@BjornW@mastodon.social
@BjornW@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

Bijna een jaar geleden gaf @helma een presentatie over 'Chat Control' met de stand van zaken op dat moment @nluug najaarsconferentie:

https://nluug.nl/evenementen/nluug/najaarsconferentie-2024/talks/helma-de-boer-zwartboek-chatcontrol/

Helaas is het Chat Controle voorstel net een zombie 🧟 & weer opgestaan. Ik ben me weer aan t inlezen via:

https://chatcontrole.nl
https://fightchatcontrol.eu

Informeer jezelf & anderen over dit ingrijpende & slechte voorstel.

CC @waag @marleenstikker @publicspaces

#Surveillance#Bigtech#Tech#EU#ChatControl#Privacy#TechPolicy

Tim Chambers
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Newsmast Foundation
@newsmast@newsmast.social  ·  activity timestamp 22 hours ago

A new report by Amnesty International calls for the dismantling of concentrations of power to make way for rights-respecting digital ecosystems.

You can read the full report here: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/POL30/0226/2025/en/

#BigTech#SocialMedia#AntiBigTech#Democracy#Fediverse#Mastodon#News#Report

An image of a smashed phone is the background to a quote from Amnesty International's Breaking Up With Big Tech report, which reads: "Big Tech’s dominance can lead to devastating consequences for marginalized communities. Platforms like Facebook, Instagram and YouTube have become primary gateways to news and public discourse. Their algorithmic systems – optimized for engagement and profit – have been shown to amplify harmful content which elicits a stronger reaction from users and keeps us online longer, allowing these companies to collect more data on us and serve us more adverts. In an increasingly polarized context, this can contribute to the rapid spread of discriminatory speech and even incitement to violence – which has had devastating consequences in several crisis and conflict-affected areas." Newsmast Foundation branding can be seen.
An image of a smashed phone is the background to a quote from Amnesty International's Breaking Up With Big Tech report, which reads: "Big Tech’s dominance can lead to devastating consequences for marginalized communities. Platforms like Facebook, Instagram and YouTube have become primary gateways to news and public discourse. Their algorithmic systems – optimized for engagement and profit – have been shown to amplify harmful content which elicits a stronger reaction from users and keeps us online longer, allowing these companies to collect more data on us and serve us more adverts. In an increasingly polarized context, this can contribute to the rapid spread of discriminatory speech and even incitement to violence – which has had devastating consequences in several crisis and conflict-affected areas." Newsmast Foundation branding can be seen.
An image of a smashed phone is the background to a quote from Amnesty International's Breaking Up With Big Tech report, which reads: "Big Tech’s dominance can lead to devastating consequences for marginalized communities. Platforms like Facebook, Instagram and YouTube have become primary gateways to news and public discourse. Their algorithmic systems – optimized for engagement and profit – have been shown to amplify harmful content which elicits a stronger reaction from users and keeps us online longer, allowing these companies to collect more data on us and serve us more adverts. In an increasingly polarized context, this can contribute to the rapid spread of discriminatory speech and even incitement to violence – which has had devastating consequences in several crisis and conflict-affected areas." Newsmast Foundation branding can be seen.
Newsmast Foundation
@newsmast@newsmast.social  ·  activity timestamp 22 hours ago

A new report by Amnesty International calls for the dismantling of concentrations of power to make way for rights-respecting digital ecosystems.

You can read the full report here: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/POL30/0226/2025/en/

#BigTech#SocialMedia#AntiBigTech#Democracy#Fediverse#Mastodon#News#Report

An image of a smashed phone is the background to a quote from Amnesty International's Breaking Up With Big Tech report, which reads: "Big Tech’s dominance can lead to devastating consequences for marginalized communities. Platforms like Facebook, Instagram and YouTube have become primary gateways to news and public discourse. Their algorithmic systems – optimized for engagement and profit – have been shown to amplify harmful content which elicits a stronger reaction from users and keeps us online longer, allowing these companies to collect more data on us and serve us more adverts. In an increasingly polarized context, this can contribute to the rapid spread of discriminatory speech and even incitement to violence – which has had devastating consequences in several crisis and conflict-affected areas." Newsmast Foundation branding can be seen.
An image of a smashed phone is the background to a quote from Amnesty International's Breaking Up With Big Tech report, which reads: "Big Tech’s dominance can lead to devastating consequences for marginalized communities. Platforms like Facebook, Instagram and YouTube have become primary gateways to news and public discourse. Their algorithmic systems – optimized for engagement and profit – have been shown to amplify harmful content which elicits a stronger reaction from users and keeps us online longer, allowing these companies to collect more data on us and serve us more adverts. In an increasingly polarized context, this can contribute to the rapid spread of discriminatory speech and even incitement to violence – which has had devastating consequences in several crisis and conflict-affected areas." Newsmast Foundation branding can be seen.
An image of a smashed phone is the background to a quote from Amnesty International's Breaking Up With Big Tech report, which reads: "Big Tech’s dominance can lead to devastating consequences for marginalized communities. Platforms like Facebook, Instagram and YouTube have become primary gateways to news and public discourse. Their algorithmic systems – optimized for engagement and profit – have been shown to amplify harmful content which elicits a stronger reaction from users and keeps us online longer, allowing these companies to collect more data on us and serve us more adverts. In an increasingly polarized context, this can contribute to the rapid spread of discriminatory speech and even incitement to violence – which has had devastating consequences in several crisis and conflict-affected areas." Newsmast Foundation branding can be seen.
eruwero
@eruwero@ieji.de replied  ·  activity timestamp 23 hours ago
@evacide
> Are big tech companies embracing surveillance over privacy?

