Independence Day @iday@mastodonten.de

"The documentary “The Great Hack,” which was shortlisted for the Oscars, explores how the data firm #CambridgeAnalytica came to symbolize the dark side of #socialControlmedia " https://truthout.org/video/big-data-firms-helped-sway-the-2016-election-could-it-happen-again-in-2020/

Massive Cambridge Analytica leak reveals global election manipulation: Malaysia, Kenya and Brazil

https://boingboing.net/2020/01/06/the-great-hack.html

#cambridgeAnalytica #democracy #privacy #malaysia #kenya #brazil #politik #politics #demokratie

This is a useful way to see how the different protocols of the #Fediverse and #Federation interact and which software uses which.

Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of control’ - Company’s work in 68 countries laid bare with release of more than 100,000 documents https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/04/cambridge-analytica-data-leak-global-election-manipulation

http://www.talkplus.org/blog/2020/fediverse-in-2019/

#fediverse in 2019

In 2019 the number of fediversed registered accounts increased from 2.500.000 users to roughly 4.300.000 – about 🎉 1.800.000 newcome

Five networks growing most rapidly in online server numbers in 2019 were:

#Pleroma +182
#Mastodon +159
#Writefreely +147
#Pixelfed +73
#Peertube +63

Following last years tradition we'll have a #fdroid meetup at #36C3 on the day 1 at 1400.
Last year we had a room with 12 seats and 60 minutes, this year we'll have a lot more space at #cbase and 90 minutes 🙂.

There will be lots of stickers. See you all there.

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2019/wiki/index.php/Session:F-Droid_Meetup

#introductions

This account is inspired by the awesome @FuckOffGoogle initiative in Berlin.

Is there anybody interested to protest against Google in #Zurich too?

Thousand postcards like this are awaiting to be distributed around the Google campus...

#FuckOffGoogle

Oh, and the Facebook/Google/Amazon/Microsoft/Apple? Nein danke stickers are here too :) #36c3

One commonly mentioned danger of a large corporate player like Twitter coming into the decentralized social world is the Embrace-Extend-Extinguish tactic, wherein one entity adopts a common protocol, and once it acquires a large marketshare then makes itself incompatible through custom changes, locking its users in and leaving the common protocol for dead.

Facebook under fire as political ads vanish from archive https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-advertising/facebook-under-fire-as-political-ads-vanish-from-archive-ft-idUSKBN1YE2IH + see what disappeared here https://ad.watch

#adbusting to raise awarness about #climatechange and such:

#Tiktok is:
- Sending your searches to Facebook.
- Sending your watched videos and usage time to Appsflyer partners.
- Fingerprints the hardware of the person watching the shared video on both web browser and mobile app using canvas leak and audio API.
- Embeds sharer ID into shared video URLs, hides it via URL shortening.
- And more!

Since they do not ask for consent they're in violation of multiple EU privacy laws. ​

https://rufposten.de/blog/2019/12/05/privacy-analysis-of-tiktoks-app-and-website/

What's the one thing every web user can do to fight #SurveillanceCapitalism ?

Replace the Google Chrome browser

I've started a new website to send a message to Google that we prefer the internet without them

https://notochrome.org/

#NoToChrome

2000s hackers: My dream is to connect all of my devices to the internet.
2020s hackers: My dream is to disconnect all of my devices from the internet.

Twitter is full up censoring even the mildest criticisms of our system

I posted a rather innocuous anti-neoliberal tweet that got a few likes and retweets in its first few minutes. Then I posted another and everything stopped - neither tweet got any further reaction.

So, I checked the analytics and saw that the first tweet had " - " impressions (never seen that before) and the other one "0" (all my regular tweets get at least 20 impressions in their first few minutes).
So I tweeted again to test - And you guessed it "0" impressions for that tweet too (screenshot below)

Twitter might claim a bug or weird chance, but having heard to many stories like this I don't believe that at all, especially as this has happened to me in exactly the same way once before. The offending tweet in that case pointed out the complete media blackout of the Yellow Vest protests.

But hey, if our oligarchs feel that their grip on the consensus is that fragile then I'm feeling hopeful

Why did @uspto issue a patent on organizing photos? We don’t know, but now it’s being used to sue a non-profit that develops free and open source software. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/12/how-patent-sorting-photos-got-used-sue-free-software-group

Amazon Unveils New Server Chip to Compete With Intel’s Product

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-03/amazon-unveils-new-server-chip-to-compete-with-intel-s-product