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TECHNOLOGYVisualizing the Length of the Fine Print, for 14 Popular Apps

visualcapitalist.com/terms-of-

Für die meisten Terms Of Service der Dienste die wir nutzen, solltest du auf College - Niveau lesen können, um sie zu verstehen. Das ist ziemlich hoch. Die Grafik verdeutlicht enorm wieviel Zeit es braucht. Krass. #TOS #YouAreTheProduct #WeAreTheProduct

Visual Capitalist · Visualizing the Length of the Fine Print, for 14 Popular AppsWe visualize the length of service agreements from popular apps, by counting the words and calculating how long it would take to read them.

Meta's volgende stap, een 'Must Read'. Lees het zorgvuldig en laat even doordringen wat dit betekent. Van #Chatbot naar AI Personal Assistent #Llama4, geïntegreerd in het totale app landschap van #Meta. Zo ziet het ultieme #SurveillanceSysteem eruit, de lezers zijn gewaarschuwd. #YouAreTheProduct #MoveFastAndBreakThings

theconversation.com/metas-new-

The ConversationMeta’s new AI chatbot is yet another tool for harvesting data to potentially sell you stuff
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@bob_zim : apart from the fact that online age verification can be easily bypassed, I expect online authentication (proving your identity as known by your government) to lead to massive numbers of identity fraud.

Reliable authentication necessitates that the VERIFIER is trustworthy. If not, they can impersonate you to a third party, using the digital proof that you provided.

Suppose you prefer watching sex with elderly women, and google "milf sex".

And suppose google comes up with rollatorbabes dot com. You go there and they demand that you prove you're old enough by sunmitting your electronic ID - and perhaps also a selfie "to prevent fraud". This may happen:

You <-> RollatorBabes <-> Visa

RollatorBabes forwards all auth details, except your home address (RollatorBabes changes that) to Visa - in order for them to obtain a creditcard - showing your name.

To prevent this, the first thing you need to know is WHO the verifier is. Not who they say they are, but reliably verified by a third party who deserves YOUR trust. So you can sue RollatorBabes if they fsck you.

Do you trust THEM, shown below?

See also infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStrat.

@nazokiyoubinbou @evacide

I've never heard of surveillance pricing, but it tracks.

“Surveillance pricing analyzes massive troves of your personal information to predict the price you would be willing to pay for an item—and charge you accordingly. Retailers can charge a higher price when it thinks you can afford to spend more—on payday, for example. Or when you need something the most, such as in an emergency.”

eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/figh

Electronic Frontier Foundation · To Fight Surveillance Pricing, We Need Privacy FirstWithout a strong, comprehensive federal privacy law, “surveillance pricing” may give way to a never-ending parade of ways to use the most intimate facts about your life against you.

#Amazon bricks long-standing #FireTV apps with latest update
It’s not hard to see why people might want to avoid #FireOS #homescreen nor why Amazon would want to force users to see it. Like many #TV vendors, Amazon is trying to drive long-term #revenue from #TV sales by including #ads is TVs' OS, allowing Amazon to sell #ad space and insight around ad engagement. Update has made apps unable to use #Android Debug Bridge (#ADB) connections or commands.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/0

The Quiet Death of Ello’s Big Dreams
waxy.org/2024/01/the-quiet-dea

Remember Ello?
Ello died quietly a few months ago.
The social media site promised to put its users first.
Ello promised not be funded by selling third-party ads, not sell user data, and to bind any future company owner to the same terms. In the end, Ello broke all of its core rules. Then Ello shut-down so quickly that it didn't give its members any warning or time to get out with their user-generated content.

This article is a cautionary tale of how high ideals mean nothing when you accept VC money. At some point, the VC money dries-up and they want to collect on their debts.

Also, I think it's notable that one of the founders went on to startup a company selling NFTs / crypto, and when that collapsed, he pivoted to a new startup churning out AI garbage.

Waxy.org · The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams - Waxy.orgEllo launched in 2014 with big dreams, but the artsy social network suddenly shut down last year, deleting nine years of posts without warning. What happened?

How long does it take to say no to sharing any unnecessary data when browsing a web page? 3 minutess and 45 seconds it turns out. A little longer on a phone.

Or, seen from the ones creating this mess: "Consent to tracking and sharing data by not enough time to disagree"

#consent #GDPR #cookies #Privacy #youaretheproduct #usability #darkPattern #darkUxPattern #darkux #UX

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