@alternativeto
Mainly, this would be translated as:
“Samsung adds even more possibilities to harvest your personal data.”

Why didn't you write this instead? It would have been much easier ;)

Mozilla is pro-Ai, there is an AI chat on the web browser now, and this guy Dennis Schubert, the techlead of #Diaspora, is working at #Mozilla as far as I remember. And he is so against deleting anything, leaving all public "public is public", and against blocking GAFAMs' scrapers?? (he was in 2017, 2018, ... I remember)..

(Mozilla which actually helped this project.)

So I am pretty sure, there is a real problem here with conflict of interests..

@augieray

“Palantir formed a partnership with the Israeli military in January 2024, and Google is part of a $1.2 billion cloud contract with the Israeli government.) Poulson tells WIRED that on Wednesday, the conference began mandatory bag-checks at at least one talk.”

Data harvesting, data brokers, and the like are out of control in the U. S.

Other than you and me, there's very little standing in their way.

#Privacy
#PII
#DataHarvesting
#Capitalism

Capitalist Interaction Story #2 (not as happy as the last one):

My partner is in another city, traveling for work. The luck of the draw gave her a brand new Mustang as a rental. Oh, nice!

Not all nice (see image for text from partner about Ford aggressively harvesting data from her phone just to use #bluetooth).

#capitalism #sadstory #privacy #smartcar #iot #ford#telemetry #fuckyourcar #dataharvesting #bullshit

@nazgul waits till he finds out that WhatsApp nonconsensually uploads everyones' contacts and phone numbers to NSAbook's servers...

https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/113413999824933801
https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/113413999824933801

@cgerrish @LisaKalayji

I think the point of the article is that it's not that, though. It's about the fact that allowing the question is already a privacy violation. There needs be no agreement where there is no question.

This was said well by John Gilmore in his speech at the First Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy in 1991, which I was lucky to attend. It was an amazing event, and one I quote often. The whole speech, which is not super-long, is worth reading, as it makes points similar to this article, but I'll excerpt the central part here for easier access, with a link to the fuller version at the bottom:

«There's been a lot of talk here about privacy ... but we haven't focused so much on why we want it. Privacy is a means; what is the real end that we are looking for here? I submit that what we're looking for _increased tolerance_.

Society tolerates all different kinds of behaviour -- differences in religion, differences in political opinions, races, etc. But if your differences aren't accepted by the government or by other parts of society, you can still be tolerated if they simply don't know that you are different. Even a repressive government or a regressive individual can't persecute you if you look the same as everybody else. And, as George Perry said today, "Diversity is the comparative advantage of American society". I think that's what privacy is really protecting.

The whole conference has spent a lot of time talking about ways to control uses of information and to protect peoples' privacy after the information was collected. But that only works if you assume a good government. If we get one seriously bad government, they'll have all the information they need to make an efficient police state and make it the last government. It's more than convenient for them -- in fact, it's a temptation for people who want to do that, to try to get into power and do it. Because we are giving them the means.

What if we could build a society where the information was never
collected?…»

Full talk: http://www.toad.com/gnu/cfp.talk.txt

@joannejacobs I completely agree with you. #WhatsApp's ties to #Facebook and its questionable data privacy practices are major red flags. #Signal, on the other hand, is built specifically for #privacy and #security, with end-to-end #encryption and no #dataharvesting. It's the better choice for anyone serious about keeping their communications private. Joining a WhatsApp group just isn't worth compromising your privacy.