#bigtech
@opensourcedesign @simulo @fosdem Not while Google is its cornerstone, no.
#fosdem #whiteWashing #google #SurveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #foss #BigTech #PR #institutionalCorruption
https://stackdiary.com/google-drive-users-confront-unexplained-loss-of-months-of-data/
Yet another reason for not to use Google Drive.
With NefariousSocial, ad campaigns are expertly designed to cause as much outrage, discontent and suffering as humanly possible. #BigTech #BigTech #Nefarious
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Free ebook: "DISENGAGE: Opting Out—and Finding New Options—to Reclaim the Internet from Spammers, Scammers, Intrusive Marketers and Big Tech"
https://www.lindaformichelli.com/
#bigtech
"...if we’re ever going to get out of this mess, preserving individual privacy and the conditions for functional democracy, we all need to start thinking about technology the same way we think about supervillains. "
Spying on Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club Was Easy. Is Your #Privacy Safe?
American Big Tech Has Enslaved Us | Aaron Bastani Meets Yanis Varoufakis
#varoufakis #technofeudalism #cloudcapitalism #bigtech #monopolies #oligopolies
NefariousSocial ad campaigns are designed to drill down into the personal and private lives of your audience—and even their private thoughts. #BigTech #Nefarious
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@tosch @tazgetroete
Als jemand der auch auf der #bdk23 war finde ich, dass dieser Artikel die Stimmung wirklich gut einfängt.
Schade finde ich nur, dass auch hier wieder die Rhetorik der Ratlosigkeit um das Erstarken der Rechten verwendet wird, obwohl uns ja inzwischen klar ist, was der Grund dafür ist:
Algorithmisch-/KI-gesteuerte Feeds von #BigTech Facebook/Meta, Google, ByteDance und Twitter/X, die aus Profitgründen Populismus über Journalismus prioritisieren!
"There are few tools useful to humans that cannot also cause harm. But they rarely cause harm by themselves; they do so, rather, through the ways in which they are exploited by humans, especially those with power."
"Los multimillonarios contemporáneos parecen entender la educación cívica y civil como impedimentos para su progreso, víctimas necesarias de las externalidades del crecimiento de sus empresas, tristes artefactos de la civilización que dejarán atrás en su inexorable colonización de la siguiente dimensión." 👿😠😡
#bullyonarios #technobros
#ElonMusk #MarkZuckerberg
#tecnologia #BigTech
"¡Vamos a derrocar a quien queramos!": la insoportable arrogancia de Musk y los multimillonarios de la hermandad tecnológica | #Libros #Sociedad | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/25/we-will-coup-whoever-we-want-the-unbearable-hubris-of-musk-and-the-billionaire-tech-bros
Good read.
"The unbearable hubris of Musk and the billionaire tech bros.
Challenging each other to cage fights, building apocalypse bunkers – the behaviour of today’s mega-moguls is becoming increasingly outlandish and imperial."
#article #reading #billionaires #ElonMusk #MarkZuckerberg #tech #technology #BigTech
@pluralistic Loving your latest book _The Internet Con_! But I can't find the TikTok logo in the **quadrants of evil** chart (upper right corner), p.36, or "off the charts" on the inside back cover. Am I missing something?
Background: The text mentions that TikTok is "off the charts" on the inside back cover. The inside back cover is a blank page.
#CoryDoctorow #TheInternetCon #BigTech #Enshittification #Surveillance #Privacy #EFF #Monopoly #bookstodon #books #writing
Tja. Big-tech en privacy gaan gewoon niet samen.
