Very worthwhile read on the fallacy, yes fallacy of "if you're not paying, you are the product".
@pluralistic argues that this implies you have some power from paying because you can stop.
But the reality is different: if you are locked in you won't stop so your payments have no leverage. So we can't make companies behave by paying for services.
The key is freedom from lock in, #interoperability and #privacy. That's what would help, not being able to pay for privacy.
The Digital Markets Act requires Apple and Google to give users a browser choice. I call on everyone reading this: This is time to join the privacy revolution!
Forcing a Chinese company to sell TikTok won’t solve the biggest problem with #TikTok: the fact that so people get their “#news” from platforms that are designed to hijack attention for commercial gain, not to deliver reliable information.
If China wants information on Americans, it can buy data from companies since there are no effective #privacy laws.
And American-owned Facebook and X have shown themselves to be as bad or worse as TikTok at spreading #misinformation.
« Disruption » : « Puis-je avoir votre carte d’identité ? » « NON ! »
👉 "Il est de plus en plus fréquent que des commerçants demandent la carte d’identité des clients sans vraiment en expliquer la raison. Rappelons que demander la carte d’identité ne peut jamais être obligatoire pour proposer un service commercial et que le consommateur doit être informé préalablement quant à l’usage de ses #donnée"
to me, #biometric unlocking, is unsafe, you see a lot of unauthorised unlocking from restrained, sleeping, dead, or drunken people from either face or fingerprint to unlock a device.
it was established a few years ago that law enforcement in the usa do not need a warrant for biometric unlocking, but need warrant if a password is enabled, to unlock a device.
News outlets and opinion columns are full of updates and comments about a US bill that would force TikTok’s Chinese owner either to sell the app or to see it banned in the US.
Well, the topic I disliked the most is your plan to compromise the online safety, security and privacy of all 450 million Europeans with the plans to scan their devices. In addition, you are not open and transparent enough about these plans, as most of those 450 million do not know you are working on this. You know it does not work and that is in violation with human rights, yet you keep pushing. Why? #CSAM #CSS #Encryption #Security #Privacy #GDPR
"The truth is that the ability to build Facebook-like services is relatively common. What was rare was the moral recklessness necessary to go through with it..." 👉 https://mastodon.social/@gyokusai/112301065732034869
I'd only add that in addition to showing certain people certain things to get them to act a certain way, these systems also afford the ability to manage what *not* to show those people - basically, keeping their bubble tidy.
"The truth is that the ability to build Facebook-like services is relatively common. What was rare was the moral recklessness necessary to go through with it..." 👉 https://mastodon.social/@gyokusai/112301065732034869
I'd only add that in addition to showing certain people certain things to get them to act a certain way, these systems also afford the ability to manage what *not* to show those people - basically, keeping their bubble tidy.
And while we’re at it, here’s @pluralistic's “Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags” again, probably the best essay on Zuck’s Evil Empire ever written:
“No one would pay very much for this oil, but there were a lot of oily rags, and provided no one asked him to pay for the inevitable horrific fires that would result from filling the world’s garages with oily rags, he could turn a tidy profit.”
For 20 years, privacy advocates have been sounding the alarm about commercial online surveillance, the way that companies gather deep dossiers on us to help marketers target us with ads. This pitch…
I made that poll, asking what tool is better to watch/listen to videos/audio.
I just want to make it clear, that I have no idea how do people can live without headphone jack.
I personally use wired headphones, and I goddamn need a headphone jack!
If you're an iPhone user, may I wonder how on the Earth are you watching/listening to videos/audio on your iPhone without headphones?????
Like seriously, iPhone doesn't offers a headphone jack. Are you telling me that you're watching and listening without headphones???
If so, may I wonder if everything ok with your ears? Seriously.
The reason I'm asking...okay, let me tell you a story.
Like all of you, I have parents. So, one day, my mother told me a story about her friend. Let's call her friend, say, Alice.
So, Alice had earbuds back in day when she was still in school. And so, she used them a lot. Like really a lot.
However, eventually, one day, turns out, that these earbuds that she used had damaged her hearing abilities. How did she found that out?
Well, when one student said
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I made that poll, asking what tool is better to watch/listen to videos/audio.
I just want to make it clear, that I have no idea how do people can live without headphone jack.
I personally use wired headphones, and I goddamn need a headphone jack!
If you're an iPhone user, may I wonder how on the Earth are you watching/listening to videos/audio on your iPhone without headphones?????
Like seriously, iPhone doesn't offers a headphone jack. Are you telling me that you're watching and listening without headphones???
If so, may I wonder if everything ok with your ears? Seriously.
The reason I'm asking...okay, let me tell you a story.
Like all of you, I have parents. So, one day, my mother told me a story about her friend. Let's call her friend, say, Alice.
So, Alice had earbuds back in day when she was still in school. And so, she used them a lot. Like really a lot.
However, eventually, one day, turns out, that these earbuds that she used had damaged her hearing abilities. How did she found that out?
Well, when one student said something to her, she just couldn't hear what he said. No, she weren't wearing earbuds when student spoke.
She asked "Hey? What did you said?"
He repeated, but she couldn't hear that.
So, she had to lean closer and closer, which caused the whole school's student community to make fun of her because of earbuds that destroyes her hearing abilities.
A while ago I found a link to a European(German?) company that had created a series of privacy preserving online apps as an alternative to Google and others. I sadly lost that and can't recall the company. I think that perhaps @aral posted it? Anyone know who it might be?
