Rewatched @deviantollam 's emergency preparedness talk (lawyer, passport, locksmith, gun) and started actiom by getting backup 2fa codes into my password manager... And realize I don't have access to my savings at all due to 2fa (previous phone water damage). Glad I'm checking now rather than when needed!
Also can't access my @adafruit account for the same reason, but that's less important.
Check out his talk if you haven't (edited to fix): https://youtu.be/6ihrGNGesfI
Federal agents are using face recognition software without training, policies, or oversight, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The government watchdog issued yet another report this month about the dangerously inadequate and nonexistent rules for how federal agencies use face...
CBP, ICE, and Secret Service all broke the law when they bought smartphone location data, a new investigation shows:
https://www.404media.co/ice-cbp-secret-service-all-broke-law-with-smartphone-location-data/
This is a great read by @aaronsankin: Privacy policies are designed to give companies legal cover to do, all too often, nefarious shit. So when enough people see, and get pissed off, by outrageous changes to a company's privacy policy, it can (and does!) effect change. Case in point: Zoom, this week.
Countless educators stand against academic surveillance tech and Turnitin's new AI detection tool is an escalation. Turnitin is pivoting from a technology that encourages teachers to investigate sources to one that tells them to blindly believe their "state-of-the-art" black box.
Don't buy it. And come contract renewal, do not forget what they did. #Turnitoff
Neal Stephenson’s classic 1992 dystopian novel Snow Crash inspired today’s tech industry in many ways. Google Earth is said to have been inspired by the novel’s “Earth” software, which lets people interactively visualize the whole world. Snow Crash is also the origin of an immersive virtual world...
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