"Instagram in VS nu ook beschuldigd van illegaal verzamelen van data kinderen"
(Via #nunl ) #privacy #bigtech
https://www.nu.nl/economie/6291384/instagram-in-vs-nu-ook-beschuldigd-van-illegaal-verzamelen-van-data-kinderen.html
facebook: Pffff, war jetzt nicht bei allen facebook Konten so einfach, sie zu löschen. Verknüpfte Meta accounts, eigene facebook Seiten, Editierrechte an Seiten anderer, Unternehmenskonten, facebook apps... alles schön miteinander verquickt. Und ein halbwegs datensparsam eingerichteter Browser verhindert zudem die Löschfunktion "Es ist ein Fehler aufgetreten". Aber jetzt ist es vollbracht: In 30 Tagen sind die Konten endgültig wäch. 😁 #facebook #meta #bigtech #gafam #privacy #dsgvo #datenschutz
@Das_blaue_Pony wer lieber liest statt hört, da gab es gerade auch im #Kölner Stadtanzeiger ein Interview :
ksta.de/kultur-medien/martin-a…
"Mein Hauptkritikpunkt: Das Netz ist zwar reguliert, aber es ist falsch reguliert, weil nichts gegen die Konzentrations-Effekte unternommen wird. Wir müssten nur ein paar Schalter umlegen und hätten sofort wieder Wettbewerb. Ein Beispiel: Warum sagen wir den Plattformen nicht, dass Sie kein Recht dazu haben, Links, die nach draußen auf andere Websites führen, zu begrenzen? Das muss überall erlaubt sein – auch ohne, dass solche Posts benachteiligt werden, indem die Beiträge weniger sichtbar sind.
Haben die Kartellbehörden versagt?
Das Thema frustriert mich total. Die Kartellbehörden werden von unserer demokratischen Gesellschaft dafür bezahlt, dass sie die Menschen vor solchen gefährlichen Effekten beschützen. Die Kartellbehörden besäßen die nötige Macht und Autorität, um genau das umzusetzen. Sie lassen sich seit vielen Jahren von #BigTech hinters Licht führen. Seit vielen Jahren werden Hunderte von Unternehmen aufgekauft, Wettbewerber, die zerstört oder integriert werden. Hätte das jemand verhindert, hätten wir heute eine wunderbar pluralistische und vielfältige Internetlandschaft.
Was könnte Deutschland denn allein tun – ohne internationale Abstimmung?
Wir können selbst darüber entscheiden, wie wir in diesem Land leben wollen und unser Mediensystem gestalten wollen. Wir können auch frei über die Regeln bestimmen, nachdem die Unternehmen in Deutschland tätig sein sollten. Stellen Sie sich vor, wir würden den Digitalkonzernen sagen: Das sind die Regeln in Deutschland. Bitte befolgt die, sonst dürft ihr auf diesem oder jedem Feld nicht mehr wirtschaftlich in Deutschland tätig sein. Eine Argumentation könnte sein: Wenn ihr euch als Intermediäre bezeichnet und deshalb nicht für Inhalte verantwortlich gemacht werden könnt, dann dürfte ihr auch keine Inhalte monetarisieren. Wie kann es denn sein, dass die Digitalkonzerne genauso mit Inhalten Geld verdienen, wie das Redaktionen tun, aber sie müssen keine Verantwortung für die Inhalte übernehmen?
Versteht die Politik das Problem?
Das Hauptproblem für die Politik ist, dass es keine wirklich existierende Debatte über diese Monopole und Vormachtstellung gibt. Die Politik braucht das aber, weil sie ja Stimmen bekommen will von den Wählerinnen und Wählern. Beim Klimawandel gab es sehr viel Präsenz in den Medien, was dazu geführt hat, dass sich eine öffentliche Meinung zum Thema gebildet hat. Diese Debatte haben wir in Bezug auf Big Tech aber noch nicht."
