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France passes bill allowing police to remotely activate cameras on citizen's phones:
gizmodo.com/france-bill-allows…
Tags: #Surveillance #france #cops #smartphones
France Passes New Bill Allowing Police to Remotely Activate Cameras on Citizens' Phones
The bill will reportedly apply to suspects in crimes that are punishable by a minimum of five years in jail.Kevin Hurler (Gizmodo)
Google muss für Ortungs-Schwindel nicht einmal 400 Millionen zahlen
Jahrelang hat Google Aufenthaltsorte von Android-Nutzern für Werbezwecke gespeichert, obwohl die User das abgeschaltet wähnten. 40 US-Staaten geben billig bei.
heise.de/news/Google-muss-fuer…
#google #android #standortdaten #werbung #smartphones
🤔 ICYMI from April, a good (long-form!) essay about how #addiction to #tech (in general, but also #smartphones and #socialMedia in particular) is affecting human #attention spans in a negative way.
💡 Raises an interesting idea about it causing or reinforcing cultural "learned helplessness" that crosses over into many other areas of modern tech-facilitated life. (Something @lightweight has long discussed.)
🔖 Take a read this weekend and tell us what you think?
idratherbewriting.com/blog/awa…
My awakening moment about how smartphones fragment our attention span
I recently realized that absorbing the constant inflow of information from my smartphone, always readily available in my pocket to capture any free moment of attention, had fragmented my attention span.Tom Johnson
Avoiding USB-C on iPhones may get harder for Apple as Brazil considers mandate
#smartphones #Policy #Brazil #iphone #apple #USB-C #Tech #USB
Avoiding USB-C on iPhones may get harder for Apple as Brazil considers mandate
Brazil joins EU and efforts from US politicians in universal charger push.Ars Technica
UnifiedPush is a set of specifications and free open source tools to help users get more control over how their phone's (or computers's) notifications are handled. You can follow the project at:
➡️ @unifiedpush
The project website is at unifiedpush.org
There are options for self-hosting notification systems if needed.
#UnifiedPush #Notifications #PushNotifications #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Smartphones #Phones #Smartphone #Phone #Dev #SelfHosting #Computing
UnifiedPush
UnifiedPush is a set of specifications and tools that lets the user choose how push notifications* are delivered. All in a free and open source way.unifiedpush.org