#peoplefarming — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://ioc.exchange/@matthew_d_green/116525213034128404

Meta’s ROI on this is market leading, I hear.

#meta #lobbying #ageVerification #BigTech #peopleFarming #technoFascism #capitalism #fascism

RE: https://indieweb.social/@jbz/116407902311911594

Call data centres what they really are: data farms.

It’s where they farm you for your data.

You are the livestock being farmed.

#PeopleFarming #BigTech #SiliconValley #capitalism #dataFarms

“A jury in LA has delivered a damning verdict for two of the world's most popular digital platforms, Instagram and YouTube.

It ruled those apps are addictive, and deliberately engineered that way – and that its owners have been negligent in their safeguarding of the children who have used them.
…
Some experts have described the verdict as big tech's "big tobacco" moment, and we know how that worked out - although it didn't stop people smoking altogether.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c87wd0d84jqo

#BigTech #SiliconValley #peopleFarming #surveillanceCapitalism #BigTobacco #Instagram #YouTube

« #Google confirms 'high-friction' #sideloading flow is coming to #Android » 💩

› https://www.androidauthority.com/google-sideloading-android-high-friction-process-3633468/

#BigTech #USTech #PeopleFarming

“But now things suck even for me and I’m sad!”

Oh, the gravy train ran out of gravy, did it? Something about leopards eating people’s faces?

Here, have a very fucking tiny violin.

🎻

#BigTech #BigWeb #SiliconValley #SiliconRoundabout #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming #fascism

“How could we have known?!”

Maybe if you’d listened to those of us warning you – often times your own damn friends – instead of siding with the corporations that paid your salaries/consulting fees/sponsored your conferences/invited you to parties and bought you free booze…

🤷‍♂️

#BigTech #BigWeb #SiliconValley #SiliconRoundabout #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming #fascism

Meta did this? Mastodon gGmbH’s partner Meta at the Social Web Foundation?

But aren’t Mastodon gGmbH the good guys? I can’t see how they’d ever partner with Meta if this were true.

No, no, this must be fake news.

(Otherwise, what would it say about Mastodon gGmbH and the Social Web Foundation?)

https://socialwebfoundation.org/

#Meta #Mastodon #MastodonGGMBH #socialWebFoundation #fediverse #BigTech #capitalism #peopleFarming

https://mamot.fr/@Khrys/114935241338278110

“On June 27, 2025, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri approved the proposed purchase of all of the assets of 23andMe by TTAM Research Institute (“TTAM”) … TTAM is a nonprofit medical research organization founded by Anne Wojcicki (Co-Founder and former CEO of 23andMe).”

– 23andMe bankruptcy notice

Well this all sounds above board…

#DNA #data #23AndMe #genetics #BigTech #peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #bankruptcy #failingUpwards

In a historic win for data protection and privacy, the High Court of Ireland has this afternoon granted ICCL permission to take Ireland’s first ever class action. The lawsuit targets Microsoft’s vast online advertising business.

The litigation is anticipated to affect Microsoft’s operations across Europe, because Ireland is the venue of Microsoft’s EU headquarters.

Dr Johnny Ryan, Director of ICCL’s Enforce unit, is leading the case. Speaking after the hearing, he said:

“The significance of today's decision extends beyond just Microsoft. Ireland is also the HQ venue for Google, Meta, TikTok, X and Apple. Today, nine years and one day after the GDPR was first introduced, we are finally opening up a way to enforce it against big tech on behalf of everyone. Regrettably, the Ireland’s Data Protection Commission has paralysed enforcement of EU data law. But that need no longer be the case.”

The litigation follows research by ICCL Enforce that uncovered how people’s intimate relationships, finances, and other secrets, are broadcast by Microsoft into the Real-Time Bidding (RTB) advertising system. Microsoft’s RTB system operates behind the scenes on websites and apps to match advertising to specific people.

ICCL argues this system is exposing users to malicious profiling and discrimination. It also argues that the system is undermining European security.