I’m trying @librewolf browser and it might seem like a small thing to you all, but they went out of their way to preserve accessibility features for disabled users like myself, whereas other privacy solutions remove accessibility features completely, and their efforts to make sure disabled users have a private focused but accessible browser is more welcome than you can imagine because disabled people need privacy as well. I would argue that disabled people need privacy more. I wish more #privacy advocates took accessibility and disability into account the way they have currently. I hope this remains a core mission of theirs
Google just announced internally that 28 employees have been fired in connection with sit-in office protests this week over the company's cloud contract with Israel. Follows 9 employees being arrested yesterday. Full memo to Google employees warns that "if you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again"
Some Google employees held a sit-in protest against the company’s Project Nimbus cloud contract with Israel, and now the company says it’s fired 28 people involved.
Like Stasi Secret Police, FISA Reauthorization Provision Wants Businesses And Even Individuals To Be Possibly Forced To Act As Surrogate Spies - WATCH / SHARE TO SAVE OUR RIGHTS; Anyone Providing A...
...to its customers could be conscripted into service...
No #democracy should give its government the #Orwellian power contained in the House bill. The #Senate must take the time it needs to get this right, or our democracy will pay the price.
Changes in version 0.4.8.11 - 2024-04-10
This is a minor release mostly to upgrade the fallbackdir list. Worth noting
also that directory authority running this version will now automatically
reject relays running the end of life 0.4.7.x version.
o Minor feature (authority):
- Reject 0.4.7.x series at the authority level. Closes ticket 40896.
o Minor feature (dirauth, tor26):
- New IP address and keys.
o Minor feature (directory authority):
- Allow BandwidthFiles "node_id" KeyValue without the dollar sign at
the start of the hexdigit, in order to easier database queries
combining Tor documents in which the relays fingerprint does not
include it. Fixes bug 40891; bugfix on 0.4.7 (all supported
versions of Tor).
o Minor fea
Changes in version 0.4.8.11 - 2024-04-10
This is a minor release mostly to upgrade the fallbackdir list. Worth noting
also that directory authority running this version will now automatically
reject relays running the end of life 0.4.7.x version.
o Minor feature (authority):
- Reject 0.4.7.x series at the authority level. Closes ticket 40896.
o Minor feature (dirauth, tor26):
- New IP address and keys.
o Minor feature (directory authority):
- Allow BandwidthFiles "node_id" KeyValue without the dollar sign at
the start of the hexdigit, in order to easier database queries
combining Tor documents in which the relays fingerprint does not
include it. Fixes bug 40891; bugfix on 0.4.7 (all supported
versions of Tor).
o Minor features (fallbackdir):
- Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 10, 2024.
o Minor features (geoip data):
- Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
retrieved on 2024/04/10.
o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
- Add a warning when publishing a vote or signatures to another
directory authority fails. Fixes bug 40910; bugfix
on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
A service called Spy Pet is scraping Discord servers, archiving and tracking users' messages and activity, and then selling access to that data.
Spy Pet scrapes more than 10,000 Discord servers, and besides selling access to anyone with cryptocurrency, it offers the data for training AI models or to assist law enforcement agencies, according to its website.
Spy Pet claims to be tracking more than 14,000 servers, 600 million users, and includes a database of more than 3 billion messages.
404 Media tested the service, called Spy Pet, and verified it is collecting information on Discord users, including the messages they post across usually disparate servers.
A controversial bill reauthorizing the Section 702 spy program may force whole new categories of businesses to eavesdrop on the US government's behalf, including on fellow Americans.
@GottaLaff #USpol Yes and yes, but not quite: 1) There is no effective right to #privacy anymore, if the Senate prolongues Sec. 702 of #FISA, unless you "rip out" your internet + lose your mobile. https://press.coop/@thehill/112287517500737885 2) The real game plan of the #Christofascists is this, even though I doubt that many of them'll have read the books.(I think I'm missing out on 2.) Quiz time: Who is the only author with two novels in this dystopian Venn diagram? 😉
Telehealth firm Cerebral fined $7 million over ‘careless’ privacy violations 🇺🇸 The FTC accused it of sloppy data handling and sharing patient data with third parties like TikTok without consent
Cerebral will owe $7 million after the FTC accused it of careless data practices and sharing private patient info with third parties like TikTok for advertising purposes.
YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party #apps
#YouTube (#Google) says that users who watch YouTube through third-party apps may experience buffering and errors. Specifically affects apps using the YouTube #api.
This is a feature, not a bug. I am rolling my eyes.
(Also: #adguard says it is not affected because it doesn’t use the API.)
YouTube is extending its ad blocking crackdown to third-party apps. The platform says users watching YouTube through an ad blocker app might see an error message.
ALL CLEAR for Fedora Rawhide and Fedora 40 Beta builds regarding the xz exploit. 👍
Things had stabilized soon after the initial security advisory, but we're now confirming that you can use Rawhide and Fedora 40 Beta safely as long as you have the latest updates or reinstall (which is not a bad idea to be safe).
"After an update in June this year, a feature called the WebRequest API will be removed, and the adblockers and tracker blockers that depend on this feature will stop working. Since the business model of Google is to track your online activity and then show you personalised ads, it is not difficult to see why this feature is removed.
(...) they are forcing the same update on all Chromium browsers as well."
Gmail turns 20, and Tuta Mail turns 10! A major milestone for two email providers with very different philosophies - mass surveillance and greed, versus the right to privacy.
According to the latest draft text of the controversial EU Child Sexual Abuse Regulation proposal leaked by the French news organization Contexte, which the EU member states discussed, the EU interior ministers want to exempt professional accounts of…
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Should Our Law Enforcement Be Embracing Darth Vader-like ethics? 🤔
