Sovaddemtu

I'm not a criminal for wanting mine, adults and kids' human rights for privacy & agency respected.

[Sovaddemtu @sovaddemtu]

"Then she- you promise you won't tell?"
"Don't worry, this stays between US TWO until you are ready..."
https://t.co/GUf5jCwdcr
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No bugs in your flour, Ylva?
#sElloUts #StopChatControl #mybodymymessagesmyprivacy
#stakeholdertakeover

[noyb – European Center for Digital Rights @NOYBeu]

🚨 UN special rapporteurs for Human Rights underline the importance of independence of data protection authorities, pointing to the Irish DPC's special responsibility as the supervisor of many big tech companies.

https://t.co/RPEryEXYIC

[Glenn Meder @GlennMeder]

A mother sits at her kitchen table at midnight. Her teenage daughter is struggling and she does not know where to turn.

She searches for help. Counseling. Medication. A church group. Questions she would never ask out loud.

But the search now requires a verified digital ID. Her name is attached to every query. Every page. Every question.

She hesitates. She closes the laptop.

Nobody banned the search. Nobody had to. She simply learned she was being watched, and she stopped asking.

That is what the loss of anonymity does. It does not need to silence you by force. It teaches you to silence yourself.

Online child safety laws are how this ID gets installed. The chilling effect is the feature, not the bug.

Share this with a parent who thinks age verification is harmless.

Follow me. Every day I show you what is coming and how to stop it.

[Hanner @GangstHannah]

Maybe if STEM students had more humanities classes they'd realize making this tracking and killing machine was a bad idea

Massive implications for fascists and their end games more like it

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

When the Oxford children's dictionary discarded dozens of nature-words—"dandelion," "fern," "starling"—as irrelevant to children's imagination and replaced them with words like "broadband" and "cut-and-paste," this inspired act of resistance was born: https://t.co/Is4zFAQqc6

[f4mi ‼️ @f4micom]

this is still being negotiated between council and parliament so “approved” is misleading here but rest assured that if they dare to pass this shit i will try to post a list of all the names in parliament who voted for it and make it easily accessible AND searchable

[Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt]

❌ Local gym keep your name and phone number
✅ Giant companies train AI on all your personal data

Did I get it right? What's the point of GDPR again?

[Malwarebytes @Malwarebytes]

Discord is making messages from public servers discoverable on search engines like Google starting this November.

Server admins can opt channels out starting today.

Users can opt out of sharing their messages in settings -> Data and Privacy.

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

‼️ EU governments approved a GDPR change to let companies train AI on Europeans' personal data without consent.

It makes AI training a possible "legitimate interest", judged case by case. Parliament must still agree.

Max Schrems calls it a "digital expropriation" of Europeans.

[Duckie Louise 🌦️🦝🌸🍓🎨☕️ @DuckieLouise]

They’re not creating anything. Ai doesn’t create. It generates outputs. And it can never do anything that isn’t derivative.

It’s all hollow. I’m sorry. You need a sketchbook. You need to spend a long time staring at a leaf. You need to be asking yourself what color that thing *really* is.

Today, my daughter said “I’m going to teach my class to draw a simple cat.” And then she demonstrated to me and as part of that, she said “cats have whiskers in their eyebrows, did you know that? They have whiskers above their paws, too!”

She learned that from the kind of observation one does in order to draw something that is delighted in.

You won’t get that from using an LLM to do it all for you. Your own mind will become overwrought with Ai output and your own creativity will be diminished.

Don’t do that to yourself! Go purchase a sketchbook! Draw something badly! Cover a page with water and drop some paint on it and push it around with a brush! If you think you need an LLM to do your art, you have walled off the part of you who was always an artist. Let her out to play. I beg.

[Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @HeidyKhlaaf]

A demonstration of how AI labs are not experts in security and are not exemplars of good practices. Also why "defensive AI" is not a solution (didn't work here despite incessant claims!) to combatting offensive capabilities developed for fear-mongering, that's now back-firing.

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

Meta had an internal PR plan to try and discredit Jon Haidt because he was a critic of social media.

Meta was going to recruit academics, like Andrew Gelman, to write take down pieces. They were trying to turn academics against one another through a "whisper strategy".

This is a very serious problem for open academic debate. If academics who share negative evidence about a platform are targeted by campaigns to smear our credibility, we are in deep, deep trouble.

This creates a very serious conflict of interest for anyone who is paid to do this.

https://t.co/5Zxfm1h8Db

[Femte juli @femtejuli]

Frankrikes regering förberedde att stänga av sociala medier under helgens demonstrationer.
https://t.co/MJRB0R2WFx

[Joseph Cox @josephfcox]

New: we got leaked audio of Flock's CEO speaking at a police conference. He said backlash to Flock isn't real (said it's bots and paid protesters; no evidence); his wife told him to never apologize; and he may never do media interviews again. Listen: https://t.co/0cwVeoT0xE

[stickydacat @stickydacat]

TURN IT OFF.

