"Whaddyamean, you could remove the built-in spyware?
No no no, that's a bug, the removal option was not supposed to be available, let's fix that…"

theverge.com/2024/9/2/24233992…

I do pity the general population who has to be subjected to that sort of built-in data collection, and all the security and privacy problems it entails. Too bad #Linux is not even a blip on the public consciousness & cultural upbringing.

#Windows11 #WindowsRecall #SurveillanceCapitalism

The W3C publishing ethical web principles is like OPEC publishing ethical climate principles.

Who are the members of the W3C?

Google,
Facebook (Meta),
Amazon,
Adobe,
SoftBank,
Yahoo!,
…

The W3C is the standards body of surveillance capitalism.

Ethical principles? W3C? Don’t make me laugh!

If they had any ethics they’d have expelled their most prominent members starting with Google and Facebook.

w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principl…

#w3c #BigWeb #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #ethics #PR

How to block #threads in #friendica

1. sarch for @mosseri@www.threads.net via the search field
2. click on name to open profile
3. switch to Conversations
4. click … to open the more menu
5. select Ignore threads.net server

Enjoy your Fediverse life without #SurveillanceCapitalism.

!Friendica Support

⚡Breaking News⚡
The #surveillance program known as Data Analytical Services (previously known as Hemisphere) has been actively collecting trillions of domestic call records from Americans including those of individuals not suspected of any crimes.🕵️ 📱

Telecom provider AT&T has been collecting and saving call data on behalf of law enforcement agencies without any legal requirement to do so. 👨‍⚖️

More here: wired.com/story/hemisphere-das…

#privacy #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism #att #telecom

You disagree with what exactly? That there are no viable alternatives to a walled garden whose owners abuse those who use it? Who have no respect for their work and intellectual property rights?

Because there are plenty of alternatives that people use every day.

GiveUpGitHub.org/

mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tool…

#GiveUpGitHub #UserRights #SurveillanceCapitalism #OpenSource

⚠️ #Google rolls out a so-called #privacy tool that replaces one form of trackers with another.

🔎 Don't use Google's proprietary and distributions of #Android if you want to avoid #SurveillanceCapitalism.

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/0…

Android launches yet another way to spy on users with “Privacy Sandbox” beta

Rather than match iOS's tracking limits, Google built an additional tracking system.

^{Ars Technica}

Dear conference organisers,

If you don’t want to limit your speakers to those who are fine with surveillance capitalism, please don’t make your call for proposals require an account with a surveillance capitalist.

#conference #callForProposal #CFP #google #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming

“Many browsers and anti-spyware applications are designed to reject and delete third-party cookies. Adobe ensures that cookies can always we [sic] set even if third-party cookies are blocked.”

That feeling when you admit you’re spyware.

#Adobe #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #adtech #spyware #SiliconValley #BigTech via @GossiTheDog

TSA Wants To Scan Your Face At The Airport. Here Are Your Rights.

#News #TSA #privacy #biometrics #security #HumanRights #SurveillanceCapitalism #HomelandSecurity #DHS #Airport
washingtonpost.com/technology/…

✊🏽 "We need to stop trying to turn private companies into something they’re not, and start building a new moral, institutional and legal order to express the values, rights and standards that we hold into the digital realm. It’s not about whether Zuckerberg is good or bad, vampire or human. It’s about getting to a place where we don’t have to care."

#DigitalAutonomy #TechAutonomy #SurveillanceCapitalism

wired.co.uk/article/tech-refor…

It's time to forcibly reform big tech

Silicon Valley companies' only goal is maximising profit. Why do we keep forgetting it?

^{Carl Miller (WIRED UK)}

🎧 🕵🏽 Just a reminder that your fancy #Bose #headphones are spying on you.

#SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy

San Francisco: “This week, the city will put into effect its new camera ordinance, which is aimed at helping police investigate crimes. The legislation, crafted by the city’s mayor, London Breed, gives police the right to request access to the live footage of privately owned internet cameras.”

inkl.com/a/wlLNdbiqZXq

Please buy an Amazon Ring or Google Nest camera and help us build the surveillance state. Big Brother thanks you for your cooperation.

