Increasingly, surveillance is being normalized and integrated in our lives. Under the guise of convenience, applications and features are sold to us as being the new better way to do things. While some might be useful, this convenience is a Trojan horse. The cost of it is the continuous degradation of our privacy rights, with all that that entails.
  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    5·
    15 hours ago

    With the slow disappearance of parking meters and cash money, more parking facilities now require parking apps for registration and payment.

    The problem is, these applications collect lots of sensitive information. Necessarily, they collect parking location, parking duration, license plate number, phone number, email, payment information, and often even your full legal name. This information can be shared across multiple applications and organizations (partners) to track a car’s location even beyond the parking facility.

    Not to mention charging for EVs.