EFF’s Street-Level Surveillance project shines a light on the surveillance technologies that law enforcement agencies routinely deploy in our communities. These resources are designed for advocacy organizations, journalists, defense attorneys, policymakers, and public members who often are not getting the straight story from police representatives or the vendors marketing this equipment. Street Level Surveillance https://sls.eff.org/#privacy#surveillance#surveillancecapitalism
@theregister have published an article on my complaint to the Irish DPC in relation to Meta opting people in to their "Free with Ads" tier for Facebook and Instagram:
“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.”
While "Relay" sounds better as terminology, as a concept it is a bit downplaying to notion of a BGS, which - to my understanding - is the high-scale component that can be best served by large corporations, and also where having social networking graphs, is a #SurveillanceCapitalism dream.
Just had to file a complaint against Hilton for not complying with direct #marketing opt-outs, non-compliance with #GDPR Articles 5,6,7,12,13,21 and 25 as well as Article 5(3) of 2002/58/EC for their web site, #mobile application and #email service which all use tracking technologies without consent.
'The startlingly extent to which websites and brokers hand over details of people's habits to Facebook was revealed Wednesday.
A study [PDF] by Consumer Reports and non-profit The Markup concluded that for the average lone Facebook user, 2,230 companies, and in some cases more than 7,000, will hand over that person's information to Facebook. We're told 709 volunteers took part in the study over three years, during which time 186,892 organizations passed data about them to the Meta-run empire.'
« Using a panel of 709 volunteers who shared archives of their Facebook data, Consumer Reports found that a total of 186,892 companies sent data about them to the social network. On average, each participant in the study had their data sent to Facebook by 2,230 companies. That number varied significantly, with some panelists’ data listing over 7,000 companies providing their data. »
And a lot of it is server-to-server, companies directly sending your info to Facebook, so you can’t block it.
I can't help but feel confused about what the W3C is for. Is it an organisation for all possible stakeholders? From governments to community groups so that everyone can come together to build a better web for everyone?
Or is it just for the likes of Google, Microsoft, Facebook etc?
Because as Dentangle points out the fees for business are huge. Unlike say OSI there are no individual memberships.
So again what is the purpose of the W3C, who does it serve?
We do need to ask these questions if we want to know why Mom and Pop stores just set up on Facebook or other hard to move from silos.
Where they pay for access to ad networks for the potential of impressions on the web via #DigitalPoppets
Why the ecosystem of web development firms point small business to integrate with #SurveillanceCapitalism to help small businesses have a Storefront on the web.
It's more than ease of set up. The web isn't really there to serve our communities.
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).
W3C is seeking a full-time staff member to lead our Privacy standardization efforts.
The position is for remote work from anywhere in the world.
Requirements include: extensive knowledge of privacy technologies and methodologies, including authentication, identity management, cryptography and familiarity with core web technologies, such as HTML, HTTP, Web APIs, and scripting #hiring#webprivacy See more at: https://www.w3.org/news/2024/hiring-privacy-lead/
@koalie@w3c Because the @w3c is the standards body of surveillance capitalism. It is Google. It is Facebook. It is Yahoo! It is SoftBank… it is funded by surveillance capitalists and legitimises and helps perpetuate surveillance capitalism. I’m not sure what exactly about that isn’t clear.
Saying put a robots.txt file on your site if you don’t want your work to be abused by corporations for profit is like saying wear a t-shirt listing all the people you don’t want to have sex with if you don’t want them to have sex with you.
To the utter befuddlement of techbro douchebags everywhere, turns out that’s not how consent works.
#SurveillanceCapitalism: An increasingly faster way to throw slow, inefficient technology into society to ensure insane capital flows to the already hyper wealthy and keeps them in power.
What I really want is something more akin to the Wordpress plugin. i.e. a full integration with the protocol. A blog author that can be followed by a Mastodon user etc.
Year In Review: Google’s Corporate Paternalism in The Browser
It’s a big year for the oozing creep of corporate paternalism and ad-tracking technology online. Google and its subsidiary companies have tightened their grips on the throat of internet innovation, all while employing the now familiar tactic of marketing these things as beneficial for users. Here we’ll review the most significant changes this year, all emphasizing the point that browser privacy tools (like Privacy Badger) are more important than ever.
This ZEISS Multifunctional Smart Glass technology, or the "Holocam" that can turn a glass window into a camera, won't be mainstream anytime soon, but it would be a gadget that fits very well in a future #SurveillanceCapitalism dystopia. Brrr 😬
Of course by the time that happens the world will be full of glassholes wearing the latest privacy-infringing #Meta-zoid gadget and filming you everywhere, so it is just extra icing on the dystopia cake. 😅
For me, I haven't much to say, other than I hope these #BigTech messaging services die in a fire, decentralized or not. Even when we ignore their overly dominant, monopolist positions, their disregard of #Ethics, the #SurveillanceCapitalism Advertising platforms are inherently untrustworthy. #E2EE doesn't mean much either. Look e.g. at this article by @protonmail on "keylogger" injection by #Facebook, #Instagram and #Tiktok ..