But how is a car getting Genetic information.

Fart sniffing seat sensors?

If the dealer thinks they can get away with

That is different than "voids your warranty "

That’s just normal dealer shenanigans.

I don’t get it either, but it was also a big problem on Reddit for years.

Not necessarily.

A phone that goes to a university campus for a few hours each day then to a mall for 4 hours every evening will imply a much different level of income than one that goes to bankers row on Bay Street during the day, and also goes to some international destination for a week at a time several times a year.

All without needing to know exactly who is paying the phone bill, or who is carrying the phone.

Apparently, the company hired to do the analysis can tell someone’s age and income level from cellphone data.

According to Environics own website they use cellular data in combination with other databases to infer those demographic signals.

It doesn’t use only cell data to determine your age or income category.

Exempted for now…

I would like to remind viewers that image is over 20 years old, and remains relevant (even more today than it ever was).

Depends how these new laws are written.

Is it fair to say: The field is benign

It is benign if it is optional, remains 100% local and under the user’s control and doesn’t prevent other software from functioning as expected.

Those are also entirely optional and not having them filled in doesn’t cause other software to stop doing what the user wants.

So… if the law interferes with your goals, apparently it is now perfectly fine to just ignore it.

That seems to be the approach the US government is taking.

To fit knoppix into this, I would need to back the windows exit date off by a decade or so.

You can also try Kdenlive, though I have previously had problems with it

It has had a lot of development in the past few years.

I haven’t had a crash in … I can’t remember the last time. probably at least 2 years.

Epstein’s “day job” was being a socialite.

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because he was the guy who knew everybody in a position of power, his network shows who has the power.

Exactly. He was actively seeking out wealthy and influential people to add to his circle of influence.

almost no citizens want surveillance

Yet masses of people are voluntarily paying good money to have corporate spy cameras and listening devices installed in their homes.

Devices that can (and have) leak personal information to both criminals (in the traditional sense) and government agencies.

lol yeah that’s not gonna fly in court.

Doesn’t mean they won’t try.

Wasting everyone’s time and money in the process, while hoping to bankrupt anyone standing in their way with obscenely huge legal bills.

Why they push AI so much where it’s not needed.

Because they “need” to intrude on every second of everyone’s life in order to increase their profits.

How those profits will increase is probably by shoving more advertising down your throat once their “advanced technology” has been inextricably entwined into everything.

You don’t necessarily have to put in the time to remove them. You can also quickly re-decorate them with a bit of spray paint and then move along before anyone has a chance to react to your presence…

To be fair, it’s never DNS ;]

Sometimes it’s BGP.

What wording would you have them use?