Search results for tag #data
Less data centers and more community gardens
#data #tech #garden #community #environment #food #sustainability
RE: https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@openrightsgroup/116075899448316866
I've mostly started over in terms of my online accounts. Deleted almost everything.
- Services like reddit, I can usually get what I want just by browsing without an account.
- The only social site I have an account on is Mastodon.
- Chat/group chat is Signal
If you don't NEED an account delete it, don't create one. Weed out everything and minimize your exposure to invasive data collection and surveillance. And, when you do sign-up for a service, use an alias-email offered by services like Proton or MySudo. Generally, just be more proactive in what services you use and how you use them. And be willing to walk away from them if they start to get grabby.
And take a hard line with your family and friends. Compromise less or not at all. In 2026 privacy is the priority, not convenience.
I don't want or need most of the services I've come across.
#privacy #surveillance #fascism #data #tech
#Roblox, #Reddit and #Discord users must use biometric #ageverification tool backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel
@JamesBaker says:
“People are worried, and angry, about having to hand over biometric scans of their face to overseas companies just to access online platforms. This includes children.
“Users deserve to know who is behind these systems, how their data is being used, and to have a real choice about who verifies their identity online.”
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L'État comble systématiquement les défaillances de paiement des parents redevables, mais ignore totalement le montant qu'il pourrait récupérer, créant un gouffre financier opaque.
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The state spends billions covering parental defaults but lacks the data to systematically recover these funds, creating a costly accountability gap.
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Der Staat kompensiert milliardenschwere Unterhaltsausfälle, ohne systematisch zu erfassen, wer die Gelder zurückzahlen könnte.
When I was in #business school (back when dinos roamed the earth) the problem was we didn't have enough #data. So much of our business school education was around how to find data, how to collect data, how to make decisions with limited data.
Today we have the opposite problem. We're DROWNING in data...but now we have to figure out how to sort out the signal from the noise. How to identify which data is actionable and make good decisions from that.
(Dino GIF for amusement)
Name suffixes - a mark of the patriarchy.
This is a summary table of a registered voter list for a county in New Mexico (United States). The occurrence count of various name suffixes is further broken down by gender.
I have no idea how this may compare to name suffixes in other countries, other cultures.
This is not a scientific study. There are all sorts of problems, such as selection bias.
But the difference in occurrence between men and women is huge.
#Patriarchy #Feminism #Data #Math #Culture #GenderEquality #Statistics
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A summary table that shows various name suffixes (2nd, 4th, SR, etc.) that is further broken down by gender. The difference in occurrence between men and women is huge.
This week's net.wars, "Whooped", watches the recent Australian Open, where the powers that be disagreed about whether #tennis players could wear Whoop fitness tracker bands in competition: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/02/13/whooped/ #NetWars #data
Just opened a client spreadsheet that goes out to column BIX. BIX! That’s 1,610 columns!!!!
Who TF works like this?! 🤯
#Excel #spreadsheet #data
ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found that DHS rushed a revamped tool to check voters’ citizenship into use while it was still adding data.
As a result, the tool has made persistent mistakes, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.
https://www.propublica.org/article/save-voter-citizenship-tool-mistakes-confusion?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Vote #Election #DHS #Texas #Missouri #Data #Law #USPolitics
The best idea is not to use #TikTok !
TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app. Here's how to stop it
„TikTok keeps track of everything you do on its app – no surprises there. What's less obvious is how the company follows you around other parts of the internet that have nothing to do with TikTok.
