“A jury in LA has delivered a damning verdict for two of the world's most popular digital platforms, Instagram and YouTube.

It ruled those apps are addictive, and deliberately engineered that way – and that its owners have been negligent in their safeguarding of the children who have used them.
…
Some experts have described the verdict as big tech's "big tobacco" moment, and we know how that worked out - although it didn't stop people smoking altogether.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c87wd0d84jqo

#BigTech #SiliconValley #peopleFarming #surveillanceCapitalism #BigTobacco #Instagram #YouTube

« One internal November 2020 presentation slide said acclimating #children to #Google's ecosystem in school would hopefully lead them to use its products as adults : " You get that loyalty early and potentially for life ” Another undated slide deck suggested imagining a world where “ Parents ask their children ‘Why aren’t you watching more YouTube?’ " and " School Administrators shift budgets from Textbooks to YouTube subscriptions ” »

› https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/google-schools-aims-pipeline-future-users-internal-documents-rcna255175

#BigTech #PeopleFarming #Privacy

Amazing. W (I kid you not): A bunch of VC-funded European Big Tech assholes attempting to rewrite history by erasing the federated European alternatives that already exist to create their own centralised, surveillance-ridden X clone.

Same shit, different flag.

And I’m sure the usual fools will flock to it the moment it’s ready.

Fuck these people.

#EU #bullshit #W #BigTech #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming @nicolasvivant https://colter.social/@nicolasvivant/115929963687586528

« #Google confirms 'high-friction' #sideloading flow is coming to #Android » 💩

› https://www.androidauthority.com/google-sideloading-android-high-friction-process-3633468/

#BigTech #USTech #PeopleFarming

Human fracking… is that anything like people farming?

https://ar.al/notes/we-didnt-lose-control-it-was-stolen/

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/education/spotlight-on-people-farming-at-st-forum

#peopleFarming #BigTech @Deixis9 https://beige.party/@Deixis9/115917678258599025

“How could we have known?!”

Maybe if you’d listened to those of us warning you – often times your own damn friends – instead of siding with the corporations that paid your salaries/consulting fees/sponsored your conferences/invited you to parties and bought you free booze…

🤷‍♂️

#BigTech #BigWeb #SiliconValley #SiliconRoundabout #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming #fascism

Wow, seems the people farmers of surveillance capitalism have fully embraced scammer techniques now.

Ran into this new flow on a number of sites just now (Indiewire, Variety, and RollingStone) delivered by the colossal douchebags at html-load.com who run report-error.com.

They make it look like a browser error has occurred and then tell you to disable your tracker/ad blocker.

To the asshole developers who built this for them instead of refusing: Fuck you for making everyone less safe. You dickheads are the problem.

#surveillance #capitalism #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarmers #adtech #peopleFarming #BigTech #IWasJustFollowingOrders #reportErrorDotCom #htmlLoadDotCom #Indiewire #Variety #RollingStone

An interview I gave to Euronews six years ago. Interview is in English with Turkish subtitles.

You decide how it has aged.

https://tr.euronews.com/2019/03/08/teknoloji-sirketleri-insan-varligini-tehdit-ediyor-dijital-haklar-aktivisti-aral-balkan

#BigTech #SiliconValley #PeopleFarming #fascism #SmallTech #tech #HumanRights #democracy #peerocracy