Strypey
activity timestamp last week
More cracks showing in the NatACT First coalition. With National proposing to ban social media platforms from allowing under-16s to use them, and the ACT leader calling it;

"Simple, neat and wrong"

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/560184/seymour-calls-for-inquiry-into-national-s-proposal-to-ban-social-media-for-under-16s

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, and Seymour is right about this. Such a ban would require reliably identifying everyone who tries to access online services, which is technically difficult, and requires systemic privacy violation;

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/560184/seymour-calls-for-inquiry-into-national-s-proposal-to-ban-social-media-for-under-16s

#privacy
Strypey
activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
"The documentation suggests that [ZuckerBorg and SandBorg] were willing to run FaceBook in China as a government surveillance network. That they would give the Chinese government access to user's data."

#AnnaRawhitiConnell, 2025

https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/01-04-2025/the-fold-careless-people-adolescence-and-where-meta-is-at

Why wouldn't they? As many of us always suspected and Edward Snowdon's leaks confirmed, that's exactly what they do for the US government.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/june-5/edward-snowden-discloses-u-s-government-operations

#privacy #surveillance#MassSurveillance#SocialMedia#FaceBook#China#USA