Is this a stupid question? It's been the whole point for twenty-something years. And they still manage to make it worse.

#surveillance #bigtech #privacy
@BjornW@mastodon.social
@BjornW@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

Bijna een jaar geleden gaf @helma een presentatie over 'Chat Control' met de stand van zaken op dat moment @nluug najaarsconferentie:

https://nluug.nl/evenementen/nluug/najaarsconferentie-2024/talks/helma-de-boer-zwartboek-chatcontrol/

Helaas is het Chat Controle voorstel net een zombie 🧟 & weer opgestaan. Ik ben me weer aan t inlezen via:

https://chatcontrole.nl
https://fightchatcontrol.eu

Informeer jezelf & anderen over dit ingrijpende & slechte voorstel.

CC @waag @marleenstikker @publicspaces

#Surveillance#Bigtech#Tech#EU#ChatControl#Privacy#TechPolicy
Rik Viergever
@rikviergever@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago
#Enshittification explains why with basically every Big Tech company the users are the product these days and not the customer. The customers are the Ad companies! A great talk by Cory Doctorow here on the topic if you have 30mins:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ai-fC-2Bpo

#tech#IT#ICT#BigTech#Digital #mobile

@gael @murena @e_mydata @pluralistic
Rik Viergever
@rikviergever@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago
#Enshittification explains why with basically every Big Tech company the users are the product these days and not the customer. The customers are the Ad companies! A great talk by Cory Doctorow here on the topic if you have 30mins:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ai-fC-2Bpo

#tech#IT#ICT#BigTech#Digital #mobile

@gael @murena @e_mydata @pluralistic
jbz
@jbz@indieweb.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

🌩️ Your Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward - gHacks Tech News

｢ Microsoft announced that it is changing the default save location for Word documents on Windows. "Anything new you create will be saved automatically to OneDrive or your preferred cloud destination", writes Raul Munoz, product manager at Microsoft on the Office Shared Services and Experiences team ｣

https://www.ghacks.net/2025/08/27/your-word-documents-will-be-saved-to-the-cloud-automatically-on-windows-going-forward/

#microsoft #privacy #ai #bigtech #cloud
Claes de Vreese ☑️
@claesdevreese@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

The EU is a market with 450 million people.

There is vast public support for regulation of big tech and for companies to meet their responsibilities.

Giving in after a decade of efforts in this space is undesirable and unnecessary.

#regulation #bigtech #platforms #eu

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/business/trump-technology-european-union-tariffs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Claes de Vreese ☑️
@claesdevreese@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

The EU is a market with 450 million people.

There is vast public support for regulation of big tech and for companies to meet their responsibilities.

Giving in after a decade of efforts in this space is undesirable and unnecessary.

#regulation #bigtech #platforms #eu

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/business/trump-technology-european-union-tariffs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
jbz
@jbz@indieweb.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

😷 Trump threatens taxes, bans, for nations that tax Big Tech | The Register

“America, and American Technology Companies, are neither the ‘piggy bank’ nor the ‘doormat’ of the World any longer,” he added, before wrapping things up with a demand to “Show respect to America and our amazing Tech Companies or, consider the consequences!”

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/26/trump_tech_tax_threat/

#tariffs #bigtech #regulation
everton137
@everton137@social.vivaldi.net  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

I really love the catch-up feature on @phanpy. When I don't have time to scroll through my timeline on the Fediverse, I can simply see the most shared, liked, and commented-on posts from the networks I decided to follow. I know I'll still miss some good posts, but that's how I discover good ones I missed.

We can select the time range we want to catch up on. 1/2

#Mastodon#Algorithms#SocialMedia#Phanpy#Fediverse
everton137
@everton137@social.vivaldi.net replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

I don't understand the strict resistance to ethical algorithms like this one. I know big tech social media platforms cause a lot of harm with their hate speech and far-right-wing-based algorithms. But we can have good algorithms, too.

Someday, I am willing to adapt the code from catch-up just to see what my network has decided is worth sharing. That way, I won't need to wait and load @phanpy page every time. 2/2

https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy/blob/main/src/pages/catchup.jsx

#Fediverse#SocialMedia#Algorithms#BigTech #farright