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Wieso müssen Kilometerstände in einer speziellen nationalen Datenbank oder im nationalen Fahrzeugregister aufgezeichnet werden?
Und warum muss dies die EU machen? Bekommen die Mitgliedstaaten es nicht auf die Kette?

EU: Digitale Kilometerstände und Prüfbescheinigungen beschlossen | heise online heise.de/news/EU-Neue-Regeln-f #Digitalisierung #digitalization #eGovernment #Datenschutz #privacy

heise online · EU: Digitale Kilometerstände und Prüfbescheinigungen beschlossenBy Stefan Krempl
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Okay I can imagine it being similar to a yubikey, albeit one with a totally new protocol along the lines of what you described. But it occurs to me that people wanting to share their age credentials with friends or strangers wouldn't actually need to give up the keys to anyone. People could run rate-limited age verifier relay services using their legit keypairs without having to compromise their ownership of those keys, similar to the way some people are willing to run bittorrent clients today.

If we assume that anyone who puts in a little effort being able to bypass this elaborate system is not a problem because it's only meant to deter people who can't be bothered, I guess it only remains to design the Tor-like service over which this will run and make it resistant to traffic analysis.

Anyway, thank you for being patient with my questions.

#meinung

Der stetig voranschreitende Ausbau des Überwachungskapitalismus & die allgegenwärtig steigende Gleichgültigkeit der Obrigkeit sind eine Respektlosigkeit gegenüber dem normalen Bürger. Nicht jeder muss alles über jeden wissen.

Besonders der Angriff auf Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung zeigt, wie wenig Respekt vor der Privatsphäre besteht. Verschlüsselung schützt die vertrauliche Kommunikation und ist essenziell für eine sichere digitale Welt. #privacy #Datenschutz (1/2)

"An uncensored, privacy-friendly, no tracking, no profiling, AI-powered search engine."

#Privacy isn't just a buzzword. This search engine is a thin interface to OpenAI and exposes your search terms to everyone. I didn't search for any of the terms in the image. This organization is behind Midori Browser, added a VPN to it, and performed the sin of claiming the VPN provided complete anonymity.

Having privacy principles is not enough. Follow through or it's just malicious advertising.

CEO Aravind Srinivas said this week on the TBPN podcast that one reason #Perplexity is building its own browser named #Comet is to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app. This so it can sell premium ads.

techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/perp

Those using #GoogleChrome are of course already used to the idea, but I believe this is as bad as it’s can get, your entry to the internet and everything interaction monitored…

TechCrunch · Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunchPerplexity is building its own browser is to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app to sell ads.

A fascinating (and disturbing) repository of known privacy busting surveillance companies, where they are based and what countries they operate in. You can search by company, and filter by country.

surveillancewatch.io/

Surveillance WatchSurveillance Watch: They Know Who You AreSurveillance Watch is an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.
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Maybe that could be kept under control by making the keys valuable — hard to replace and maybe even the same keypair that's used for age verifying your mastodon login also used for more important things. But key management is probably going to be a nightmare. Just ask the cryptocurrency guys.