Four Canadian school boards have sought more than C$4 billion ($2.96 billion) in damages from social media firms such as Meta Platforms and Snap in a lawsuit, alleging that their products harmed students.
Nel 2016, Facebook ha lanciato un progetto segreto chiamato “Project Ghostbusters” per intercettare e decrittografare il traffico tra gli utenti di #SNAPCHAT. L’informazione divulgata nell’ambito di un’azione legale collettiva contro #Meta, la società madre di #Facebook, #Threads ecc.
Successivamente Meta ha provato a utilizzare metodi simili contro altrii, tra cui #Amazon e #YouTube, aggirando la loro crittografia.🤦♂️
It is easy to just think this kind of things is normal, but IMHO we must never accept that. We should expect more than this from tech companies. I actually think most would not go this far!
Are you a #redis user? Unless there's something specific you need from redis-7, #SnapChat has a drop-in #opensource replacement for you called #KeyDB. Coming very soon to a #Linux distribution near you!
Do you know a thing or two about #redis internals? #KeyDB from #SnapChat is looking for contributors to help them rebase to the last BSD release of redis 7. If you want a multi-threaded #opensource drop-in replacement to be a reality for redis v7 users, please report for duty over on their git repo:
Why is it when I squirt its always on accident and unintentional? 😅 I feel like it's getting easier. So, that's cool. However, a client just got to watch me squirt all over the bathroom floor. 😂🥵😈 It was sexy and fun. I just wish I could do it on purpose. LMAO
The folks at @globalwitness have done some amazing (and shocking!) analysis of content moderation on large platforms:
All those they looked at "except #Facebook and #Instagram, lack human content moderators in some of the EU languages."
And "neither #X nor #Snapchat have a single content moderator who can speak Estonian, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Lithuanian, Maltese, Slovak, Slovenian", and X also has "no moderators for Czech, Danish, Finnish, Romanian, or Swedish." 💥
Ich selber nutzte nie #Snapchat von #SnapInc, weil weder inhaltlich noch dessen Nutzen mir einleuchtete. Ich nahm es nie als Unterhaltung wahr, sondern als plump. Es sieht so aus, dass im #Internet & bei #App's die Sololösungen nicht mehr gefragt sind. Ob deswegen das #Fediverse nun populär wird, ist wieder eine ganz andere Frage.
The company behind social media app Snapchat has announced it's cutting 10 percent of its global workforce, around 500 employees. CNBC has the details:
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British man acquitted over London-Spain flight bomb hoax | …SnapChat leaking messages to security services & supporting KOSA? Not a good combo for user privacy | HT @rebeccamkern
SnapChat must* be surveilling their non-encrypted chats (i.e. all of them, but they travel over HTTPS for privacy) & triggering on sensitive words, either on-server or on-client, reporting to law enforcement who then over-react … PLUS they announced support for the illiberal & misconceived KidsOnlineSafetyAct.
The two, combined, are not a great indicator for how they view user privacy.
A Spanish court has cleared a British man of public disorder, after he joked to friends about blowing up a flight from London Gatwick to Menorca […] A key question in the case was how the message got out, considering Snapchat is an encrypted app. One theory, raised in the trial, was that it could have been intercepted via Gatwick’s Wi-Fi network. But a spokesperson for the airport told BBC News that its network “does not have that capability”. In the judge’s resolution, cited by the Europa Press news agency, it was said that the message, “for unknown reasons, was captured by the security mechanisms of England when the plane was flying over French airspace”. The message was made “in a strictly private environment between the accused and his friends with whom he flew, through a private group to which only they have access, so the accused could not even remotely assume… that the joke he played on his friends could be intercepted or detected by the British services, nor by third parties other than his friends who received the message,” the judgement added. It was not immediately clear how UK authorities were alerted to the message, with the judge noting “they were not the subject of evidence in this trial”.
[*] if the cause is not Snap themselves then their transport security is broken and that’s an even bigger story, being either being a weakness in the app or an undocumented man-in-the-middle HTTPS backdoor implemented by authorities in airport wireless transportation
Previously
Scoop for @politico– @Snapchat is the first social media platform to support the Kids Online Safety Act. This comes as CcEO Evan Spiegel joins the heads of Meta, TikTok, X and Discord next week in a @JudiciaryDems hearing on child sexual abuse material. https://t.co/PTKLQpqtHP
This page on Cloudflare is all about adding third-party functionality to your page, so in a way is just a 'Choose which company you want to give your visitor's information to' screen. :kakao_confused:
In the wild west of the internet, this could be a wanted poster.
Dal 2022 l’Unione europea ha sottolineato quanto l’interoperabilità tra le piattaforme di tale tipo (oltre 45 mln di utenti) fosse fondamentale per tutelare gli operatori più deboli, spingendo di fatto #Whatsapp e #Messenger a mettere in condizione i propri clienti di scambiare messaggi con gli utenti, per esempio, di #Signal, #Telegram o #snapchat .
(Cit)
Google unveils changes before strict EU rules kick in
Google vowed Thursday to be more transparent about content moderation across its services, including its ubiquitous search engine, as tech firms rush to meet stricter European Union rules that kick in this week.
Sweeping rules will apply from Friday to Google, alongside 18 other large social media platforms and websites including Meta-owned Instagram, Twitter (rebranded as X) and TikTok, forcing the companies to better police content, or face the risk of billions of euros in fines.
Among the Google products listed were YouTube, Google Maps, Play, Search, and Shopping.
Canadian school boards sue social media giants for over C$4 bln in damages (www.reuters.com)
Four Canadian school boards have sought more than C$4 billion ($2.96 billion) in damages from social media firms such as Meta Platforms and Snap in a lawsuit, alleging that their products harmed students.
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