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Selling Surveillance as Convenience (www.privacyguides.org)
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Parking apps is an interesting one:

  • it is very convenient to not have to run back and put more money in the meter if your appointment / event goes over time
  • there are some significant privacy issues
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[โ€“] iii@mander.xyz 11 points 1 day ago

The worst one, for me, is banking. All banks in my country discontinued development of their in-browser online banking. They replaced it with smartphone apps (that are itself webviews ๐Ÿค”), making android or apple phones the only way to do online banking. Even jailbroken ones they detect.

Then my government forced the banks to hand over balance and transactions to the tax department (1).

The mass surveilance machine is being build before our eyes, and no one cares, as it's all for solidarity and equality, ofcourse.