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They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them(nytimes.com)
15 points by arctux 6y ago|4 comments
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Public order in Singapore has been shaken by a hand-drawn smiley face(economist.com)
2 points by arctux 6y ago|0 comments
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by arctux 7y ago
Related earlier post: > I want to respond to the misleading media coverage of messages I posted about Marvin Minsky's association with Jeffrey Epstein. The coverage totally mischaracterised my statements. > Headlines say that I d
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Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT(stallman.org)
342 points by arctux 7y ago|323 comments
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YouTube Said to Be Fined Up to $200M for Children’s Privacy Violations(nytimes.com)
199 points by arctux 7y ago|144 comments
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Purism Librem 5 August Update(puri.sm)
38 points by arctux 7y ago|6 comments
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by arctux 7y ago
> All these links are year or two old. Two of them are more than a year old, but the practices described in each are ongoing. The third, which describes Google's tracking of users after they've specifically opted not to be tra
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by arctux 7y ago
> And I can't vouch for all of Google, but regarding location data, Google has been pretty transparent regarding which data is collected and stored; papers like NYT covered it extensively - see [1]. How did you read that article and
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by arctux 8y ago
I'm syncing around 90 GB between my server, laptop, and LineageOS Pixel phone. I use it to sync my documents, music, passwords, and archived pictures. I also use it to sync photos taken by my phone camera as they are taken. Setup: * Ca
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by arctux 8y ago
I've only seen articles that say Google was going to "explore" adding differential privacy to Gboard analytics [0]. Do you know if the feature ever shipped, and is it the only way sends data to Google? I'm mistrustful of
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Smart Colorization in GIMP(girinstud.io)
3 points by arctux 8y ago|0 comments
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by arctux 8y ago
No. Fines exist to dissuade illegal behavior. The loopholes that Google (and Apple, and many other multinationals) should be abolished, and any tax evasion should be prosecuted. Antitrust fines do not exist to punish tax avoidance. They exi
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by arctux 8y ago
> We also shouldn't pretend that the EU justification for fines is purely about citizen protection, they see this as a "tax" as well (though that is of course not their primary motivation). Otherwise, they would work harde
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by arctux 8y ago
I think that this is a fairly common when it comes to technology. The terms and conditions seem reasonable ("we collect some data to provide more relevant ads"), but when you look a bit more closely they build a personal file that
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by arctux 8y ago
I'm emphatically not defending them here, but it may make sense from their perspective. They live and die by ad targeting and maintaining their monopoly power over social networks, both which requires large amounts of personal data. Kn
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Librem 5 Hardware Update(puri.sm)
4 points by arctux 8y ago|1 comments
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PBS Newshour: Why tech industry monopolies could be a curse for society [video](youtube.com)
2 points by arctux 8y ago|0 comments
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Librem 5 dev kits are shipping(puri.sm)
253 points by arctux 8y ago|94 comments
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Tech Companies Dragged Feet on Russian Interference Data, Reports Say(nytimes.com)
6 points by arctux 8y ago|0 comments
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by arctux 8y ago
You seem to be correct. > Google Maps Platform is a part of Google Cloud, but not a part of Google Cloud Platform I have never felt that I have been confused by something so justifiably.
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by arctux 8y ago
This is not correct: https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/
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by arctux 8y ago
The Google Maps API is a good example. They increased prices by an order of magnitude while simultaneously decreasing the free tier with one month's notice. [0] [0] http://geoawesomeness.com/developers-up-in-arms-over-g
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by arctux 8y ago
I strongly dislike that they've done that. In their partial defense, the selection of recommended articles based on your browsing history is done on device.
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by arctux 8y ago
Yes, but it's not the default. From the article: > One could, however, add a second passphrase that is never sent to the server, and encrypt the data using that. Chrome provides this as a non-default option. The average user doesn&#
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by arctux 8y ago
This is a good example of why Firefox is so important. Mozilla's incentives, unlike those of companies making significant revenue from tracking-based advertising, align with the user. Google, for example, could have implemented Chrome&
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Google, Facebook, and Amazon benefit from an outdated definition of “monopoly”(qz.com)
255 points by arctux 8y ago|170 comments
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Be Afraid of Economic 'Bigness'(nytimes.com)
122 points by arctux 8y ago|87 comments
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How did Iran find CIA spies? They Googled it(arstechnica.com)
5 points by arctux 8y ago|0 comments
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Feds Order Google to Hand Over a Load of Innocent Americans' Locations(forbes.com)
49 points by arctux 8y ago|8 comments
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Liberapay status update: no, we’re not dead(medium.com)
2 points by arctux 8y ago|0 comments

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