Ist #MartinAndree eigentlich auch im #Fediverse unterwegs ? 🧐
@Elektrotier
"Challenging each other to cage fights, building apocalypse bunkers the behaviour of today’s mega-moguls is becoming increasingly outlandish and imperial. Unlike their forebears, contemporary billionaires do not hope to build the biggest house in town, but the biggest colony on the moon. Billionaires appear to understand civics and civilians as impediments to their progress, necessary victims of the externalities of their companies’ growth." (D. Ruskkoff)
#bigtech #gafam
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/25/we-will-coup-whoever-we-want-the-unbearable-hubris-of-musk-and-the-billionaire-tech-bros
#TargetedIndividual #BigTech #MKUltra #Neuralink #DOD Tech that aims to read your mind and probe your memories is already here https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/03/17/1069897/tech-read-your-mind-probe-your-memories/
Bay Area nonprofit #Signal shows how bloated tech companies have become
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/signal-meta-google-too-big-18496594.php\
Was fun to write this for @lukeoneil47 Welcome to Hellworld. A little history on how we got to the current wave of terrible Internet censorship bills in Congress, and how we stop them https://www.welcometohellworld.com/an-unholy-alliance/
#KOSA #EarnItAct #BigTech #Surveillance #FreeSpeech #HumanRights #LGBTQ #tech #technology #techpolicy #contentmoderation #antitrust #privacy
"I argue against the digital amplification of capitalism. [...] I think we should prioritize human well-being, local connections, and real-life experiences over digital dominance and virtual predation."
Against The Tech Bros — Interview with Douglas Rushkoff
https://purple.fr/magazine/none/douglas-rushkoff/
#bigtech
Just turned in my last 'shorter' imperfect offering for a while, as I need to focus on other writing. Some longer pieces are still in the offing. I hope 'imperfect, but sometimes on the money' does not disappoint followers of #AIinEducation, #GenerativeAI or #BigTech https://helenbeetham.substack.com/p/imperfect-but-not-wrong
Yes, indeed, the many zero guesses were right: The huge-ass blobs are the Adobe suite, Microsoft office & Google Chrome - also known as "Tech giants feeling fairly confident they have you by the balls because they've bought and/or killed every single alternative you might choose when you get enough of being treated like shit by them"...
#AI #GenerativeAI #ChatGPT #OpenAI #BigTech: "Some tech execs have voiced concern that the development of artificial intelligence is concentrated in the hands of too few companies, potentially giving them excessive control over the rapidly evolving technology.
An explosion of interest in AI was sparked by OpenAI’s ChatGPT late last year thanks to the novel way in which the chatbot can answer user prompts.
Its popularity contributed to the start of what many in the tech industry have called an AI arms race, as tech giants including Microsoft and Google seek to develop and launch their own artificial intelligence models. These require huge amounts of computing power as they are trained on massive amounts of data."
Neue Lektüre gekauft. Wo, wenn nicht im Fediverse kann man das besprechen... bin gespannt #GAFAM #BigTech #demokratie
One of the primary reasons I want #UBPorts #UbuntuTouch on a phone is to have a trusted small mobile device to sync with #NextCloud to get to my files, calendar and contacts. I don't host that on #bigtech servers. However, not all of that works on #UbuntuTouch. I bought a #PinePhone but it is slow and unstable. I bought a Pixel 3a for #UbuntuTouch but I can't run many other #Linux mobile distributions on it.
Are there any pocketable devices that I could run #Linux on, that #NextCloud works on?
Will this #AGI nonsense ever stop? If they are so afraid of this new #technology then just stop building it! 🤔
AI Act: Le Big Tech hanno avuto un accesso sproporzionato ai vertici politici europei
Un rapporto basato su documenti interni e analisi dei dati del Corporate Europe Observatory afferma che durante i negoziati del #AIAct, le #BigTech sono riuscite a indebolire o limitare la regolamentazione: i diritti fondamentali e la tutela del diritto d’autore e dell’ambiente vengono sacrificati in nome dei profitti aziendali.
@aitech
https://corporateeurope.org/en/2023/11/byte-byte
@GottaLaff The problem with this argument is that everyone is Xitting into a black box, one that likely amplifies what the owner wants amplified, and suppresses what he doesn't.
Why treat X any different than Gab or Truth Social? 🤔
Those that remain on X are likely doing more harm than good by legitimizing the platform, assisting the owner in his attempts to reshape our information spaces in a way that suits his needs, not ours.
@tedcurran @freedomboxfndn @liliputing freemium GAFAM offerings locked-in many individual and small teams and now that the free ride finished things are complicated for those who opted in with #bigtech.
