Meta earns $16B a year from targeted scam ads.
This is fine and normal.
#BigTech #Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp #Meta #shutItDown #regulation #SurveillanceCapitalism #surveillance #capitalism #PeopleFarming #adtech
#PeopleFarming
I love this comment on « Your Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward »
#Microsoft #MSOffice #Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming #OneDrive #Word #Enshittification
This stink so much …
« #Google is tightening security measures around #Android app distribution, the company announced on Monday. Starting next year, Google will begin to verify the identities of #developers distributing their apps on Android devices, not just those who distribute via the Play Store. The changes will affect all certified Android devices once live, though the global rollout will be more gradual. »
Meta did this? Mastodon gGmbH’s partner Meta at the Social Web Foundation?
But aren’t Mastodon gGmbH the good guys? I can’t see how they’d ever partner with Meta if this were true.
No, no, this must be fake news.
(Otherwise, what would it say about Mastodon gGmbH and the Social Web Foundation?)
https://socialwebfoundation.org/
#Meta #Mastodon #MastodonGGMBH #socialWebFoundation #fediverse #BigTech #capitalism #peopleFarming
“On June 27, 2025, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri approved the proposed purchase of all of the assets of 23andMe by TTAM Research Institute (“TTAM”) … TTAM is a nonprofit medical research organization founded by Anne Wojcicki (Co-Founder and former CEO of 23andMe).”
– 23andMe bankruptcy notice
Well this all sounds above board…
#DNA #data #23AndMe #genetics #BigTech #peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #bankruptcy #failingUpwards
Social Web Foundation talking about privacy and interoperability. Who do they partner with? Meta.
Nothing to see here. https://techpolicy.social/@mallory/114737793476373409
#igf2025 #UN #UnitedNations #whitewashing #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming #meta #facebook #instagram #whatsapp #socialWebFoundation #swf
In a historic win for data protection and privacy, the High Court of Ireland has this afternoon granted ICCL permission to take Ireland’s first ever class action. The lawsuit targets Microsoft’s vast online advertising business.
The litigation is anticipated to affect Microsoft’s operations across Europe, because Ireland is the venue of Microsoft’s EU headquarters.
Dr Johnny Ryan, Director of ICCL’s Enforce unit, is leading the case. Speaking after the hearing, he said:
“The significance of today's decision extends beyond just Microsoft. Ireland is also the HQ venue for Google, Meta, TikTok, X and Apple. Today, nine years and one day after the GDPR was first introduced, we are finally opening up a way to enforce it against big tech on behalf of everyone. Regrettably, the Ireland’s Data Protection Commission has paralysed enforcement of EU data law. But that need no longer be the case.”
The litigation follows research by ICCL Enforce that uncovered how people’s intimate relationships, finances, and other secrets, are broadcast by Microsoft into the Real-Time Bidding (RTB) advertising system. Microsoft’s RTB system operates behind the scenes on websites and apps to match advertising to specific people.
ICCL argues this system is exposing users to malicious profiling and discrimination. It also argues that the system is undermining European security.
ICCL is taking the legal action on behalf of all affected people in Ireland under the new EU Collective Redress Directive. The organisation hopes to force Microsoft to bring its systems into compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Posing as a data buyer, ICCL Enforce obtained thousands of RTB data “segments” about Irish people. These include information such as whether a person gambles, their finances and debt, and even such sensitive information as whether the person works in a sensitive national security role.
https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/iccl-secures-permission-to-take-irelands-first-ever-class-action/
#ICCL #privacy #adtech #peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #BigTech #microsoft #classAction #lawsuit #Ireland #EU #RTB #GDPR
“MOAR AI, MOAR ADVERTISING!” bellowed the beast.
“Yes, yes, oh benevolent protector of privacy, save us… without you we are lost… thank you, thank you, oh great not-for-profit for-profit!” exclaimed its love-struck cult of Big Tech-adjacent bottom feeders.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket
#mozilla #BigTech #AI #adtech #peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism
So in 2019 we were debating the motion “Entrepreneurs today do more harm than good” against the provost and one of the professors at Singapore Management University and we managed to flip an initial audience vote of 28% for / 72% against to 52% for / 48% against, thereby winning the debate.
The video of the event was locked in Facebook so, as part of my work on the new version of the Small Technology Foundation website, I just liberated it.
