Zoom Layoffs Target DEI Amid a Broader Pullback on Diversity Initiatives 🙁

"Zoom is following in the footsteps of Google, Meta, and other corporate giants that have used layoffs to cut back on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs."

inc.com/brit-morse/zoom-layoff…

#zoom #google #meta #diversity #DEI

"... the website loads in a special browser built into the app, rather than your phone’s default browser. In 2022, privacy researcher Felix Krause found that Meta injects special “keylogging” JavaScript onto the website you’re visiting that allows the company to monitor everything you type and tap on, including passwords. Other apps including TikTok do the same thing."

What the hell?? This is so creepy.

#Meta #JavaScript #Privacy #web #SocialMedia #News #Threads

gizmodo.com/meet-link-history-…

Meet ‘Link History,’ Facebook’s New Way to Track the Websites You Visit

Facebook introduces a confusing new setting as the walls close in on Zuckerberg’s data machine.

^{Thomas Germain (Gizmodo)}

My #FediPact 2.0 website tool is now available for your anti-fascist viewing pleasure!

Please share this around so I can finallly go to sleep 😫. I know people wanted to see it.

Servers not listed just had no readily-available data for me to grab.

fedipact.veganism.social/?v=2

#Threads #Meta #FediPact #Zuckerberg #Mastodon #Lemmy #Firefish

#Fedipact - The instances blocking Zuckerberg's Threads.net

An interactive list to see which ActivityPub (Matodon, Lemmy, FireFish, etc) instances are federating with Threads.net

^{fedipact.veganism.social}

Meta thinks your #privacy is for sale.

Would you pay 160 euros per year to Facebook & Instagram for respecting your right to privacy?

Here's more info: tuta.com/blog/meta-pay-for-pri…

#dataprotection #gdpr #consent #socialmedia #meta #facebook #instgram #whatsapp

Meta Wants You to Pay for Privacy so Poor People Are Deprived of Their Right to Privacy. Is This Even Legal?

Meta's approach of 'pay for your privacy' is wrong in so many ways. Let's find out why!

^Tutanota

• Yes (4%, 18 votes)
• No (95%, 376 votes)

"𝑱𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒔 𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒍’𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒔 𝒓𝒆́𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒙 𝒔𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒖𝒙, 𝒖𝒏 𝒓𝒆́𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒖 𝒔𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒏’𝒂 𝒂𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒆́ 𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒅𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒆́𝒆𝒔 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒔."

"Vous allez voir vos données personnelles aspirées et 𝐣𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐥’𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐞́𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐱 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐮𝐱, 𝐮𝐧 𝐫𝐞́𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐮 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐧’𝐚 𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞́ 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐝𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞́𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐞𝐭 𝐧𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐞́𝐞𝐬 avec les autres données personnelles des autres réseaux sociaux de #META qu’avec #Threads aujourd’hui", explique toujours Xavier Degraux."

Mais à quoi d'autre pouvait-on s'attendre ?

rtbf.be/article/threads-le-res…

Threads : 'le réseau social qui siphonne le plus vos données' est disponible en Europe

Un nouveau réseau social est disponible en Belgique depuis ce jeudi 13 décembre. Il s’appelle Threads et est le petit...

^{Maïté Warland, édité par Miguel Allo (RTBF.be)}

me, vanta, trans enby girl polyam lesbian gender terrorist: "people should block threads because it will make fedi unsafe for queer people"

the verge, for some reason: "OBVIOUSLY it's a bunch of NERD BOYS trying to keep the WOMEN out"

#FediPact #meta #threads

The recent excitement surrounding Thread's arrival on the Fediverse is concerning. To understand why this is not a good idea, consider their economic interest in harvesting data, their poor moderation, and their manipulations. Nothing good can come from their federation. Don't roll out the red carpet for them.

#Threads #Mastodon #Krita #MastoArt #Meta

🚨#BREAKING: EU Bans Personalized Ads on #Facebook & #Instagram 💪

Or: How the small country of Norway has brought down Meta

1. Impose a fine of €90.000 per day on Meta for personalized ads. ✅

2. Make the fine temporary and call on EU orgs to check whether Meat violates the EU GDPR privacy protection rules. ✅

3. EU threatens with fines of up to 4% of #Meta's global turnover. ✅

More 👉 tutanota.com/blog/facebook-ins…

BTW: #Tutanota comes with zero ads, but maximum privacy! 😎🥰

The EU bans Meta's use of personal data for behavioural advertising.

The European Data Protection Board said Wednesday it had adopted a binding decision that will ban Facebook and Instagram owner Meta from using the personal data of users for targeted advertisements.

Earlier this year Norway imposed a ban on sending Facebook and Instagram users targeted advertisements based on their personal data.

france24.com/en/live-news/2023…

#EU #Privacy #EDPB #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #Advertising

EU bans Meta's use of personal data for behavioural advertising

^{France 24 (FRANCE 24)}

Okay, what the heck?!
How can such a process be approved?

