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Claes de Vreese

Political ads are not bad. But the recent announcement from #Meta to stop with online political advertising in the EU is. Bad that is. @markscott.bsky.social lays out why this is an ‘abdication of responsibility’ on the side of Meta (and Google) www.digitalpolitics.co/newsletter057/

In defense of digital politica...

Bluesky SocialMark Scott (@markscott.bsky.social)Senior Resident Fellow, Atlantic Council’s Democracy + Tech Initiative. Weekly newsletter: www.digitalpolitics.co
Esther a.k.a U039b

A major data privacy lawsuit has concluded. The class action against Flo Health and Meta Platforms stemmed from allegations that the Flo period-tracking app shared sensitive user health information with third parties, including Meta, without proper consent. This isn't just about privacy — it's about accountability.

#DataPrivacy#FloApp#Meta
Mathzy

I used to pay £23 for #Google and #Microsoft accounts per month, just to have cloud storage and #Office.

I've since moved to #Proton for storage, VPN and email (about £10). The money saved has gone towards monthly donations to #LibreOffice (365 replacement) and #Signal (#Meta #WhatsApp replacement) - both #FOSS.

What I'm trying to say, I guess, is that if you #LeaveBigTech - and can afford it - donations to the organisations that try to keep the internet free and private would be excellent.

Tama Leaver

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."

meta.com/superintelligence/ #meta #generativeAI #hype

www.meta.comPersonal SuperintelligenceExplore Meta's vision of personal superintelligence, where AI empowers individuals to achieve their goals, create, connect, and lead fulfilling lives. Insights from Mark Zuckerberg on the future of AI and human empowerment.
Patrick Leavy

Fascinating to see how China does it. Literally the SeeChange programme from the novel The Circle (coupled with the CCP obviously) 🤯

thediplomat.com/2024/05/the-se

At the Rebel Tech Alliance we're fighting #bigtech #surveillance in the West, and it's made so much harder by our governments' appetites for mass surveillance (in the name of security).

rebeltechalliance.org/

In the West surveillance is outsourced to private companies, so you can avoid it by not using their services: #Google #Meta etc

Simon D.

German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws
therecord.media/german-court-m

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.

therecord.mediaGerman court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy lawsThe court in Leipzig 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 other lawsuits.
🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦
TIL: Google Gemini is significantly better at reading the kinds of colourful graphs you see on server monitoring dashboards than are any of the other leading #AI models from #OpenAI and #Meta. Why yes, I do, in fact, resent that I had to learn this. Because #OpenSource tools don't make data visualizations #accessible to #screenreaders (even on the terminal) sometimes the things I #selfhost to get rid of big tech just mean I have to use big tech anyway to fix them when they explode. But never the less, Google is the only AI that doesn't tell me about the menus and other Windows I captured by mistake in my screenshot, doesn't make unhelpful recommendations, and actually provides the data without cluttering it up with Emoji. But I did appreciate metta telling me "This graph shows CPU use on the X axis, RAM use on the Y axis, network use on the Z axis, and time on the fake axis." I mean, open source UI is famously terrible...but I don't think it's that terrible...yet! Shhh, don't give the data visualization people any ideas!
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Christoph Schmees

WhatsApp will Werbung

Genauer gesagt: Herr Z. will auch WhatsApp (WA) als Vehikel für gezielte Werbung benutzen. In der EU soll dieser "Fortschritt" frühestens im nächsten Jahr eingeführt werden. Da stellt sich natürlich die Frage: WA ist doch verschlüsselt, woher weiß META dann, welche Werbung zu wem passt? Ganz einfach. Wenn ich ein WA-Nutzer wäre (was ich natürlich nicht bin), dann kennte META mich durch mein Surf-Verhalten und durch meine Smartphone-Benutzung sehr genau. Außerdem kennte META ja alle meine Kontakte und deren Interessen, was wiederum

pc-fluesterer.info/wordpress/2

www.pc-fluesterer.infoWhatsApp will Werbung | pc-flüsterer bremen
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