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Re:EU considers temporary ban on facial recognition in publi... by Bnshsysjab on Friday January 17, 2020 @03:21AM (#22072866)
If you reside in a country where those laws apply, that is.

Meanwhile in Australia, government agencies can obtain your phone and internet ‘metadata’ without a warrant and (ISPs^?) DNS servers are required by law to blacklist certain domains.

^ I assume ISPs because I have no issue with blacklists while using CF/Google DNS.

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Re:EU considers temporary ban on facial recognition in publi... by colonwqbang on Friday January 17, 2020 @03:35AM (#22072924)
DNS blocking is a thing in some EU countries too, but maybe not at the same scale.
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Re:EU considers temporary ban on facial recognition in publi... by teekert on Friday January 17, 2020 @05:15AM (#22073450)
Yes, in the Netherlands all major ISPs block most Pirate Bay proxies. Hooray for TOR.
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Re:EU considers temporary ban on facial recognition in publi... by colonwqbang on Saturday January 18, 2020 @02:12PM (#22086379)
You don't need TOR to get around DNS blocks (assuming that's how your ISP is blocking TPB). I configure my router to use Google's public DNS server 8.8.8.8 and that completely circumvents the "block".
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Re:EU considers temporary ban on facial recognition in publi... by dannyw on Friday January 17, 2020 @03:38AM (#22072933)
To be fair the DNS blacklisting requires court approval, so it does satisfy principles of justice.
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Re:EU considers temporary ban on facial recognition in publi... by Bnshsysjab on Saturday January 18, 2020 @04:44PM (#22087489)
Your point is correct and fair based on then way I wrote the comment but it wasn’t my intention to mislead. I need to learn how to ragetype better.

I do think it’s super interesting that the additional gambling site bans happened reasonably quiet last week.

I say reasonably as I play poker, and care if poker is banned, but agree banning gambling is a net positive. Even then I didn’t hear about the ban until 4 days after it happened.

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