. Now I have to wonder about hidden malware in such things.

[meejah@mastodon.social]

@chrisafk Doesn't take very many questions until you find out they actually _do_ care about privacy:

- list all your prescriptions
- what is your bank balance?
- can I post all your DMs on my Web site?

[sierrakomodo@tech.lgbt]

@chrisafk The people pushing for mass surveillance are the same people who think my mere existence is immoral and illegal.

Yeah no.

[garretpolk@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@chrisafk Whether or not you're doing something wrong won't be decided by you.

"I don't have anything to hide."
"Do you have anything to protect?"

[nachtflug@glasgow.social]

@chrisafk

So basically everyone who has nothing to hide is saying, "No matter which laws might exist in the future I‘m fine obeying them cause otherwise I do have something to hide

[divverent@misskey.de]

@chrisafk@fosstodon.org Also, almost everyone saying this speeds.

[yourdailymale@mastodon.social]

@chrisafk B I N G O !

[kittenkoder@mastodon.social]

@chrisafk The cameras for specific functions like running red lights and speeding I support only because those behaviors are causing the deaths of more than 20 pedestrians per day in the USA. But they need to be regulated by the state and have total transparency within limits.

[krutonium@social.treehouse.systems]

@chrisafk I often point out that they have a door on the bathroom.

[sun@shitposter.world]

@chrisafk it’s almost always a woman saying it though

[subnetter@shitposter.world]

@sun @chrisafk it's a piece by L.A Taco, so I think this is supposed to represent MAGA who want Flock surveillance

[sun@shitposter.world]

@subnetter @chrisafk that could be

[jonesmurphy@mastodon.social]

@mysturji @chrisafk not just the gov't at all. The USA was born in enormous, overwhelmingly private mass surveillance in pursuit of genocide, slavery & apartheid. The US leads the world in imprisonment ever since Civil Rights, primarily due to mass surveillance by state & local cops.

[evilotto@sfba.social]

@chrisafk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts__IIJ5KLQ

"If you're doing nothing wrong, what is there to fear?"
"I'm fearing your definition of wrong."

[cupz@mas.to]

@chrisafk Been saying this since 2007 if you can believe it, and I was an idiot teen back then.

[simontol@mastodon.social]

@chrisafk unless you're a "communist" whatever that means for the fascist governments.