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

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#surveillancecapitalism #w3c #bigtech #peoplefarming #siliconvalley

Using # platforms is often framed in terms of "pragmatism".

That's what they'd have you believe.

It''s pure marketing.

Choosing such a platform and thus forcing others into it is *not* a neutral choice if there are any accessible alternatives!

By forcing people onto it, you make yourself their unpaid marketing tool: that's the prized network effect!

The only excuse: most people simply aren't aware of that.

But it's foolish and unethical to knowingly contribute to it.
#surveillancecapitalism

On behalf of the # community that has long been saying that # is fundamentally incompatible with democracy and a graver national security threat than terrorism, I'd like to say:

We fucking told you so!

# influence campaigns
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# family / # culture wars
#privacy #russian #surveillancecapitalism #cambridgeanalytica #mercer #bannon

Wrote a new book review and summary.

Stolen Focus: Why you can't pay attention -- and How to think deeply again

https://njoseph.me/mediawiki/Books/Stolen_Focus

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#books #surveillancecapitalism #MentalHealth #StolenFocus #AttentionCrisis #CruelOptimism #Hypervigilance #flow

What's the one thing every web user can do to fight # ?

Replace the Google Chrome browser

I've started a new website to send a message to Google that we prefer the internet without them

https://notochrome.org/

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I want to browse the web, I don't want Google to browse me

notochrome.org

Say No to Chrome - We can no longer pretend that Google is a positive force in the world.
No to Chrome
#surveillancecapitalism #notochrome

Here's a new # I've started which interviews # maverick renegades who are pushing back against # monopolies, # and # and more # https://wedont.stream

We don't stream - a podcast

Technology pioneers rewriting the rulesThis podcast series looks at the maverick renegades of the internet who are pushing back against big tech monopolies, surveillance capitalism and climate change.
James Mullarkey
#podcast #surveillancecapitalism #climatechange #tech #bigtech #WeDontStream

Lucky to talk to Ania Piotrowska from Nym as part of my # #

Nym promises to be the 'better than #' anonymous network - a bold claim but one she says they don't make lightly.

https://www.jamesmullarkey.com/2021/03/the-better-than-tor-anonymous-network-with-ania-piotrowska/ # #

The 'better than Tor' anonymous network with Ania Piotrowska - We don't stream

Ania Pitorowska is the Co-Founder and Head of Research at Nym, a new type of privacy focused mixnet.
James Mullarkey
#privacy #podcast #surveillancecapitalism #Tor #WeDontSteam

“[A]s recently as June 23, Google was sharing potentially sensitive user data with a sanctioned Russian ad tech company owned by Russia’s largest state bank, according to a new report provided to ProPublica.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/google-russia-rutarget-sberbank-sanctions-ukraine

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Google Let Sberbank-Owned RuTarget Harvest User Data for Months

The internet giant may have provided Sberbank-owned RuTarget with unique mobile phone IDs, IP addresses, location information and details about users’ interests and online activity.
ProPublica
#google #Russia #surveillancecapitalism #Ukraine #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.

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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

Free Software Under Attack

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We won't let them crash our party.

A call for decentralizing collective technology production out of the # co-opted community spaces.

https://ps.zoethical.org/offdem-manifesto

Boost, sign, criticize.
A poster saying: OPEN FOR FREEDOM DESIRE EMANCIPATION MEANING with an OFFDEM logo (which is a power button as a smiling punk with a mohawk haircut)

Free Software Under Attack, an OFFDEM Manifesto

O2FFDEM The threat to free software An OFFDEM manifesto by petites singularités This text was originally published on January 5th, 012020 HE and was revised for this edition. On peut le lire en français.
petites singularités
#fosdem #surveillancecapitalism #fuckoffgoogle #OFFDEM #gmafia

Wisdom from @aral:

Venture Capital is when a group of rich douchebags get money from a group of even richer douchebags for some likely-not-rich-yet douchebags to create things that exploit the rest of us so all the douchebags involved can get richer still.

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#surveillancecapitalism #bigtech #peoplefarming #vc #siliconvalley #venturecapital @ar.al🌻

Wisdom from @aral:

enture Capital is when a group of rich douchebags get money from a group of even richer douchebags for some likely-not-rich-yet douchebags to create things that exploit the rest of us so all the douchebags involved can get richer still.

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#surveillancecapitalism #bigtech #peoplefarming #vc #siliconvalley #venturecapital @ar.al🌻

Venture Capital is when a group of rich douchebags get money from a group of even richer douchebags for some likely-not-rich-yet douchebags to create things that exploit the rest of us so all the douchebags involved can get richer still.

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#surveillancecapitalism #bigtech #peoplefarming #vc #siliconvalley #venturecapital

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

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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

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

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#surveillancecapitalism #web #http #peoplefarming #standards #http3 #protocols

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.”

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#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

The downside of "noncommercial only" is that you basically cannot include such works in open source software.

You may exclude # , but your work may remain quite useless even for nice projects due to such exclusions.
#surveillancecapitalism

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

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https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/16/in_brief_security/

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)
#privacy #iot #News #surveillancecapitalism #sanfrancisco #california #smartcity #internetofthings

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.

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#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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