Claudio Agosti

@vecna@retro.pizza
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You should be in control of your own algorithm, because it's the lens through which you see the world. That's my goal. Meanwhile, adversarial algorithm analysis, GDPR enforcement.
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Claudio AgostiMar 14
Hello everyone, for the cultural people out there: I'm struggling to see the stylistic difference between techno-fascism-dark-MAGA and #lunarpunk; I'm sure they're pretty far apart culturally and politically, but the #aesthetic seems similar to me. Any advice?
Claudio AgostiJan 22
taken from the internet,
-- unknown artist
Claudio AgostiJan 3
Wolfie ChristlDec 29

Remember Google's great 'we will end third-party cookies in Chrome' swindle:

- Jan 2020: we will 'phase out' third-party cookies 'within 2 years' (https://blog.chromium.org/2020/01/building-more-private-web-path-towards.html)

- Jun 2021: we will 'end' doing so in late 2023 (https://blog.google/products/chrome/updated-timeline-privacy-sandbox-milestones/)

- Jul 2022: we may 'begin' doing so in late 2024 (https://blog.google/products/chrome/update-testing-privacy-sandbox-web/)

- Jul 2024: third-party cookies are staying in Chrome (https://privacysandbox.com/intl/en_us/news/privacy-sandbox-update/)

Building a more private web: A path towards making third party cookies obsolete

In August, we announced a new initiative (known as Privacy Sandbox) to develop a set of open standards to fundamentally enhance privacy on...

Chromium Blog
Claudio AgostiJan 2
Mario RestucciaJan 2
Random post-#38c3 thoughts:
- the @HouseOfTea rocks 🫖
- the Relationship Geeks folx made a great job of creating a safe space and fostering discussion with plenty of talks 💕
- I was very happy to see the people of @LaQuadrature irl 🇫🇷
- Bits & Baüme and komona best spaces ever ✨
- I hugged a Blåhaj 🦈
- we need more fax (and I need a modem) 📞
- sadly, lots of support towards the genocide: I even saw some pro-Israel stickers with tanks. Be excellent to each other does not apply to Palestinians? 🇵🇸
Claudio AgostiJan 2
perfect metapthor of what the US is heading to. 2025, #nofilter
Claudio AgostiDec 19
Thursday, what a conceptDec 19
Thursday. What a concept.
Claudio AgostiDec 6
Kevin BeaumontDec 5

Mastodon isn't perfect.

But the fact a social network exists that is completely free to use

has no venture capital investors

has no shareholders to answer to

has no growth targets

with a web interface with zero tracking cookies

and mobile apps with zero trackers at all

with ten thousand server administrators who donate their time for user safety

is - in my opinion - mindbogglingly cool, given the state of the world we live in. Not everything has to be shit. People make things better.

Claudio AgostiNov 24
Wolfie ChristlNov 23
Important new AccessNow report on how 'consent or pay' models undermine the GDPR and "harm people and their human rights" by "coercing consent" and "turning privacy from a right into a luxury good", which is why the EDPB and other EU stakeholders must urgently take action:
https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/gdpr-data-protection-pay-or-consent/
Six years of the GDPR: we won’t pay for our right to data protection  - Access Now

Access Now’s new report highlights the incompatibility of "pay or consent" models with GDPR and data protection.

Access Now
Claudio AgostiNov 23

Glovo, the food delivery platform, has been fined for 5 million euros in Italy. 🎉🎉 They violated both GDPR and Labour Law. Two of the main findings, tracking outside working hours and private data sent to third parties was the result of our technical analysts 🎊🎊 more here:

https://reversing.works/posts/2024/11/press-release-reversing.works-investigation-exposes-glovos-data-privacy-violations-marking-a-milestone-for-worker-rights-and-technology-accountability/

Press Release: Reversing.Works Investigation Exposes Glovo’s Data Privacy Violations, Marking a Milestone for Worker Rights and Technology Accountability

A five million euros fine and corrective measures imposed by the Data Protection Authority today

Reversing.Works
Show threadClaudio AgostiNov 15

A truly open LLM system needs to document all this overridden information for future peer review, and to update the accuracy of the information requires the same power that censorship and "AI alignment" have used.

Is there any work I'm missing that tries to guarantee such accountability?