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Tonight, we learned that Meta has given up on their Meta Horizon Managed Services (MHMS) cash grab, so our customers will not have to pay Meta $180 per year to have the ability to use our VR application (starting on year three). And they can also buy commercial headsets...
... wish I'd been in those meetings and saw the data that made them change their minds (and business model). It had to be difficult.
I have a few blogs to update. Glad they're going to be nicer to Meta... We didn't hold back our concerns originally.
@HealthRanger I tried to use it to make a short book about our VR experience, but it did not want to read the background materials from our Substack and it manufactured facts about the story, etc.
It looks super promising but it didn't quite work for our needs. Keep it up!
This is terrible. Just absolutely terrible.
This gives anyone instant access to so much blackmail material is insane.
Think about everything your phone has seen and done. Do you want a predator to have your bank login?
‼️🇮🇱 Smartphones worldwide were silently infected with Israeli malware via malicious ads
Simply viewing their ads was enough to get infected.
Surveillance company Intellexa gained full access to cameras, microphones, chat apps, emails, GPS locations, photos, files, and browsing activity.
@kenklippenstein How could you possibly object to educating parents about child predators using gaming platforms to exploit children? Why is this what you are taking a stand about, of all the things lol
@TheMilkBarTV@jazzy_snake@X As an expert group in human trafficking education, we are 100% behind you.
We use his personal claims to illustrate the definition of human trafficking.
He describes it perfectly yet law enforcement does not seem up to the task. How can we help?
He self incriminates!
Berlin just legalized:
- Secret police break-ins to plant spyware
- State trojans for hacking phones and cracking encrypted chats
- Mass location tracking and facial recognition
Berlin has enacted a new police law granting authorities extensive surveillance powers, including the right to secretly enter homes and hack phones.
RIP Privacy — AI Glasses Can Now Recognize Anyone, Anywhere.
A Dutch journalist just tested a pair of AI-powered glasses that can instantly identify strangers on the street.
No government database. No police system. Just public data and off-the-shelf AI.
You look at someone and in seconds, their name, LinkedIn, and background appear before your eyes.
The scariest part? You can’t really stop it.
You can ban it, regulate it, add blinking red lights… but once tech like this exists, someone will always find a way to use it.
To me, this marks a turning point.
We’ve officially blurred the line between seeing people and knowing them.
Between being in public and being exposed.
So here’s the question:
When every face becomes a dataset, how do we protect the meaning of being human?
#AI #Privacy #Ethics #Technology #Innovation #Data #Surveillance
🇺🇸 EX-CIA OFFICER: “THEY CAN MAKE YOU DRIVE INTO A TREE AND CALL IT SUICIDE”
John Kiriakou, once inside the CIA, just reignited a massive debate about digital privacy, citing the 2017 Vault 7 leaks.
Phones, cars, TVs, laptops - he says none of them are as private as we assume.
“There was a dramatic leak in 2017 that the CIA came to call the Vault 7 disclosures - gigabytes worth of documents leaked by a CIA technology engineer.
What he told us was that the CIA can intercept anything from anyone.
They can remotely take control of your car to make you drive off a bridge into a tree to make you kill yourself and make it look like an accident.
They can take over your smart television and turn the speaker into a microphone so that they can listen to what's being said in the room even when the TV is turned off.”
Source: LADbible TV
This could be incredibly important for anyone that is dealing with narcissistic abuse or an abusive relationship. You never know who is looking for you. If you need to be invisible, don't use a printer.
Hollywood lied to you about "Ransom Notes."
You think printing a letter keeps you anonymous?
It doesn't.
Your printer is a snitch.
Almost every color laser printer secretly embeds invisible yellow dots on the page called the Machine Identification Code (MIC).
It encodes:
The Printer's Serial Number
The exact Date & Time of printing
You can't see them with the naked eye, but the Feds can with a blue light.
If they find the paper, they find the printer, they find YOU.
Digital forensics applies to paper, too.
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@FLOTUS When children or anyone, for that matter, are removed from their home environments, they can easily be taken advantage of.
We have lots of articles on that at https://t.co/GBmU7efPhy