#whatsapp #meta #account #deactivation #email

nitter.hnnng.space/JakeMooreUK…

Oh my God. PLEASE do not get on Meta's new competitor for Twitter.

It harvests mucho data including our health data.

You cannot opt out.

#Meta has already taken info from a Facebook Messenger chat about seeking #abortion in a hostile state, and turned it over for prosecution.

If you're #trans or might ever need to end a pregnancy PLEASE do not use #Threads.

Boost this. Protect your damn friends.

Edit to add documentation: theverge.com/2022/8/10/2329950…

Deutsche Telekom: Die App »MeinMagenta« gibt ungefragt personenbezogene Daten an Facebook weiter, ohne Facebook/Meta in den Datenschutzhinweisen zu erwähnen. 👇

#Lesen -≥ #Teilen -> ❤

kuketz-blog.de/meinmagenta-deu…

#telekom #deutschetelekom #facebook #meta #dsgvo #ttdsg #datenschutz #datensendeverhalten

MeinMagenta: Deutsche Telekom übermittelt ohne Einwilligung personenbeziehbare Daten an Facebook und Co.

MeinMagenta gibt ungefragt personenbezogene Daten an Facebook weiter, ohne Facebook/Meta in den Datenschutzhinweisen zu erwähnen.

^{Kuketz IT-Security Blog}

Meta: OH, COME ON. ISN'T THAT BETTER NOW?

#meta #fediverse #threads
#MastoArt #krita

The Zuck suck is in full swing. In the few short hours since I started using #Threads, #DuckDuckGo has already blocked over 200 data tracking attempts. These include things like "headphone status" and "screen density."

#DataPrivacy #Meta #ThreadsApp

Meta Specific Data Rights Limitation Notice

Notice is hereby given to #Meta Corp. by this account, and all signatories, that all data rights are reserved. No license is granted other than those limited rights as per the account's instance Privacy Policy (eg. mastodon.online/privacy-policy).

Specifically no authorization is given for: 1) Monetization in any way, 2) Profiling for targeted advertising or other purpose, 3) AI, LLM or algorithm training.

**Simply reply, boost, or favourite to sign**

Mastodon

A newer server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit

^{Mastodon hosted on mastodon.online}

#Meta is having a very bad year. The latest decision (issued by the #CJEU yesterday in Meta Platforms Inc, et al., v. Bundeskartellamt, C-C252/21) adds to their woes, but more importantly, I anticipate it will force us all to re-evaluate #processing, #lawful bases, special category data, and #inferences derived from that data.

In my article, I explore the case in detail, as well as some hypotheses on the impact of this decision broadly to #BigTech, with examples.

But I'm curious to hear your thoughts and observations. Am I being a Cassandra? Overly pessimistic? Completely overthinking this? What implications am I missing?

I'll note here (even though I didn't mention it in the article) that this may also portend the effective death of the One Stop Shop mechanism, which is already on shaky ground after the whole spat between the #DPC and other regulators. Who needs Ireland if competition authorities can also raise issues under the GDPR?

CJEU case: curia.europa.eu/juris/document…

Substack: careylening.substack.com/p/met…

Meta's Wakeup Call, and Big Tech's New Reality?

I unpack the far-reaching Impact of the CJEU's landmark ruling in Meta Platforms v Bundeskartellant and what it means for Big Tech, consent, and inferred data.

^{Carey Lening (Chronicles of the Constantly Curious)}

Maybe you should all hide your social graphs, I think that's one of the most valuable things that #Meta/#Facebook wants to mine here 🤔

Or do they want to pull of an embrace, extend, extinguish?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,…

I don't really know nor do I want to join this discussion, just pointing out the most obvious risk.

Your social graph is basically who you follow and who follows you, you can hide it in the mastodon settings.

Meine Damen und Herren. Auf dem ersten Bild sehen Sie die Daten, die die App #Threads von Ihnen speichern und einem Profil zuordnen möchte. Das zweite Bild zeigt die App #Mastodon und welche Daten dort erhoben werden. 👇

#fediverse #meta #zuckerberg

Y'all, Meta isn't launching their Twitter alike in the EU because it would be _literally illegal there_ due to all the privacy and data collection issues they plan on having: independent.ie/business/techno…

...and some of you want to federate with them?!?!

#p92 #meta #threads

No Instagram Threads app in the EU: Irish DPC says Meta's new Twitter rival won't be launched here

Meta will not launch its new Twitter rival, Threads, in Ireland or the EU for the foreseeable future.

^{Adrian Weckler (Independent.ie)}

Eventually #Meta will have the final say when it comes to #ActivityPub. Like how all word processors must support .docx, and all websites are built with Chromium compatibility in mind.

This is how you take over an open protocol.

"Embrace, extend, extinguish."

7/🧵

#Meta is well known for how it removes its competitors from its way. If they can't easily crush them with their size, they buy them young - #whatsapp and #instagram come to mind. Meta has money, and they don't want anyone in their way. Buyouts are the easiest solution.

