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David

Why Big Tech, Cops, and Spies Were Made for One Another

by Cory Doctorow

The American surveillance state is a public-private partnership.

https://theintercept.com/2023/10/16/surveillance-state-big-tech/

The techlash has finally reached the courts. Amazon’s in court. Google’s in court. Apple’s under EU investigation. The French authorities just kicked down Nvidia’s doors and went through their files looking for evidence of crimes against competition. People are pissed at tech: about moderation, about monopolization, about price gouging, about labor abuses, and — everywhere and always — about privacy.

#privacy #surveillance #security #doctorow #cory-doctorow #monopoly #spying #surveillance-capitalism #surveillance-economy #nsa #snowden #prism #amazon #google #facebook #nvidia #apple #spies#big-tech #cops

Why Big Tech, Cops, and Spies Were Made for One Another

The American surveillance state is a public-private partnership, writes Cory Doctorow.

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prplcdclnw@diasp.eu
David

How Threads’ Privacy Policy Compares to Twitter’s (and Its Rivals’)

Here’s what personal data is collected by Meta’s Threads, as well as by Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social.

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-twitter-threads-bluesky-spill-hive-mastodon-privacy-comparison/

TL;DR Threads is the worst, and Bluesky and Mastodon are best. (Only Twitter, Hive Social, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, and Spill are considered.)

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How Threads’ Privacy Policy Compares to Twitter’s (and Its Rivals’)

Want to try out Meta’s new social media app? Here’s more context on what personal data is collected by Threads and similar social media apps.

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mr_ed@wk3.org
Mr.

Nowadays, the pressure to commodify ourselves can be seen in the obsession with influencer culture, plastic surgery, and going viral. Instead of rejecting this culture of commodification, we have actually embraced it, encouraged it, and accepted it as a part of the new normal.

#social-media #surveillance-capitalism #exploitation #consumerism

https://www.makeuseof.com/what-is-surveillance-capitalism/

What Is Surveillance Capitalism?

Here's how the digital environment we've surrounded ourselves in is driven by consumerism, and how this wealth of data can be used to track you.

prplcdclnw@diasp.eu
David

The biggest problem with targeted ads is that they don't work.

When those who pay for these ads realize it, the whole industry will crash.

This is the track I followed. First I read this by Cory. https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/22/mesmer-2-point-oh/#thanks-obama

That led to this. https://www.wired.com/story/ad-tech-could-be-the-next-internet-bubble/

And that led me to download the book, Subprime Attention Crisis by Tim Hwang. I also found this unnecessarily large book talk at the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/download/subprime-attention-crisis/subprime-attention-crisis.mp4 I've started listening to this. I'll listen some more later.

I'll get to the book soon.

#ads #advertising #targeted-ads #targeted-advertising #surveillance-capitalism #surveillance #privacy #tim-hwang #subprime-attention-crisis #book #books #book-talk #internet-archive

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prplcdclnw@diasp.eu
David

I Want You Back: Getting My Personal Data From Amazon Was Weeks of Confusion and Tedium

I asked Amazon to provide the data it had collected on me. The process was a labyrinthine endurance test.

https://theintercept.com/2022/03/27/amazon-personal-data-request-dark-pattern/

Notice that much of the information he got was wrong. I've seen this myself. Spokeo and others store "information" that is mostly wrong, and people pay them for it, and no one charges them with fraud.

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