#SurveillanceCapitalism #BigTech

Security Cameras Make Us Feel Safe, but Are They Worth the Invasion?

I have always been fascinated by webcams that watch for anything that moves. When I lived in a no-frills neighborhood…

^inkl

I spoke about the fediverse, Elon Musk, and more with Steve Boland back in July for the Next in Nonprofits podcast.

Have a listen:

nextinnonprofits.com/2022/07/f…

#fediverse #nonProfit #notForProfit #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #BigTech #SmallTech #SmallWeb #podcast

Federated communications - The Fediverse - with Aral Balkan

Aral Balkan is co-founder of the Small Technology Foundation. He talks about the Fediverse, including Mastodon and tools like ActivityPub, for nonprofits.

^{https://www.nextinnonprofits.com/author/steveboland/#author (Next in Nonprofits)}

If you use the Firefox browser – or a privacy-respecting Firefox fork, like LibreWolf (librewolf.net/) – take a look at the LibRedirect extension (libredirect.github.io/). It automatically redirects links/embeds of surveillance capitalists like Google (YouTube, etc.), Instragram, Twitter, Reddit, etc. to community-run instances that remove tracking, etc.

#selfDefense #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #SiliconValley #libRedirect

LibreWolf Browser

A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.

^{librewolf.net}

You’re just a programmer, right? Surely you carry no responsibility for what you program…

Meet the programmers bombing the shit out of Ukraine.

They’re just programmers too.

bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eur…

#programming #responsibility #ethics #BigTech #surveillanceCapitalism #ukraine #war #theNurembergDefense

The Remote Control Killers Behind Russia’s Cruise Missile Strikes on Ukraine - bellingcat

Bellingcat has identified a secretive group of Russian military engineers involved in missile strikes on Ukraine.

^{Christo Grozev (bellingcat)}

Wow… this is a mass-scale health data grab (DNA, etc.) by industry if ever there was one.

inkl.com/a/bvAAPoILNmL

Just look at how it’s funded and the people running it: ourfuturehealth.org.uk/about-u…

Also looks like the Silicon Valley/Stanford/startup folks have finally well and truly got their nails into the NHS after constant lobbying and facilitated by folks (useful idiots or accomplices?) like NESTA.

CC @glynmoody

#ourFutureHealth #uk #surveillanceCapitalism #health #BigData #peopleFarming

Millions invited to take part in world’s largest health research programme

Our Future Health plans to develop new ways to detect illnesses earlier and predict who is at higher risk of…

^inkl

Are you serious right now? You do know what Google is, right? You do understand what their business model is? I thought NGI/NLnet was purportedly about finding and supporting *alternatives* to surveillance capitalists like Google, Meta, etc., not trying to improve their PR by perpetuating the myth that they’re generally a force for good who sometimes (often) make silly mistakes.

Do better.

#ngi #nextGenerationInternet #bigTech #google #surveillanceCapitalism #pr #NLnet

“LinkedIn ran experiments on more than 20 million users over five years … The findings suggest that some users had better access to job opportunities or a meaningful difference in access to job opportunities.”

inkl.com/a/avvnWvSAxrA

Me, a decade ago: “you’re the lab rat”

Folks: “you’re scaremongering”

#peopleFarming #surveillanceCapitalism #youreTheLabRat #BigTech #colonialTechnology

LinkedIn Ran Social Experiments On 20 Million Users Over Five Years

LinkedIn ran experiments on more than 20 million users over five years that, while intended to improve how the platform…

^inkl

Sometimes the internet is really funny - or scary.

The Chrome browser is one example.

While you believe you are browsing the web, Google is browsing you instead.

Check out Leah Elliott's comic on how Google's tracking works: contrachrome.com/comic/page01/

#google #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism #privacy #Fight4Privacy #tutanota

And in other unsurprising news about #Apple: Apple is building an #Ads empire, using #Privacy USP to deepen their moat.

#SurveillanceCapitalism

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…

“TikTok poses an unacceptable national security risk due to its extensive data harvesting being combined with Beijing’s apparently unchecked access to that sensitive data.” – Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

This is true.

