Five EU countries including France will test an app aimed at preventing children from accessing harmful content online by checking the age of users, the European Commission said Monday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/15/world/society/eu-age-app-children-online/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #socialmedia #apps #australia #europe #eu #denmark #france #greece #italy #spain #bigtech #instagram #facebook #snapchat #tiktok
informapirata ⁂ :privacypride:
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Sul fronte social, #Citiverse si propone come la città digitale dei social liberi, offrendo un’alternativa decentralizzata ai gruppi #Facebook. #Apple, si trova in ritardo nella corsa all’#AI, con ritardi nei suoi assistenti vocali e la necessità di rilancio. Infine, la misurazione dei #LargeLanguageModel resta una sfida complessa, con benchmark che evolvono per valutare non solo la precisione ma anche la creatività e l’adattabilità dei modelli.
Alex Akselrod
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#German court rules #Meta #tracking technology violates #European #privacy laws
A German court has ruled that Meta must pay €5,000 ($5,900) to a German #Facebook user who sued the platform for embedding tracking technology in third-party websites — a ruling that could open the door to large fines down the road over data #privacy violations relating to pixels and similar tools.
#surveillance
Me realizing the dismantling of #netneutrality, #twitter safety, #facebook moderation, coming of #CambridgeAnalytica and the #Gamergate situation all happened around the same time (2011 - 2015), directly driving the downslide into racism and misogyny on the internet, while realizing the first levels of #deadinternettheory started appearing immediately after:
natacha 🍉
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Potentially groundbreaking court ruling against #Meta:
"A German court has ruled that Meta must pay €5,000 to a 🇩🇪 #Facebook user who sued the platform for embedding #tracking in third-party websites."
"This may very well be one of the most substantial rulings coming out of Europe this year, ... €5,000 in damages for one visitor adds up quickly if you have tens of thousands of visitors, or even millions."
While looking for something else, I just found a blog post about Diaspora I wrote in 2012;
But what I was really pleased to stumble upon is the post I wrote in 2019 about replacing FarceBook;
This one is definitely going to get an update-and-repost on the new Disintermedia blog.
EDIT: replaced links, hopefully this won't slashdot archive.today sites ...
joene 🏴🍉
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WAARSCHUWING
Er zijn momenteel verschillende nepaccounts actief op #Facebook en andere platforms die zich voordoen als AFA/Antifa-groepen. Om verwarring en misinformatie te voorkomen, kun je ons vinden op de volgende kanalen:
Instagram: @afa_nederland (https://www.instagram.com/afa_nederland)
Mastodon: @ AFA @ todon.nl (https://todon.nl/@AFA)
Bluesky: AFA.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy (https://bsky.app/profile/AFA.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy)
En natuurlijk onze website: https://afanederland.org
Twijfel je aan of iets echt is? Laat het ons weten via onze DM's op Instagram of Mastodon.
Ulrike Hahn
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PSA: Meta (Facebook) is offering a new “feature” where it asks you if you want to opt into “cloud processing”. If you say yes, you’ll be giving it permission to upload your entire camera roll and use AI on them to make suggested posts.
I’m just spitballing here, but I’m pretty sure most of y’all would not want to give Facebook all of your photos to use with their AI.
Meta an evil company? How can it be?! They’re partners, alongside Mastodon gGmbH, at the @swf (https://socialwebfoundation.org)
#institutionalCorruption #mastodon #fediverse#SocialWebFoundation #whitewashing #meta #facebook #threads#BigTechhttps://mastodon.au/@Linux/114821179079336678
Aral Balkan
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Every post you’ve ever made anywhere within Meta’s ecosystem. Every photo you’ve ever shared. It doesn’t matter if you thought it was “private” or shared only with yourself — the AI has access to everything.
As the old saying goes: "All your base are belong to us!"
#AI#ArtificialIntelligence#Meta#Facebook#Threads#Instagram#WhatsApp
Aral Balkan
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Meta is protecting ICE.
If you post about an ongoing event involving ICE, your post may be delayed from appearing in the general feed.
If you encourage people to assist those under threat from ICE, your account may be suspended or terminated, and your information may be forwarded to law enforcement.
I really do work for an evil company.
Cassidy James :ea: :gg: :fh:
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