I honestly didn't think this would happen.
Yet another way for people to force cookies and tracking on us.

The Sun website wants you to PAY in order to be able to reject cookies. I've not seen this before but am not at all surprised.

Just another thing to ruin the internet.

#privacy #cookies #computer #surveillance #tracking #track #personalinformation #privatedata #personaldata #internet

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July 23 – 25, 2025, Lincoln, NE

By @lorenzofb via #TechCrunch @ 10:10am ET on Feb 13, 2025

#Italian #spyware maker #SIO, known to sell its products to government customers, is behind a series of malicious #Android apps that masquerade as #WhatsApp and other popular apps but steal #PrivateData from a target’s device, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/13/spyware-maker-caught-distributing-malicious-android-apps-for-years/

Exclusive: Spyware maker caught distributing malicious Android apps for years

Italian company SIO, which sells to government customers, is behind an Android spyware campaign called Spyrtacus that spoofed popular apps like WhatsApp, per security researchers.

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"Today we take a look at the hundred million dollars deals Amazon has done with both the CIA and MI6. Not only is Amazon spying on customers through home security technology, they're making cloud technology so spy agencies can better keep tabs on the rest of the world. Is this the beginning of a mega-corporation dystopia?" >

https://omny.fm/shows/megacorp/06-amazons-deals-with-global-intelligence-agencies

#podcast #privacy #exposure #CIA #MI6 #technology #internet #stores #intelligence #hacking #security #customers #database #privatedata #awareness #Amazon

06: Amazon's Deals with Global Intelligence Agencies - Megacorp

Today we take a look at the hundred million dollars deals Amazon has done with both the CIA and MI6. Not only is Amazon spying on customers through home security technology, they're making cloud technology so spy agencies can better keep tabs on the rest of the world. Is this the beginning of a megcorporation dystopia? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

How Meta Asks For Consent In The EU

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@Piraattipuolue A quote for the doubting Toms.

@Piraattipuolue @piratepartyau @piratenpartei

The key to cloud capital’s take over from real markets is enclosing off your ownership to your digital identity, finances and the data you produce for them.

#technofeudalism #platformeconomy #privatedata #dataownership

»#Apple is using its own homemade #AImodels for #AppleIntelligence. Apple notes that it doesn’t train its models with #privatedata or #userinteractions, which is unique compared to other companies.« https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/13/24175985/apple-intelligence-ai-model-local-cloud-privacy-how-it-works?eicker.news #tech #media
Here’s how Apple’s AI model tries to keep your data private

Apple Intelligence uses local foundation models, but Apple has to prove its stance on privacy when it sends AI requests to the Private Cloud Compute.

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Will Your Child’s Private Data Be Sold by the College Board?

In at least 20 states, the College Board collects and sells student data, despite state law forbidding it. New York was one of those states, but activist parents led a years-long campaign to block …

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Jetzt haben wir neben Modbus TCP auch Modbus über die serielle Schnittstelle im openhab. Lesend und schreibend. Es ist schon sehr eigen und immer wieder mühsam, aber unser Gerätezoo wächst über die Jahre ja immer noch, und wenn es funktioniert, dann funktioniert es.

#noCloud #privateData #openhab #homeAutomation #goodwe #automation #Energiewende #Customization

@cluk
The adapter is this one: https://adapter.ebusd.eu/v5/ See also https://adapter.ebusd.eu/v5/steps.html

It's all self-installed. The #openhab host also runs #ebusd (https://github.com/john30/ebusd), and the values are sent to openhab as #mqtt messages.

There's a large amount of data. We got the adapter in July (I can see from my above message) and immediately started importing and charting the first values. Then came vacation time and now the start of the school year. But I think when it gets colder, there will be more interest in the other values.  

There's still a lot to explore. We got the #heatpump in the spring and except for some tests it has only been used for heating water so far. I have the temperature of the various liquids: inside and outside circuits, incoming, outgoing, the water temperature, and of course the outside air temperature. Then there's lots of status values and status texts, error codes of course, and there should be energy values as well (all the things you can see on the built-in display of the heatpump). There's statistics like runtime in minutes for the various functions (heating, cooling, de-icing, ...).

We also have the inside and the outside elements of the heat pump hooked up to shellys in the electric cabinet so we can see how much electricity they use directly and in more detail.

#wärmepumpe #privateData #noCloud #vaillant

Willkommen zum eBUS Adapter 5!

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