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2024-10-07 23:18:12

The right-wing extremists running Hungary and Italy are teaming up to push the EU into a plan that will force the tech industry to make everyone's communications insecure.
https://mastodon.social/@matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange/113266256863681998

2024-10-07 16:31:53

If, when I click on a link to cancel a service, you then make me call you, you have confirmed that I'm making the right decision.
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2024-10-04 21:57:21

I genuinely believe Mozilla thinks it's acting in the public interest by moving so completely into the ad-tech ecosystem, claiming that it's doing so in a privacy-protecting way.
But the history of ad-tech is that it swallows everything it touches.
Mozilla + ad-tech = ad-tech.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/improving-online-advertising/

2024-10-03 17:00:34

Nuclear power plant owner wants $1.6 billion "loan guarantee" -- this means, in the end, a gift form the taxpayers -- to supply power to tech monopolist Microsoft.
This stinks in every conceivable way..
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/03/nuclear-microsoft-ai-constellation/

2024-09-26 18:15:06

Talk about a grotesque invasion of privacy:
"Smart TVs from Samsung and LG take screenshots of what you are watching even when you are using them to display images from a connected laptop or video game console"
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2449198-smart-tvs-take-snapshots-of-what-you-watch-multiple-times-per-second/
How can this possibly be legal?
Here's why: Congress isn't just indifferent to your privacy. It is actively complicit with big corporations -- and law enforcement -- in embedding surveillance into everything we do.