But the Fediverse cannot be bought. No one controls it. It's a collection of servers, each with its own operators and principles. There is nothing central that Meta can control here...

...except for one: the #protocol.

2/🧵

#Threads by #Meta forcing itself into the #Fediverse is bad and will harm the Fediverse as a whole if not straight up kill it.

I am baffled to see claims such as "we should give them a chance!" or "this could help the Fediverse grow!", as if we're not talking about one of the probably most immoral, unethical, and predatory businesses in this day and age.

Meta isn't coming to play fair. They're coming to use us for profit.

"Embrace, extend, extinguish."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,…

1/🧵
#thread

#Meta isn't here to play fair. They're not here to help grow the Fediverse. They want to use it as a kickstart for their own #Threads walled garden, and they will suck the life out of the Fediverse if we won't resist their reach.

They're a cold, heartless, profit-driven #mega #corporation. Not an ally.

We must not fall into this trap. We must not tag along. Meta can't take over if we won't give them the initial footing.

Don't trust them. Don't federate with them.

#DefederateFromMeta

8/🧵

oh, here's some JUICY rumored details about meta's plans for the fediverse

tl;dr "Meta will only federate with select larger instances from the beginning. There will be contracts which also provide for financial compensation for the instance owners."

can't entirely verify their validity but it's still worth posting just in case

#FediPact #barcelona #project92 #p92 #meta #facebook #fediverse #fediblockmeta #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #threads

Yeah, that's gonna be a hard pass from me thanks, Rachel.

Zero interest in having a conversation with #Meta "off the record" or otherwise.

Sharing this purely to be as transparent as possible with our members.

Blunt and salty reminder that in 2010, leaked chat transcripts included Zuck offering up user data he gathered on Harvard students. When asked how he got it, his response was:

“People just submitted it. I don’t know why. They ‘trust me’ - dumb fucks.”

businessinsider.com/well-these…

#meta

Well, These New Zuckerberg IMs Won't Help Facebook's Privacy Problems

^{Nicholas Carlson (Insider)}

Da bin ich ein Wochenende weniger online, weil ich anderweitig gearbeitet habe, und schon explodiert das #Fediverse und es geht um #Meta-Instanzen und sehr berechtigten Protest dagegen.

fedipact.online/

Ich bin ehrlich fassungslos.

@markus wir müssen uns für dresden.network mal mit was auseinander setzen.

Und falls es irgendwer vergessen haben sollte, warum das Fediverse so gut ist und funktioniert, wie es eben funktioniert, habe ich hier nochmal 2 meiner Sticker dabei.

Freie dezentrale Netze statt datenfressender Monopole

Social Media? Machen wir selbst!

I decided to choose violence.

An essay on why the #TwitterMigration failed, some things to learn for the next time it's a possibility, and some thoughts on things that the #RedditMigration has done differently, especially with #Kbin.

blog.bloonface.com/2023/06/12/…
#fedimeta#meta#mastodon

Why did the #TwitterMigration fail?

I’ve been using fediverse stuff (Mastodon and, most recently, Calckey – I’m just going to use “Mastodon” as shorthand here, purists can bite me) for over a year now, a…

^{Café Lob-On}

Huge win for privacy: Record fine against #Facebook thanks to Max Schrems & @noybeu! 🥳

#Meta must pay 1.2 billion euros for violating the EU #privacy regulation #GDPR. 👌

Read more: 👇tutanota.com/blog/facebook-tra…

#Fight4Privacy

Huge win for privacy: Record fine against Facebook thanks to Max Schrems.

Meta must pay 1.2 billion euros for violating the EU regulation GDPR.

^Tutanota

While #Google #Meta #Microsoft #Twitter & #Amazon are laying off tens of thousands of people to satisfy shareholders, #Tutanota continues to grow.

Welcome with us Wren, Johannes & Noah! 🥳

Join us if you are a developer wanting to fight for #privacy!

tutanota.com/blog/posts/team-2…

Tutanota keeps growing: Welcome Noah, Johannes and Wren with us!

New year, new team members! With the start of 2023 we continue the growth of the Tutanota team: Welcome with us Wren, Johannes and Noah. All of these talented software developers are already working on improving our encrypted email client.

^Tutanota

More than € 1 billion in fines in one year: The EU is finally fighting against #Meta's abuse of user privacy!

We have a suggestion for #Zuckerberg: Do not collect data in the first place.

#privacy

tutanota.com/blog/posts/facebo…

Huge win for privacy: Facebook tracking is illegal in Europe!

EU privacy regulators say Facebook and Instagram must not force users to agree to tracking by putting this requirement into their terms. This business model is illegal according to the GDPR.

^Tutanota

Apparently Twitter has marked my Mastodon instance, hci.social, as “unsafe,” along with most other instances I tried. If he’s going after littler instances like this, it seems increasingly like a vendetta against Mastodon itself instead of some happenstance/accident.

#meta #HCIsocial #birdsite