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Today's manifesto by over 70 CSOs underlines the need to put core our democratic values in technology first. I agree.
Europe will stay free and democratic if it builds its own digital infrastructure and can‘t be blackmailed. The recent threats by J.D. Vance and big tech companies should spurn us to act swiftly.
https://peoplevsbig.tech/beyond-big-tech-a-manifesto-for-a-new-digital-economy/
@PeopleVsBigTech @lobbycontrol
#bigtech #surveillancecapitalism #opensource


Can someone remind me what I am meant to think about #Bkuesky? I can't be bothered to get an account and work it out for myself.

#SurveillanceCapitalism
#PlatformCapitalism
#DataPrivacy
#Enshittification


The W3C publishing ethical web principles is like OPEC publishing ethical climate principles.

Who are the members of the W3C?

Google,
Facebook (Meta),
Amazon,
Adobe,
SoftBank,
Yahoo!,

The W3C is the standards body of surveillance capitalism.

Ethical principles? W3C? Don’t make me laugh!

If they had any ethics they’d have expelled their most prominent members starting with Google and Facebook.

https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/

#w3c #BigWeb #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #ethics #PR


Federating with a surveillance capitalist doesn’t make you a surveillance capitalist, it just means that surveillance capitalism isn’t a deal breaker for you.

#mastodon #meta #facebook #instagram #threads #mastodon #fediverse #adtech #peopleFarming #surveillanceCapitalism


How to block #threads in #friendica

  1. sarch for @mosseri@www.threads.net via the search field
  2. click on name to open profile
  3. switch to Conversations
  4. click to open the more menu
  5. select Ignore threads.net server

Enjoy your Fediverse life without #SurveillanceCapitalism.

!Friendica Support


You can help by filing your own complaint here:

https://forms.dataprotection.ie/contact

The more complaints the DPC receives - the quicker they will act.

You can use my complaint to help write your own (attached).

#privacy #surveillancecapitalism #advertising #cookies #consent #law


You wouldn’t have McDonald’s teaching your kids about nutrition or Philip Morris teaching them about maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Why are you happy having a surveillance capitalist like Google or Facebook teaching them about technology?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/surveillance-capitalism-has-led-us-into-a-dystopia/p06p0tdy

#surveillanceCapitalism #technology #web #education #SiliconValley #BigTech


Repeat a 1,000 times: #Google is an #advertising moloch and #Chrome browser monopolist, NOT your friendly free service provider!

Google is about to smack down on the #OpenWeb, killing it with their so-called "Web Environment Integrity API" #DRM proposal.

"Wanna watch those #Netflix or #Youtube vids? Better have Chrome without #AdBlocker then"

"Here's plenty #ads. Now hand over your #PII so we can grow our #SurveillanceCapitalism empire"

#GiveUpGoogle #DitchChrome

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36817305
A paintbrushed mural made by activists showing the Google logo with the O's replaced by surveillance camera's.


@Kevin Karhan :verified: @Aral Balkan
And just out of curiosity - why is a project that is supposed to be against #SurveillanceCapitalism being hosted on a site that undoubtedly belongs to #SurveillanceCapitalism ? Well, unless we exclude (for convenience? Because not for lack of other options) #microsoft from it....


Some fediverse instance admins: “How cool, Meta invited us to the adult table.”

Yes, they did.

Because you’re what’s for dinner.

#fediverse #mastodon #meta #Project92 #BigTech #SiliconValley #SurveillanceCapitalism


Surveillance Graphs
Vulgarity and Cloud Orthodoxy in Linked Data Infrastructures

[an image of an eye against a grid is to the right of a column of text]

 Jonny L. Saunders
UCLA - Department of Neurology, Institute of Pirate Technology
First Published:  2023-05-02 

Information is power, and that power has been largely enclosed by a handful of information conglomerates. The logic of the surveillance-driven information economy demands systems for handling mass quantities of heterogeneous data, increasingly in the form of knowledge graphs. An archaeology of knowledge graphs and their mutation from the liberatory aspirations of the semantic web gives us an underexplored lens to understand contemporary information systems. I explore how the ideology of cloud systems steers two projects from the NIH and NSF intended to build information infrastructures for the public good to inevitable corporate capture, facilitating the development of a new kind of multilayered public/private surveillance system in the process. I argue that understanding technologies like large language models as interfaces to knowledge graphs is critical to understand their role in a larger project of informational enclosure and concentration of power. I draw from multiple histories of liberatory information technologies to develop Vulgar Linked Data as an alternative to the Cloud Orthodoxy, resisting the colonial urge for universality in favor of vernacular expression in peer to peer systems.


