I love when I put in my AirPods, click the stem to presumably start playing from the phone in my pocket, and instead, music begins playing on my Mac in the next room…
which I've told it NOT to auto-connect to…
and it plays through the computer's speakers, not even through the AirPods!
(I wish there was a global setting to tell a pair of AirPods, “Always reconnect to the last-used device. Never ever ever automatically switch.”)
Seth Abramson is over on Post bitching about Mastodon and his arguments are just ludicrous.
He was surprised to find out that admins might be able to read your private messages???
HELLO HENCE THE WARNING MSG.
Twitter had 7K employees w. access. GOD ONLY KNOWS what is going on over there at Post. No "trust your local admin" is remotely possible there.
He has titled the piece something Super Scary telling everyone to ditch this site.
I'm done with him.
Unfollowed him immediately.
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Via the New York Times: Meet some of the people who are the fossil fuel industry's handmaidens in destroying the planet's ability to sustain human civilization. Needless to say, deceit is one of their tactics.
Grad Students Analyze, Hack, and Remove Under-Desk Surveillance Devices Designed to Track Them
https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7gwy3/no-grad-students-analyze-hack-and-remove-under-desk-surveillance-devices-designed-to-track-them
A reminder that desk occupancy technology was proposed for the UK Information Commissioner's Office - they did a PIA https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://ico.org.uk/media/about-the-ico/disclosure-log/1624408/irq0611917-attachment-1.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwji457D5N_7AhXynVwKHesWBywQFnoECCAQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1WOlYbQToHprevnJLbGxcK
And that the ICO previously investigated Barclays Bank over the bank’s use of software that allowed managers to measure the length of time employees were away from their desks and how long they took to finish tasks
https://www.bankingdive.com/news/barclays-fine-ICO-monitoring-employees/583231/
In October, the university quietly introduced heat sensors under desk without notifying students or seeking their consent. Students removed the devices, hacked them, and were able to force the university to stop its surveillance.
“As you watch in horror/delight as Elon burns this site to the ground you might be pondering your privacy 🤔. Do you have YEARS of tweets, likes, and DMs? https://t.co/EF6AVCPm2O Gather 'round, friends, while I show you how to DELETE THEM ALL (or as much as Twitter's API allows)”
Marco Arment
Taylor Lorenz
taylor hatmaker
Rachel Burch
Steven Beschloss
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Dan Gillmor
@PrivacyMatters
Micah Lee