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Make no mistake, what we are currently seeing all over the world, is a fight of fossil oligarchs and surveilance capitalism against democracy and climate action. Europe isn't as united as it seems!
In Germany two parties are taking office, that have helped financing Putins war machine in the past (Northstream 2 etc.). Last year the CDU repeatetly has held meetings with the heritage foundation (project 25)...
#EUpolitics #Ukraine #surveillancecapitalism #climatebacklash
Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist Cory Doctorow @pluralistic speech at the 2025 Ursula Franklin Lecture. >
#enshitification #monopsonies #twiddling #AlgorithmicWageDiscrimination #GAFAM #LockedUsers #lecture #speech #SurveillanceCapitalism #BigData #sellers #users #TechnoFeudalism #employment #ratings #Uberisation #queries #JediBlue #profiling #enshitified #internet #abuse #TechnologicalAbuse #privacy #value #GiantPileOfShit #TechnicalMechanism #rankings #digitalisation #nursing #speech #lecture #video
An important security fix has been released for the surveillance fascism software that you use.
Please manually update by navigating to settings > personal data and clicking "permanently close account and delete data".
A great interview that @pluralistic delivers most succinctly: "Fire the unelected social media dictators"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXa4DzhkUZ8
#elonmusk #socialmedia #zuckerberg #CoryDoctorrow #capitalism #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism
You have a legal right to object to targeted adverts based on your personal data.
Meta should give us options for opting-out of stalker ads. Until they do, you can use our tool to make this request.
Take control of your privacy ā
Act Now (UK Residents) ā”ļø https://action.openrightsgroup.org/meta-opt-out
#StopStalkerAds š«
#dataprotection #privacy #meta #privacy #gdpr #adtech #facebook #surveillancecapitalism
By a post of @ueeu I came across the searchengine @MetaGer
As I am still looking around for a good searchengine, and as MetaGer has it's own Mastodon instance, I got interested.
MetaGer says it's a fully privacy focussed search engine, subscription based and located in Germany. It looks a bit like the European šŖšŗ counterpart of Kagi.
Does anyone have experience with this searchengine? Should I buy a token and test them?
Gerade #GoingZero von Anthony McCarten zu Ende gelesen. Tech-Dystopie, aber vermutlich auch erschreckend nah an der RealitƤt. War sehr spannend zu lesen. Einer der Protagonisten erinnert doch sehr an Musk, das war irgendwie emotional anstrengend. DafĆ¼r war die Protagonistin sehr sympathisch. Lese-Empfehlung!
#SurveillanceCapitalism #Bookstodon #Ćberwachungskapitalismus #Lesen
š£ š£ ā Tanya OāCarrol WINS against #Meta:
Meta affirms right to OPT OUT of surveillance advertising, concedes in legal case!
Another blow to the unethical and unfair business models of Meta, Google and X: targeted ads and profiling are NOT something you must simply tolerate.
My ānot a book reviewā of Careless People ā the book Facebook doesnāt want you to read.
With highlights on Irelandās 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/
Itās clear from this that Ireland should not be enforcing GDPR (not that they are) and, really, people farmers ā and the business model of people farming in general ā should be banned in the EU.
(Donāt hold your breaths.)
#carelessPeople #facebook #peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #surveillanceCapitalism #BigTech #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #USA #fascism #technofascism #EU #Ireland #tax #GDPR #tech #humanRights #democracy
Important #UK #petition to sign: "Ban behavioural data extraction for advertising"
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/713456
If you are a UK citizen or UK resident PLEASE SIGN THIS šš¼
We need the #government to take this seriously so creeps like this #databroker don't get more data:
https://gizmodo.com/data-broker-brags-about-having-highly-detailed-personal-information-on-nearly-all-internet-users-2000575762
And #democracy isn't undermined by the #microtargeting from #socialmedia - #Trump /Brexit/Romania etc
#surveillancecapitalism #dataprivacy #advertising #RTB #databreach #infosec #uspol #data #selfhosting
You might as well throw your Echo and Alexa-powered devices in the trash like you should have done years ago.
Cory (@pluralistic) with a banger of a post:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/altering-the-deal/#telescreen
And this factoid:
"Congress hasn't passed a consumer #privacy law since 1988, when the Video Privacy Protection Act banned video store clerks from disclosing which VHS cassettes you brought home."
"The only way to protect data is not to collect it" - brilliant points by @Mer__edith
Every part of this Echo privacy massacre is downstream of [the US's pro-monopoly "Consumer Welfare"] policy choice: "growth stock" narratives about AI, twiddling, DMCA 1201, the Darth Vader MBA, the end of legal privacy protections. These are material things, not ideological ones. They exist to make a very, very small number of people very, very rich..." - @pluralistic
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114166991733057284 #tech #business #SurveillanceCapitalism #uspol
In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying
[W]hat Mark told us changed everything. Through his work, Mark had learned that the National Security Agency (NSA) had installed a secret, secure room at AT&Tās central office in San Francisco, called Room 641A. Mark was assigned to connect circuits carrying Internet data to optical āsplittersā that sat just outside of the secret NSA room but were hardwired into it. Those splittersāas well as similar ones in cities around the U.S.āmade a copy of all data going through those circuits and delivered it into the secret room.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memoriam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spying
Klein provided one of the pre-Snowden disclosures of massive communications surveillance in the United States. I'd included him in an earlier toot from May 2021: https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/106251396105180975
His story also demonstrates that "surveillance state" and "surveillance capitalism" aren't separate things, but part of the same larger surveillance octopus. ā¦
In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying
[W]hat Mark told us changed everything. Through his work, Mark had learned that the National Security Agency (NSA) had installed a secret, secure room at AT&Tās central office in San Francisco, called Room 641A. Mark was assigned to connect circuits carrying Internet data to optical āsplittersā that sat just outside of the secret NSA room but were hardwired into it. Those splittersāas well as similar ones in cities around the U.S.āmade a copy of all data going through those circuits and delivered it into the secret room.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memoriam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spying
Klein provided one of the pre-Snowden disclosures of massive communications surveillance in the United States. I'd included him in an earlier toot from May 2021: https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/106251396105180975
His story also demonstrates that "surveillance state" and "surveillance capitalism" aren't separate things, but part of the same larger surveillance octopus.
#MarkKlein #Room641a #ATT #MassSurveillance #SurveillanceState #SurveillanceCapitalism
A banality just occured to me. I love when that happens. It often signals something important stirring inside. It is that there's no position from which you can see all of the #Fediverse. Donna #Haraway calls it the god's eye view. Instead, knowledges are "situated" - specific servers from which you see something particular, not everything. It is baked into the protocol. The task now is to unlearn the paradigm of #surveillancecapitalism, care for our worlds and build bridges between them.
