
"The move is yet another piece of the Signal ethos to keep as little data on hand as it can, lest the authorities try to intrude on the company."
https://theintercept.com/2024/03/04/signal-app-username-phone-number-privacy/
What if we thought about democracy as a kind of open-source social technology, in which everyone can see the how and why of policy making, and everyone’s concerns and preferences are elicited in a way that respects each person’s community, dignity, and importance? (You can also find this episode on...
Does anybody else ever think how messed up it is that unless you go out of your way (or live in a very rural area), you are bombarded with ads for the entire time you are awake.
- Ads on your phone
- Ads on your TV
- Ads on every place they can buy outside
- Ads on almost every website
It is honestly exhausting, and I wonder what a world with heavily limited ads would look like.
Incidentally, the lack of ads is one of the very nice things about self hosting things, and being on fedi.
Tech companies earn staggering profits by targeting ads to us based on our online behavior. This incentivizes all online actors to collect as much of our behavioral information as possible, and then sell it to ad tech companies and the data brokers that service them. This pervasive online...
For almost 10 years, federal and local law enforcement agencies across the country have engaged in a massive and secretive telephone surveillance program known as “Hemisphere.” Publicly disclosed for the first time in September 2013 by the New York Times, the Hemisphere program provides police...