my #tech#news view in fewer than two ~ with #elonmusk indiscriminately introducing timeouts for perceivably-random links, he's upending the idea of "net neutrality." ~ is the owner of ex-twitter being petty or savvy?
Also, #Section230 needs to change so that real-time feeds are fully free speech protected, but #algorithm feeds are deemed #Journalistic#editorials , and the publishing platform is ethically and legally liable.
When it comes to the modern world of #enshittified, terrible businesses, no addition to your vocabulary is more essential than "#bezzle," #JKGalbraith's term for "the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it"
Then there was Verizon's bid to rescue #RedBox with a new joint-venture streaming service, #RedboxInstant, launched 2012, killed in 2014, $450,000,000 later:
Then there was #Sugarstring, a tech "news" website where journalists were prohibited from saying nice things about #NetNeutrality or #surveillance - born 2014, died 2014:
1️⃣ "La proposition française de bloquer les sites web via le navigateur nuira gravement à l’internet ouvert mondial"
Et c'est vraiment grave, la France part totalement en vrille sur le plan sécuritaire dans l'indifférence quasiment générale, hormis pour des personnes au fait de ces sujets mais facilement décriées, silencées ou étiquetées de "geeks".
[DE] Die neuen #sticker sind soo winzig! Aber ihr wolltet es ja so. Zum Glück ist der Druck einigermaßen gut, aber ich denke, nächstes Mal muss ich bei der Größe die Papiertextur zugunsten der Klarheit weglassen.
[EN] The new #stickers are so teeny-tiny! I didn't have a banana for scale so I used an old business card.
[DE] Soll ich davon noch ein paar für das #CCCamp23 drucken? Ich hab kaum noch welche, aber es fühlt sich an, als wäre die halbe Welt schon damit versorgt! XD
Habt ihr Größen-Wünsche?
[EN] Should I print a few more of those for Chaos Communication Camp? Which size would you like?
[EN] The second batch of stickers arrived today. While the small stickers turned out much darker than expected, these look much lighter. But it looks good with the gold!
[DE] Die Goldrand-Sticker sind heute angekommen! 💛 Sie sind ganz schön hell, aber das passt ganz gut zum Gold.
My interpretation of this article is that hospitals, clinics, insurance companies, etc. need to get links and repost icons for Facebook, Twitter, etc. OFF their websites. If you work for a big institution -- talk to your marketing team as they are used to doing this routinely. If you are a small provider, look at your website -- especially if you created it years ago back when no one thought of the problems and you just wanted some traffic.
TITLE: FTC, HHS warn health providers not to use tracking tech in websites, apps
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) sent a joint letter to about 130 hospital systems and telehealth providers Thursday, warning of security risks posed by tracking technologies such as the Meta/Facebook Pixel and Google Analytics.
<https://therecord.media/apps-website-tracking-healthcare-ftc-hhs-warning>
#security #healthcare #doctors #itsecurity #hacking #doxxing #psychotherapy #securitynews #psychotherapist #mentalhealth #psychiatry #hospital #socialwork #datasecurity #webbeacons #cookies #HIPAA #privacy #datanalytics #healthcaresecurity #healthitsecurity #patientrecords #infosec @infosec@a.gup.pe #telehealth #netneutrality #socialengineering #marketing #seo #therapy
#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist@a.gup.pe @psychotherapists@a.gup.pe @psychology@a.gup.pe @socialpsych@a.gup.pe @socialwork@a.gup.pe @psychiatry@a.gup.pe
@infosec@a.gup.pe #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare
Google Analytics is now a topic of conversation on the Baltimore Therapist listserv.
Your point about classism is well taken.
QUESTION: Am I correct in assuming that Google Analytics is likely to be harvesting client-side data and storing it? Asking for an educated guess as we might not know...
For the less-than-tech-saavy medical professionals and therapists in the room -- what log analyzers might they ask for when they speak to their marketing and IT teams about this issue?
#EU#NetNeutrality#BigTelcos#BigTech: "In plain language, this proposal requires certain online services to negotiate with ISPs over the size of the fee, not whether there is a fee.
And if an online service disagrees with the requested fee or an ISP thinks an online service isn’t offering enough money, some arbitrator will decide how big that fee is.
This “obligation to negotiate network fees” is being shopped in the EU as a compromise alternative to mandated network fees, but it’s anything but.
In fact, it’s exactly the same.
While the telcos market the obligation to negotiate network fees as light-touch, less intrusive, and less regulatory than mandated network fees, an obligation to pay network fees is baked into the proposal: the negotiation determines how much the specific content provider has to pay the specific ISP, not if it should pay at all.
"A large majority of [EU] member countries rejected the idea of splitting the costs of the #networks with content providers" due to "the lack of a fact-based approach or evidence of an #investment gap, the risk of driving up prices and the risk to net neutrality. “Let’s not overreact to non-existent market failure,” reportedly argued Germany." (Politico)
The Federal Communications Commission affects the lives of every internet user, cellphone, TV, and radio consumer in America, but it's been stuck in a 2-2 split since 2021. Can President Biden's new nominee to the agency help resolve his net neutrality headache?
#Netneutrality: The EU Commission is evaluating a proposal by Europe’s biggest telecoms to force websites to pay ISPs. These #networkfees are dangerous, unnecessary & violate #netneutrality.
While the internet is far from perfect, the solution to its growing pains is not going to be found in overturning its fundamental economics & tossing out #netneutrality in a fruitless attempt to solve a non-existent problem. #networkfees
This didn’t get the attention it deserved at the time—a DDOS attack on the FCC’s system for ingesting public comments on proposed regs. I’m glad the NY AG didn’t let it pass. (And I worry a lot about how GAI could further enable bad actors to flood agencies with fake comments, assuming SCOTUS doesn’t destroy the administrative state by more direct means.) #NetNeutrality#LawFedi
RT @bertuzluca
Senders-pay: @EP_Economics will vote on the 2022 competition policy report tomorrow. Following AMs from @s_yoncourtin, the report calls for "the establishment of a policy framework where large traffic generators fairly contribute to the adequate funding of telecom networks." https://twitter.com/BertuzLuca/status/1650485776587603971
#Introduction time! I'm rysiek. On fedi since before it was fedi — I see you, old StatusNet guard!
Did information security and infrastructure for #PanamaPapers journalists, fought #ACTA on the streets and in meetings, helped write the book on #NetNeutrality, started a hackerspace and a half, and wrote a bunch of code.
Media literacy is a human right. Protocols, not platforms. Communities, not customers. User-Authored Works, not user-generated content.
Google to block news in Canada over law on paying publishers (www.cnbc.com)
Google will remove links to Canadian news from search results and other products in Canada when the law takes effect in about six months.