Instagram launches forced Data Collection to use their app
If you login and get this prompt, you must accept data all this data collection or you will be promoted to log out and not allowed to use the App
Here is a full down of what’s mandatory to give up to use Instagram:
Collection and use of personal data: They collect our activity on Instagram (posts, stories, likes, comments, searches, time spent), device info, IP address, contacts (if synced), messages, location (when enabled), demographics, and inferred interests
Sharing of data with other Meta companies. They take all the personal data they collected and share across Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, Oculus, etc.
Cross-border transfers of personal data: Your data is sent and stored in the US and other countries where Meta has offices/data centers or partners.
Location information: Precise location (GPS when you use features like Stories or check-ins), approximate location from IP/Wi-Fi, and location-based activity history.
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How to legally and lawfully GET RID OF ALL @Flock_Safety
🚨 Flock has a hidden weakness many don’t know: public records requests.
Activists have successfully forced at least 8 cities to shut down Flock programs, either by exposing unauthorized data access or showing the footage was publicly accessible.
One of the most effective ways to take down Flock cameras?
FOIA Freedom of Info Requests
PRA Public Records Requests
Credit to @JasonBassler1 for a template to file one in your city:
🇺🇸 Companies fired their employees to replace them with AI. Now many are scrambling to hire them back.
A survey of 600 HR professionals who'd made AI-driven layoffs found 9 out of 10 would now reconsider those terminations.
Only 8.4% said AI actually delivered the results they were promised.
One e-commerce company found its AI customer service costs ran 2-3x over budget, then cut resolution costs by 40% by hiring human virtual assistants instead.
Another paused AI compliance reporting after cybersecurity and oversight costs ate through the projected savings entirely.
NVIDIA's VP of Applied Deep Learning Research: "The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees."
Companies asked employees to help train their own replacements, then wonder why trust with their workforce is broken.
Many laid-off workers, when offered their old jobs back, are simply saying no.
Source: @zerohedge / Writer: Michael
BREAKING: The United States House has rejected Thomas Massie’s amendment to stop the integration of the United States military with Israel’s under Section 219 (formerly Section 224) of the NDAA.
U.S. national debt has now climbed above 100% of GDP for the first time since World War II.
That means the country now owes more than the total value of everything it produces in a year, a level typically seen only in major crises or wartime economies.
Economists often point out that what matters isn’t just the number itself, but how fast it’s growing and what it costs to service it… but crossing this threshold is still a major long-term signal for the economy.
Source: @barchart / Writer: Lynn
Nectarine farmer in California is giving away his entire 125,000 lbs of ripe nectarines to the public for free
He says Big Agriculture in California has made it impossible for him to harvest and sell his nectarines
You can go pick for free from June 29–July 3, at 21500 E. Parlier, Reedley, California. 7am-10am
What’s happening is a handful of large marketers and packers dominate, they are squeezing independent growers
Direct-to-retail attempts often get countered aggressively. The big companies severely undercut farmers like this to drive them out of business
Yes, historically the Rothschild family practiced high rates of cousin marriage. In the 19th century, roughly half their marriages (and up to 70% in some periods) were between first cousins or closer relatives. This was a deliberate strategy by founder Mayer Amschel Rothschild to keep banking wealth concentrated inside the family, similar to European royalty. They largely avoided severe genetic issues. By the late 1800s, most started marrying outside.
A city in Oregon was forced to permanently remove its Flock cameras after an audit found that federal agencies had access to the system.
The audit revealed that two federal agencies could access the data, including the ability to search the broader network of license plate records for up to six months.
Flock cameras are used as a mass surveillance tool under the guise of public safety.