You can watch it at:
https://vimeo.com/1086336391
#BigTech #SiliconValley #surveillance #capitalism #PeopleFarming #debate #SmallTech
Just liberated the video of one of my talks from YouTube and uploaded a copy to our Vimeo account:
Big Brother Awards 2014: Moving beyond the clouds (we need an ethical approach to design)
(Imagine what a different world we’d be living in today if folks in tech had heeded our warnings back then. But I guess they were too busy making mint.)
PS. yt-dlp is your friend (on Mac: brew install yt-dlp). Also make sure you have ffmpeg installed (brew install ffmpeg). Finally, I had to manually tell yt-dlp where to find ffmpeg although your mileage may vary based on installation method: yt-dlp "<URL>" --write-subs --ffmpeg-location=/opt/homebrew/bin/ffmpeg (--write-subs saves the subtitles if there are any to a file in a format you can use on the web).
#EthicalDesignManifesto #ethics #design #ethicalDesign #AralBalkan #SmallTech #BigBrotherAwards #BitsOfFreedom #technology #tech #BigTech #panopticon #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming #fascism #technofascism #Google #Facebook
@ernie What do you call a warning that comes seven years too late?
#capitalism #surveillance #SiliconValley #BigTech #peopleFarming #humanRights
My “not a book review” of Careless People – the book Facebook doesn’t want you to read.
With highlights on Ireland’s complicity and the lengths people farmers (as I call them) will go to to appease authoritarian regimes like China.
https://ar.al/2025/03/21/careless-people/
It’s clear from this that Ireland should be stripped of the authority to enforce GDPR and, really, people farmers – and the business model of people farming in general – should be banned in the EU.
(Don’t hold your breaths.)
#carelessPeople #facebook #peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #surveillanceCapitalism #BigTech #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #USA #fascism #technofascism #EU #Ireland #tax #GDPR #tech #humanRights #democracy
Tech bros are living, breathing embodiments of the false authority fallacy; claiming that their professed understanding of basic logic qualifies them to reason expertly upon every conceivable topic while conveniently ignoring a fundamental maxim of their purported core area of expertise: garbage in, garbage out.
#techBros #technofascism #BigTech #SiliconValley #peopleFarming #capitalism #technology #fascism
Happy 10th anniversary to Spyware 2.0 – the video we released at the launch of Ind.ie (what is now Small Technology Foundation¹).
Have we learned any lessons in those ten years, I wonder.
#spyware #SiliconValley #BigTech #technology #fascism #technoFascism #peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #surveillanceCapitalism
True, some news of John M̶a̶s̶t̶o̶d̶o̶n̶ Oliver and the alternatives to #PeopleFarming silos presented yesterday 🤓
› https://youtu.be/Eeq6nd5LsSc?t=2048 (at 34:08)
An Android OS update on a test device installed the Facebook app. Annoying but not unusual. It also installed, invisibly, in the background, something called Meta App Manager. You can't uninstall it either. Most people would never know it is there while it quietly tracks everything you do with your most intimate computing device.
#Android #Facebook #PeopleFarming #Spyware #Privacy
#Meta blocks FLOSS ? Then #BlockMeta :dealwithitgoat:
I made a block list of 472 URLs belonging to all the entities of the (evil) corp. It's usable first on #DNSFilter but also on #uBlockOrigin (it's a list of wildcards) … and, as a wise people said « Go Trump, go dump » 🗑️
› https://dansleco.de/danslerush/dns-filters
#Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp #Censorship #Zuckerberg #Privacy #PeopleFarming
Remember folks, you must give Meta/Facebook/Threads every benefit of the doubt.
Invite them to partner with you at the Social Web Foundation (https://socialwebfoundation.org) as you courageously fight to #FreeOurFeeds¹
Federate with them on mastodon.social. Because why not build an adjoining door to a Nazi bar?
You must do all this and more to ensure you legitimise them at every turn. After all, you wouldn’t want to prove Mark Zuckerberg wrong about you or anything, would you?²
¹ https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/01/13/free-our-feeds-and-algorithmic-pluralism/
² https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/20/the-face-of-facebook
#MarkZuckerberg #Meta #Facebook #Threads #mastodon #fediverse #SocialWebFoundation #FreeOurFeeds #SiliconValley #BigTech #peopleFarming #capitalism #fascism #dumbFucks
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