Evan @evanskaufman@fosstodon.org

It drives me absolutely insane to think that Google makes BILLIONS of dollars a year, but can't be bothered to let their own employees support their customers. Instead they expect community members to do all the work. Except, oh yeah, community members DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO HELP YOU WITH ACCOUNT DETAILS ETC, so they become effectively useless.

If you’re in [whatever tech position: developer, CEO, UX…], take a moment to read this thread on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KittyGiraudel/status/1377997160206188546

This is the most important thread you have to read, re-read, think about and share until everyone around you at work (including you!) become better versions of themselves.

Robocalls...
https://gizmodo.com/robocalls-may-get-worse-soon-and-you-can-blame-faceboo-1846601707

Police #Surveillance Can't Be Reformed. It Must Be Abolished

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgzj7n/police-surveillance-cant-be-reformed-it-must-be-abolished

𝙏-𝙈𝙤𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙨𝙤𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙚𝙣𝙧𝙤𝙡𝙡 𝙘𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙖𝙙 𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙢

"The US telecom T-Mobile has revealed that it will soon start automatically enrolling its customers in a new program that will use their web and device usage data for its own as well as third-party advertising."

"Concerned customers will need to manually opt out of the new program"

https://www.techradar.com/news/t-mobile-will-soon-automatically-enroll-customers-in-a-new-ad-targeting-program

#privacy #tracking #tmobile #news

If you use Sentry to track errors on your project, try @glitchtip!

Ideally, you just swap out your Sentry DSN for a GlitchTip DSN, and you'll be up and running. Would love to hear from people on Fosstodon if it works that way in the real world.

https://glitchtip.com/

The FBI Should Stop Attacking #Encryption and Tell Congress About All the Encrypted Phones It’s Already Hacking Into

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/fbi-should-stop-attacking-encryption-and-tell-congress-about-all-encrypted-phones

**'A No-Brainer—And Long Overdue': Report Finds Raising Minimum Wage to $15 Would Boost Pay of 32 Million**

"Jessica Corbett, staff writer: Three-quarters of the workers who would benefit are represented by senators who opposed including the pay hike in the next relief package.: "

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/03/09/no-brainer-and-long-overdue-report-finds-raising-minimum-wage-15-would-boost-pay-32?cd-origin=rss

#news #bot

How Amazon Assistant lets Amazon track your every move on the web | Almost Secure
https://palant.info/2021/03/08/how-amazon-assistant-lets-amazon-track-your-every-move-on-the-web/

Ever been *magically* locked out of your Google account?

https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/03/08/when-google-locks-you-out-of-your-account-begging-the-internet-for-help-is-your-first-and-last-resort/

Idk, would make me nervous that someone would be able to lock my account with no recourse for recovery, just because my account was hacked and then used for nefarious activity.

Lose access to my email (and whatever services the hacker gained access to using recovery tools that rely on access to email), my adsense account, all my contacts, all my calendar, etc. all at once.

Leave Google while you still can

This is theft

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/06/974417969/texas-wont-reduce-16-billion-in-electricity-charges-from-winter-storm

Mental Health Apps Aren't All As Private As You May Think

https://www.consumerreports.org/health-privacy/mental-health-apps-and-user-privacy/

𝙂𝙤𝙤𝙜𝙡𝙚’𝙨 𝙁𝙇𝙤𝘾 𝙄𝙨 𝙖 𝙏𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙄𝙙𝙚𝙖

Google is leading the charge to replace third-party cookies with a new suite of technologies to target ads on the Web.

FLoC is meant to be a new way to make your browser do the profiling that third-party trackers used to do themselves: in this case, boiling down your recent browsing activity into a behavioral label, and then sharing it with websites and advertisers.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-idea

#floc #privacy #google #web #eff