New: after I revealed you could track someone's movements through the NYC subway with just their credit card, MTA says it will disable the feature.
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We have been live for little over a week and we've already got data brokers to stop lookups; had non-consensual porn platforms delisted; any now a privacy change on the NYC subway. We are not fucking around; we wake up every morning to do this.
https://www.404media.co/mta-will-disable-omny-trip-history-feature-abuse/
@olives I think it’s fair. Let folks decide what they want to read.
@GossiTheDog I already use bing, but this is a shady practice. Like what they did to non ms-dos oses back in the late 80s,early 90s…
We're big supporters of the EFF, but I can't get on board with the idea that somehow it's wrong or a slippery slope for Tier 1 ISPs to be blocking Kiwifarms.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/isps-should-not-police-online-speech-no-matter-how-awful-it
New from 404 Media: I tracked the precise movements of an NYC subway rider. Saw what specific time they got on and at what station. It became obvious which station was nearest to their home.
This was all because of a 'feature' on the MTA website. You just need their credit card info, something easily accessible to abusive partners or potentially on underground marketplaces
This feature is wide open to abuse
https://www.404media.co/i-tracked-nyc-subway-rider-home-omny-mta/
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@orangelantern oh that link should have most of what you need. Let me know if you get stuck.
@PCMag this they care about… but not all the gun nuts?
Seems people here like my humour posts which I usually post after midnight. I've collected these over the last 11 years. Let me break the pattern though and toot early my favourite climate change cartoon.
#Humour #ClimateChange
@nomi that applies to many current social issues. Well said