@mouszi you're right, #bigtech just rides it out, lobbies, and we begrudgingly accept a new norm. 😒

They are boiling the frog 🐸. What will it take to make us jump out of the pot?
Another Cambridge Analytica?

Meta and friends – like Mastodon and Vivaldi – form Social Web Foundation.

May I be the first to say:

Fuck the Social Web Foundation.

https://socialwebfoundation.org

I am so fucking sick of this bullshit happening over and over again. I’d say they’re useful idiots but, let’s face it, Mastodon aren’t idiots. Vivaldi aren’t idiots. They’re smart folks. They know full well what Meta is. They clearly just don’t give a shit.

#SocialWebFoundation #Meta #BigTech #surveillance #capitalism #fediverse

Social Web Foundation

Towards a bigger, better fediverse

^{Social Web Foundation}

Oh nice, partnered with Meta.

You know, these guys:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/why-did-meta-just-hire-this-ron-desantis-approved-project-2025-alum/ar-AA1pti16

FFS, why is everything so shit? Is it too much to ask that you folks don’t involve yourselves with these assholes one fucking time?

#fediverse #meta #SocialWebFoundation #vivaldi #BigTech #SiliconValley #FFS https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi/113193395332307465

One from the vaults: A Nancy Writes Back (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Digital Imperialism)

https://ar.al/notes/a-nancy-writes-back-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-digital-imperialism/

I wrote that post ten years ago.

Here’s where we are today:

https://small-tech.org

Here’s where they are:

http://www.wearableworld.co

(Do not adjust your browsers, yes, it’s a 404.)

🤷‍♂️

#BigTech #SmallTech #EU #SiliconValley #DigitalImperialism

Home

Hello! We’re a tiny and independent two-person not-for-profit based in Ireland. We are building the Small Web. No, it’s not web3, it’s web0.

^{Small Technology Foundation}

I can’t believe they canceled this cancer conference for adopting Mozilla’s business model.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/sep/21/economist-group-cancer-conference-cancelled-due-to-links-to-tobacco-firms

#Mozilla #Google #cancer #tobacco #institutionalCorruption #privacy #humanRights #BigTech

Economist Group cancer conference cancelled due to links to tobacco firms

Exclusive: Speakers and attendees pull out of Economist Impact event over ties to Philip Morris and Japan Tobacco

^{Mark Sweney (The Guardian)}

Economist Group cancer conference cancelled due to links to tobacco firms

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/sep/21/economist-group-cancer-conference-cancelled-due-to-links-to-tobacco-firms

I don’t understand, this sort of thing never stopped Rightscon, CPDP, Nordic Privacy Arena, Amsterdam Privacy Week, or FOSDEM.

Maybe some tech folks are so next level they’re immune to institutional corruption or something. Yeah, that must be it. Otherwise it would mean they’re corrupt to the core.

🤔

https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/

#humanRights #tech #institutionalCorruption #BigTech #followTheMoney

Economist Group cancer conference cancelled due to links to tobacco firms

Exclusive: Speakers and attendees pull out of Economist Impact event over ties to Philip Morris and Japan Tobacco

^{Mark Sweney (The Guardian)}

Data collection. Cartoon for Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/achterpagina/spotprenten~bc9b7dca/

#bigtech #privacy #datamining

My oh my. From ABC News Australia: "Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option."

A summary:

"The company does not offer Australians an opt out option like it does in the EU, because it has not been required to do so under privacy law."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-11/facebook-scraping-photos-data-no-opt-out/104336170

BTW the ABC News website has links to Facebook, Instagram and X but no Fediverse profiles. So their posts are used to train #Llama

#BigTech #AI #privacy #Meta

Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option

Facebook has admitted that it scrapes the public photos, posts and other data of Australian adult users to train its AI models and provides no opt-out option, even though it allows people in the European Union to refuse consent.

^{Jake Evans (ABC News)}

🚨 Ever spoken about something and the next minute you're getting an advert about it on your smartphone? Almost like your phone is listening..

Well, evidence claims that Meta, Microsoft, Google and Amazon could all be listening!

For more details 👉 👉https://www.404media.co/heres-the-pitch-deck-for-active-listening-ad-targeting/

#Meta #Amazon #Microsoft #Google #CMG #CMGpitch #Bigtech #Activelistening

🔍 A search engine is only as good as its search index. Even alternative search engines might be using indexes built by Big Tech. 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/what-is-search-indexing

What is your favorite search engine? 🤔 Let us know in the comments!

#search #bigtech #privacy