‘#Meta’s ad tools are formidable, for everyone from your neighbourhood takeaway to multinational giants, and it’s a mammoth effort to stop the gap from widening further. It’s too soon to say whether #Snap’s efforts to close it will be successful – but it’s the things hidden from the normal users, as much as anything they can see on their phones, that will decide the next decade for the company.’ #Facebook#Snapchathttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/07/techscape-newsletter-snapchat
I paid for #Snapchat Premium for a bit to see what it was like, but it expires in a few hours and I'm not sure what I'm going to "miss" from the Premium feature set other than this cute icon.
Four Canadian school boards have sought more than C$4 billion ($2.96 billion) in damages from social media firms such as Meta Platforms and Snap in a lawsuit, alleging that their products harmed students.
Nel 2016, Facebook ha lanciato un progetto segreto chiamato “Project Ghostbusters” per intercettare e decrittografare il traffico tra gli utenti di #SNAPCHAT. L’informazione divulgata nell’ambito di un’azione legale collettiva contro #Meta, la società madre di #Facebook, #Threads ecc.
Successivamente Meta ha provato a utilizzare metodi simili contro altrii, tra cui #Amazon e #YouTube, aggirando la loro crittografia.🤦♂️
@arstechnica Indeed, Facebook reportedly launched a secret project in 2016, known as “Project Ghostbusters”, to intercept and decrypt network traffic between Snapchat users and its servers. The goal was to gain insights into user behavior and help Facebook compete with Snapchat. This revelation underscores the importance of privacy and the need for robust data protection measures. #Facebook#Snapchat#privacy
It is easy to just think this kind of things is normal, but IMHO we must never accept that. We should expect more than this from tech companies. I actually think most would not go this far!
#SocialMedia#Facebook#Snapchat#Privacy#Encryption#Cybersecurity#Monopolies#Antitrust#BigTech: "In 2016, Facebook launched a secret project designed to intercept and decrypt the network traffic between people using Snapchat’s app and its servers. The goal was to understand users’ behavior and help Facebook compete with Snapchat, according to newly unsealed court documents. Facebook called this “Project Ghostbusters,” in a clear reference to Snapchat’s ghost-like logo.
On Tuesday, a federal court in California released new documents discovered as part of the class action lawsuit between consumers and Meta, Facebook’s parent company.
The newly released documents reveal how Meta tried to gain a competitive advantage over its competitors, including Snapchat and later Amazon and YouTube, by analyzing the network traffic of how its users were interacting with Meta’s competitors. Given these apps’ use of encryption, Facebook needed to develop special technology to get around it." https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/
Do you know a thing or two about #redis internals? #KeyDB from #SnapChat is looking for contributors to help them rebase to the last BSD release of redis 7. If you want a multi-threaded #opensource drop-in replacement to be a reality for redis v7 users, please report for duty over on their git repo:
Are you a #redis user? Unless there's something specific you need from redis-7, #SnapChat has a drop-in #opensource replacement for you called #KeyDB. Coming very soon to a #Linux distribution near you!
Amid farm protest, IT ministry blocks 177 accounts, links
Meity issued emergency blocking orders against 177 social media accounts related to farmers’ protests to maintain public order, following MHA's request.
Why is it when I squirt its always on accident and unintentional? 😅 I feel like it's getting easier. So, that's cool. However, a client just got to watch me squirt all over the bathroom floor. 😂🥵😈 It was sexy and fun. I just wish I could do it on purpose. LMAO
The folks at @globalwitness have done some amazing (and shocking!) analysis of content moderation on large platforms:
All those they looked at "except #Facebook and #Instagram, lack human content moderators in some of the EU languages."
And "neither #X nor #Snapchat have a single content moderator who can speak Estonian, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Lithuanian, Maltese, Slovak, Slovenian", and X also has "no moderators for Czech, Danish, Finnish, Romanian, or Swedish." 💥
Canadian school boards sue social media giants for over C$4 bln in damages (www.reuters.com)
Four Canadian school boards have sought more than C$4 billion ($2.96 billion) in damages from social media firms such as Meta Platforms and Snap in a lawsuit, alleging that their products harmed students.