Michel Salim @michel_slm@social.privacytools.io

So what about some of those #Spotify privacy impacting default settings? Spotify desktop app (Mac OS) https://spotify.com/uk/download/mac

When you install the app, Spotify sets a 'privacy' default to ON for cookie tracking, hidden in 'SHOW ADVANCED SETTINGS' (bottom of settings page).

Privacy should be the default not an advanced setting.

See next Toot.

Yuval Noah Harari Is Worried About Our Souls #philosophy #technology #data #big https://getpocket.com/explore/item/yuval-noah-harari-is-worried-about-our-souls

How long before colleges sell aggregate data to be de-anonymized by insurers so they can deny coverage, move to higher risk pools as post-college folks move onto their own health plans?
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/24/colleges-are-turning-students-phones-into-surveillance-machines-tracking-locations-hundreds-thousands/
• https://www.npr.org/2019/12/27/791918140/how-colleges-are-using-tech-to-keep-track-of-students
No opt-out.

Privacy policy update from Tivo. I read it in its entirety since they didn't summarize the update. The key thing to understand is that Tivo (a) just got bought (b) thinks of itself as an advertising company now.

The privacy policy explicitly states that they can and will sell / transfer every piece of information they can gather to advertising partners. What you watch, when you watch it, how long you watched it, where you watched it from, what device you used, which ads you skipped, all of it including a lot of personally identifiable information.

I strongly suggest setting your tivo on fire in a parking lot somewhere. If fire isn't your thing, get a bucket of water and give your tivo an extended and through bath. The solder points particularly need scrubbing with a wire brush.

" I think of program­ming like writing or typog­raphy—a skill that can be valu­able to anyone, not just computer scien­tists or profes­sional soft­ware engi­neers. "

-- https://beautifulracket.com/introduction.html

Nice quote

Excuse me but "Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg won’t talk to the Guardian. So we fed everything he says into an algorithm, built a Zuckerbot, and interviewed it" has got to be the best take. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/22/zuckerbot-mark-zuckerberg-facebook-botnik

"You cannot get healthy and wealthy on your own – Societies make progress, not individuals"

https://ourworldindata.org/global-inequality-of-opportunity

#healthcare #progress

It happend folks, #privacytoolsio has just got its first sponser, time for a party! :D

Opencollective.com/privacytoolsio

It pisses me off each time when people - especially in the US - call "socialism" anything that is even lightly associated with public services.

Another such tribe are fans of #socialism who claim that Marx invented them.

Here's the last Adam Smith's "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" (1776), frequently quoted by the "defenders" of #liberalism as the "founding father of market economy".

Both tribes, please go and read.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3300/3300-h/3300-h.htm

Hey Mastodon - so we here are going through a real student movement in India. If you can help tell me:
- alternate domains for email, docs etc
- alternate ways for quick comm during internet shutdown
- ways to protect your identity from online surveillance
- ways to keep yourself away from getting the right wingers attention on Instagram
- what else is needed for a revolution? IDK its my first one.
All help, is going to be rewarded with blessings. This thread will be shared with other protestors.

Guess What? Many #Cookie Banners Ignore Your Wishes, So Max Schrems Goes On The #GDPR Attack Again... - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191210/07425443541/guess-what-many-cookie-banners-ignore-your-wishes-so-max-schrems-goes-gdpr-attack-again.shtml #privacy