Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

There's a new data leak every week.

Tell a friend.

#Privacy

Kids in the UK are paying for school lunch using facial recognition.

“This is highly sensitive, personal data that children should be taught to protect, not to give away on a whim."

@sweale on The Information Commissioner’s Office's plans to intervene: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/oct/18/privacy-fears-as-schools-use-facial-recognition-to-speed-up-lunch-queue-ayrshire-technology-payments-uk

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1454082346924351495

We're excited to announce JShelter as the next step in our #FreeJS campaign. JShelter is a browser extension that helps curtail and limit the harmful effects of nonfree JS on the web. https://u.fsf.org/3gc

On Oct 26, we sent a formal letter to Truth Social’s chief legal officer, requesting the source code to be made publicly available in compliance with the license.

According to AGPLv3, after being notified by the copyright holder, Truth Social has 30 days to comply or the license may be permanently revoked.

More context: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/10/trumps-new-social-media-platform-found-using-mastodon-code/

holy fucking shit

uber clone that services the entirety of canada says questions about pay/benefits are "not in sync" with their priorities, and later "clarifies" that they're looking for people who aren't "focused" on compensation

whole fucking c-suite needs to fucking kill themselves

the more hours per day i can not spend on social media, fedi included, the better

i will go outside tomorrow, with my dictaphone and my wristwatch

#TIL about Project Gemini, a new internet publishing protocol that tries to take the best from both Gopher and the web protocols:
https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.html

#ProjectGemini #Gopher #protocols

You are not allowed to have a penis in the metaverse until you are 21 years of age

Trisquel security update alert! In this post you'll also find some major release ISO images available for testing https://u.fsf.org/3gi #trisquel #freedistro

I'm still never joining Facebook again

Facebook's goal is to dominate or encompass the entire internet. They want to be the internet hence the meta-verse.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/28/22745234/facebook-new-name-meta-metaverse-zuckerberg-rebrand

The internet should be free from corporate dominance so it's time to #DeleteFacebook #Facebook #META

A Call for Cooperation Against Fake News - Jeff Jarvis: https://scribe.rip/p/a-call-for-cooperation-against-fake-news-d7d94bb6e0d4 (Medium via Scribe)