A short and interesting take on Google's data harvesting through captchas https://x.com/sharbel/status/2033921312716882384
#dataharvesting #youaretheproduct
Sharbel (@sharbel) on X

You've been training Google's AI for 15 years. You had no idea.

X (formerly Twitter)

TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app. Here's how to stop it.

TikTok is growing its data harvesting empire, and avoiding the app won’t protect you – but some easy steps can keep you safe.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260211-tiktok-is-tracking-you-even-if-you-dont-use-the-app-heres-how-to-stop-it?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#TikTok #Privacy #DataHarvesting #SocialMedia #Tech

TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app. Here's how to stop it.

TikTok is growing its data harvesting empire, and avoiding the app won’t protect you – but some easy steps can keep you safe.

BBC

“Americans are baffled to discover TikTok is more censored under US ownership than it ever was under China”

by Deaglan O’Mulrooney in the spectacle on Substack

“turns out all that sinophobic scaremongering was just projection”

https://open.substack.com/pub/thespectaclemag/p/americans-are-baffled-to-discover

#Press #US #TikTok #Censorship #China #Ellison #Oracle #DataHarvesting #Zionism #Genocide #ProtectedStatus

Americans are baffled to discover TikTok is more censored under US ownership than it ever was under China.

turns out all that sinophobic scaremongering was just projection.

the spectacle

Klaxons 🚨🚨🚨 and red flags 🚩🚩🚩

Kiddo’s school sent him home with this, for “a fundraiser.” They are to list out names, relationships and contact information and turn it in.

No context, no info on what third party wil get this, no privacy policy no consent. Just “here’s a sheet, fill it out, turn it in.”

Am I being overly sensitive? I can’t imagine I am. The opportunities for abuse seem endless.

#privacy #opsec #survailance #security #dataharvesting #dataharvesting #databrokers

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California residents now have a one-stop shop for requesting that their information be removed from hundreds of data brokers registered with the state (and any that do so in the future).

Lifehacker

Sly attempts at data harvesting in shops this Christmas?

Asked for my email address 'to send receipt' - I refused (they printed the receipt). But a lot of people will just accept the 'default'.

#privacy #datacollection #dataHarvesting

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"Looking back, what was DOGE really all about? Not saving money! Spending and the deficit are both up, and much of DOGE’s claimed savings turned out to be made up entirely. Not efficiency! More than 26,000 of the experts DOGE fired had to be hired right back, sometimes within 24 hours, like when it fired the engineers of America’s nuclear arsenal."

~ Marcie Jones

#DOGE #Trump #ElonMusk #USAID #privacy #DataBreach #DataHarvesting
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/see-you-in-hell-doge

See You In Hell, DOGE :)

The Department of Government Efficiency officially put down.

Wonkette

These 2 things are contradictions. Can you just not collect anything, ever? Thanks!

#cookies #datacollection #dataharvesting #gdpr #privacy #surveillancecaptialism

Microsoft 365 is free for college students for a year, and that's very interesting, because it was also just announced that Microsoft is scanning any and all Word documents for data now (which was/is of course the point of having every piece of Office software dependent on being online). What crap

#security #Microsoft #Microsoft365 #MicrosoftOffice #DataHarvesting #security #privacy #infosec #MicrosoftWord