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Rusty Shackleford Jan 14

@ai6yr

I have a short news reel about this on my loops.

Answer? You're correct, people are becoming lurkers.

https://loops.video/v/cyJTpHqnrc

#enshitification #politics #geopolitics #capitalism #surveilancecapitalism #socialmedia #postingzero #fediverse #news

Enshitification ツ #socia... - @Rusty__Shackleford | Loops.video

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Mark Crocker Jan 7

@adafruit I love the The Opt-Out Cap https://www.macpierce.com/the-optout-cap toward the bottom of the article. It seems to be much more effective than dazzle makeup.

#SurveilanceCapitalism

The Opt-Out Cap — Mac Pierce

An easy to make tool for misdirecting facial recognition.

Mac Pierce

Chuck Mattern Dec 5

Proton Sheets is out and, at first glance, it looks pretty rich. I haven’t thrown anything “interesting” at it yet though.

Their Docs offering is, IMHO, still a bit basic but I expect it will come along.

Even if these don’t eventually get the same polish that O365 and G-Drive have the privacy angle more than makes up for that for me. It’s not as if I’m doing desktop publishing ;-)

https://www.theverge.com/news/838127/proton-sheets-spreadsheet-app-privacy

#proton #privacy #technology #surveilancecapitalism

Proton now has an end-to-end encrypted spreadsheet app

Proton has added a new privacy-focused spreadsheet app to its productivity suite to tempt users over from Google and Microsoft’s platforms.

The Verge

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Joan of Contention 😷Sep 25

@SuffolkLITLab

'Microsoft has only disabled a small subset of services to a single unit in the Israeli military. “The vast majority of Microsoft’s contract with the Israeli military remains intact.”'

Don't stop talking about Gaza.

#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Microsoft #SurveilanceCapitalism #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Liška Sep 16

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/berliner-datenmarktplatz-datarade-das-gefaehrliche-geschaeft-mit-standortdaten-geht-weiter/#netzpolitik-pw

> "Der Handel mit derart detaillierten Handy-Standortdaten ist nach Einschätzung von Fachleuten nicht mit der #DSGVO vereinbar. Zudem haben Bundestagsabgeordnete wie @KonstantinNotz (Grüne) oder Roderich Kiesewetter (CDU) bereits vergangenes Jahr vor einer Gefahr für die #NationaleSicherheit gewarnt."

> "konnten wir [...] sogar Angehörige von Geheimdiensten und Regierungen vom Arbeitsplatz bis hin zu ihren Privatwohnungen tracken."

#datarade #surveilancecapitalism

Berliner Datenmarktplatz „Datarade“: Das gefährliche Geschäft mit Standortdaten geht weiter

Vor einem Jahr erhielten wir einen Datensatz mit Milliarden Handy-Standortdaten aus Deutschland, vermittelt über einen Berliner Datenmarktplatz. Politiker*innen warnten vor einer Gefahr für die nationale Sicherheit. Neue Recherchen zeigen, wie der Marktplatz dem Geschäft weiter eine Plattform bietet.

netzpolitik.org

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🌊 #woke Jul 29, 2025

Is #MassSurveillance something of the new #digital giant tech like #gafami or #BATX? Well, no. It is before all linked to nation-wide #administration. Large and precise #surveying goes back to the 1930's. The use of this public #data by the private sector for #marketing goes back to the 1940's. Computer made it easier and digital #cookies as well as #socialmedia boosted these trends into a huge #SurveilanceCapitalism .
Thanks to @taylorlorenz for this great video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VL16A7OWiw&t=1

How Companies Learned Everything About Us

YouTube

Radiojane Jun 2, 2025

"DOGE is going nowhere. And the real point of DOGE is not to save American taxpayers money. It’s a fundamental re-writing of the social contract, the relationship of US citizens to the state, and the state to private enterprise. "

https://open.substack.com/pub/broligarchy/p/the-dark-lord-of-silicon-valley?r=5p989&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

#uspoli #PeterThiel #ElonMusk #DOGE #surveilancecapitalism

The dark lord of Silicon Valley

Peter Thiel enters the chat

How to Survive the Broligarchy

Gert-Jan Kroese May 31, 2025

#nytimes “The push has put a key #palantir product called Foundry into at least four federal agencies, including D.H.S. and the Health and Human Services Department. Widely adopting Foundry, which organizes and analyzes data, paves the way for Mr. #trump to easily merge information from different agencies, the government officials said.” 🎁 article 👇🏼 #surveillancestate #surveilancecapitalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LU8.VZTI.bIEAGAjNnrQ4&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work with the government, spreading the company’s technology — which could easily merge data on Americans — throughout agencies.

The New York Times