https://www.huffpost.com/entry/facebook-meta-tiktok-targeted-victory_n_62446838e4b0742dfa59f045 Remember that Facebook tried to smear #TikTok.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/facebook-meta-tiktok-targeted-victory_n_62446838e4b0742dfa59f045
"In an increasingly desperate bid to reduce the appeal of TikTok, Facebook’s parent company Meta quietly paid a Republican consulting firm to smear the social media rival as a danger to society."
When I see a former Facebook executive rubbishing their competitors, I'm reminded of this.
We *know* Facebook has been known to do these things.
@chris @evan https://ideas.time.com/2013/08/28/soda-and-the-scientific-pile-on-effect/ It reminds me of what Dr. Ferguson said here where if someone goes too crazy with warnings, then people might start ignoring warnings about things which actually matter.
Progress is being made, but it's still fairly incomplete, more to do.
By serious, I mean, like a hypothetical "what if" scenario with a more serious response, rather than being more fantasy. Well, I'm not interested enough to look deeply into it.
Weird shows like this are actually pretty rare. It's just unusual enough that it invites me to comment on it.
https://nichegamer.com/if-my-wife-became-an-elementary-school-student-premieres-fall-2024/ rofl
It looks like it might be a more serious story but this premise is funny.
@jkanev Maybe a nitpick but Czech Republic.
There are also people who assume that a few tech companies are using the *same technology* as they did a decade ago and that they're not adopting even less accurate technologies.
Around a decade ago, Microsoft opened up the whole can of worms of private mass surveillance. Retrospectively, it was probably a bad decision and it sold the idea of violating someone's right to privacy as a tool of convenience for chasing crime.
Then, we get takes like this, where someone reckons that the government spying on people is not surveillance at all.
What. You mean there are sites which don't just immediately permanently ban people because of some stupid technicality. How shocking.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/police-are-using-drones-more-and-spending-more-them Drones kind of remind me of this. #Minnesota #privacy
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/police-are-using-drones-more-and-spending-more-them
"Minnesotan law enforcement flew their drones without a warrant 4,326 times in 2023"
"This marks a large, 41 percent increase from 2022, when departments across the state used drones 3,076 times"
#Minnesota #privacy
“What we’re talking about is a kind of self-negating paradox. You cannot do mass surveillance privately, full stop.”
@Mer__edith telling it as it is when it comes to attempts to crush encryption with client-side scanning on private messaging apps.
https://www.wired.com/story/titan-submersible-disaster-inside-story-oceangate-files/ What's so remarkable about it is that the CEO didn't just cut corners and get people killed. He cut corners and got himself killed.
"The Exclusive Inside Story Is More Disturbing Than Anyone Imagined"
I don't think anything to do with this guy can surprise me at this point.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/20/meredith-walker-signal-boss-government-encryption-laws
"Police have used the “very legitimate grievance” the public has with large tech companies like Meta about data collection and surveillance as a pretext to undermine user #privacy, the president of encrypted messaging app Signal has said."
#auspol
https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/kinderpornografie-zahl-der-falschen-verdaechtigungen-bei-online-bildern-massiv-gestiegen-a-a746b118-82e7-4560-8ba4-45f02489768c In Germany, the number of false reports from U.S. companies increased but the actual number of actionable child porn reports did not. #chatcontrol
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