ICCL is taking the legal action on behalf of all affected people in Ireland under the new EU Collective Redress Directive. The organisation hopes to force Microsoft to bring its systems into compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Posing as a data buyer, ICCL Enforce obtained thousands of RTB data “segments” about Irish people. These include information such as whether a person gambles, their finances and debt, and even such sensitive information as whether the person works in a sensitive national security role.

https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/iccl-secures-permission-to-take-irelands-first-ever-class-action/

#ICCL #privacy #adtech #peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #BigTech #microsoft #classAction #lawsuit #Ireland #EU #RTB #GDPR

Just liberated the video of one of my talks from YouTube and uploaded a copy to our Vimeo account:

Big Brother Awards 2014: Moving beyond the clouds (we need an ethical approach to design)

https://vimeo.com/1075963646

(Imagine what a different world we’d be living in today if folks in tech had heeded our warnings back then. But I guess they were too busy making mint.)

PS. yt-dlp is your friend (on Mac: brew install yt-dlp). Also make sure you have ffmpeg installed (brew install ffmpeg). Finally, I had to manually tell yt-dlp where to find ffmpeg although your mileage may vary based on installation method: yt-dlp "<URL>" --write-subs --ffmpeg-location=/opt/homebrew/bin/ffmpeg (--write-subs saves the subtitles if there are any to a file in a format you can use on the web).

#EthicalDesignManifesto #ethics #design #ethicalDesign #AralBalkan #SmallTech #BigBrotherAwards #BitsOfFreedom #technology #tech #BigTech #panopticon #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming #fascism #technofascism #Google #Facebook

#Meta blocks FLOSS ? Then #BlockMeta :dealwithitgoat:

I made a block list of 472 URLs belonging to all the entities of the (evil) corp. It's usable first on #DNSFilter but also on #uBlockOrigin (it's a list of wildcards) … and, as a wise people said « Go Trump, go dump » 🗑️

› https://dansleco.de/danslerush/dns-filters

Source : https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/facebook-flags-linux-topics-as-cybersecurity-threats-posts-and-users-being-blocked

#Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp #Censorship #Zuckerberg #Privacy #PeopleFarming

Remember folks, you must give Meta/Facebook/Threads every benefit of the doubt.

Invite them to partner with you at the Social Web Foundation (https://socialwebfoundation.org) as you courageously fight to #FreeOurFeeds¹

Federate with them on mastodon.social. Because why not build an adjoining door to a Nazi bar?

You must do all this and more to ensure you legitimise them at every turn. After all, you wouldn’t want to prove Mark Zuckerberg wrong about you or anything, would you?²

¹ https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/01/13/free-our-feeds-and-algorithmic-pluralism/

² https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/20/the-face-of-facebook

#MarkZuckerberg #Meta #Facebook #Threads #mastodon #fediverse #SocialWebFoundation #FreeOurFeeds #SiliconValley #BigTech #peopleFarming #capitalism #fascism #dumbFucks

« #Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train #AI, with no opt-out option »

Yes, there is an opt-out : delete all your photos, delete your Facebook account and block all #Meta sites.

› https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-11/facebook-scraping-photos-data-no-opt-out/104336170

#DeleteFacebook #BlockMeta #PeopleFarming

I used to think Google were evil but smart.

I no longer think they’re smart.

#Google #search #surveillance #capitalism #PeopleFarming #AI #LLM #evil #notSmart

“The subtlety of it is pretty insidious. Like some kind of distributed long con, played out over and over, in the midst of so many millions of other simultaneous ones.”

– @amatecha on VC (Venture Capital)

#VC #VentureCapital #SiliconValley #BigTech #BugWeb #startups #exponentialGrowth #failFast #exits #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming

Are you a privacy professional? Would you like to work with companies like Google and Facebook to help them continue to violate our privacy? The W3C has a job for you.

Pays well, by the way (violating human rights always does).

https://www.w3.org/careers/2024-privacy-lead-job-posting/

#W3C #hiring #webPrivacy #web #privacy #humanRights #privacyWashing #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #BigTech #BigWeb #google #facebook

@w3c You forgot to add that the position will involve privacywashing your surveillance capitalist members like Google, Facebook, etc.

