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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
Screenshot of a Sign in with Google page with the name of the conference redacted in two places.
#google #surveillancecapitalism #conference #cfp #peoplefarming #callforproposal

“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
Screenshot of the first-party cookies page on Adobe’s experienceleauge.adobe.com site with the quote mentioned in the post highlighted.
#surveillancecapitalism #bigtech #peoplefarming #siliconvalley #adtech #Adobe #spyware @Kevin Beaumont

✊🏽 "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

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/tech-reform-regulation

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)
#surveillancecapitalism #TechAutonomy #DigitalAutonomy

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.”

https://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
#surveillancecapitalism #bigtech

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

Have a listen:

https://www.nextinnonprofits.com/2022/07/federated-communication-fediverse-with-aral-balkan/

#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)
#fediverse #podcast #surveillancecapitalism #SmallTech #SmallWeb #nonprofit #bigtech #peoplefarming #notforprofit

If you use the Firefox browser – or a privacy-respecting Firefox fork, like LibreWolf (https://librewolf.net/) – take a look at the LibRedirect extension (https://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
#surveillancecapitalism #peoplefarming #siliconvalley #LibRedirect #selfdefense

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.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2022/10/24/the-remote-control-killers-behind-russias-cruise-missile-strikes-on-ukraine/

#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)
#programming #surveillancecapitalism #Ukraine #ethics #war #bigtech #theNurembergDefense #responsibility

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

https://inkl.com/a/bvAAPoILNmL

Just look at how it’s funded and the people running it: https://ourfuturehealth.org.uk/about-us/#htoc-our-funding

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
#surveillancecapitalism #health #uk #BigData #peoplefarming #ourFutureHealth @Glyn Moody

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
#google #nlnet #surveillancecapitalism #bigtech #PR #ngi #nextgenerationinternet

“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.”

https://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
#surveillancecapitalism #bigtech #peoplefarming #colonialTechnology #youreTheLabRat

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: https://contrachrome.com/comic/page01/

#google #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism #privacy #Fight4Privacy #tutanota
Comic on how Chrome tracks its users.
#google #privacy #surveillancecapitalism #surveillance #fight4privacy #tutanota

“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.

🤔

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/privacy-2/2022/07/tiktok-is-unacceptable-security-risk-and-should-be-removed-from-app-stores-says-fcc/

#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)
#surveillancecapitalism #HumanRights #democracy #bigtech #peoplefarming

🚨 :facebook: NEW: # is collecting ultrasensitive personal # about # 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.

# # # #

https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/06/15/facebook-and-anti-abortion-clinics-are-collecting-highly-sensitive-info-on-would-be-patients

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
#privacy #facebook #DeleteFacebook #surveillancecapitalism #surveillance #data #abortion

# Spreading In #, Sidelining Role Of #.

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

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.

# # # # # https://progressive.org/public-schools-advocate/surveillance-capitalism-spreading-to-schools-hillman-esquivel-220611/

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)
#privacy #News #AI #surveillancecapitalism #HumanRights #education #Autonomy #teachers #schools

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)

https://www.iccl.ie/news/gdpr-enforcer-rules-that-iab-europes-consent-popups-are-unlawful/

Via @jayrope

# # # # # # # #

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)
#privacy #surveillancecapitalism #gdpr #peoplefarming #siliconvalley #adtech #consent #iab @jayrope

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

- Enable #
- Disable # Blocker

soon:

- Turn on your webcam for facial recognition, holding your social security number
- Speak your full name
- Turn on Location services
- Open this website on # or #, # is not supported
- Use # only

[ # # # ]
#linux #privacy #Windows #chrome #surveillancecapitalism #js #surveillance #ad #mac

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 #mozilla #surveillancecapitalism #location #data

RT @utopiah@twitter.com

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

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

No, instead it is about how WE can build a better society together!🫂 https://twitter.com/matrixdotorg/status/1488906845246955524

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/utopiah/status/1490004233558663169
#surveillancecapitalism #metaverse

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