I don’t know what kind of people thought Siri wasn’t spying on them. It’s not clear how Siri would even function without spying on people. Isn’t Alexa doing the same thing? AP : Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit accusing…
Tag: online privacy
Australia Passes World’s First Ban on Social Media for Kids Younger Than 16
It’s not clear that this actually addresses a root problem. A lot of right-wingers support this sort of thing, but is it really the government’s job to make these decisions about people’s kids? You also have to go back to the core principle: no democracy…
Legal Documents Reveal Israeli Company Operates Pegasus Spyware, Not Clients
Whoa: NSO Group allegedly rolled a @WhatsApp exploit to implant #Pegasus spyware even after WhatsApp sued them. This previously-unrevealed “Erised” vector was later disabled by #WhatsApp . These un-redacted filings are quite the read. Even some footnotes have scoops. 1/ pic.twitter.com/1vkdu7P0EX — John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton)…
Social Media Companies Collecting User Information On and Off Their Websites, Selling to Third Parties
How much personal data are social media and streaming platforms collecting and selling about you? @tomcostellonbc digs into an eye-opening FTC report. pic.twitter.com/WHLaamXq0U — NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) September 19, 2024 Wow, I didn’t know this. The Guardian : Social media and…
New Zealand Orders Extradition of Kim Dotcom to American Pigs
Fun fact: Israel, Ukraine and the CIA operate the 3 largest bot nets on X. They have been spamming the replies to my posts to celebrate the extradition decision. It makes me happy. It means that my content has irritated them enormously. Thanks for letting…
“Advocacy Group” Whines About Twitter “Training AI” “Without User Consent”
WATCH: Austrian advocacy group NOYB filed a complaint against social media platform X, accusing the Elon Musk-owned company of training its artificial intelligence with users’ personal data without their consent in violation of EU privacy law https://t.co/UJhK0JaFXR pic.twitter.com/1zQuA4qUUP — Reuters Business (@ReutersBiz) August 12, 2024…
Senate Authorizes Insane Warrantless Surveillance Program
America lost something important today, and hardly anyone heard. The headlines of state-aligned media screech and crow about the nefarious designs of your fellow citizens and the necessity of foreign wars without end, but find few words for a crime against the Constitution. https://t.co/VvgVQcq2NE —…
Anonymous Right-Wing Social Media Users With Cartoon Avatars Obliterating Democracy
Extremely concerning https://t.co/FvmiRXOWIA — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 2, 2024 “End Wokeness” is not even a good account. All of the good accounts are banned for various confusing reasons. Andrew Anglin was banned for masturbating to a half-naked picture of a man’s wife. Elon Musk…
Social Media and Image Hosting Companies Licensing User Content to Train AI
On April 6, 2022, Elvis Dunderhoff realized that AI can produce different styles of art. He must have watched a YouTube video. -Editor More stupid nonsense, coming at you at digital speeds. Reuters : At its peak in the early 2000s, Photobucket was the world’s…
Google Agrees to Destroy Billions of “Private” Browsing Records to Settle Lawsuit
🚨BREAKING: Historic privacy settlement in which Google agrees to delete browsing data collected in Incognito Mode and more. Quotes: ➡️”Google with this Settlement agrees to rewrite its disclosures to inform users that “Google” collects private browsing data, including by… pic.twitter.com/CXkA4Z40uZ — Luiza Jarovsky (@LuizaJarovsky) April…
Nimrata Randhawa Wants People to Verify Their Identity Before Posting on Social Media
“Every person on social media should verify by their name” – Nikki Haley Nikki Haley should start with her original name which is, Nimarata Nikki Randhawa Haley who belongs to a Sikh family and ashamed to be called Indian. These Inferior complex people will destroy…
Google Gives Police Your Identification If Police Say You Were Near a Crime
Cellphones are the number one spying device ever. I was watching the film “Heat” the other day, and cops had to put physical “bugs” (recording devices) in criminals’ houses and cars. Now, they just use you phone. Especially if you’re using an Android phone. But…
EU Plan to Hack Everyone’s Phones to Check for Teen Slut Pics Might be Ruled Illegal
Yeah, I mean, it definitely used to be illegal for the government to spy on you. There was also a presumption of innocence that a fishing expedition for teenage skanks posting tits violates. The Guardian : An EU plan under which all WhatsApp, iMessage and…
Meta to Pay $725 Million Settlement Over Cambridge Analytica Data
I don’t even understand what this means. Reuters : Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc has agreed to pay $725 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit accusing the social media giant of allowing third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, to access users’ personal information . The proposed…
New York Requires Social Media to Monitor and Report “Hate”
NOW – Gov. Hochul: "In the state of New York, we're now requiring social media networks to monitor and report 'hateful conduct' on their platforms." pic.twitter.com/5LctpfRuqo — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) June 6, 2022 Texas and Florida are trying to force social media companies to allow more…
Telegram Hands User Data to Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany
NEW – Telegram has released user data to the Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany in several cases, Spiegel reports. The NGO CeMAS monitors 3,000 German-language channels & groups for "disinformation, antisemitism, and right-wing extremism." https://t.co/ib75xumI7L — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) June 4, 2022 Bad news! Turns…
CIA Doing Mass Surveillance on Americans, Declassified Documents Reveal
Huge: CIA mass ("bulk") surveillance has been carried out “entirely outside the statutory framework, and without any judicial, congressional or even executive branch oversight. The nature and full extent was withheld even from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence." https://t.co/qF4OowjDku — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) February…
FBI Admits Buying Israeli Hacking Tool, But Says They’d Never Do Anything Wrong
NSO’s Pegasus spyware can take over smartphones without the victim needing to interact with links or malicious files, and once infected, the attackers can control the camera, the microphone, and use pretty much everything the phone can do to spy on people. The FBI says…
Facebook Says Facial Recognition Data of 1BN+ People Will Be Deleted
Yeah, I’m not sure host even a normie didn’t have themselves involuntarily tagged in a photo and think “eyyy.” I mean, this is weird, having computer intelligence identify your every move. This stuff should have been made illegal long before it was employed. The Guardian…
Government Orders Google to Hand Over Data of People Who Searched Certain Keywords
Oh, jeez. Here we go…! I think we all know what kinds of words the government is interested in. But I’m sure everyone reading this followed my privacy advice over the last 5-10 years, and therefore doesn’t have anything to worry about. Right? Forbes :…