Regarding #Email, they are end-to-end encrypted if the email application supports #SMIME.

As you know, this isn't commonplace because of the rise of centralized emails servers that simply won't allow said functionality due to its incompatibility with their #SurveillanceCapitalism based business models.

Luckily, more email is happening via Apple Mail, courtesy of #iOS, which actually fully supports S/MIME for digitally signing and/or encrypting emails.


@Casey Newton writes that Facebook/Meta is now trying to get on the "decentralized network" bandwagon greenwashing too. It is always fascinating to me how very not decentralized all of these things end up looking: from the web3 nonsense, to BlueSky, to now whatever the hell they plan on calling this. "Well you see akshully the technology allows for decentralization therefore it is decentralized even though we control 99.9% of it!" You know what else is a decentralized technology? The world wide web and HTTP. Hopefully the fediverse fix some of our shortcoming before the world buys the techbro bullshit so they can get another successful market monopoly operation. #facebook #meta #SurveillanceCapitalism #decentralization #fediverse https://www.platformer.news/p/meta-is-building-a-decentralized


Ya think? 🤦🏻‍♂️

"New research suggests that privacy in the #metaverse might be impossible:
https://venturebeat.com/virtual/new-research-suggests-that-privacy-in-the-metaverse-might-be-impossible/

🔎👀

#Privacy
#Surveillance
#SurveillanceCapitalism
#BigTech
#VR #AI #ML
#BigData


Dear conference organisers,

If you don’t want to limit your speakers to those who are fine with surveillance capitalism, please don’t make your call for proposals require an account with a surveillance capitalist.

#conference #callForProposal #CFP #google #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming
Screenshot of a Sign in with Google page with the name of the conference redacted in two places.


✊🏽 "We need to stop trying to turn private companies into something they’re not, and start building a new moral, institutional and legal order to express the values, rights and standards that we hold into the digital realm. It’s not about whether Zuckerberg is good or bad, vampire or human. It’s about getting to a place where we don’t have to care."

#DigitalAutonomy #TechAutonomy #SurveillanceCapitalism

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/tech-reform-regulation


This is why I have mixed feelings about #Mastodon going mainstream, data scrapers are a much bigger threat for us now. Just because I decided to make a post public doesn't mean it can be scraped, archived, and stored in an entirely separate database. This is a form of #SurveillanceCapitalism and us #Fediverse folks hate it with a passion.


Legit question: does Tik Tok have the same algorithmic amplification and silo effects as Facebook and Twitter and if so what is their excuse for allowing that to happen since their system rose after the dysfunctions with it were apparent? #surveillancecapitalism


So, you end-to-end encrypt everything so you're not responsible for what happens on your platform (saving lots of money for moderation). Then, you develop tools so you can still advertise based on content. That's ultimate #surveillancecapitalism 🤑🤑🤑

https://www.engadget.com/facebook-analyze-encrypted-messages-ad-targeting-175739715.html


- *heavy Russian accent* In my country, Mr. Bond, TV watches YOU!
- *nonchalantly* Oh, in mine too, and the lamp posts, the wrist watches, the doorbells, the computers, the fridges, the Hi-Fi speakers, the phones, the indoor bikes…

#SurveillanceCapitalism


According to Google, you’re not human if you aren’t being tracked by Google.

“…one of the ways that Google determines whether you’re a malicious user or not is whether you already have a Google cookie installed on your browser.”

https://www.fastcompany.com/90369697/googles-new-recaptcha-has-a-dark-side

#SurveillanceCapitalism


Most #BetterTech movements:

"Ooh, there is sooo much wrong with #surveillancecapitalism and #bigtech .. hop onto our Zoom call and Slack channel, or read all about it on our tracker-infested website. Join the movement. Gmail us now. Time to act, NOW!"

🤐


Reading: “Google proposed Web Bundles could threaten the Web as we know it”

(Missed this when it first came out. Funny how Google proposes standards that benefit their business model, isn’t it?)

https://ghacks.net/2020/08/30/google-proposed-web-bundles-could-threaten-the-web-as-we-know-it/

#SurveillanceCapitalism