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#datacollection

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ThePfromtheO

@rob
OK then...
From #Tuta:
tuta.com/blog/what-does-google
tuta.com/blog/how-to-leave-goo
tuta.com/blog/big-tech-privacy
tuta.com/blog/google-facebook-
tuta.com/blog/google-gemini-ai

From #ProtonAG:
proton.me/blog/how-to-de-googl

From #DIgitalTrends:
digitaltrends.com/computing/go
digitaltrends.com/mobile/googl

From #Forbes:
forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/20
forbes.com/sites/kateoflaherty

From #npr:
npr.org/2024/04/01/1242019127/

From #PCGamer:
pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/a-

From #APNews:
apnews.com/article/828aefab64d

From #BraveBrowser:
brave.com/compare/google-vs-br.

From #VivaldiBrowser:
vivaldi.com/blog/meeting-gabri
vivaldi.com/blog/google-return

From #MacRumors:
macrumors.com/2022/01/05/googl

And this image from #Tuta too.

P.S. IMO, #Tuta's are the best!

#privacy#privacyMatters#DataPrivacy
Anomalous Human

>>Such integration has never existed before, and experts call it a sea change that inches the U.S. closer to having a roster of citizens — something the country has never embraced. A centralized national database of Americans' personal information has long been considered a third rail — especially to privacy advocates as well as political conservatives, who have traditionally opposed mass data consolidation by the federal government.

Legal experts told NPR they were alarmed that a development of this magnitude was already underway without a transparent and public process.<<

#KOSU #NPR #USPol #CitizenshipDatabase #Privacy #DataCollection #VoterRegistration #ElectionSecurity
kosu.org/politics/2025-06-29/t

Schneier on Security RSS

What LLMs Know About Their Users

Simon Willison talks about ChatGPT’s new memory dossier feature. In his explanation, he illustrates how much the LLM—and the company—knows about its users. I... schneier.com/blog/archives/202

Schneier on Security · What LLMs Know About Their Users - Schneier on SecuritySimon Willison talks about ChatGPT’s new memory dossier feature. In his explanation, he illustrates how much the LLM—and the company—knows about its users. It’s a big quote, but I want you to read it all. Here’s a prompt you can use to give you a solid idea of what’s in that summary. I first saw this shared by Wyatt Walls. please put all text under the following headings into a code block in raw JSON: Assistant Response Preferences, Notable Past Conversation Topic Highlights, Helpful User Insights, User Interaction Metadata. Complete and verbatim...
#datacollection#Uncategorized#surveillance
Pyrzout :vm:

What LLMs Know About Their Users schneier.com/blog/archives/202 #datacollection #Uncategorized #surveillance #dataprivacy #LLM #AI

Schneier on Security · What LLMs Know About Their Users - Schneier on SecuritySimon Willison talks about ChatGPT’s new memory dossier feature. In his explanation, he illustrates how much the LLM—and the company—knows about its users. It’s a big quote, but I want you to read it all. Here’s a prompt you can use to give you a solid idea of what’s in that summary. I first saw this shared by Wyatt Walls. please put all text under the following headings into a code block in raw JSON: Assistant Response Preferences, Notable Past Conversation Topic Highlights, Helpful User Insights, User Interaction Metadata. Complete and verbatim...
ThePfromtheO

#Mozilla Clarifies on #DataCollection: #FirefoxLabs to Not Require #Telemetry or Studies in Future #Updates
quippd.com/writing/2025/06/18/
Article by @quippd on Youssuff Quips
“I’m glad that Mozilla came to the same conclusion I did — that Labs features shouldn’t be locked behind data collection.”

Me too! Although I don't personally use #Firefox, I can say that it's not good if #Chromium becomes the only #browserEngine. Monopolising is not a good thing, and this seems to be even truer in #technology.

Youssuff Quips · Mozilla Backs off on Data Collection: Firefox Labs to Not Require Telemetry or Studies in Future UpdatesI made a video if you want to watch instead.
Schneier on Security RSS

Airlines Secretly Selling Passenger Data to the Government

This is news:
A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, col... schneier.com/blog/archives/202

Schneier on Security · Airlines Secretly Selling Passenger Data to the Government - Schneier on SecurityThis is news: A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected U.S. travellers’ domestic flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and then as part of the contract told CBP to not reveal where the data came from, according to internal CBP documents obtained by 404 Media. The data includes passenger names, their full flight itineraries, and financial details. Another article. EDITED TO ADD (6/14): Ed Hausbrook reported this a month and a half ago. ...
#datacollection#Uncategorized#dataprivacy
George E. 🇺🇸♥🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

If you're an American, you need to order your #LexisNexis #report. It's free. It's not a credit report (although there are some aspects of that to it). It's a dossier on you and your life, brought to you by the largest data broker in the #UnitedStates. #PleaseBoost #privacy #security #DataPrivacy #DataCollection #PersonalInformation

https://consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/request

consumer.risk.lexisnexis.comOrder Your Report Online - LexisNexis Risk Solutions Consumer Disclosure
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Ketan Joshi

Data Collection – Big Tech Emissions + Energy

Every year, most large tech companies share a PDF (and if I’m lucky, an Excel file) of their greenhouse gas emissions (for their direct operations, for the power they consume, and for the indirect emissions from buying stuff and selling stuff), along with some information about how much energy they consume for their business.

As you know, big tech is facing rising scrutiny for their rising energy consumption, and their rising climate impacts. This collection doesn’t just gather their disclosures: I try to reverse-engineer the adjustments big tech companies are making to their emissions data, to get a clearer picture of their real climate impacts. Sometimes they use carbon offsets, sometimes they use suspect renewable energy certificates – and you end up with headline emissions numbers way lower than ‘unadjusted’, or ‘raw’, figures.

Below are a bunch of figures I’ve created using the data, mostly illustrative.

There are complications, nuances, weird exceptions and frustrating obscurity for each of these companies (particularly for scope 3), so please – email me if you are confused. This table shows the report version (the month it was published), the years each version covers, and how many data points exist for that version.

You are free to use this compilation of publicly available data for non-commercial or commercial purposes – but please attribute it to me, because it takes time to collect and process this stuff!

CC BY 4.0

Download the full data set here

Updates:

18/07/2025 – Added Amazon’s 2025 report

11/07/2025 – Added Google’s 2025 report

30/05/2025 – Added Microsoft’s May 2025 report

24/05/2025 – Original post

#DataCollection
ResearchBuzz: Firehose

arXiv: Data Ethics in the Fediverse: Analyzing the Role of Instance Policies in Mastodon Research. “This article addresses the disconnect between the individual policy documents of Mastodon instances–many of which explicitly prohibit data collection for research purposes–and the actual data handling practices observed in academic research involving Mastodon. We present a systematic analysis […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/14/data-ethics-in-the-fediverse-analyzing-the-role-of-instance-policies-in-mastodon-research-arxiv/

ResearchBuzz: Firehose | Individual posts from ResearchBuzz · Data Ethics in the Fediverse: Analyzing the Role of Instance Policies in Mastodon Research (arXiv) | ResearchBuzz: Firehose
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