You are the standards body of surveillance capitalism, after all.

#hiring #webprivacy #BigWeb #BigTech #w3c #privacy #privacyWashing #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming

And with code like this, should anyone be surprised?

#VirginMedia #ireland #surveillanceCapitalism #adobe #peopleFarming #cnts

Ethics as PR (or the ‘Some Very Good People Work There!’ Fallacy)

https://ar.al/2021/05/08/ethics-as-pr-or-the-some-very-good-people-work-there-fallacy/

@RyunoKi just reminded me of this piece I wrote two years ago. It seems rather timely what with the news about Harvard and Meta, and, beyond tech, Cop28, etc.

#ethics #publicRelations #pr #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #google #deepmind #harvard #meta #artificialIntelligence #ai #climateChange #Cop28 #institutionalCorruption #lobbying #revolvingDoors #followTheMoney

If you’re developing web sites that only run in Google Chrome, you are not a web developer, you’re a web destroyer.

#google #chrome #WebIntegrityAPI #WebDRM #web #dev #SiliconValley #adtech #PeopleFarming #SurveillanceCapitalism

I'd just like to applaud

Evil As A Service

Great # 10/10 no notes.
https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/110752128296381545
@aral - Google: Here’s our latest evil plan…

Folks: That’s an evil plan, we don’t like it.

Google: Please keep the discussion to technical issues only.

#Google #EvilAsAService #PeopleFarming #SiliconValley #BigTech #DigitalImperialism #adtech #DRM #web #standards #WebStandards #w3c

“Privacy considerations: Todo”

You can’t make this shit up.

(I guess Google’s PR department hasn’t gotten round to submitting the copy for that section yet.)

https://rupertbenwiser.github.io/Web-Environment-Integrity/#privacy

#Google #WebEnvironmentIntegrity #EvilAsAService #PeopleFarming #SiliconValley #BigTech #DigitalImperialism #adtech #DRM #web #standards #privacy #GDPR #WebStandards #w3c

Google: Here’s our latest evil plan…

Folks: That’s an evil plan, we don’t like it.

Google: Please keep the discussion to technical issues only.

#Google #EvilAsAService #PeopleFarming #SiliconValley #BigTech #DigitalImperialism #adtech #DRM #web #standards #WebStandards #w3c

“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

Tonight in the #Enschede city council we'll debate about banning #Tiktok on work phones for our 2000 civil servants, after it has been banned on work phones for civil servants on a country level.

This is within my responsibility as council member of Enschede, and within my circle of influence.

But this is only a very small step to fight #PeopleFarming as a business model.

A great article by @pernillet : https://dataethics.eu/should-tiktok-be-banned-in-the-eu/

#PrivacyIsPower! ( @carissaveliz )

People debating which trillion-dollar Silicon Valley corporation is better is like livestock rating factory farms.

#SiliconValley #BigTech #PeopleFarming #SurveillanceCapitalism #surveillance #capitalism #DigitalImperialism #Neocolonialism #theInfrastructureForFascism

Dear conference organisers,

If you don’t want to limit your speakers to those who are fine with surveillance capitalism, please don’t make your call for proposals require an account with a surveillance capitalist.

#conference #callForProposal #CFP #google #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming

In case you’re wondering why Adobe turned evil overnight, they didn’t. They’ve been a major surveillance capitalist for a while now and make a chunk of their change from targeted advertising.

While maintaining Better, we documented and blocked a bunch of their trackers. Search for “adobe” on this page to see for yourself:

https://better.fyi/trackers/

#abode #adtech #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #machineLearning #ai

Surprise (no) : #Google (among others) reportedly allows about 5,700 companies to access the data it collects on internet users 🤨

« The Biggest Data Breach » by #ICCL
› https://www.iccl.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Mass-data-breach-of-Europe-and-US-data-1.pdf

#Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming