Well well well, if it isn't exactly what privacy nerds have been warning about forever!

[uastronomer@mastodon.monoceros.co.za]

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/

[rabenmutterschafft@mastodon.bida.im]

@uastronomer #palantir #ice #europa

[crow@irlqt.net]

@uastronomer@mastodon.monoceros.co.za we had to build AI that spies on you and tracks your location and associations and devices and usage etc

it was either that or a world where we didn't sell as many sneakers each quarter

[lexinova@cyberplace.social]

@uastronomer "i have nothing to hide" they said.

Now they can pay the price to not listening to us.

[noplasticshower@infosec.exchange]

@uastronomer from the land of the super obvious...

[sage7225@mas.to]

@uastronomer

[petr90@mastodonczech.cz]

@uastronomer Velký bratr 1984

[menschlich@troet.cafe]

@uastronomer

They can ask the usual supporters for a data donation.

Meet all 37 White House ballroom donors funding the $300 million build, including Silicon Valley tech giants, crypto bros and the Lutnicks | Fortune

The list, reviewed by Fortune, did not mention specific dollar amounts offered by each contributor.

Fortune (fortune.com)

[kentnavalesi@mstdn.social]

@uastronomer

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.

#meta #socialmedia #privacy

[agreeable_landfall@mastodon.social]

@uastronomer To quote Jon Stewart: "I think the word you're looking for is: 'experts'"

[lady_alys@hachyderm.io]

#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 Snowden

Short video interview clip of him saying similar words: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2015/may/22/edward-snowden-rights-to-privacy-video

@Sage7225

@uastronomer

[retrotechshop@techhub.social]

@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/

[nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social]

@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...

[takiro@meow.social]

@uastronomer
People think they have nothing important to hide and then the next regime makes that nothing illegal.

[teledyn@mstdn.ca]

@uastronomer

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'.

[d1@autonomous.zone]

@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

[aerion@nerdculture.de]

@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…
@uastronomer

[kentnavalesi@mstdn.social]

@aerion
@uastronomer

Will 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!"

[cppguy@infosec.space]

@uastronomer

As always, #AdBlockingIsInfoSec.