Amen brother.
Atheism news of the day: Myspace deletes atheist group. And watch the “Four Horsemen” (Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens) discuss religion on video: part one and part two.
The rise of ambient awareness.
This is one of the reasons I stay away from facebook.
This is one of the reasons I stay away from facebook.
If you really have to be on Facebook, use Firefox with this extension.
Amusing prank that shows how privacy can be a privilege of the wealthy who hoover up everyone else’s.
“Facebook gives people the appearance of choice and then carefully directs users to making the right ones”.
The Irish Data Protection Commission just validated Facebook's "unusual" reading of the GDPR. Facebook having its European HQ in Ireland doesn't inspire faith in their impartiality, of course.
Max Schrems:
The DPC developed the 'GDPR bypass' with Facebook, that it is now greenlighting as a regulator. Instead of a regulator, it acts as a ‘big tech’ advisor.
It's probable the other European DPCs won't let this pass but it's more proof the system needs an overhaul.
There are many things to abhor about Mark Zuckerberg and his works, but the fundamental mediocrity of it all—the lack of vision, the absence of any moral sense or shame, the inability and unwillingness not just to fix but even reckon with the dangerous and ungovernable thing he’s made—is what feels both most egregious and most of this moment. It is embarrassing and not a little enraging to realize that you are subject to the whims of an amoral and incurious capitalist posing as a visionary optimist. It is especially humiliating when the all-bestriding and inevitable figure in question is such a dim, dull nullity.
An excellent assessment of Marc Zuckerberg and his complete lack of character and morality.
Because they aren't creepy enough, Facebook have been found to be using the accelerometer on iPhones to track all their owners' movements. Just delete your account.
