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An administrative announcement.
Motherfuckers.


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Dear Googles: I hope you're giving a lot of hard thought to brownshirt-proofing your vast troves of personal data.

Just sayin.

Originally: web.archive.org/web/2017060410

(Obviously: all data collection and brokering services and systems are addressed.)

A black-and-white photograph of the aftermath of Kristallnacht, 9--10 November 1938, when Nazi SA brownshirt thugs smashed and looted Jewish shops, buildings, and synagogues throughout Germany. Passersby and onlookers look at damaged storefronts. Shattered glass covers the street and pavement. A woman facing the camera smiles.
#Kristallnacht#DearGoogles#DataAreLiability
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Dear Apple: I hope you're giving a lot of hard thought to brownshirt-proofing your vast troves of personal data.

Just sayin.

Originally: web.archive.org/web/2017060410

A black & white photograph shows the aftermath of Kristallnacht, 9--10 November 1938, when Nazi SA thugs smashed and looted Jewish shops, buildings, and synagogues throughout Germany. Shop windows stand smashed, glass litters the street, passersby look on, a man and woman facing the camera both smile.
#Kristallnacht#Apple#iPhone
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Dear Facebook: I hope you're giving a lot of hard thought to brownshirt-proofing your vast troves of personal data.

Just sayin.

Originally: web.archive.org/web/2017060410

A black-and-white photograph of the aftermath of Kristallnacht, 9--10 November 1938, when Nazi SA brownshirt thugs smashed and looted Jewish shops, buildings, and synagogues throughout Germany. Passersby and onlookers look at damaged storefronts. Shattered glass covers the street and pavement. A woman facing the camera smiles.
#Kristallnacht#Facebook#Instagram
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Web Scrapers Claim to Possess and Sell Personal Data on 1.5 Billion Facebook Users on a Hacker Forum

The private and personal information of over 1.5 billion Facebook users is being sold on a popular hacking-related forum, potentially enabling cybercriminals and unscrupulous advertisers to target Internet users globally. ...

privacyaffairs.com/facebook-da

Privacy AffairsData of Over 1.5 Billion Facebook Users Sold on Hacker ForumBy Miklos Zoltan
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In light of the case in the US, as well as other fascistic tendencies elsewhere, it's worth noting once again that the vast troves of personal information which are gathered and held by Internet monopolists such as , , , , and , telcos of both telephony and Internet services (ISPs) including , and , location data, payment processors (, , , ...), and a vast seething cesspit of "consumer data" brokers (, , , , , , and many, many, many more) represent an increasingly severe, potentially existential threat.

have warned of part of this recently, though it's far worse than their linked article here states.

eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/effs

Electronic Frontier FoundationEFF's Statement on Dobbs Abortion RulingToday's decision deprives millions of people of a fundamental right, and also underscores the importance of fair and meaningful protections for data privacy. Everyone deserves to have strong controls over the collection and use of information they necessarily leave behind as they go about their normal activities, like using apps, search engine queries, posting on social media, texting friends, and so on. But those seeking, offering, or facilitating abortion access must now assume that any data they provide online or offline could be sought by law enforcement.
#Kristallnacht#Instagram#WhatsApp
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@dredmorbius When the data were initially transferred in the famous Big Hack by Sheryl Sandberg (I presume) to the Mercers and their Breitbart stooge Steve Bannon (to create their OCEAN5 data model for Trump/RNC election exploits and Steve's authoritarian consultation business kickoff) do we know whether money changed hands, then? Is a favor just a favor?

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@dredmorbius Facebook are unlikely to care, since they're playing IBM to the Holocaust.

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@mdhughes I don't expect FB to care on its own.

I do hope that sufficient pressure can either persuade them to do so or see the company destroyed.

I'd prefer the latter outcome.

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@dredmorbius As would we all. I would think Zuck now understands that antitrust is heading his way, but he doesn't act like it, like his expansion into the siloed "Metaverse" to control more of the world.

Apple's mostly been steered for privacy, but the "child porn" shit last year (and still on the table) is worrying. But I keep my secure data off iCloud.

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@mdhughes Of the group, Apple perhaps seems to at least nod toward concerns more than the others.

There's a lot of distance between that nod and sufficiency, however.

Facebook is utterly beyond hope, salvation, or any basis for trust, credit, or forgiveness.

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