@pluralistic & 'Don't be evil'... https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/22/who-wins-the-argument/ From the article: Enshittification is "a 3-stage process: first surpluses are allocated to users until they are locked in. Then they are withdrawn and given to business-customers until they are locked in. Then all the value is harvested for the company's shareholders, leaving just enough residual value in the service to keep both end-users and business-customers glued to the platform." #BigTech
Good essay about "forces that led to the Great Enshittening", @pluralistic .
"When internal factions at tech companies argue about whether to make their services worse, there's a heavy weight tilting the scales towards enshittification."
"This is the culprit: monopoly, and its handmaiden, regulatory capture. That's why today's antimonopoly movement... are so important. "
After the events of last days, I hope that more and more people are taking #bigtech’s version of what #AI is a bit less serious? This clearly is a major money cow for the sector where we, the public, are supposed to bèta test their fundamentally flawed and potentially dangerous #technology.
#generativeAI #hype #OpenAI #SamAltman #LLM
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/22/sam-altman-openai-ceo-return-board-chatgp
#5yrsago #CBC’s longstanding tech columnist condemns the broadcaster’s cozy relationship with Facebook https://memex.craphound.com/2018/11/22/cbcs-longstanding-tech-columnist-condemns-the-broadcasters-cozy-relationship-with-facebook/
#5yrsago Let’s get artists paid by making #BigTech pay them, not by creating EU copyright filters https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/11/article-13-if-you-want-force-google-pay-artists-more-force-google-pay-artists-more
#1yrago #TaxPrep services send sensitive financial info to Facebook https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/22/free-file-now/#still-the-product
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Facing pressure in India, Netflix and Amazon back down on daring films
In the last four years, a chill has swept through the streaming industry in India as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party tightened its grip on the country’s political discourse and the American technology platforms that host it.
#OTT #entertainment #netflix #amazon #PrimeVideo #spotify #RSS #BJP #hindutva #dissent #censorship #AnuragKashyap #fascism #cinema #kollywood #HindiCinema #streaming #BigTech #india
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/20/india-netflix-amazon-movies-self-censorship/
Googles Plan zur Klimaneutralität über die gesamte Wertschöpfungskette
US-Internetkonzern Google schärft seine Klimapolitik: Das Ziel Netto-Null-Emissionen bezieht sich jetzt auf die gesamte Wertschöpfungskette. Erstmals warnt der Konzern auch vor Extremwetter an vielen Standorten. Christiane @SchulzkiHaddouti hat sich die Zahlen angesehen:
https://www.riffreporter.de/de/technik/googles-ambitionierter-weg-zur-klimaneutralitaet-ueber-die-gesamte-wertschoepfungskette
#cop28 #cop28uae #google #bigtech #Klimaneutralitaet #klimaneutral #scope3
Economia #BigTech
Quanto vale l'accordo tra #Alphabet e #Apple per avere #Google come motore di ricerca di default?
Apple riceve da G 19 $ miliardi/anno; è circa un quarto dei suoi ricavi da servizi ed è puro profitto.
La capitalizzazione di A è 24 volte i suoi profitti, quindi per gli azionisti i soldini di G pesano per circa 450 $ miliardi
(fonte: Reuters)
I maligni potrebbero pensare che c'era un motivo per cui i manager di A non volevano testimoniare al processo.
« Underage Workers Are Training AI »
« Companies that provide #BigTech with #AI data-labeling services are inadvertently hiring young teens to work on their platforms, often exposing them to traumatic content […]
Many of the remote workers in Pakistan are underage, Hassan says. He conducted a survey of 96 respondents on a Telegram group chat with almost 10,000 UHRS workers, on behalf of WIRED. About a fifth said they were under 18. »
› https://www.wired.co.uk/article/artificial-intelligence-data-labeling-children
If you ever wonder what a “not-for-profit that owns a for-profit” means or who really calls the shots at such a Silicon Valley “not-for-profit”, remember this.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/22/sam-altman-openai-ceo-return-board-chatgpt
Hint: always follow the money.