Now replace TikTok with Facebook, Snapchat, <insert Silicon Valley Big Tech corporation or startup here> and Beijing with Washington, DC and…

This is also true.

🤔

blog.malwarebytes.com/privacy-…

#peopleFarming #surveillanceCapitalism #BigTech #humanRights #democracy

TikTok is “unacceptable security risk” and should be removed from app stores, says FCC

According to the FCC commissioner, TikTok being a video app is the "sheep's clothing", suggesting a wolf hides underneath those funny videos.

^{Jovi Umawing (Malwarebytes)}

Your daily reminder that the W3C is the standards body of people farming.

#peopleFarming #surveillanceCapitalism #BigTech #SiliconValley #w3c

🚨 NEW: #Facebook is collecting ultrasensitive personal #data about #abortion seekers and enabling anti-abortion organizations to use that data as a tool to target and influence people online, in violation of its own policies and promises.

#privacy #surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #DeleteFacebook

themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/…

Facebook and Anti-Abortion Clinics Are Collecting Highly Sensitive Info on Would-Be Patients – The Markup

The social media giant gathers data from crisis pregnancy centers through a tracking tool that works whether or not a person is logged in to their Facebook account

^{themarkup.org}

#SurveillanceCapitalism Spreading In #Schools, Sidelining Role Of #Teachers.

My Take: putting children under 24/7 monitoring, is harmful to natural development + #autonomy.

Ex: intense security (like recent proposal to add armed taser drones + force children to train with them) may do little more than put kids in more fear.

#News #Education #Privacy #HumanRights #AI progressive.org/public-schools…

How Surveillance Capitalism Is Spreading to Schools

Ed-tech companies are mining and exploiting students’ data while sidelining the role of teachers.

^{Velislava Hillman (Progressive.org)}

IAB Europe’s consent popups are unlawful

“IAB Europe ‘was aware of risks linked to non-compliance’ and ‘was negligent.’”

IAB Europe is the online advertising industry’s (aka adtech aka the folks I call “people farmers” trade body)

iccl.ie/news/gdpr-enforcer-rul…

Via @jayrope

#GDPR #consent #privacy #IAB #adtech #peopleFarming #surveillanceCapitalism #SiliconValley

GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe’s consent popups are unlawful

EU data protection authorities find that the consent popups that plagued Europeans for years are illegal. All data collected through them must be deleted. This decision impacts Google’s, Amazon’s and Microsoft’s online advertising businesses.

^{Johnny Ryan (Irish Council for Civil Liberties)}

Ah, so delightfully optimised for people farming you’d almost think Google wrote it!

#peopleFarming #surveillanceCapitalism #web #standards #protocols #http #http3

Spoke to a guy once who was (is?) CEO of some startup that displayed words on top of each other. Was apparently easier for people with dyslexia to read (not sure this was ever peer reviewed).

So I ask him: “What’s your business model?”

He looks at me like I’m daft. “We know what you’re reading.”

#SurveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming

In San Francisco Autonomous Cars Assist 24/7 'round the clock Surveillance

#SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy #News #SmartCity #IoT #California #InternetOfThings #SanFrancisco
theregister.com/2022/05/16/in_…

San Francisco police use driverless cars for surveillance

Plus: Tech giants commit $30m to open-source security, miscreants breach DEA portal, and US signs cybercrime treaty

^{Jessica Lyons Hardcastle (The Register)}

Fucking hell, as some of you have pointed out in the comments, also, it’s tied to my router. I have the same router I had in Malmö. If this is not a GDPR violation, I have no idea what is.

So Mozilla – Defender of Privacy™ – is storing my location history, tied to my router, without ever having gotten consent from me to do so.

This is a fucking scandal.

#privacy #location #data #mozilla #surveillanceCapitalism

RT @utopiah@twitter.com

... but wait there is more coming at @FOSDEM@twitter.com about the #metaverse tomorrow!🤩

Guess what though : it is NOT about how a single centralized #surveillanceCapitalism ad-driven corporation is going to entrap us.

No, instead it is about how WE can build a better society together!🫂 twitter.com/matrixdotorg/statu…

🐦🔗: twitter.com/utopiah/status/149…