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The current #EU proposal on #ChatControl is following the path laid out in "The Age of #SurveillanceCapitalism." That's terrifying.
The current #EU proposal on #ChatControl is following the path laid out in "The Age of #SurveillanceCapitalism." That's terrifying.
I started going to IETF meetings. Those events take place 3 times a year, with ~1000 people attending in person and another ~1000 remotely. A good chunk of those are paid to be there and some are employed by big companies like Apple and Google. This is the place where the fundamental fabric of the internet is constantly being improved. TLS 1.3, HTTP/3, MLS to name a few.
With this in mind I have no fucking clue what Moxie was on about when he said interoperable protocols are stuck in the 1990s.
Meta earns $16B a year from targeted scam ads.
This is fine and normal.
#BigTech #Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp #Meta #shutItDown #regulation #SurveillanceCapitalism #surveillance #capitalism #PeopleFarming #adtech
Meta earns $16B a year from targeted scam ads.
This is fine and normal.
#BigTech #Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp #Meta #shutItDown #regulation #SurveillanceCapitalism #surveillance #capitalism #PeopleFarming #adtech
From an excellent article by @aral , incredibly dating back to 2014:
"If we want to live in a world where privacy is the default and where we enjoy civil liberties and human rights, we must stop supporting the companies at the heart of corporate surveillance."
This is all still painfully relevant to our time. I highly recommend everyone to read it: https://ar.al/notes/rightscon-or-a-right-con/
By the way, this article I wrote for Pride Month on queer dating apps is also applicable to anyone using any dating apps.
I highly recommend a read if
you are currently using a dating app,
or have been in the past and have not deleted your data and account yet:
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/24/queer-dating-apps-beware-who-you-trust/
#Privacy#DatingApps#Dating#QueerDatingApps#SurveillanceCapitalism#AgeVerification
🤝75 years of the European Convention on Human Rights
A landmark treaty that reshaped Europe after the second World War, protecting millions of Europeans and supporting our shared values of human rights, democracy and rule of law.
Because human rights aren’t optional. They’re universal.
@EUCommission and there it is "Right to respect of private and family life".
Why is #bigtech not made accountable to this?
Why do we still have #surveillancecapitalism?
Internet disrupted in Tanzania on election day as ruling party seeks to extend decades in power https://apnews.com/article/tanzania-election-samia-suluhu-hassan-d897483abe5a34c1b02422e7adc5891a
@tek the question is who was supporting them to stay in power. That will also give us answers about the source of Tech they are using to activate censorship. Unmasking #SurveillanceCapitalism is the ultimate form of theoretical digital rights advocacy. Practical form would be to develop anti-Censirship Technologies.
Choose 20 women authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order:
5: Shoshana Zuboff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshana_Zuboff
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. Required reading for understanding the Internet and our place in it today.
#books #bookstodon #surveillancecapitalism
I’m feeling deeply hopeless for not receiving any donations💔
We wake up every morning to drops of dew falling through the torn roof of our tent...
Winter hasn’t even begun, yet we’re already shivering from the cold.
Please, stand with me🙏💔😭
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https://gofund.me/d0cc0587
https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115445244962527420
#JimmyWales #wikipedia #theGuardian #bookPromotion #capitalism #ElonMusk #adTech #zeroRating #Facebook #Meta #surveillanceCapitalism #regulation
I’m feeling deeply hopeless for not receiving any donations💔
We wake up every morning to drops of dew falling through the torn roof of our tent...
Winter hasn’t even begun, yet we’re already shivering from the cold.
Please, stand with me🙏💔😭
⬇️⬇️
https://gofund.me/d0cc0587
https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115445244962527420
#JimmyWales #wikipedia #theGuardian #bookPromotion #capitalism #ElonMusk #adTech #zeroRating #Facebook #Meta #surveillanceCapitalism #regulation
So there’s a new Guardian interview with Jimmy Wales out (to promote his new book, with an affiliate link for the Guardian in it) titled “‘People thought I was a communist doing this as a non-profit’: is Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron?”* that’s making the rounds here.
For those who only read the headlines, here’s a TL;DR: No. There is no such thing as decent tech baron, that’s an oxymoron.
From the article itself:
“‘I’m actually quite in favour of business and capitalism and all that.’ (He’s currently president of Fandom, an ad-funded entertainment site that hosts user-edited pages, owned by private equity firm TPG Capital).”
And:
“Does he still regard Musk, the world’s richest man, as a friend? ‘Friends is probably a little strong. I mean, not, not that –‘ he sputters, editing himself in real time. ‘I want to be careful how I say that, only because I’ve met him maybe five or six times, so that I would be overstating to say friends. We’ve been friendly, and even now he’s much nicer to me in private than you might think. I mean, he’s got a big public persona, and that’s a little bit different from the private Elon, who I think is more thoughtful.’”
Also, some more background:
https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115445244962527420
#JimmyWales #wikipedia #theGuardian #bookPromotion #capitalism #ElonMusk #adTech #zeroRating #Facebook #Meta #surveillanceCapitalism #regulation
That's a myth, perpetuated by the intransigent corporations addicted to #SurveillanceCapitalism and who petulantly spent a lot of pointless effort to annoy every website user.
The #GDPR does not require those banners. Every site could just *abstain from tracking* for anything except essential website functions; no questions required for that.
> Strictly necessary cookies […] it is not required to obtain consent for these cookies […]
> To comply with the regulations governing cookies under the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive you must:
> Receive users’ consent before you use any cookies except strictly necessary cookies. […]
https://gdpr.eu/cookies/
Every site that thrusts a cookie consent banner at you, has *chosen to do it*. Nothing, certainly not the EU, requires it.
The site is declaring “We would rather make a big change to piss off every visitor, than ever stop tracking people around the web.”
Every website is legally required to ask about cookies now, which has successfully made everyone click "accept all" without reading anything. Privacy restored
That's a myth, perpetuated by the intransigent corporations addicted to #SurveillanceCapitalism and who petulantly spent a lot of pointless effort to annoy every website user.
The #GDPR does not require those banners. Every site could just *abstain from tracking* for anything except essential website functions; no questions required for that.
> Strictly necessary cookies […] it is not required to obtain consent for these cookies […]
> To comply with the regulations governing cookies under the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive you must:
> Receive users’ consent before you use any cookies except strictly necessary cookies. […]
https://gdpr.eu/cookies/
Every site that thrusts a cookie consent banner at you, has *chosen to do it*. Nothing, certainly not the EU, requires it.
The site is declaring “We would rather make a big change to piss off every visitor, than ever stop tracking people around the web.”
Now at くら寿司 (at least the one in Asakusa) they have a tablet with a cat animation that looks at you mad until you smile to it. Then it smiles back to you.
In the meanwhile your face picture was already analyzed by some machine learning model in who knows whose server and for which intent.
Now at くら寿司 (at least the one in Asakusa) they have a tablet with a cat animation that looks at you mad until you smile to it. Then it smiles back to you.
In the meanwhile your face picture was already analyzed by some machine learning model in who knows whose server and for which intent.
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