Canada-based University of Waterloo is racing to remove M&M-branded smart vending machines from campus after outraged students discovered the machines were covertly collecting facial-recognition data without their consent.
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I'm curious if The 4th Thursday in November could be a rally point for getting friends a family to make changes to protect everyone's data privacy. Since there's a lot of gathering happening.
Start sharing information and set a date to switch. Make a big event out of it. Changes are hard to make alone but much easier with a group.
every online service that does this, is a no-go for me! does anybody know a workaround for this? i really do not intend to share my phone number or credit card information for "security reasons". i don't care how many times you assure that my data is secure with you. any thoughts? am i just paranoid? #gitlab#privacy#datacollection
People who still think that X has any chance of being anything like the old #birdsite are delusional. It just gets worse from here.
"X Corp. was named in a proposed class action lawsuit in July over claims that its #DataCollection violates the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act." #Twitter#TwitterMigration
The most important ones:
Make an #introduction post littered with hashtags that are relevant to your interests. People with those interests are likely to follow or boost your introduction for more visibility.
Follow Follow Follow! Follow people that seem interesting to you. It's the basis of "federation" across the fediverse and helps your toot travel to other instances.
It is astonishing how Zuckerberg hasn’t been arrested under the Espionage Act.
This guy keeps creating products that not only infringe on our rights, but deliberately and methodically invades them.
I can tell you when I initially signed up for a FB account, their privacy policy said words to the effect of:
We have the right to collect non-personally identifying usage data, such as which browser you use, how often you use the FB app, and what you post on your FB page.
It said nothing about using facial recognition software to track me anywhere in the world, to zoom in on the clothes I wear, or track my vacations, hack into my home network, phone, and computer hard drives, and illegally collect and sell that info to marketing companies.
Now, this ass-hat develops an app that collects literally everything on all of your devices, without permission, and NOBODY stops him?
Name
Email address
UserID
Phone number
Device or other ID
Approximate location
App interactions
In-app search history
Installed apps
Other actions
Web browsing history
Crash logs
Diagonstics
Other app performance data
Precise Location
Name
Email address
Address
Phone number
Political or religions beliefs
Sexual orientation
Other info
User payment info
Purchase history
Credit score
Other financial info
Health info
Fitness info
Emails
SMS
Other in-app messages
Photos
Videos
Voice or sound recordings
Music files
Other audio files
Files and docs
Calendar events
Contacts