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Lisa

/2. “Are you “led by your emotions” but “reluctant to express them”? Do you enjoy volunteering and hands-on activities? If so, and you purchased a firearm in the last several decades, America’s chief gun lobby has a Senate candidate it would like to talk to you about.

Those traits belong to “The Carer,” one of five psychological profiles the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica developed on behalf of the National Shooting Sports Foundation…”
#DataHarvesting #NRA #CambridgeAnalytica

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#California Sues Data-Harvesting Company #NPD , Enforcing Strict #Privacy Law - Slashdot

California's attempt to regulate the industry inspired the nonprofit Consumer Reportsto create an app called #PermissionSlip that reveals what data companies collect and, for people in U.S. states, will "work with you to file a request, telling companies to stop selling your personal information."
#dataharvesting #surveillance #tracking

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yro.slashdot.orgCalifornia Sues Data-Harvesting Company NPD, Enforcing Strict Privacy Law - SlashdotCalifornia sued to fine a data-harvesting company, reports the Washington Post, calling it "a rare step to put muscle behind one of the strongest online privacy laws in the United States." Even when states have tried to restrict data brokers, it has been tough to make those laws stick. That has ge...
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Couple this with Mozilla's stunning (but wholly expected) descent into Advertising and the whole company just looks massively untrustworthy now.

That's Thunderbird now being removed from my phone -I had the new app- and my PC where it's only a backup to Vivaldi browser's in-built email client anyway.

Just no, Mozilla.

#Mozilla #Firefox #Thunderbird #Advertising #DataHarvesting

RE: https://sigmoid.social/users/davidculley/statuses/113245153254319956

MastodonSarah Jamie Lewis (@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social)"Mozilla is going to be more active in digital advertising." "we do this fully acknowledging our expanded focus on online advertising won’t be embraced by everyone in our community" - https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/improving-online-advertising/ I appreciate Mozilla laying their intent out explicitly with no room for interpretation or guesswork. Personally, I think this is not just a huge misstep, but a deathknell.
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