The New OilIt’s easier for Californians to escape data brokers following a Markup investigation
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#TheMarkup has a #HumanInterest piece about two court battles involving tech in classrooms and what's at stake. 
#TechnologyNews #EducationNews #CaliforniaSchools #PublicSchools
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Wesley FryerAn Essential Guide For Mindful Posting by #TheMarkUp
https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2024/02/17/an-essential-guide-for-mindful-posting
References the 2023 book “Share Better and Stress Less: A Guide to Thinking Ecologically About Social Media” by Whitney Phillips and Ryan Milner:
https://www.amazon.com/Share-Better-Stress-Less-Ecologically-ebook/dp/B0B96RH4X9
#MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #edtechSR #edtech #SocialMedia #Instagram #TechCorrection
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬Thousands of businesses hand over your info to #Facebook
A study by #ConsumerReports and non-profit #TheMarkup concluded that for the average lone Facebook user, 2,230 companies, and in some cases more than 7,000, will hand over that person's information to Facebook. We're told 709 volunteers took part in the study over three years, during which time 186,892 organizations passed data about them to the Meta-run empire.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/18/facebook_tracking_data/ #privacy #surveillance
A study by #ConsumerReports and non-profit #TheMarkup concluded that for the average lone Facebook user, 2,230 companies, and in some cases more than 7,000, will hand over that person's information to Facebook. We're told 709 volunteers took part in the study over three years, during which time 186,892 organizations passed data about them to the Meta-run empire.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/18/facebook_tracking_data/ #privacy #surveillance
Niklas PivicStudy: Thousands of businesses just love handing over your info to Facebook https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/01/18/facebook_tracking_data/
'The startlingly extent to which websites and brokers hand over details of people's habits to Facebook was revealed Wednesday.
A study [PDF] by Consumer Reports and non-profit The Markup concluded that for the average lone Facebook user, 2,230 companies, and in some cases more than 7,000, will hand over that person's information to Facebook. We're told 709 volunteers took part in the study over three years, during which time 186,892 organizations passed data about them to the Meta-run empire.'
#privacy #facebook #meta #SurveillanceCapitalism #TheMarkup #ConsumerReports
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It may also be that they're not GDPR-compliant, and locking us out is cheaper than complying. Here's #Blacklight's report, courtesy of #TheMarkup
https://themarkup.org/blacklight?url=24petconnect.com&device=mobile&location=us
It may also be that they're not GDPR-compliant, and locking us out is cheaper than complying. Here's #Blacklight's report, courtesy of #TheMarkup
https://themarkup.org/blacklight?url=24petconnect.com&device=mobile&location=us
JQFascinating article on a collaboration between #AmazonRing cameras and police and fire departments across the U.S. This is a grant-funded collaborative research piece between #TheMarkup, #AfroLA, and #LATimes.
My personal takeaway is it really highlights the complexity of digital #privacy, #security, and #infosec. As an amateur #infosec hobbiest the negative impacts from Ring to communities and society are glaringly obvious: such as growing the divide between more privileged and less privileged classes in local communities, promoting fear, further skewing the role of police as only protecting privileged classes. This is also very intertwined with #cambridgeanalytica and related current scandals, the roll of #bigdata in #uspol, and so much more. Plus throw in all the challenges with #AI.
We can't bury our heads in the sand on this, but its such a complicated, insidious, and nefarious topic ... its really hard to communicate this to people. Just like climate change.
Martin Nutty37) Excellent graphic visualization from #TheMarkup on how #Twitter is attempting to strangle traffic to sites that #ElonMusk doesn’t like
Am I surprised? No
Is Twitter continuing to undermine its credibility? Yes
Will more users leave the site as a result? Maybe
With thanks to @dangillmor for sharing this piece. Dan is on my daily reading list and has been at the forefront of encouraging journalists to leave the #DeadBird site
Seddon 
#Twitter is Throttling Competitors’ Links
Links to #Bluesky, #Facebook, #instagram and #Substack, consistently take 60 times longer than the average wait for links to other sites.