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  1. Weird as it sounds, I think we need an actual law, like some kind of bill of rights, that says you can't notify me on my phone without offering me highly fine-tuned control of each kind of message.

    Notifications intrude into my life. Sometimes my phone is on waiting for emergencies or other high-priority issues while I sleep. If a friend wakes me, I can have them dialed up or down in priority.

    But Android is designed so Audible won't let me have control of my audiobooks in the lock screen without notifications turned on, yet once I've done that, Audible has no compunction against advertising new book releases in the middle of the night via notifications. I should be able to get cash compensation in court for that.

    And my USB-C cable, once I plug it into my Android phone insists on randomly popping up an utterly inscrutible notification saying "you need to log in if you want to see notifications", or some such, and then when I do there is no notification to see. It was just random.

    And Android Auto likes to give me two completely pointless notifications, one when I plug my phone into the car and one saying Android Auto is available. The first one I don't need a notification about because I just plugged in my phone. But more importantly, the second one is a lie. Android Auto MIGHT be available and it confirms nothing. The handshake may have been done wrong, so all it tells me is the thing I know already, which is that Android Auto is on the phone. But I might have to pull the plug and replug it to be properly connected. So the notification is worse than pointless and just floods my screen with stuff I don't care about that appears to need immediate attention. And then Android asks, as soon as I disconnect it, how my experience was. I always say "Bad" because part of my experience is getting asked that pesky message that I do not want and would happily say "never do this".

    These all seem like technical problems, but they are not. They are reminders that we no longer control our lives, that companies can, at a whim, intrude into our lives with pointless rituals that whittle away our existence. I'm not being metaphorical when I say we need laws on this. I absolutely mean that if we don't write strong law on this, it will only get worse. Or we need to enforce the 4th Amendment on a theory, like Larry Lessig has effectively said in the past, that programmatic code is effectively a kind of government that binds us and our choices in life as surely as legal code does.

    But what DO we get laws about? Having to login to use an operating system so they can track us better, know who we are and where we are at every moment. We need laws against such laws.

    #marketing #notifications #android #ui #ux #settings #design #QualityOfLife #computers #LockScreen #permissions #law #legal #lawsuits #ClassAction #rights #HumanRights #BillOfRights #identity #intrusion #interruption #4thAmendment #government #code

  2. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.

    Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 1, ch. 2, § 10 (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/10669/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #bother #busybody #distraction #interference #intrusion #keepingbusy #meaning #mindyourownbusiness

  3. OTTAWA - The Privacy Commissioner of Canada today held a press conference regarding the digital attack on Telus Canada's networks and information systems. Telus recently announced that attackers had claimed to have exfiltrated nearly 1 petabyte of company data, including customer data, equivalent to approximately 250,000 DVD movies.

    The Commissioner announced a full investigation will take place. He also indicated that Canadian consumers should not be excessively worried about the breach of their personally identifiable information (PII), as the attackers will still be obligated to follow the requirements of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), Canada's data privacy law since passage in 2000.

    #Canada #privacy #Telus #hack #hackers #intrusion #exfiltration #PIPEDA #PrivacyCommissioner #security #PII

  4. In search of riches, #hackers plant 4G-enabled #RaspberryPi in bank network

    The researchers with security firm Group-IB said the “unprecedented tactic allowed the attackers to bypass perimeter defenses entirely.” The hackers combined the physical #intrusion with remote access #malware that used another novel technique to conceal itself, even from sophisticated #forensic tools.
    #4g #security #privacy #GroupIB

    arstechnica.com/security/2025/

  5. #KRITIS Sektor #IT und #TK

    China-linked group Salt Typhoon breached #satellite firm #Viasat

    "Viasat is a global communications company based in Carlsbad, California, that specializes in satellite-based connectivity solutions across multiple sectors. The #intrusion was discovered earlier this year and the company #investigated the security breach with the help of federal authorities."
    securityaffairs.com/179146/sec

  6. #Gamaredon : The Turncoat #Spies Relentlessly #Hacking #Ukraine

    For the past decade, this group of #FSB #hackers—including “traitor” #Ukrainian intelligence officers—has used a grinding barrage of #intrusion campaigns to make life hell for their former countrymen and #cybersecurity defenders.
    #security #privacy

    wired.com/story/gamaredon-turn

  7. [RECOMMANDATION] 🇨🇱🎬 Sariri de Laura Donoso Toro : en réponse au patriarcat toxique sur le corps féminin, des femmes se protègent en entretenant une légende effrayante dans la mine de La Lágrima

    🎟 en salles avec les Films des deux rives : www.allocine.fr/seance/film-327533

    #Chili #cinéma #film #drame #sororité #patriarcat #exploitation #extractivisme #intrusion #corps #femme #puberté #stigmatisation
    #exclusion #règles #clandestinité #avortement #IVG #légalisation #marginalité #minorité

  8. Ken MacLeod is one of the Guests of Honour for the Glasgow Worldcon so I'm rereading and blogging on his novels. Here are my thoughts on Intrusion (2012) which I think is his best novel and one of the best British novels of the 21C.
    #sf #sff #sciencefiction #RoadtoGlasgow2024 #Glasgow2024 #worldcon #scottishsff #kenmacleod #intrusion #bookstodon

    prospectiveculture.wordpress.c

  9. Ken MacLeod is one of the Guests of Honour for the Glasgow Worldcon so I'm rereading and blogging on his novels. Here are my thoughts on Intrusion (2012) which I think is his best novel and one of the best British novels of the 21C.
    #sf #sff #sciencefiction #RoadtoGlasgow2024 #Glasgow2024 #worldcon #scottishsff #kenmacleod #intrusion #bookstodon

    prospectiveculture.wordpress.c

  10. Interesting #boulders in a roughly stacked #seawall
    The southern part of the spit separating #Plymouth Harbor from Plymouth Bay has a seawall along the outer shore, above Plymouth #LongBeach. Without knowing where they came from, interpreting the boulders is sketchy. BUT nice coarse crystals in intrusions into #felsic rocks, including big #quartz chunks (top right photo) and blades of #biotite (bottom right).
    #Massachusetts #igneous #geology #intrusion #pegmatite #NewEngland #dike #rock #beach