Always listen to Carole Cadwalladr on these critical matters. Buckle-up, folks. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/18/inciting-rioters-in-britain-was-a-test-run-for-elon-musk-just-see-what-he-plans-for-america

Next was a fantastic panel on the integration of privacy and antitrust at CEPR with @johnnyryan, Dina H. Srinivasan, @jasonkint, Simeon Thornton, and Alessandro Acquisti. While this panel is from a few years ago, the topics they cover are still very relevant, and Acquisti presents compelling evidence of the unmeasured costs of privacy violations. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6QawAyAKRk (4/5) #privacy #antitrust #law

Important thread that sadly isn't mirrored at @jasonkint:
https://nitter.net/jason_kint/status/1727600435304059207

#Facebook always hides bad news behind Friday afternoons and other news cycle dead zones. For this to merit the Thanksgiving weekend placement, it had to be truly horrible.

And it is just that: truly horrible. The unsealed sections are filled with quotes from #Meta employees and execs discussing how to misrepresent the facts about #Instagram causing mental health issues and self-harm in children.

“One in eight Instagram users under the age of 16 said they experienced unwanted sexual advances on the platform in the previous week.” https://www.wsj.com/tech/instagram-facebook-teens-harassment-safety-5d991be1

Meta is now being actively sued by:
-shareholders (covering up data breach)
-pension funds (overpaying regulators to protect ceo)
-advertisers (inflating reach)
-state AGs (harming children)
-FTC (abusing market power)
-EU (human right to privacy)

…but it’s Meta earnings day!!!

@Joseph_of_Earth @Joseph_of_Earth imho. all of it. The browser is a user agent. It works for the user. Making decisions specific to their dominant browser that impact auction mechanics between buyers and sellers where they also have the dominant tech in the stack, too in order to meet their quarterly expectations. How did this negatively impact the rest of the market who don’t have proper choice (advertisers, consumers, publishers)?

Damning. Day five at USA vs Google. Read from the bottom up. https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-09/416421.pdf

Oh Twitter. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.396016/gov.uscourts.cand.396016.41.0.pdf

Saw many people giving 'instructions' on how to make Chrome not spy on you.
Why not just use a privacy friendly browser and save all the hassle? I've been using @bravebrowser for years now and I am VERY happy!
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/

Powerful in just five words.

Apparently that Kansas newspaper raided by police had been investigating the police chief for sexual misconduct at his previous job, according to an interview with the publisher https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-the-newspaper

Japan Earthquake Alert App (1.9 million followers) Says Sayonara to X

"[..]We have decided that if we were to spend over ¥700,000 per month that it would be better if this money could go to developing our NERV app and strengthening our ActivityPub servers instead of X’s API. Therefore, we are beginning to cut down on our posts on X."

https://unseen-japan.com/nerv-app-x-twitter-leaving/
#X #Twitter #mastodon #activitypub #nerv #gehirn

Old enough to remember when Sheryl Sandberg promised that all global users would enjoy the benefits of the #GDPR’s protection but in the end, after vigorously resisting even the most basic compliance, only EU residents will get a clear YES or NO choice on invasive ad targeting. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/meta-finally-caved-to-eu-demands-to-get-consent-for-personalized-ads/

ICYMI from Jan 2018 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-sandberg-privacy-idUSKBN1FC1Q6

adtech is broken. don't watch this, google may get mad.

Ok internet - do your thing. You can read in the nested threads how Facebook and its leadership paid nearly $6B to avoid a real reckoning. **Unless enough of you object by July 26, 2023.** - almost 280 million of you are eligible to do it. Be creative. facebookuserprivacysettlement.com/#faqs?id=17 https://mstdn.social/@jasonkint/110220033359671782

adtech is broken. don't watch this, google may get mad.

As the company who reskinned, control dominant user agents - both the browser and OS - to harvest our activities 24/7 and make publishers into interchangeable commodities, this is hypocritical Google BS, “Building alternative ways to track people across the web and mobile with alternative identifiers, we see it as simply a tracking cookie by another name.” https://digiday.com/marketing/googles-fledge-rebrands-as-protected-audience-api-as-the-tech-giant-continues-privacy-sandbox-trials/

Just a heads up if you do it, your reward will likely cover a free meal while Facebook built one of the largest and most influential media properties in history by growth hacking off of your personal data mined across your life and then covered it up. 2/2 https://openclassactions.com/settlement_facebook_user_privacy.php

Here is it was Friday night. No accountability for Zuckerberg or Sandberg. No admission of liability. No public awareness to users if their data went to hostile countries. Nearly $6B in settlement payments. And NOW any US Facebook user from 2007 through 2022 can get their $$$ of latest. 1/2 https://mstdn.social/@jasonkint/110073102431369061