You’ve got nothing to hide so you’ve got nothing to fear, right?
“A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal.”
(Remember Apple was/is(?) going to implement this sort of scanning by default on all your devices.)
#BigTech #privacy #surveillance
Mark noticed something amiss with his toddler. His son’s penis looked swollen and was hurting him.inkl
OnlyFans Bribed Meta [Facebook] to Put Thousands of Adult Entertainers on Terrorist Watch List, Lawsuits Allege
jezebel.com/onlyfans-bribed-me…
Via @volt4ire
Three lawsuits claim that OnlyFans paid Meta to shadow-ban users who promoted its competitors.Rodlyn-mae Banting (Jezebel)
“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
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
It’s very interesting reading this and related threads on Web Authentication (“passkeys”).
The ability for people to use their created/associated key material to sign and encrypt their communication would be a huge boon for decentralised web applications. And yet, of course, the related W3C groups reject the use case. Because allowing people (instead of the corporations the W3C represents) to control their own identities is anathema to Big Tech.
github.com/w3c/webauthn/issues…
For example, can they be used to sign and encrypt data the client passes? This goes beyond authentication, so it may be fair to consider it out of scope, given that "authn" is in the spec...GitHub
It may be hard for policymakers to imagine but yes there are people who care about politics & volunteer their spare time to come to Brussels & talk to them.
Many of them are part of the @edri community & have been working on #DigitalRights since long before #BigTech has been around.
As interesting as Georg Riekeles' recount of #BigTech lobbying in Brussels is, it's very sad to see him paddle the myth of "well-organised citizens' groups" & #DigitalRights orgs allegedly orchestrated by #Google in the context of the EU #Copyright Directive.
Accused of Cheating by an Algorithm, and a Professor She Had Never Met
#ai #bias #racism #startups #vc #BigTech #computerSaysNo
A Florida teenager taking a biology class at a community college got an upsetting note this year. A startup called…inkl
HP to release laptop running Pop!_OS. Could System76 be an acquisition target?
(Here’s hoping this doesn’t go down the webOS route.)
betanews.com/2022/05/20/hp-pop…
Via @tuxmachines
#system76 #hp #bigTech #linux #capitalism
Rumors have been swirling lately that HP was planning to release a laptop running the Pop!_OS operating system. Today, System76’s CEO Carl Richell shared on Twitter that this is absolutely ha…BetaNews
Irish DPC to pay tens of thousands in legal costs over 47 months delay in cases against WhatsApp and InstagramEuropean Digital Rights (EDRi)
#RFC: Unionize Free Software.
Today #FOSS can be exploited by #BigTech. We need to united free software development and collectively provide a counter to big and exploitative tech, that takes free software as gratis labor and undermines it as soon as free software developers demand anything in return - even if it's just to release your own source code depending on #FOSS as #FOSS.
Thus I present to you: "Unionize Free Software".
discuss.coding.social/t/unioni…
In the article “The changing economics of open source” Ken Mugrage present the Free Software Sustainability problem from the perspective of companies depending on free software developed by hobbyists.Discuss Social Coding
