"I don't care, I use Linux"
Sure, you do. But does your medical clinic do? Does your therapist do? Does your family member typing a personal email to you in Word before sending it do too?
This is a systemic problem.
You cannot protect your own data only by using Linux yourself. You must also demand stronger regulations and enforcement to obligate organizations around to protect your data as well.
The point is not for political parties to see the potential here, but rather to see the risk. The only way to fix this is to ban user profiling.
You have made a good choice to move the the Fediverse. It would help for more of your friends to join us.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/09/social-media-traditional-news-elections-00188548
#Politics #fediverse#Mastodon @EUCommission#Privacy#Twitter#Facebook#USPol#USPolitics
https://www.erosblog.com/2024/10/15/enshittification-of-a-restroom-near-you/
#Toilet#Privacy#Enshittification#PublicToilet#Transparent#Opaque#SmartGlass#PrivacyPolicy#Update#Transparency#Opacity#Voyeurism#Bathroom#Shame#Meme
Personal data is not here to play games with. By anyone.
#DNAsamples #23andme#Privacy
3/3
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/10/uk-and-canada-privacy-watchdogs-investigating-23andme-data-breach/
We've signed a joint letter to oppose the resurrection of welfare surveillance powers in the UK.
Using welfare fraud as a wedge issue to spy on all benefit claimants is a huge blow for privacy and has the makings of a Horizon-style scandal.
Suspicionless algorithmic surveillance will impact pensioners, disabled people and carers. They will bear the brunt when these systems go wrong.
Read more ⬇️
#law#USpol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/30/vance-walz-medical-records-breach-va/
"Beyond technical features: why we need to talk about the values of the Fediverse (part 1)"
https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-values-of-the-fediverse-ethical-social-media/
with shout-outs to: @bengrosser @rysiek @phanpy @pixelfed and all the lovely people I've been interacting with on here ❤️
#TheFutureIsFederated #tech#Fediverse #activism #bigtech #socialmedia#FOSS #blog #privacy #consent#Matrix
How on the nose is it to demonstrate so cleanly that the tech you buy is not trustworthy, harms people, is designed to exploit you, and may even. . . kill you? cc @pluralistic
#privacy#tech #ai#Israel#Terrorism#Fascism#Democracy #labor #gaza
Our personal data mustn't be used without opt-in consent. We need the ICO to step up before it’s too late.
Our statement ⬇️
#privacy#AI #dataprotection#GDPR#Musk
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/x-appears-to-breach-gdpr-with-ai-data-grab/
"Signal is a nonprofit because a for-profit structure leads to a scenario where one of my board members goes to Davos, talks to some guy, comes back excitedly telling me we need an AI strategy for profit. Or another one of my board members comes in, gets really nervous that our revenue model, whatever it is, isn’t bringing in something that meets our goals and says, “Well, maybe we can start collecting metadata. Maybe we can reduce the focus on privacy, because of course our primary objective function, as a traditional for-profit, is revenue and growth.” And privacy in an economy powered by surveillance will necessarily hamper those."
This is an official account!
Give this amazing tool a follow fellow privacy friends! 
By mapping out the intricate web of surveillance companies, their subsidiaries, partners, and financial backers, we hope to expose the enablers fueling this industry's extensive rights violations, ensuring they cannot evade accountability for being complicit in this abuse.
Worth reading: @pluralistic 's take on how our public universities aren't following rules with privacy assessments.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/01/eruditio-libertas-est/
The Privacy Library's stance on the situation: https://www.privacylibrary.ca/legal-threat/
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