instead they will do it by making some tech execs part-time lieutenant colonels…
This is to shield them and their actions when the people their system target get called “enemy combatants.” It’s literally a tech Gestapo.
Holy shit, this is absurdly shocking. I can’t believe this isn’t bigger news. The CEO of freaking Palantir is a Lt. Col. not just for “no reason” ?
Headline should read “Websites have been tracking you by browser fingerprinting for a while. Google publicly doing it for 6 months.”
Test your footprint: https://abrahamjuliot.github.io/creepjs/
Yeah, has that gotten off the ground yet? Or is it still just investor stage pipe dream?
I just want an electric car that can do exactly this.
Modular components on an option of 3 frames. Reparable to a degree. Bare bones functionality. Physical buttons, no screens. Open source software. Upgrade not the whole car, but components as you go. Literally what video games taught us.
If I had Mark Cuban money, it’s the first thing I would do.
Doing OSINT is exactly what converted me into a privacy advocate.
I saw some retiree earlier today trying to take a pic of something. Opened his phone holding it up for all to see, and has only stock Android and bloatware apps. Like he just set it up yesterday. Worn cover and screen indicates, nope, not a new phone. I sighed a heavy sigh of sadness. Old guy has no idea. And would be pissed if he actually knew how much data he sprays all over.
Here’s an idea for a “distraction free” phone:
Any android phone.
In a work profile use a primary launcher app that only shows 3 or 4 important apps. Disable everything else.
Lock all the rest in the normal profile with a password that is a randomized 32 or longer character string that you can’t possibly memorize.
Write it down in glaze on a plate, which you smash and store in a bag with some super glue.
Funny how it had to happen in that order.
I 100% agree with you about Clearview and Palantir. Really, 1,000%.
Putin, on the other hand, has passed his peak unless he’s gong to get the nukes out. His potential at this point is simply how much longer he is around to keep perpetuating his “3 day war.” Which is not nothing. The guy needs to go the fuck away, and the US justification for using nukes in Japan was that forcing a surrender via attack against civilian targets prevented a years-long slog and invasion. Well, here we are again. Justify whatever is needed to ensure he falls out a window one day this week. The power vacuum without Prighozin around is just going to revert to 1992 style robber barons anyway. It always would. There’s never been an alternative to that.
Y’all, the last thing the suckers who will buy this want is some Nanny State telling them they can’t buy this.
It’s a stupid fake phone. Let them buy it. Who cares? If not this, the grifters already have 700 other things lined up behind it. Let them pay for our schadenfreude, as they have done so many times before.
As a daily Linux user… Yeah.
Eastern Europe loves the app Viber that Rakuten bought, which has had ads for years.
People LOVE a walled garden of their friends are there, too.
Also, because this was news like 6 months ago and has been posted and reposted here roughly 84 million times.
And they’ll ironically lose the lawsuit about the lies and deception of this, the defense of which will be funded by donations from the idiots that buy this phone and receive messages every hour asking for more money for the legal defense fund.
By “Most Human” clearly they mean the most flawed and greedy.
Yes, but so are the ads!
No idea, all I see as options now for Paypal and credit card.
Only if you donate. Otherwise bad news, Signal.
As a pacifist, he might simply have not been thinking through optimizing a killing machine in depth, and it was more of a lark of a design.
I’m not a writer of TeleNovelas, so I bet I might not think through every aspect needed to make one awesome either. Doesn’t mean I haven’t written 32 pages of “La Vida Delirante” where 5 women make a pact to leave the circus to marry rich men so they can live comfortable lives, except they picked the guys randomly and no one can commit to anything and are always switching men. But they are pursued across fabulous vacation destinations by La Reina Apestosa, a Romani sorceress attempting to lure the 5 women back so she can sell their souls to the devil in exchange for the love of the lion tamer at the circus.
Was this part of a survey where they get the “survey says” answers on Family Feud?
100%. They all look the same.