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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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College students used Meta’s smart glasses to dox people in real time (www.theverge.com)

submitted 12 hours ago by PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Can the doxxing tech be used to ID law enforcement officers? A lot of them are assholes and bullies knowing their IDs will e protected by state and corporate interests.

And police in the US are more than eager to use facial recognition and ALPR services to bypass our fourth amendment protections.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 8 points 3 hours ago

Take a photo of a cop, upload it to the website, and find out.
Report back.