2022-04-19
After a year+ of hearing that no one wants immutable records of their message history from a minority of @Panquake critics, the fact that Twitter is going to do this is very lol... if it weren't for the fact that Twitter corp can still do historic revisionism with no transparency https://twitter.com/...
TechCrunch
Code on Twitter's site reveals how an upcoming Edit button could work: by making a new tweet with the updated content and listing the old tweets before the edit
This month, Twitter announced the ground-shaking news that it was actually going to offer users a way to edit tweets — a longtime user request.
2021-10-02
Great work at @themarkup that adds more detail and context to the ever-evolving location #surveillance industry. In January, I investigated some of the same trackers with @U039b and we will improve our repository with this new info for @PrivacyLabISP: https://github.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
The Markup
A look at the $12B location data industry, including how collectors, aggregators, and marketplaces monetize user data
Companies collect and aggregate location data from millions of people's phones. Tweets: Dani Homados / @homados : Most people I talk to don't realize they live in a surveillance ec...
2021-10-01
Great work at @themarkup that adds more detail and context to the ever-evolving location #surveillance industry. In January, I investigated some of the same trackers with @U039b and we will improve our repository with this new info for @PrivacyLabISP: https://github.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
The Markup
A look at the $12B location data industry, including how collectors, aggregators, and marketplaces monetize user data
A huge but little-known industry has cropped up around monetizing people's movements — Companies that you likely have never heard of are hawking access to the location history on...
2021-08-13
I had a great chat about this with a non-techie yesterday, who asked “how did we get here so quickly? it seems like a quantum leap” Does #Apple have too much hubris to reverse course, or is the bad PR a standard step in conditioning users to accept spying? https://www.macrumors.com/...
Reuters
Sources: Apple employees have sent 800+ Slack messages on an internal channel debating the company's plans to scan US iPhones, iPads, and computers for CSAM
A backlash over Apple's move to scan U.S. customer phones and computers for child sex abuse images has grown to include employees speaking …