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tfw banned for vpn usage
You never know what people are going through or how much time we have left. Please be kind and patient with each other.
browsing in 2023 be like

Turns out that Web Environment Integrity proposal everybody is getting angry about (imo very legitimately) was effectively already shipped by Apple in Safari last year: https://httptoolkit.com/blog/apple-private-access-tokens-attestation/

That means if Chromium ships it too, we could quickly move to 90%+ of browser traffic being attested. Not good!

Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed

There's been a lot of concern recently about the Web Environment Integrity proposal, developed by a selection of authors from Google, and apparently being...

#Google is still trying to #kill the #OpenWeb.

I've collected the previous thread on the topic and added some updates, as I have become aware of them.

This includes an analysis of #Apple and their Private Access Token proposal, which has been compared to WEI (quick TL;DR: it's very different).

https://interpeer.io/blog/2023/07/google-vs-the-open-web/

This may also be of interest to @EU_Commission @EDPS @ombudsman regarding legality of such an approach within the EU.

@edri may care how this is a vector for abusing PII.

Google vs. the Open Web

A few days ago, I made a social media post about Google vs. the Open Web. It received some responses, so I’ll reproduce it below with some...

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For anyone interested in whether #threads is more piggy than others when it comes to data comsuption, here's a more details analysis of #Threads, #Mastodon, #BlueSky, and many more social networks data gathering efforts:

https://tnl.net/2023/07/06/data-capture-in-the-new-social-media-age/

#socialmedia

Data Capture in the New Social Media Age - TNL.net

How aggressive is Instagram Threads in terms of data gathering, compared to other social networks?

TNL.net

I remember when Aaron Swartz was criminally prosecuted for downloading too many academic journal articles, but, sure, it's totally cool to scrape everyone's personal photographs as part of a commercial effort to market discriminatory surveillance tech to police departments.

https://www.businessinsider.com/clearview-scraped-30-billion-images-facebook-police-facial-recogntion-database-2023-4

Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook to share with police

Law enforcement officers have used Clearview AI's facial recognition database nearly a million times, Hoan Ton-That, the company's CEO, told the BBC.

Business Insider