ilumium

ilumium, 9 months ago to Nissan

Car maker #Nissan "admits in their #privacy policy to collecting (...) #sexual activity, #health diagnosis data, and #genetic data (...). They say they can share and sell #consumers’ “preferences, characteristics, #psychological trends, #predispositions, #behavior, #attitudes, #intelligence, #abilities, and #aptitudes” to data #brokers, #lawenforcement, and other third parties."

"All new cars today are privacy nightmares on wheels."

Via @mozilla
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/privacy-nightmare-on-wheels-every-car-brand-reviewed-by-mozilla-including-ford-volkswagen-and-toyota-flunks-privacy-test/

ilumium, 2 months ago to meta

Today: #DMA #compliance workshop with #Meta lawyers at the @EU_Commission:

The #DigitalMarketsAct mandates Meta to "enable end users to freely choose to opt-in to [combining or cross-using personal data] by offering a less personalised but equivalent alternative".

When I pointed out to Meta that by offering users to either #consent to #SurveillanceAds or pay € 275 per year for #Instagram & #Facebook isn't "equivalent alternative" they said, Meta has to do that because of #GDPR 😤 Really??

ilumium, 7 months ago to android

I just installed @murena's #deGoogled :android: #Android /e/OS on a #Pixel5 with their free #EasyInstaller app and God has this become a simple task.

I mean anybody with basic computer skills and a compatible phone can get themselves a more #privacy-friendly Android with this. 💞

ilumium, 7 months ago to aitools

The #CSAM clusterfuck just became even more shitty:

Dutch researcher Danny Mekić has looked at #advertising data from #Twitter & says that the @EU_Commission's #DGHome has used #SurveillanceAds based on prohibited data categories to target people with #disinformation about the #ChatControl proposal.

#YlvaJohansson's department specifically targeted people in member states that had been critical of her proposal but excluded people who are likely to value #privacy.

https://dannymekic.com/202310/undermining-democracy-the-european-commissions-controversial-push-for-digital-surveillance

ilumium, 1 year ago to random

I'm following @beuc's #EHDS #ConsumerDebates online and I still fail to understand this:

Their representative polls found that "the further away from the GP, the less people are willing to share their #HealthData" and yet BEUC concludes that while data use by medical profl's should require #OptIn consent, for secondary use by #BigPharma and #BigTech an #OptOut option is enough. ❓❓❓

BEUC poll conclusions: 1. Respondents are very selective about the health data they are willing to share 2. |t depends on the entity and level of trust with whom they are ready to share health data 3. Respondents want to choose what happens to their health data and they prefer explicit consent 4. Different attitudes towards cross-border sharing of health data

ilumium, 2 months ago to Skydiving

Holy shit, I thought I knew how evil the #SurveillanceAds industry was but here we are:

Two-thirds of European websites just ignore your #cookie choice and track you anyways, researchers from #ETHzurich found. 🤯

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec23winter-prepub-107-bouhoula.pdf

#privacy #TrackingFreeAds #consent #gdpr #ePrivacy #BanSurveillanceAdvertising

ilumium, 1 year ago to random

Who the heck would voluntarily use an email service that puts #surveillance #ads inside email text?

#Gmail #Google #trackingfreeads

ilumium, 4 months ago to random

I kind of knew the U.S. wasn't really a civilised country but today, thanks to @mekkaokereke's posts (go follow him!), I learned that in America cops can literally take away any amount of money or other assets you carry and keep it--without ever bringing any charges against you.

And only an expensive and lengthy legal process can bring some of it back to you. I mean seriously??

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/10/report-in-lean-times-police-start-taking-a-lot-more-stuff-from-people/

ilumium, 10 months ago to InitialD

I don't know what shocks me more:

the fact that "Europe's first ever intelligent video #surveillance system" is installed in a German region governed by the Green party @GrueneBundestag which is supposed to defend civil liberties.

Or the staggering certainty with which the engineer #MarkusMüller at #FraunhoferSociety thinks his surveillance wet dream of unlimited realtime knowledge about public spaces is somehow good.

Article about #algorithmic #video surveillance: https://algorithmwatch.org/en/mannheim-system-reports-hugs-police/

ilumium, 4 months ago to random

Listening to @matthew at #Fosdem24 talking about messaging #interoperability following the #DMA and it's mindboggling to see how tiny corps like @element, #Wire and #Wickr invest in building the next generation #e2ee protocol.

#DigitalMarketsAct

ilumium, 4 months ago to ArtificialIntelligence

The absence of a curating #algorithm on #Mastodon has an (intended?) effect I only noticed since my newborn keeps me up at night:

Where #chronology rules the feed, I only ever see posts from my own (UTC+1) and adjacent #timezones.

