aral, 11 months ago to internet

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” – Maya Angelou

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/20/the-face-of-facebook

#dumbFucks #MarkZuckerberg #meta #facebook #instagram #p92 #fediverse #mastodon #BigTech #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming

aral, 11 months ago to random

Silicon Valley folks: I love this federation thing but can’t we just have one corporate server that everyone joins?

aral, 1 year ago to random

Facebook to be fined £648m for being Facebook.

In other news, Facebook gets to keep being Facebook.

https://www.inkl.com/a/kbBxXbHjBoj

#dataProtection #GDPR #privacy #facebook #SiliconValley #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #thisIsFine

aral, 1 year ago to privacy

Today, you can choose not to drive a Tesla if you don’t want Elon Musk, Inc. knowing everywhere you go.

Tomorrow, you might have to limit where you live because you won’t live in a Google Home and reconsider having 20/20 vision again in exchange for the artificial lens company seeing everything you see.

Privacy is not something you can “vote with your wallet” on. We either protect it as a human right or we lose it altogether.

#privacy #humanRights #BigTech #peopleFarming #capitalism