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Anarchist Radio Relay League

GPS is not Gonna Fucking Kill You.
There is a misconception among some that the mere presence of GPS in any device means that it can be tracked by a government, corporation, or other malicious actor.

It's actually a pretty reasonable misconception, considering that the most widespread usage of GPS receivers in the world is in smartphones. And unless you have taken some very specific precaution
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#Topics #GPS #privacy

anarchistrrl.noblogs.orgGPS is not Gonna Fucking Kill You. | Anarchist Radio Relay League
Susan Ville

📢 If you'd like to refresh people's recollection, feel free to choose one or more issues from the monthly bulletin published by 🔵 UNiPAL

#repost Thank you for boosting humanitarian #topics #content #media

Prime source APR 2025 📑 #palestine

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United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied Palestinian TerritoryHumanitarian Situation Update #288 | Gaza Strip | United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied Palestinian TerritoryThe blockade, new displacement orders, and ongoing bombardments, including on tents, hospitals and schools, continue to drive a growing number of casualties, displacement and extreme levels of deprivation across Gaza.
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Vivaldi

#DataPrivacyWeek Day 5

Since #privacy online became a broader concern, #BigTech companies now attempt to appear privacy-oriented while just changing the way they spy on their users.

Such is the case with #Google disabling third-party cookies in #Chrome and developing technologies such as #FLoC or #Topics, both of which we've opposed from the very beginning.

Yes, our browser is based on #Chromium, but we do a lot of modifications to the code and take special measures to always protect our users and their privacy.

Read more: vivaldi.com/blog/news/alert-no

Vivaldi Browser · Alert: No Google Topics in Vivaldi BrowserSpying on people’s behavior & profiling them is wrong. That’s why we have made sure that Google’s Topics is disabled in two separate ways in Vivaldi browser.
Vivaldi

We'd opposed #Google's 'dangerous' Web integrity API proposal. Now they are backing off!

This is massively positive for the neutrality of the open Web. Though Google is so heavily driven by its interests rather than the benefit of the Web in general, it remains to be seen (and we strongly suspect it won’t take long) what they choose to replace it with.
Are they, for example, preparing a seemingly less obnoxious spec that is actually just as harmful to users (as they did with #FLOC & #Topics)?
It is highly suspicious that it coincides with their recent announcement to move from pay-per-click to pay-per-impression for ads.
Generally, Google hasn’t shown itself to be a trustworthy custodian of the web & we can’t let this apparent victory lure us into resting on our laurels.
A strong diversity of browsers & browser engines is going to be crucial to counteract any future attempt by a single party to dictate the future of the web.

For more on this, head to our blog. ⬇️
vivaldi.com/blog/googles-new-d

Vivaldi Browser · Unpacking Google’s new “dangerous” Web-Environment-Integrity specificationWhy Vivaldi browser thinks Google’s new proposal, the Web-Environment-Integrity spec, is a major threat to the open web and should be pushed back.
#WEI#WebEnvironmentIntegrity
beSpacific

Journalism, media & tech trends & predictions 2024 "we find evidence that most #publishers (72%) R worried about increasing #news #avoidance especially around important but often #depressing #topics like #Ukraine & #climatechange w only 12% not worried. Publishers say they plan 2 counter this w explainer content (94%),Q&A formats (87%) & inspirational stories (66%) considered important or/very important this yr. Producing more positive news (48%) was popular response. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.a

Reuters Institute for the Study of JournalismJournalism, media, and technology trends and predictions 2023
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Misuse Case

So if you are:

A queer, pregnant woman living in Dercatur, IL who runs a business restoring old cars, likes folk music, and recently came into a small inheritance that's tied up in probate

Current #adtech #tracking (probably) knows all this about you. Eek!

All #Google #Topics will know about you is that you like antique/classic cars, not anything about your sexual orientation, your pregnancy status, or your money situation. By design.

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Misuse Case

The preparation #Google is making for a future crackdown on invasive #adtech tracking and data mining is something like #Topics which doesn't compile a dossier but instead asks:

"What has this device's browser/app activity indicated a general interest in during the last three weeks?"

Which is a lot less invasive, generally.

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Misuse Case

More on #Google #Topics and the #adtech and #privacy implications from people who are smarter than me, check out the discussion on the #securitynow podcast by @leo Laporte and #stevegibson (the latter is not on Mastodon).

You can read and search the episode transcripts on Steve's website. Start with Episode 935, "TOPICS" ARRIVES. grc.com/securitynow.htm

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www.grc.comGRC | Security Now! Episode Archive  Security Now! Weekly Internet Security Podcast. This week describing the newly revealed SockStress TCP stack vulnerabilities.
Shoq

@ArtBear #Firefish has a nice start with threading, and I've been advocating for groups since I got here. An instance should not be needed to define a community. #Topics or groups are much better. This is why Lemmy mushroomed so quickly. The instance should have minimal control over content or behaviors, so long as they comply with its TOS. Otherwise it's just micro-Reddit. Well-indexed and discoverable communities, granularized by tuple.tags, taxonomies and folksonomies are the future, imo.

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Misuse Case

Here’s a pretty good summary of how #Topics works, in relatively plain language, from a source that isn’t #Google.

Note that the Topics are relatively generalized and pretty anodyne…and instead of being retained forever, they disappear on a rolling basis after 3 weeks.

As things stand, trackers collect over 1000 points of information about you and retain that information forever in repositories you don’t know about.

trustcassie.com/resources/blog

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CassieGoogle Topics: What you need to knowGoogle Topics is a major part of Google’s Privacy Sandbox project. Learn more on how it may impact the digital advertising landscape.
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