WhatsApp rolt Meta AI uit in Nederland, en je kunt het niet uitschakelen ❌
Zit je niet op een chatbot te wachten tussen je persoonlijke gesprekken en hou je van privacy?
Probeer Signal 💙 https://signal.org/install
WhatsApp rolt Meta AI uit in Nederland, en je kunt het niet uitschakelen ❌
Zit je niet op een chatbot te wachten tussen je persoonlijke gesprekken en hou je van privacy?
Probeer Signal 💙 https://signal.org/install
Australia’s internet watchdog says social media firms are still "turning a blind eye” to online child sex abuse material on their platforms, singling out YouTube as having been unresponsive to its inquiries. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/06/tech/australia-regulator-youtube-child-abuse/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #youtube #australia #socialmedia #children #childabuse #apple #google #alphabet #meta #snap #whatsapp
are you German?
do you browse the web?
are you interested in €5000?
then consider suing Facebook for violating your privacy.
"The ruling in favor of the plaintiff sets a precedent which the court acknowledged will allow countless other users to sue without 'explicitly demonstrating individual damages'."
German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws | The Record from Recorded Future News
https://therecord.media/german-court-meta-tracking-tech
Do you work at Meta in Amsterdam? Worried you might get laid off?
Join an online info session hosted by the Tech Workers Coalition, where you will learn about steps you can take right now as a collective to try and prevent the layoffs and protect your jobs.
What: Meta layoffs info session
When: Tuesday 5 August at 18:30
Where: Online
The session is open to all Meta workers in the Netherlands. Bosses and leadership not welcome.
Do you work at Meta in Amsterdam? Worried you might get laid off?
Join an online info session hosted by the Tech Workers Coalition, where you will learn about steps you can take right now as a collective to try and prevent the layoffs and protect your jobs.
What: Meta layoffs info session
When: Tuesday 5 August at 18:30
Where: Online
The session is open to all Meta workers in the Netherlands. Bosses and leadership not welcome.
Best alternatives to #Instagram in 2025
Best alternatives to #Instagram in 2025
Mark Zuckerberg's vision of 'personal superintelligence' just sounds like supersurveillance. Again.
"Personal devices like glasses that understand our context because they can see what we see, hear what we hear, and interact with us throughout the day will become our primary computing devices."
https://www.meta.com/superintelligence/ #meta#generativeAI #hype
Mark Zuckerberg's vision of 'personal superintelligence' just sounds like supersurveillance. Again.
"Personal devices like glasses that understand our context because they can see what we see, hear what we hear, and interact with us throughout the day will become our primary computing devices."
https://www.meta.com/superintelligence/ #meta#generativeAI #hype
German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws
https://therecord.media/german-court-meta-tracking-tech
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.
The Regional Court of Leipzig in Germany ruled Friday that #Meta tracking pixels and software development kits embedded in countless websites and apps collect users’ data without their consent and violate the continent’s General Data Protection Regulation #GDPR.
If there’s any lesson to take from the AI spending plans issued by the world’s largest technology companies over the past two weeks, it’s to never underestimate the fear of missing out. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/02/big-tech-ai-spending/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #microsoft #amazoncom #meta #apple #google #ai #markets #investments #stocks
Cool to see @jamesgunn on the fediverse by his turning #Threads federation on. #dcu
The jury’s still out on whether America can innovate enough to defend its technological hegemony. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/08/01/world/trumps-tech-policies-and-success-against-china/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #china #ai #us #artificialintelligence #meta #xai #softbank #chatgpt #openai #tech #bigtech #stargate
First he said #facebook was working w privacy and ethics-by-design. Then, he claimed his platform democratised the world by allowing everybody to shout out, and that #meta was ethical because it gives away it products for free - also to the poor. Now, he claims Meta’s #ai will give us individual empowerment (article)
Nothing of above is correct, it is cynical PR - they steal the words from those who truely work for humans, democracy and the planet.
https://lnkd.in/dyZf9t4S
First he said #facebook was working w privacy and ethics-by-design. Then, he claimed his platform democratised the world by allowing everybody to shout out, and that #meta was ethical because it gives away it products for free - also to the poor. Now, he claims Meta’s #ai will give us individual empowerment (article)
Nothing of above is correct, it is cynical PR - they steal the words from those who truely work for humans, democracy and the planet.
https://lnkd.in/dyZf9t4S
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