PS. What other organisation can you think of that’s a “not-for-profit that owns a for-profit” and gets all its money from a surveillance capitalist? 🤔
#microsoft #openAI #whosYourDaddy #google #mozilla #BigTech #PR
Now that Palantir has ben awarded the #data management contract for #NHS & despite new #health secretary, Victoria Atkins, telling us that 'data will not leave the UK', the Q. all patients need to be asking themselves is: do you trust the word of #BigTech not to harvest your data?
Experience suggests that might be a little shortsighted; what they say now & what they later find financially advantageous are not necessarily the same thing!
Good data is a #publichealth necessity but so is trust!
@ErikJonker And please let’s stop hyping up the #bigtech narrative that these generative #ai tools will disrupt the workplace as we know it. They most likely won’t. Non-transparency, non-explainability an non-interpretability is a major showstopper. These tools are merely content generators and we should be way more pragmatic about it. 😉
Spoke with @timothep for @devjourney on #SmallWeb and more and the podcast is now out.
Listen at:
https://devjourney.info/Guests/280-AralBalkan
(Or wherever you get your podcasts.)
💕
#podcast #devJourney #SmallTech #BigTech #web #dev #design #decentralisation #technology #kitten
NEW POST:
✍ Why Do We Stay In Scornful Big Tech Relationships?
🔎 Once again, I find myself contemplating a breakup with a Big Tech company.
👤 Dave Mason
#BigTech
#Privacy
#Surveillance
#Capitalism
#Enshittification
https://www.davemason.me/2023/11/21/why-do-we-stay-in-scornful-big-tech-relationships
A monumental work in progress is...
Becoming independent of #BigTech online. Is it even fully possible?
@andrew @pluralistic @lisamelton locking in all value for themselves and their shareholders is the only way in which #BigTech is endlessly, ubiquitously, smotheringly innovative, all over the whole internet. You will GET in their silos and you will WATCH their ads. You will NOT LEAVE. They will SEE every tap and click and scroll of your activity and DATAMINE it to death. You will NOT access from elsewhere. #enshittification
This is becoming more entertaining than a soapserie. I think we might be witnessing the implosion of the #AI #AGI hype. Just like we have seen with #cryptocurrency, the #metaverse, #blockchain etc. before. Offcourse some tech-optimists will tell us that this time it is different. 🥱
...and that's a wrap! 🌯
Thanks to all who attended the talks by our CEO @jon at the @websummit, and let's keep working together for a better #web for everyone!
YouTube cracks down on synthetic media with AI disclosure requirement by #ArsTechnica
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/11/youtube-will-require-creators-to-disclose-realistic-ai-generated-or-altered-content/
#BigTech #edtechSR #Google #YouTube #MediaLit #DigCit #AI #GenerativeAI
"There is no such thing as human rights. There is only identity politics and culture war, which are profit centres."
https://crookedtimber.org/2023/11/15/silicon-valleys-worldview-is-not-just-an-ideology-its-a-personality-disorder/
#BigTech #SiliconValley #Oligarchs
“#BigTech companies calling for government help is to me like a circle of anonymous alcoholics, ‘I need help because I can't stop myself’. These are the big companies getting hundreds of millions of dollars from the capital market, and who now go to governments telling ‘we don't know what we're doing’. This cannot be. With big power comes big responsibility to society.” — Roberto Viola, DGCNECT at #NGIForum23 @EC_NGI
Livestream: https://ngiforum2023.eu/live-streaming/plenaries-sessions-15-11/
#DSA #AIAct
«Most of us think of a #Luddite as someone who is anti-technology or fearful of it, but as LA Times tech columnist Brian Merchant points out in his new book Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the #Rebellion Against #BigTech, they were #technologists themselves who simply questioned the ways it was being used against them.»
Microsoft, Google will not challenge EU gatekeeper status
Microsoft and Google will not challenge an EU law requiring them to make it easier for users to move between competing services such as social media platforms and internet browsers.
#News #EuropeanNews #Europe #EU #EuropeanUnion #Google #Alphabet #BigTech #Microsoft
⚠️ New concerns raised against #Microsoft, this time for the behaviour of the new #Outlook.