Although I deliberately follow people elsewhere, like @CathyTuttle (based in UTC-8) or @nw (UTC+9), I hardly ever see their posts - except when my baby makes me scroll Mastodon at 3am in the morning. 😴

Does that mean it's impossible to build a global audience here?

ilumium, 8 months ago to Brussels

I hate airports. Why isn't there a #nighttrain from #Brussels to #Madrid? 😥

ilumium, 1 year ago to internet

So, today #Facebook was slammed with a record #GDPR fine of 1.2 billion EUR for illegally transferring personal data to the U.S.

While this and the fact that #Meta was ordered to stop doing this by November is good news, let's not forget that the company makes 2 billion EUR in net #profits every month.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/business/meta-facebook-eu-privacy-fine.html
#capitalism #billionaires #dpc #privcy #dataprotection

ilumium, 11 months ago to FreeSpeech

Last week I was invited to discuss #FreeSpeech and #MediaPluralism in the context of the #EU's #Digital Services Act #DSA.

Not sure the panel recording will be public, so here are my notes in a long 🧵 thread:

▶️ The DSA is rather good at respecting #freedom of expression, it gives platforms some new tools to carefully consider and improve their moderation practices and users to defend their rights. [1/8]

ilumium, 10 months ago to Belgium

Just received a new, #ISP-issued #modem / #wifi #router at home after a lightning strike destroyed the old one.

The new device stores all the settings including the WiFi #password in the cloud.

As we all know, nothing bad has ever happened to a large number of passwords stored on a server. #securityfail #proximus #belgium #internet

ilumium, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to microsoft

#Microsoft in 2001: Linux is a cancer!

Microsoft in 2023: Here is how you choose and install a cool #Linux distro. It's similar to #Windows but #opensource and fully customizable.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linux/install

ilumium, 3 months ago to meta

Fantastic work by @beuc, the Norwegian #Consumer Council and other consumer orgs:

"Consumer groups launch complaints against #Meta’s massive, illegal data processing behind its #payorconsent smokescreen"

#privacy #facebook #instagram #dataprotection
https://www.beuc.eu/press-releases/consumer-groups-launch-complaints-against-metas-massive-illegal-data-processing

ilumium, 1 month ago to mastodon

Seriously @EU_Commission @EC_DIGIT @EC_Commissioner_Breton @EC_OSPO ?

None of you can run a small #Mastodon server for the EU institutions?

Source: https://netzpolitik.org/2024/mastodon-and-peertube-eu-closing-up-shop-in-fediverse-because-nobody-wants-to-run-servers/

ilumium, 5 months ago to Brussels

Belgian #police just forced a brown person in the seat in front of me off the #ICE #Brussels-#Cologne because he didn't bring his #ID card. I think ID is required for crossing borders within #Schengen but it's incredibly depressing that, as so often, they picked a non-white citizen for controls.

Interestingly, they also checked the white person in the adjacent seat but only for the train ticket, not the ID.

#racialprofiling #racism

ilumium, 4 months ago to random

Probably the most important and mindblowing scrolling I have done in years:

"Wealth shown to scale" by #MattKorostoff

https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

ilumium, 4 months ago to privacy

Oh look the dude who told you #privacy is dead and takes all your personal stuff for his profit wants a whole lot of privacy for himself (again). 😵

https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-inside-hawaii-compound/

ilumium, 1 year ago to random

If you want to be asked for your permission before corporations get access to your private #medical records in the #EU, there is a big petition for you to sign that demands exactly that:

https://act.wemove.eu/campaigns/medical-records

#WeMove #EHDS #healthData #medicalrecords #health #privacy #dataprotection

ilumium, 3 months ago to humanrights

"After gathering evidence from the UK, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal, UN special rapporteur Michel Forst said the repression faced by peaceful environmental activists was a major threat to #democracy & #humanrights.

"The environmental emergency that we are collectively facing and that scientists have been documenting for decades cannot be addressed if those raising the alarm and demanding action are criminalised for it."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/28/european-nations-must-end-repression-of-peaceful-climate-protest-says-un-expert
#climatecrisis #activism

ilumium, 1 year ago to Energy

Real question: Has anyone seen research that compares the #energy #efficiency of decentralised versus centralised online services like social media?

What requires more energy: 3 billion users farmed on large #Facebook servers or the same number of people interacting on thousands of independently run instances?

CC @alexandrageese #sustainability #greentech

ilumium, 11 months ago to France

Sometimes I think to myself maybe none of those dangerous risks of power abuse by governments that we think of in civil society come true.

And then politicians in #France propose that social media platforms must remove user content flagged by authorities within 2 (!!!) hours when the country is "plagued by #riots or social #movements". 😠 (1/2)