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Reuters has a very short article about a recommendation by the E.U.’s European Data Protection board to force Meta to offer a free tier that does not force people to participate in behavioral ads.
by angryea
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on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 05:00 AM PDT
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Apple, fresh off of not building a car now plans to focus on home assistant robots . � This is generally the kind of thing that I think would be helpful to people. �It would aid folks with ...
by angryea
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on Thu Apr 04, 2024 at 06:07 AM PDT
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Florida has just put into law a bill that says any social media accounts for children under the age of sixteen must be approved by their parents. It is largely moving in a good direction, but as ...
by angryea
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on Wed Mar 27, 2024 at 05:00 AM PDT
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As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires, ...
by FloridaSNDad
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on Fri Mar 01, 2024 at 09:55 PM PST
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Want more oddities like this? You can follow my RSS Feed or free newsletter Two similar stories today showcase how we are being sold, manipulated, and possibly put in harms way by data brokers. First, someone is selling the location data of people who...
by angryea
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on Wed Feb 14, 2024 at 06:11 AM PST
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by angryea
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on Tue Feb 06, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
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You have to show your birth certificate or medical records to use a changing room in Utah if someone suspects you’re in the wrong room. Would this have stopped Trump from raping E. Jean Carroll. Short-arm inspections for everyone, by everyone! A...
by annieli
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on Tue Feb 06, 2024 at 12:56 PM PST
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Facebook has a new “feature” that is a privacy nightmare. � Their “Link History” feature stores all the links you opened in Facebook so you can reference them later. �But it also uses that ...
by angryea
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on Mon Jan 08, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
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Ars Technica has the latest ChatGPT failure. Not only is it very bad at diagnosing people, but it is also especially terrible when those people are children. �When trying to figure out pediatric ...
by angryea
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on Fri Jan 05, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
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Back in the heady days of 1973, perhaps the most liberal of the years I have seen, certainly the year when workers did as well as they were ever going to do again, the Supreme Court said that, basically, the Fourteenth Amendment protected privacy, and...
by ultrageek
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on Wed Jan 03, 2024 at 06:52 PM PST
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ESPN’s daily podcast on Friday devoted itself to the then unfinished pursuit of Shohei Ohtani (he has subsequently signed with the Dodgers for 700 million dollars. �For perspective, his annual ...
by angryea
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on Mon Dec 11, 2023 at 05:00 AM PST
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by Jen Sorensen
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on Tue Nov 28, 2023 at 04:50 AM PST
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by Mathy Kathy
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on Sun Sep 17, 2023 at 01:39 PM PDT
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The ability of modern home appliances such as “smart” refrigerators and “Ring” doorbells to collect�and store data about those who own them isn’t particularly shocking; it seems that any ...
by Dartagnan
69 comments
on Sat Sep 09, 2023 at 05:30 PM PDT
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Republican attorneys general in 19 states are claiming that they have the right to demand private patient records from health care providers in other states, where they have no jurisdiction. That’...
by Joan McCarter
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on Thu Jul 20, 2023 at 06:58 AM PDT
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I was first taught how to crochet a double-crochet stitch by one of my sweet mommy’s aides. A lovely woman, named Gisele, who took such excellent care of my mother for around two years, right up until Covid hit. From there, I taught myself how to...
by mlwalton13
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on Thu Jul 06, 2023 at 07:21 PM PDT
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Many Kossacks have expressed irritation with Daily Kos for continuing to link Tweets. They argue that Elon Musk is a Very Bad Person who is quite friendly with white supremacists and neo-Nazis and that linking to his site generates money for him and...
by CharlesII
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on Fri Jun 30, 2023 at 12:46 PM PDT
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Montana’s highest court unanimously upheld a a district court ruling that overturned a 2005 law restricting who could provide abortion services. The 7-0 decision cited privacy rights enumerated in Montana’s constitution, in a ruling that likely also...
by Wilson Dizard III
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on Sun May 14, 2023 at 12:06 PM PDT
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Hat tip to newsie.social/… for linking this Reuters story www.reuters.com/… Apparently Tesla cars have cameras inside as well as outside the vehicle, and the video footage is all sent to Tesla. Employees at Tesla have been exporting these videos and...
by horizen
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on Thu Apr 06, 2023 at 08:30 AM PDT
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A recent article about Kroger's lucrative data business noted that the company had collected "35+ petabytes of first-party customer data." This is 66 percent larger than the Library of Congress's entire digital collection. The data is sold to...
by Jen Sorensen
153 comments
on Tue Mar 21, 2023 at 04:50 AM PDT
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