@shironeko @tusooa @eff
If they are trying to say it is not alone a privacy issue, then these words would be an option

@tusooa @shironeko @eff
I appreciate that probably wasn’t the intention, but using “just” in a way that isn’t meant to imply “just “ is just not brilliant use of language.

@shironeko @eff
What a zinger!

@shironeko @eff
Irrelevant?

@eff “Just” a privacy issue?

Themenklau: German political term for stealing your opponents’ policies.
ThemenClown: Cowardly politician who, in panic, rushes to give credibility to his extremist opponents, in the belief this will be a vote winning strategy
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jan/31/europe-live-germany-parliament-migration-latest-updates-news

Themenklau: German political term for stealing your opponents’ policies.
ThemenClown: Cowardly politician who, in panic, rushes to give credibility to his extremist opponents, in the belief this will be a vote winning strategy
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jan/31/europe-live-germany-parliament-migration-latest-updates-news

@ianbrown.tech That’s a pane

The best way to prevent online ads from fueling surveillance is to ban online behavioral advertising. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/online-behavioral-ads-fuel-surveillance-industry-heres-how

Facebook: Meta makes money with Russian disinformation despite sanctions

A Russian propaganda organization with close ties to the Kremlin has placed over 8,000 political ads on Facebook despite European and US sanctions.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Facebook-Meta-makes-money-with-Russian-disinformation-despite-sanctions-10247978.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Facebook #FakeNews #news

@kcarruthers
Deceiving requires intent.

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Referring to people, core parts of whose lives must now be lived online, as “users” (as if a realistic choice existed not to “use”) inappropriately downplays the privacy and security harms experienced

Another take on AI that (at least for now) kinda nails it.

Real time bidding and the tracking infrastructure is so toxic & illegal that the firms whose apps embed this code have to pretend to be shocked when resulting data appears in a huge leak from an actor many steps away, with a history of selling to law enforcement https://www.404media.co/candy-crush-tinder-myfitnesspal-see-the-thousands-of-apps-hijacked-to-spy-on-your-location/

@eff Thank you.

Alternative list:
1. Paint drying
2. Forrest Gump
3. Der Untergang
4. Das Boot (Director’s cut)
5. Literally anything else
https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-germany-far-right-afd-x-party-donald-trump-eu

@nemobis The toot simply does not match the post.

@eff
The post has a disclaimer which makes this toot misleading and out of date. Leaving it online is not appropriate

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