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Patrick LeavyImportant <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UK</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/petition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#petition</a> to sign: "Ban behavioural data extraction for advertising"<a href="https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/713456" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/713456</a> If you are a UK citizen or UK resident PLEASE SIGN THIS 🙏🏼 We need the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#government</a> to take this seriously so creeps like this <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/databroker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#databroker</a> don't get more data: <a href="https://gizmodo.com/data-broker-brags-about-having-highly-detailed-personal-information-on-nearly-all-internet-users-2000575762" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://gizmodo.com/data-broker-brags-about-having-highly-detailed-personal-information-on-nearly-all-internet-users-2000575762</a>And <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> is undermined by the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microtargeting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microtargeting</a> from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#socialmedia</a> - <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> /Brexit/Romania etc<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/surveillancecapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#surveillancecapitalism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dataprivacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dataprivacy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/advertising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#advertising</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RTB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RTB</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/databreach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#databreach</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#infosec</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#data</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/selfhosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#selfhosting</a>

Joe OrtizYou might as well throw your Echo and Alexa-powered devices in the trash like you should have done years ago.<a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/</a>Cory (<a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@pluralistic</a>) with a banger of a post:<a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/altering-the-deal/#telescreen" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/altering-the-deal/#telescreen</a>And this factoid:"Congress hasn't passed a consumer <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privacy</a> law since 1988, when the Video Privacy Protection Act banned video store clerks from disclosing which VHS cassettes you brought home."<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Amazon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Echo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Echo</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Alexa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alexa</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#surveillance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/surveillancecapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#surveillancecapitalism</a>

JW Prince of CPH, RadicalizedEvery part of this Echo privacy massacre is downstream of [the US's pro-monopoly "Consumer Welfare"] policy choice: "growth stock" narratives about AI, twiddling, DMCA 1201, the Darth Vader MBA, the end of legal privacy protections. These are material things, not ideological ones. They exist to make a very, very small number of people very, very rich..." - <a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@pluralistic</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114166991733057284" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114166991733057284</a> <a href="https://helvede.net/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://helvede.net/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#business</a> <a href="https://helvede.net/tags/SurveillanceCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SurveillanceCapitalism</a> <a href="https://helvede.net/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspol</a>

Otis Scops aka Crash Course<a href="https://beige.party/@kimlockhartga" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@kimlockhartga</a> Well, if you realise that car manufacturers gain nowadays more from your data then from your (electric) car, you start to understand that everything you do needs to leave a data trace to feed <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SurveillanceCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SurveillanceCapitalism</a> 😡 🤮

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@pluralistic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Privacy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SurveillanceCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SurveillanceCapitalism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Amazon</a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Alexa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alexa</a>(2/n) ... for a copyrighted work:<a href="https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/24/record-scratch/#autoenshittification" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/24/record-scratch/#autoenshittification</a>That means that once Amazon reaches over the air to stir up the guts of your Echo, no one is allowed to give you a tool that will let you get inside your Echo and change the software back. Sure, it's your property, but exercising sole and despotic dominion over it requires breaking the digital lock that controls access to the firmware, and that's a...

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@pluralistic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Privacy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SurveillanceCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SurveillanceCapitalism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Amazon</a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Alexa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alexa</a>(1/3)👉Amazon annihilates Alexa privacy settings, turns on continuous, nonconsensual audio uploading👈Is this globally?How e. g. in the EU. US laws don't apply there."If the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Echo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Echo</a> is your property, how come Amazon gets to break it? Because we passed a law that lets them. Section 1201 of 1998's <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DigitalMillenniumCopyrightAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DigitalMillenniumCopyrightAct</a> makes it a felony to "bypass an access control"...<a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/altering-the-deal/#telescreen" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/altering-the-deal/#telescreen</a>

Autonomie und SolidaritätEverything you say to your Echo will be sent to <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Amazon</a> starting on March 28 "Since Amazon announced plans for a generative AI version of Alexa, we were concerned about user privacy. With Alexa+ rolling out to Amazon Echo devices in the coming weeks, we’re getting a clearer view at the privacy concessions people will have to make to maximize usage of the AI voice assistant and avoid bricking functionality of already-purchased devices.In an email sent to customers today, Amazon said that Echo users will no longer be able to set their devices to process Alexa requests locally and, therefore, avoid sending voice recordings to Amazon’s cloud. Amazon apparently sent the email to users with “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” enabled on their Echo. Starting on March 28, recordings of everything spoken to the Alexa living in Echo speakers and smart displays will automatically be sent to Amazon and processed in the cloud." <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/</a><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Amazon</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/SurveillanceCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SurveillanceCapitalism</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Surveillance</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ActiveListening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActiveListening</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Technology</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tech</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/KI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KI</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/K%C3%BCnstlicheIntelligenz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KünstlicheIntelligenz</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Alexa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alexa</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/AmazonEcho" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmazonEcho</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Privacy</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Datenschutz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Datenschutz</a>

Doc Edward Morbius ⭕In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying<blockquote>[W]hat Mark told us changed everything. Through his work, Mark had learned that the National Security Agency (NSA) had installed a secret, secure room at AT&T’s central office in San Francisco, called Room 641A. Mark was assigned to connect circuits carrying Internet data to optical “splitters” that sat just outside of the secret NSA room but were hardwired into it. Those splitters—as well as similar ones in cities around the U.S.—made a copy of all data going through those circuits and delivered it into the secret room.</blockquote><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memoriam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spying" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memoriam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spying</a>Klein provided one of the pre-Snowden disclosures of massive communications surveillance in the United States. I'd included him in an earlier toot from May 2021: <a href="https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/106251396105180975" translate="no" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/106251396105180975</a>His story also demonstrates that "surveillance state" and "surveillance capitalism" aren't separate things, but part of the same larger surveillance octopus.<a href="https://toot.cat/tags/MarkKlein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MarkKlein</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Room641a" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Room641a</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/ATT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ATT</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/MassSurveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MassSurveillance</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/SurveillanceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SurveillanceState</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/SurveillanceCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SurveillanceCapitalism</a>

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