According to @heiseonline, the giant #tech company is requesting the transfer of emails and IMAP and SMTP credentials to their servers, thus giving them "full access to all emails".
The Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of Germany, @bfdi, has said he will bring the topic up at a meeting of the European Data Protection Board taking place today.
Our tip: get away from #BigTech and switch to a powerful #mailclient that doesn’t compromise your privacy!
https://www.heise.de/news/Microsoft-lays-hands-on-login-data-Beware-of-the-new-Outlook-9358925.html
:tony_grinning: ➡️ https://vivaldi.com/mail ⬅️ :tony_grinning:
#5yrsago Congressional Democrats’ first bill aims to end #gerrymandering, increase voter registration and rein in campaign finance https://www.npr.org/2018/11/12/665635832/democrats-say-their-first-bill-will-focus-on-strengthening-democracy-at-home
#5yrsago #BigTech got big because we stopped enforcing #antitrust law (not because tech is intrinsically monopolistic) https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-curse-of-bigness/
#5yrsago A catalog of ingenious cheats developed by #MachineLearning systems https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vRPiprOaC3HsCf5Tuum8bRfzYUiKLRqJmbOoC-32JorNdfyTiRRsR7Ea5eWtvsWzuxo8bjOxCG84dAg/pubhtml
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The European Commission has sent formal requests for information to YouTube and TikTok on the firms' child protection obligations. Commissioner Thierry Breton had said that child protection is an "enforcement priority."
The move comes as the EU works to rein in tech giants after the passing of the Digital Services Act (DSA), which came into effect in August.
https://www.dw.com/en/eu-launches-tiktok-youtube-child-protection-probe/a-67356279
Apple suffers setback in fight against EU's $14 billion tax order
An EU tribunal made legal errors when it ruled in favour of Apple over a 13-billion-euro ($14 billion) tax order and should review the case again, an adviser to Europe's top court said on Thursday, in a potential setback for the iPhone maker.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-court-adviser-backs-eus-14-bln-tax-order-apple-2023-11-09/
#News #EuropeanNews #Europe #EU #EuropeanUnion #Apple #BigTech
#BigTech #Google #Mobile #Search #Antitrust #Monopolies: "There’s a setting on your phone and web browser that Google is desperate to keep you from discovering. How desperate? In 2021 alone, Google paid Apple, Samsung and others $26.3 billion to keep it buried.
That’s more money each year than McDonald’s makes selling burgers.
This setting affects who gets to track your location and watch what you look up online. It affects the usefulness of the information you see and how much of your screen is taken up by ads.
I’m talking about your search engine — what pops up the answers when you type into the search bar. Google pays the makers of phones, laptops and browsers to be your default and to stop them from even presenting you other options during setup. It’s billions for a favor.
Most people haven’t thought much about the search function on their devices, much less how Google got there. But this default funny business might make you take a second look at not only Google, but also your trust in Apple, Samsung and other companies for selling you out."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/08/google-search-default-iphone-samsung/
1. Read this:
“Just as GitHub was founded on Git, today we are re-founded on Copilot.”
2. Go here:
#git #gitHub #codeberg #enshittification #BigTech #cooperative #dev
@hrheingold As part of a move away from #BigTech, I've started self-hosting #Nextcloud. The #Bookmarks app allows the sharing of bookmarks and generates an #RSS feed which can be consumed by the News app so I can bookmark stuff #ToRead (along with any #Mastodon Bookmarks & other RSS #NewsFeeds). Almost like the good old days of Delcious & Bloglines!
YouTube’s Ad Blocker Detection Believed to Break EU Privacy Law
A complaint filed with the EU’s independent data regulator accuses YouTube of failing to get explicit user permission for its ad blocker detection system, potentially violating the ePrivacy Directive.
https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-ad-blocker-detection-eu-privacy-law/
#News #EuropeanNews #Europe #EU #EuropeanUnion #Adblock #YouTube #Google #BigTech #Privacy