"The powers that surveil us do more than simply store this information. Corporations use surveillance to manipulate not only the news articles and advertisements we each see, but also the prices we’re offered. Governments use surveillance to discriminate, censor, chill free speech, and put people in danger worldwide. And both sides share this information with each other or, even worse, lose it to cybercriminals..."
'Here’s how The Washington Post verified its journalists on #Mastodon'
"This was a team effort by Rob Cannon, Holden Foreman, Tyler Fisher, Jeremy Bowers, Dylan Freedman, Christian Stroh, Jeremy B. Merrill and others. Special thanks to the Mastodon community for their contributions."
It's being shut down because the personal behavioural data it's been harvesting & scraping from humans since DayOne of operations simply isn't needed anymore to feed the #Surveillance beast.
Haven't you heard? the injection of #AI into #media ecosystems is where all the action is today...
„Offener Brief: #Musk, #Wozniak und Co. fordern Zwangspause für Modelle wie #GPT-4“
Die Unterzeichnenden sehen „tiefgreifende Risiken für die Gesellschaft und Menschheit“. Duh.
Abgesehen davon, dass darunter viel US Academia sind, riecht das im Fall Musk nicht eher nach „Hey Mist ich hab 'nen Trend verpennt, wartet auf mich und meine Geschäftsmodelle“? 🤡
Yeah, server-side tracking was the expected route of mass #SurveillanceCapitalism of course. Much harder to block to block this shit and protect #privacy.
It is a case to go for a #NoJS / #SansScript browsing experience by default, and then only allow-list trusted websites.
Mozilla’s now director of public policy once asked me, with a straight face, why I was giving them a hard time and holding Mozilla to a higher standard: “we’re just another Silicon Valley tech company.”
But that’s not what you tell people publicly, is it, Mozilla?
Still, it’s time y’all got this.
Mozilla is a half-billion-dollar for-profit corporation – whose CEO makes >$3M/yr – that has a foundation do its PR.