Please be aware that Freenode have now closed our IRC Channel as part of their continued Hostile Takeover and redirected it to "##gamingonlinux" which we do not control. DO NOTE USE FREENODE. We have moved to Libera.Chat: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/irc/
In a 2020 letter to management, Max Eliaser, an #Amazon software engineer, said #Ring is “simply not compatible with a free society”.
He's right.
--> "Amazon’s Ring is the largest civilian surveillance network the US has ever seen": https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/18/amazon-ring-largest-civilian-surveillance-network-us
Is GDPR worth the paper it’s printed on? According to these fine folks, “browser fingerprinting … incognito mode detection … geolocation … anonymous user detection”, etc., are all apparently GDPR-compliant without consent if done for “fraud protection.”
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Too Bad, Zuck: Just 4% of U.S. iPhone Users Let Apps Track Them After iOS Update https://gizmodo.com/too-bad-zuck-just-4-of-u-s-iphone-users-let-apps-tra-1846851013
Signal created targeted ads for Instagram that show the personal data that Facebook collects about you and sells access to.
They were blocked.
https://signal.org/blog/the-instagram-ads-you-will-never-see/
A new @accessnow report concludes digital vaccine certificates “threaten human rights by creating space for exclusion and discrimination to flourish, and posing serious long-term threats to the privacy and security of millions of people across the globe.” https://www.accessnow.org/covid-19-vaccine-passports-threaten-human-rights/
Inventive grandson builds Telegram messaging machine for 96-year-old grandmother
Monkey plays Pong through a Neuralink interface (with his mind) - we are not very far from the cyborg age anymore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsCul1sp4hQ #neuralink #monkey #pong