[🦇mama star🦇 @SugarMamaStar]

It also confirms for me what I already knew, ai is meant to create cheap slop for the masses while the rich still get to enjoy fine high art, luxury, and craftsmanship

[Glenn Meder @GlennMeder]

Before online child safety laws, you could read, search, and speak online without showing ID.

After them, every click is tied to who you are.

Send this to the parent who still thinks this is about protecting kids.

Then ask them one question. Who gets to see the database?

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

❗️ Google's privacy policy no longer rules out ads based on your Gmail, Drive and Photos.

A 16 October update makes an exception if you let other Google services, like Search, access that data.

Search may process it to "personalize content, including ads", the policy now says.

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

on october 16, google quietly updated its privacy policy to create a new exception to one of its oldest promises.

the old rule: gmail, drive, and google photos content would never be used to target ads. google held that line for years. the logic was that your inbox, your documents, your personal photos are too private to touch.

the new rule: same thing, unless you’ve connected those apps to other google services.

and here’s where it gets interesting. google has spent the last two years aggressively pushing you to do exactly that. Connect your gmail to AI Mode in Search. connect your drive to Gemini the pitch was “more useful answers.” you can find a hotel reservation in your inbox from search.

what changed october 16 is that the same connection that makes AI features smarter now also opens that data pool to ad personalization. the email about your upcoming surgery, the shared document about your salary, the photos from your kid’s school once you’ve connected those apps, google search can now process that content to “personalize content, including ads.”

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

That story about Google killing hundreds of thousands of trees in Finland for its data center project is such a perfect microcosm of what capitalism is doing to our world.

Recent mass media headlines are saying the tech giant "illegally" cut down "250,000" trees, but both claims paint an inaccurate picture of what actually happened. Google killed 400,000 trees (250,000 near a town called Muhos and another 150,000 near the village of Otanmäki), and unless the company's executives actually wind up going to prison for this, their actions cannot properly be described as "illegal".

I don't know who first coined the saying "If the penalty is a fine, then it's legal for rich people," but it certainly applies here. The Finnish Licensing and Supervision Authority has reportedly ordered Google to suspend all “measures that significantly change the environment," saying it will "consider enforcement proceedings and fines" if the megacorporation does not comply. Google's parent company Alphabet has a net worth of around four trillion dollars. Whatever paltry penalties Finland might impose for these ecocidal actions, it won't have any meaningful effect on Google.

Giant corporations do this shit all the time. They calculate that the fines incurred by their abusive actions will be dwarfed by the massive profits they generate, issue fake apologies as needed, and leave it to their armies of lawyers to minimize the damage. That's why the Sackler family is still worth billions despite all the fines Purdue Pharma was slapped with while creating the US opiate epidemic.

A 2017 Harvard study titled “The Opioid Epidemic: Fixing a Broken Pharmaceutical Market" contains the following paragraph:

"Although civil claims and criminal charges were brought against Purdue and its executives, the resulting penalties paled in comparison to extended-release oxycodone profits. In May 2007, the company and its president, chief counsel, and former chief medical officer pled guilty to falsely marketing extended-release oxycodone as 'less addictive, less subject to abuse and diversion, and less likely to cause tolerance and withdrawal than other pain medications.' As part of the plea bargain, Purdue agreed to pay the federal government $600 million and 27 states $20 million. The three executives agreed to $34.5 million in fines but avoided jailtime. By contrast, Purdue has earned an estimated $31 billion in total revenues from extended-release oxycodone since its launch. Rather than deterring fraudulent marketing, the penalties simply became a cost of doing business."

A cost of doing business.

That's how things work under capitalism. The law primarily exists not to protect people or the environment, but to protect the interests of capital. If you destroyed a Google data center you'd probably be charged as a terrorist and spend decades in prison, but Google can destroy the natural world around you and get off with a finger wag and a symbolic fine. If you stole millions of dollars from your employer you'd go to prison for grand larceny, but if your employer steals millions from its employees you need to win a class action lawsuit to get back what they stole from you.

Proponents of capitalism often pretend they support minimal government intervention in civilian affairs, but their entire model is at all times propped up by state power using force to protect the haves from the have-nots at every level of our society. Corporations are free to destroy the environment, destroy your health, rob you, exploit you, and manipulate your government to their advantage, and if you ever take action to stand up to this world-devouring onslaught, the state will lock you in a cage.

In school we are taught that that the law exists to protect ordinary people from bad people, but that's not true at all. Under capitalism, the law exists to protect the very worst among us from everyone else. That's why we are seeing our planet being turned into dust and ashes for no reason other than shareholder profit.

It's an insane system, and it needs to end. These freaks are feeding our entire biosphere into the woodchipper.

[DBL MP / Double @dbl_mp1]

This is seriously further proof they just want a backdoor Digital ID and are USING kids to get it. Disgusting.

They will either have to monitor your phone activity to guess your age or verify your age via your ID. Either option violates our Amendment Rights.