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New from me: Companies in the EU are starting to look for ways to ditch Amazon, Google, and Microsoft cloud services amid fears of rising security risks from the US. But cutting ties won’t be easy
This is a really interesting question: obviously, there's a lot of debate lately about #data and personal information (don't forget, data and information are two different things), and protection of those things, and what they can be used for and all that.
But legally speaking, is it possible for anyone to OWN data in #SouthAfrica?
techcentral.co.za/can-data-be-…
Can data be owned? A South African legal scholar weighs in - TechCentral
Despite the significance of data, a fundamental legal question remains unresolved.The Conversation (TechCentral)
Digital #Privacy at the U.S. #Border: Protecting the #Data On Your Devices
source: eff.org/wp/digital-privacy-us-…
Border agents may attempt to scrutinize the content stored or cached on your phones, laptops, and other portable electronic devices, including electronic communications, social media postings, and ecommerce activity. Moreover, agents may seek to examine your public social media postings by obtaining your social media identifiers or handles. As of this writing, the federal #government is considering requiring disclosure from certain foreign visitors of social media login credentials, allowing access to private postings and “friend” lists.
#usa #travel #socialmedia #smartphone #news
Digital Privacy at the U.S. Border: Protecting the Data On Your Devices
by Sophia Cope, Amul Kalia, Seth Schoen, and Adam SchwartzDownload the report as a PDF.EXECUTIVE SUMMARYThe U.S.Electronic Frontier Foundation
Important #UK #petition to sign: "Ban behavioural data extraction for advertising"
petition.parliament.uk/petitio…
If you are a UK citizen or UK resident PLEASE SIGN THIS 🙏🏼
We need the #government to take this seriously so creeps like this #databroker don't get more data:
gizmodo.com/data-broker-brags-…
And #democracy is undermined by the #microtargeting from #socialmedia - #Trump /Brexit/Romania etc
#surveillancecapitalism #dataprivacy #advertising #RTB #databreach #infosec #uspol #data #selfhosting
Data Broker Brags About Having Highly Detailed Personal Information on Nearly All Internet Users
The advertising industry is immensely powerful, and disturbingly opaque.Lucas Ropek (Gizmodo)
Nothing short of #outrageous #trashit 😡#privacy
#usa #amazon #canada sharing w @404mediaco @pluralistic @eff #data #infosec #ai
Amazon is going to be disabling the privacy feature that processes voice commands locally on Echo devices at the end of this month. Instead, all voice commands will be sent to Amazon's cloud for processing.
I have already followed my own steps to remediate this:
1. Unplug Echo Device
2. Throw Echo Device in Trash
3. Done
chow.fan/@mookie/1141628205889…
Pretty fascinating look at how "Covid changed everything", in 30 charts.
"Decades from now, the pandemic will be visible in the historical data of nearly anything measurable today: an unmistakable spike, dip or jolt that officially began for Americans five years ago this week."
nytimes.com/interactive/2025/0…
#news #covid #health #PublicHealth #data #dataviz #charts
30 Charts That Show How Covid Changed Everything in March 2020
It can be easy to forget, or look away from, the pain and disruption of the pandemic. The numbers will be there to remind us.Aatish Bhatia (The New York Times)
Friends. I’m honored to be part of a team who is archiving data being targeted by fascists: science, health, DEI, climate…all of it.
It’s exhausting, mentally psychologically. But totally worth it.
What @lavaeolus began is now a thriving group effort. There’s a core group of us working feverishly, but anyone is welcome to join us.
Learn how you can get involved:
safeguarding-research.discours…
#Resist #Resistance #Fascism #Data #Archive #Science #Research #Climate #Development #Activism
How to contribute ✊
You read our mission-statement at About - Safeguarding Research & Culture (SRC) ? And you want to contribute? How to ParticipateSafeguarding Research & Culture (SRC) — Distributing Cultural Memory
After #community #protest: #Firefox #update on their "Terms of Use"
Source: blog.mozilla.org/en/products/f…
Our intent was just to be as clear as possible about how we make Firefox work, but in doing so we also created some #confusion and #concern. With that in mind, we’re updating the language to more clearly reflect the limited scope of how #Mozilla interacts with #user #data.
#news #Software #privacy #security #internet #Browser #Problem #www #web #freedom
An update on our Terms of Use
We’ve been listening to some of our community’s concerns with parts of the TOU, specifically about licensing. Our intent was just to be as clear as possible about how we make Firefox work, but in doing so we also created some confusion and concern.Jenifer Boscacci (The Mozilla Blog)
A Study of Mint Plants. A Device to Stop Bleeding. This Is the Scientific Research Ted Cruz Calls “Woke.”
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The senator flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like “female” and “diversify.” A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude method for identifying research he calls “woke.”
propublica.org/article/ted-cru…
#News #Science #Data #Research #Medicine #Biology #USPolitics
Some of the data used by Cambridge Analytica highlighted gun owners’ most personal information, like:
• If they owned cats
• Whether they were dieting
• If they were recently divorced
• Their political opinions
propublica.org/article/gun-own…
#News #Data #Privacy #Guns #Technology #Psychology
Targeted
Documents obtained by ProPublica detail the sophistication and intrusiveness of Cambridge’s work for the gun industry in 2016. The firm’s campaign aimed to help elect Donald Trump and keep industry-friendly politicians in the Senate.ProPublica
DOGE can now access a HUD system that includes addresses domestic violence survivors have relocated to for safety, medical records in disability cases and credit reports in lending discrimination cases.
Few of the records are redacted or anonymized.
propublica.org/article/doge-el…
#News #HUD #Housing #DomesticViolence #Data #ElonMusk #DOGE
DOGE Gains Access to Confidential Records on Housing Discrimination
While some agencies have resisted efforts by Elon Musk’s team to access confidential records, HUD has opened the door. The potential harm to privacy could be significant.ProPublica
And here's a preliminary archive of data sets and publications from the US Department of Agriculture, including SNAP, chemical use, imports, etc.
git.lsit.ucsb.edu/publicdata/u…
#data #datarescue #USDA #publicdata
How to find climate data and science the Trump administration doesn’t want you to see
Several groups are working to preserve webpages, tools and data – some of which have already gone missing from government webpages since the start of the Trump administration.The Conversation