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How Game Apps That Captivate Kids Have Been Collecting Their Data
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The iPhone franchise
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Today, Europe lost the internet. Now, we fight back
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Honest diversity in tech report
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Watch Your Hack
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Controversial Copyright Directive approved by EU Parliament
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GCHQ data collection violated human rights, Strasbourg court rules. Spies breached right to privacy in programme revealed by Edward Snowden, judges say
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Now that the Copyright Directive has been voted through, I think it's relevant to share what type of MP's voted for this crap...
Original here: https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/8sizc8/danish_mep_jens_rohde_in_facebook_post_yesterday/ I posted this on reddit a couple of months ago as I felt (and still feel) like it's...
Original here: https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/8sizc8/danish_mep_jens_rohde_in_facebook_post_yesterday/
I posted this on reddit a couple of months ago as I felt (and still feel) like it's rather shocking how someone so ignorant can have any kind of power over something that they clearly know nothing about. Here's what Danish MEP Jens Rohde had to say about the public response to the directive in a Facebook post of his from ~2 months ago:
Always pleasant when the web communists hack and spam my PC in parliament. 50,000 e-mails just yesterday containing largely identical messages - in difference languages though.
This time because I tomorrow vote in favor of artist copyright is valid on the internet as well as everywhere else.
This is not about mass surveillance.
This is not about limiting freedom of speech unless you steal others' content for commercial use.
This is also not about the so-called link tax in article 11. Bloggers can calmly continue working.
This is simply about active commercial platforms which must pay to use people's content for commercial purposes. All passive platforms, marketplaces, wikis, clouds, closed networks are exempt from this proposition that I've helped create and vote for tomorrow.
Creators can themselves ask that their content is monitored, or they can upload it unprotected. That's their choice.
Technology has NOT been considered in the proposal. That will come later.
And let me repeat for the hundredth time: spam as well as hacking is especially counterproductive to me, if you want to promote your cause.
By the way, I will never subscribe to the communist pirate opinion that FREE internet is the same as internet for FREE - no matter how much you attack my PC.
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Ink cartridges are a scam
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Reddit has banned the QAnon conspiracy subreddit r/GreatAwakening
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Mozilla co-founder's Brave files adtech complaint against Google
15 votes -
Feedbin goes private by default, explains design desicions to enhance user privacy
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100 years before drones, in search of better aerial photography, Dr Julius Neubronner patented a miniature pigeon camera activated by a timing mechanism and created a remarkable body of images.
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Facebook punishes liberal news site after fact check by right-wing site
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Netflix will now interrupt series binges with video ads for its other series
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Nearly 600 Russia-linked accounts tweeted about the health law
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St. Louis was the first to use mug shots to capture the bad guys
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Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads, and they seem to be working
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Can Mark Zuckerberg fix Facebook before it breaks democracy?
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A call for principle-based international agreements to govern law enforcement access to data
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Any cryptocurrency investors/enthusiasts in here?
Hey all, haven't seen a thread on this yet. What projects do you folks have some stake in? Any you're interested in but haven't picked up? Thoughts on the market?
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Tomorrow, the EU will vote on the future of the internet (again)
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Trend Micro says sorry after apps grabbed Mac browser history
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Bring back the headphone jack: Why USB-C audio still doesn't work
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On an internet run by personal information, what do you do to manage yours?
Almost every content provider online tries to access some of your personal info, whether it's to keep itself afloat, improve functionality, or create profits. In 2014, Google made [89.4%]...
Almost every content provider online tries to access some of your personal info, whether it's to keep itself afloat, improve functionality, or create profits. In 2014, Google made [89.4%] (https://revenuesandprofits.com/how-google-makes-money/) of its profits from advertising, all of which attempts to target users with their interests (though Google does allow this to be disabled).
What do you do to try and protect yourself from data collection? What software, programs, or browser extensions do you trust to protect you, and not just also monitor your activities?
If you don't do any of this, why not? To what extent do you think companies should be allowed to use your data?
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/e/ first beta soon to be released
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The graphing calculator story
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Stop treating tech jerks like gods
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A year later, Equifax lost your data but faced little fallout
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Apple has permanently banned Alex Jones' Infowars app from the App Store
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Who controls your data? Nine reporters in London, Paris, New York & San Francisco filed more than 150 requests for personal data to 30+ popular tech companies
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New Alpha Release: Tor Browser for Android
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Google wants websites to adopt AMP as the default approach to building webpages. Tell them no.
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Brave browser gets Chrome's extensions starting Thursday with major new version
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Fundamentals of penetration testing
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Is This The Beginning Of The End For Facebook?
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Startups flock to turn young blood into an elixir of youth
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Do small capacity, fast flash drives even exist?
I've been trying to find a small capacity (64GB or less) flash drive with decent read and write speeds, but haven't been able to find anything. I'm looking for something in the 200-300 MB/s...
I've been trying to find a small capacity (64GB or less) flash drive with decent read and write speeds, but haven't been able to find anything. I'm looking for something in the 200-300 MB/s read/write range, but I can't seem to find anything that reliably breaks the 100 MB/s mark even in larger capacities. The SanDisk Extreme Pro 128GB seems to have adequate performance, but at $65 is a bit out of my price range since I'd like to purchase a handful of drives.
Does anyone know of any other smaller flash drives with SSD-level performance?
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Justice Department probes whether social media is 'stifling' speech
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An open source CPU
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Twitter bars Alex Jones, citing harassing messages
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Browser extensions: Are they worth the risk?
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Ajit Pai does ISPs’ bidding, pushes for tighter rules on Google and Facebook
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Firefox 62.0 release notes
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Google AMP can go to hell
7 votes -
New Release: Tor Browser 8.0 [based on Firefox Quantum]
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Can you spot the deceptive Facebook post?
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Progress update from the Librem 5 hardware department
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It’s Time to Leave San Francisco
8 votes