Well well well, if it isn't exactly what privacy nerds have been warning about forever!
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Well well well, if it isn't exactly what privacy nerds have been warning about forever! https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/27/ice_data_advertising_tech_firms/
@uastronomer To quote Jon Stewart: "I think the word you're looking for is: 'experts'"
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#Alt4You
"Saying you don't need privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don't need freedom of speech because you have nothing to say." - Edward SnowdenShort video interview clip of him saying similar words: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2015/may/22/edward-snowden-rights-to-privacy-video
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Well well well, if it isn't exactly what privacy nerds have been warning about forever! https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/27/ice_data_advertising_tech_firms/
@uastronomer Good time to remind California residents of the new free tool to tell data-brokers to delete your personal data: https://privacy.ca.gov/drop/
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I dont understand why Meta users don't understand how all the data collected about them to "help" the algorithm can also be used by the state to terrorize and blackmail them.
@KentNavalesi @uastronomer Meta's tracking has also enabled various stalkers and etc in the past too. And their emotional manipulations have lead to more depression, anxiety and even literal suicides...
So even *IF* we go with the "I have nothing to hide" there still is just no excuse that people let them do this...
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Well well well, if it isn't exactly what privacy nerds have been warning about forever! https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/27/ice_data_advertising_tech_firms/
@uastronomer
People think they have nothing important to hide and then the next regime makes that nothing illegal. -
Well well well, if it isn't exactly what privacy nerds have been warning about forever! https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/27/ice_data_advertising_tech_firms/
An addendum to this: if you ever take the time and bother to "download your profile" from these enshittified services, you will discover just how hilariously wrong they are, a disturbing thought considering this is now 'evidence' that AI could use to bring goons to your door!
Oh, all your LLM chats too. Even those you 'deleted'.
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R relay@relay.infosec.exchange shared this topic
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Well well well, if it isn't exactly what privacy nerds have been warning about forever! https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/27/ice_data_advertising_tech_firms/
@uastronomer not directed at you but more generally...
clearly, being right isn't enough.
i would take this as cause for critical self-reflection on why privacy nerds, self-hosters, free software communities, etc. couldn't mobilise society sufficiently to resist this outcome
what can be done differently and how to proceed now?
a bunch of ex-cryptoparty participants proclaiming "i told you so" is not a constructive way forward
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I dont understand why Meta users don't understand how all the data collected about them to "help" the algorithm can also be used by the state to terrorize and blackmail them.
@KentNavalesi
Because it's invisible. Unlike getting burgled, or their car having been broken into, it's not something they feel or witness. Until they do…
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@KentNavalesi
Because it's invisible. Unlike getting burgled, or their car having been broken into, it's not something they feel or witness. Until they do…
@uastronomerWill be interesting to watch the cognitive dissonance as people start getting disappeared thanks to Meta.
"I know they're hunting and killing us, but it's just so convenient!"
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Well well well, if it isn't exactly what privacy nerds have been warning about forever! https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/27/ice_data_advertising_tech_firms/
As always, #AdBlockingIsInfoSec.
