From my experience it seems to require verification or payment if you try to create multiple accounts over a short period of time, or if you create an account over Tor or a VPN. There might be other triggers that set it off but those are the ones I’ve found

The threat of public wifi isn’t as big of a deal as it used to be. Before widespread VPNs and when internet traffic was unencrypted, anything you transmitted could be read by someone else on the network. But nowadays all an eavesdropper would see is what websites you’re connecting to (without a VPN) or the VPN if you are using one. Happy to be corrected if I’m mistaken though

TikTok’s whole purpose is mass data-harvesting of its users. An app designed to do that while being owned by foreign nation is a valid concern to point out. Of course, the US doesn’t actually care about anyone’s privacy, they just want the data for themselves. Hence wanting a sale to a US company rather than going after the actual data collection

Obligatory “not all the leftists!” but you’re right. I guarantee nobody in this thread actually gives a shit about the plight in indigenous communities or has any interest in materialist change tackling the dearth of jobs and opportunities fueling rampant alcoholism and abuse. They don’t want to do anything good, they just want to guilt trip so they can feel superior

The whole law is one knee-jerk shitheap, brought on by a media and population demanding the government do ‘something’

All of this was done in close collaboration with the local police, despite these uses violating a 2022 ordinance that placed narrow limits on the use of facial recognition

If companies and law enforcement aren’t going to follow laws then why should citizens? A bit of coordinated vandalism would combat this shit

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I mean I can tell the difference easily, I just have no stands & am poor

Don’t knock garbage instant coffee. I’m 27 and I live off that shit

I take some evasive measures if I know someone has a camera but generally it’s something I try not to think about. Our culture encourages privacy invasion and most people are happy to give up their own (or others’) if they’re told to. You’ve just gotta assume every step you take outside your house is being recorded

One of the very few things I liked about covid was (somewhat) normalising face coverings. But now that’s mostly gone

It’s not about protecting he public

I think we’re heading that way too. But they’ll make sure to carve out an exception for themselves of course

Better than SMS I suppose but still pointless for my needs. No encryption = no usage from me

What are you wanting to use it for? I use prepaid cards for most shopping online and just enter fake details if it’s a digital purchase. But obviously that only works for buying things, not being paid

Recognise the mass shooting for the tragic but extremely rare occurrence that it is, address the intelligence failures that led to the shooters not being discovered earlier, and leave protestors and lawful gun owners alone

Just gotta get them first before other people scratch up the discs. About half the movies I borrow from my library have read/write errors

This country has spent the last 25 years voting for policy designed to supercharge housing prices and sell out future generations. Even with our current crisis we still vote to drive prices up. No government with a plan to even stagnate housing costs has a hope in hell of being elected. Australians won’t have it. Besides younger and poorer demographics who walk through life knowing they’ll never own a house and that their peers want to keep it that way.

What do you need me to clarify?

Australia is also overwhelmingly against affordable housing. Being in the majority doesn’t make it right