Seems like a bit of a reach to go from knowing which appliances you use and when, to identity theft and harassment by your landlord.
Besides, I feel like even if your landlord was able to get this info (in the US, utilities are surprisingly protective of account access), they'd be able to do much more just by virtue of having physical access to the property.
The burglary or home invasion angles I can see, but it actually working out like that seems extremely unlikely.
You ever seen a phone at 0%?
They should fix that, because it's certainly degrading the experience on Lemmy. A good number of these replies have the tags longer than their actual content.
We're already at that point. Even recipe sites, which I'll give the benefit of assuming aren't already ML-generated, are already so similar, boring, and irrelevant that nobody reads them.
In the past few months, I've also noticed a lot of sites showing up in my Google search results purporting to be relevant or answer my question, but when I actually read them they are also completely useless. For example, I couldn't figure out how to take a friend's Instagram story and reshare it to my own if I wasn't tagged in it. Several pages were titled to look useful, but all of them gave only alternatives.
Those info sites aren't built from bank records. They're built from public records databases like voters, property, taxes, legal cases, and government actions, including stuff like just showing up to the city council to complain.
You could conceivably open an account in another country where they're very private about banking info, but it wouldn't help your case, and it would probably be a huge hassle for your day to day life.
Yes, especially in the UK, since they're a surveillance state.
There are some things that will always get flagged on any platform. This, drugs, and connections to sanctioned countries, for example. I've heard of people in the US having their Venmo accounts suspended because they put "Havana" in the transaction description. Havana is a local dance club.
Discovering what? A very popular satirical news site?
This depends on how the decompressor is implemented. It's certainly possible to do it all in memory.
You can control who sees it by how and where you post it. If you don't want people to see it, just don't put it on the Internet at all. Even sites with fine-grained privacy controls can have flaws that result in information leaks.
Only if you file suit and the court finds it enforceable. Sometimes they say you can sue anyway.