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#Laws #LawsOfUX

https://thewhale.cc/posts/laws-of-ux

A collection of nineteen key maxims that designers must consider when building user interfaces

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A collection of nineteen key maxims that designers must consider when building user interfaces

Stop scanning us all with facial recognition

#FacialRecognition is out of control in the #UK and there are no clear #laws in place to protect our #privacy.

Unlike #CCTV, facial recognition doesn’t just record what you do:

- Your #face becomes a #barcode in the same way as your fingerprint or your #DNA

We must stop this ...

#DemocracyNOW #privacy #Orwell #Dystopia #oppression #PoliceState #HumanRights #HumanTracking #FreedomLost

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@janvlug/116991928856888810

CONTEXT:

privacy laws, including court cases, only recorgnize passwords as part of your right to privacy. so if you lock your phone with biometrics, DHS/TSA/ICE can force you physically to unlock the device. not so with passwords… until now.

prosecutors in Atlanta want to use this case to completely take away the right to privacy with passwords.

this would open EVERYTHING ―including emails, bank accounts, health care records―, to fascist predation.

#privacy #GrapheneOS #laws #passwords

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Jan Vlug » 🌐 2026-07-27
@janvlug@mastodon.social

US prosecutors charge Atlanta man after #GrapheneOS phone wipes itself during airport search

"The case centers on ... use of GrapheneOS, an open-source operating system that works on Google Pixel phones and lets users enter a passcode to #wipe a device clean."

"The wipe is now central to the case. Prosecutors are treating it as an intentional act to destroy evidence..."

https://www.techspot.com/news/113236-us-prosecutors-charge-atlanta-man-after-grapheneos-phone.html

#security #privacy #US #opensource #FOSS

Since WIRED reported on Meta’s NameTag face recognition system, company executives have made confusing and conflicting remarks about its very existence.

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Here’s the Truth About Whether Meta’s NameTag Face Recognition Tech ‘Exists’

Short video: https://octade.net/urls/6000_patents.html

In 1998, Stanley Meyer claimed to invent a car that ran on water. Days later, he was dead—and his invention disappeared. But Meyer wasn't the only one. There’s a federal law, still active today, that allows the U.S. government to classify and bury private inventions deemed a “threat.” It's called the Invention Secrecy Act—and it's already been used over 6,000 times.

From Nikola Tesla’s wireless energy to Townsend Brown’s anti-gravity tech to Joseph Papp’s engine that ran on noble gases, history is littered with breakthrough inventors who vanished into obscurity... and whose technologies never made it to the public.

This episode uncovers the case studies, the hidden power of secrecy orders, and the chilling question: What else have they buried?

#patents #USPTO #inventions #inventors #secrecy #laws #Tesla #USGov #Government #NationalSecurity #GagOrders

@academicchatter@a.gup.pe @edutooters@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe