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Month: April 2019

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Facebook Showed Me My Data Is Everywhere And I Have Absolutely No Control Over It

Chris M.
| April 16th, 2019

πŸ”– Bookmarked: Facebook Showed Me My Data Is Everywhere And I Have Absolutely No Control Over It

“A transparency tool on Facebook inadvertently provides a window into the confusing maze of companies you’ve never heard of who appear to have your data.”

I came across this Advertisers page by chance, a few weeks ago, and I was horrifed. Over 700 advertisers with my details, the vast, vast, majority of whom I had never heard of – let alone consent to them having my details. Why would I consent to what feels like every independant Realtor (“Estate Agent” for us Brits) in the US having my details? “Best Kickstarter <category>” was another popular set. And these are just the ones on Facebook.

As the article points out, there’s no way to know how these advertisers got my details, or what to do to get them to remove my data. All I can do is “hide” their ads. That’s not a solution.

If Facebook wanted to earn some good will then they would update this page to include some sort of automated “remove my details” request to the data brokers, perhaps via GDPR notices.

 

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Chris M.
| April 15th, 2019

πŸ’– Liked: Scammer asks for password, gets his database wiped by prospective victim

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Chris M.
| April 15th, 2019

πŸ’– Liked: inessential: More Thoughts at Random on Blog Search Engines

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Chris M.
| April 13th, 2019

πŸ’– Liked: inessential: Wishing for Blog Search Engines

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Online trolls are harassing a scientist who helped take the first picture of a black hole

Chris M.
| April 13th, 2019

πŸ”– Bookmarked: Online trolls are harassing a scientist who helped take the first picture of a black hole

“Black holes don’t suck, but sometimes the internet does”

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Color Me FACE1E55 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts

Chris M.
| April 4th, 2019

πŸ”– Bookmarked: Color Me FACE1E55

“There’s a long history in computer programming of using hexadecimal strings that look like English words to flag errors. Come see how I turned a bunch of them into colors.”

I genuinely had no idea 8-character hex codes were even coming to CSS – let alone supported!

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Chris M.
| April 4th, 2019

πŸ’– Liked: Captain Marvel is officially a $1 billion box office hit by Alex Abad-Santos

“Captain Marvel joins the likes of Black Panther, The Avengers, and Captain America: Civil War in Marvel’s billion-dollar box office club.”

Alex Abad-Santos (Vox)
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EU’s Never Ending Quest To Rip The Internet And Free Expression To Shreds Continues With The Terrorist Content Regulation

Chris M.
| April 4th, 2019

πŸ”– Bookmarked: EU's Never Ending Quest To Rip The Internet And Free Expression To Shreds Continues With The Terrorist Content Regulation

“Many of us are still getting over the insanity of the EU’s Copyright Directive decision, and already we need to worry about the next awful EU regulation on the horizon: the EU’s Terrorist Content Regulation which is significantly worse than…”

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App Developers Left 540 Million Facebook Users’ Records on the Public Internet

Chris M.
| April 4th, 2019

πŸ”– Bookmarked: App Developers Left 540 Million Facebook Users' Records on the Public Internet by Joseph Cox

“The exposures didn’t come from Facebook itself, but do show how data generated by one company can end up exposed thanks to another service.”

Joseph Cox (Motherboard)
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How extremism came to thrive on YouTube – The Verge

Chris M.
| April 3rd, 2019

πŸ”– Bookmarked: How extremism came to thrive on YouTube by

“Executives ignored the problem until it was already a key pillar of the platform”

(The Verge)
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Chris M.
| April 2nd, 2019

πŸ’– Liked: I finally did it. Koype’s first theme. - Jacky AlcinΓ© by Jacky AlcinΓ©

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Chris M.
| April 2nd, 2019

πŸ’– Liked: UK ISPs now automatically refund customers Β£8 a day for Internet outages by Jon Brodkin

“Β£8-per-day refunds begin if service isn’t restored within two days.”

Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
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Chris M.
| April 2nd, 2019

πŸ’– Liked: Man gets plane all to himself when flight unintentionally sells only one ticket

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YouTube Decides to Leave Neo-Nazi Propaganda Online

Chris M.
| April 2nd, 2019

πŸ”– Bookmarked: YouTube Decides to Leave Neo-Nazi Propaganda Online by Ben Makuch

“Neo-Nazi propaganda, podcasts, and audiobooks continue to exist on YouTube. Even when alerted to their existence, the platform demonetized and removed some features from them, but did not delete the videos.”

Ben Makuch (Motherboard)
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YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Let Toxic Videos Run Rampant – Bloomberg

Chris M.
| April 2nd, 2019

πŸ”– Bookmarked: YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant

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Chris M.
| April 2nd, 2019

πŸ’– Liked: Battle Sister Bulletin 4: Seraphim First Look - Warhammer Community

“It’s that time again – by which, of course, we mean time for your next Battle Sister Bulletin! This is an …”

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Chris M.
| April 2nd, 2019

πŸ’– Liked: Climate Change Activists Stripped Semi-Naked In British Parliament by Sarah Emerson

“β€œThere is an emergency. It is not Brexit. It is the climate and ecological emergency.””

Sarah Emerson (Motherboard)
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Scotland from above – our 3D map viewer with new vertical exaggeration – National Library of Scotland Blog

Chris M.
| April 1st, 2019

πŸ”– Bookmarked: Scotland from above – our 3D map viewer with new vertical exaggeration – National Library of Scotland Blog

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Chris M.
| April 1st, 2019

πŸ’– Liked: Old maps of Scotland impressed upon 3D elevation models

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Chris M.
| April 1st, 2019

πŸ’– Liked: Three Lessons In Content Moderation From New Zealand And Other High-Profile Tragedies

“Following the terrorist attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, social media companies and internet platforms have faced renewed scrutiny and criticism for how they police the sharing of content. Much of that criticism has been directed…”

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The true dollar cost of the anti-vaccine movement | Ars Technica

Chris M.
| April 1st, 2019

πŸ”– Bookmarked: The true dollar cost of the anti-vaccine movement by WIRED

“Necessary bills for unnecessary outbreaks are being paid by all of us.”

WIRED (Ars Technica)
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Europe is splitting the internet into three – The Verge

Chris M.
| April 1st, 2019

πŸ”– Bookmarked: Europe is splitting the internet into three by

“How the Copyright Directive reshapes the open web”

(The Verge)
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Chris M.
| April 1st, 2019

πŸ’– Liked: Curis on Twitter

“β€œGot a new Adeptus Astartes Kill Team planned! Going for an early 1990s vibe.””

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Chris M.
| April 1st, 2019

πŸ”– Bookmarked: Why Garfield phones have littered French beaches for 35 years β€” Engadget

“There’s no better symbol of plastic ocean pollution and ’80s consumerism gone wild than the Garfield phones of Brittany. The handsets, in the form of the aggressively unfunny cat, have been washing up on French beaches for decades.However, the novelty has long since worn off for residents who have been picking them up since the ’80s.”

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