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In case anyone is looking for evidence of why the 'we value your privacy' promises of proprietary platforms are inherently empty, and can't be trusted ...
"Meta servers download every shared file in Facebook Messenger and Instagram DM in full—even if it’s gigabytes in size ... Meta insisted it wasn’t a bug. When we published videos demonstrating the issue, they asked YouTube to take them down."
https://mastodon.social/@mysk/114859726176255816
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
Moin ins #fediverse
#Mastodon läuft gut. Ich (das FÖJ) arbeite nun an einem Vortrag darüber, den ich bei einem Vereinstreffen halten werde. Am Ende soll ich Menschen anleiten, auf Mastodon zu starten.
Ich würde - um Überforderung vorzubeugen - gerne eine App für's Handy empfehlen, nur welche? Usability ist sehr wichtig. Die Zielgruppe sind keine digital natives.
Bin auch dankbar für instanz vorschläge
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
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.
Additionally, if you share any current information concerning Donald Trump and his associates, your post may be delayed from appearing in the general feed.
For example, if you saw Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eating a hamburger at McDonald’s and posted a selfie with him in the background, no one would see that you shared it for several hours.
Interestingly enough, if you shared the current whereabouts of someone who does not support Donald Trump — such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Jasmine Crockett — there would be no delay in Meta’s general feed.
This paints an awful image, especially since the justification for delaying posts about Donald Trump and his associates is "general safety."
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.
Additionally, if you share any current information concerning Donald Trump and his associates, your post may be delayed from appearing in the general feed.
For example, if you saw Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eating a hamburger at McDonald’s and posted a selfie with him in the background, no one would see that you shared it for several hours.
From: @tchambers
https://indieweb.social/@tchambers/114811908883686443
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.
We know from recent revelations about #meta actively building code into #Facebook and #Instagram to work around privacy setting, that they do ANYTHING to exploit their products ( aka 'users' ). If they explicitly claim they won't, we should rather be deeply worried, that they'll try to get those pictures even without consent :
"While it claims that the images won't be used for ad targeting, it still doesn't make us feel particularly good."
ORG's new report exposes Meta’s intrusive profiling of its users.
With the introduction of Generative AI to Meta’s ad tools, existing problems with opacity will get worse.
🗣️ Anna Dent, author of 'Profiling by Proxy'.
Read more ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/profiling-by-proxy-how-metas-data-driven-ads-fuel-discrimination/
#meta #facebook #instagram #threads #adtech #surveillancecapitalism #advertising #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol#AI
By further automating ad audience selection on Meta with GenAI, we'll have less chance of understanding why certain people are seeing which ads.
It may also make it even harder to detect the use of proxy data that let advertisers dodge anti-discrimination or data processing laws.
#meta #facebook #instagram #threads #adtech #surveillancecapitalism #advertising #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol#AI
Privacy over profits!
We're fighting back against Meta's use of personal data to sell ads.
Meta should give us options for opting-out of stalker ads. Until they do, you can use our tool to make this request.
Act now to #StopStalkerAds ⬇️
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/meta-opt-out
#meta #facebook #instagram #threads #adtech #surveillancecapitalism #advertising #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol#AI
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