In fact, TikTok collects sensitive and potentially embarrassing information about you even if you've never used the app. Over the past week, I've watched websites sending TikTok data about cancer diagnoses, fertility and even mental health crises. It's part of a tracking empire that extends far beyond the social media platform. Now, thanks to a new set of features, TikTok is poised to expand its network and see even more details about your life….“
Israeli exec at Paragon accidentally exposed Graphite spyware dashboard on LinkedIn—real-time access to Czech user's WhatsApp, Signal, geolocation, camera/mic via zero-click exploits 🔍
Post deleted, shows US agency sales after Trump lifted rights bans, fueling surveillance concerns ⚠️
🔗 https://news-pravda.com/world/2026/02/12/2071096.html
#TechNews #Privacy #Spyware #Security #Surveillance #Cybersecurity #Data #Encryption #Graphite #HumanRights #Tech #FOSS #DigitalRights #Cyber #Israel #Paragon #CzechRepublic #US #Trump
France launches "LaSuite," an open-source office suite for digital sovereignty, reducing reliance on foreign proprietary software. 🖥️
Built on Matrix/TChap, LiveKit/Visio, Grist, and Drive—all MIT-licensed for any organization to deploy. 🇪🇺
🔗 https://www.sinologic.net/en/2026-01/france-chooses-open-source-to-secure-european-sovereignty.html
#TechNews #OpenSource #France #French #DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #Matrix #Privacy #EU #Security #Software #Linux #SelfHost #Government #Europe #Data #IT #PublicSector #Microsoft #Office #Tech #Cloud #LibreOffice
There is a law protecting personal privacy, especially for minors/children (online) Therefore, I view the use of personal photos/names from Gaza with concern - Furthermore, any public distribution of personal #data can lead to phishing attacks targeting those affected
🔹 Technical safeguards for family data are therefore essential
Distribution on various platforms must also be regulated with #security measures US search engines can intercept personal from Gaza
GROK, Midjourney, Dall-E2, Stable Diffusion y varios modelos más de IA generativa fueron entrenados con material de abus0 s3xual infantil (CSAM), material de vi0laci0nes, p0rn0grafía, estereotipos malignos, insultos racistas y étnicos, y otros contenidos extremadamente problemáticos 🚨
Informe completo: https://arteesetica.org/misoginia-pornografia-y-estereotipos-malignos/
HILO 🧵
#AI #IA #GROK #IAgenerativa #genAI #dataset #midjourney #StableDiffusion #ElonMusk #porn #NSFW #sex #training #LAION #data
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Misoginia, pornografía y estereotipos malignos
El problema no es sólo cómo se usa, sino cómo se entrena una IA generativa
A. Birhane, V. U. Prabhu, and E. Kahembwe, «Multimodal datasets:
Misogyny, pornography, and malignant stereotypes» 2021
https://www.instagram.com/p/DUhvRRJDtjA/?img_index=1
The Trump administration’s push for mass deportations has resulted in more than 18,000 challenges in federal court from immigrants claiming their detention is illegal.
We are tracking the increase in these cases:
https://projects.propublica.org/habeas-tracker/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #Immigration #Research #Data #Law #USPolitics #Legal
💠 Holographic storage used to be the stuff of science fiction or expensive, failed experiments. We usually expect massive capacity at the cost of proprietary hardware that forces us to throw away everything we already built. HoloMem is taking a different path by making holographic tech work inside the tape libraries you already have in your data center. 😳 The move from magnetic tape to light-sensitive polymer ribbons is the core of this change. These cartridges look like standard LTO units but hold eleven times the data on a ribbon that is ten times shorter. Because the polymer is physically stable, you can turn off the air conditioning in your archive room and walk away for fifty years.
🧠 The system uses a five-dollar laser diode to write data as volumetric voxels.
⚡ One 200TB cartridge replaces more than ten LTO-10 tapes.
🎓 Software sees the HoloDrive as a standard LTO device for easy adoption.
🔍 Field trials in UK data centers show the tech works with existing robotic arms.
https://www.techtarget.com/searchstorage/news/366638887/HoloMem-demos-backward-compatible-holographic-storage
#Storage #DataCenter #TechTrends #security #privacy #cloud #infosec #cybersecurity #DataStorage #Archive #Backup #Tape #Storage #Data
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Die fundamentale Schwachstelle liegt in den Trainingsdaten, nicht in den Algorithmen
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Die fundamentale Schwachstelle liegt in den Trainingsdaten, nicht in den Algorithmen
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Comment les références de données mutables sabotent les projets de ML
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L'instabilité des résultats provient majoritairement de problèmes de données, non de modèles.
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Mutable Data References and the Hidden Instability of ML Pipelines
AI toy company Bondu exposed 50,000+ chat logs with kids to anyone with a Gmail account via an unprotected web console. 🧸
Researchers found children's names, birthdates, family details, and full transcripts—now fixed, but it spotlights weak child data protections. ⚠️
#TechNews #Privacy #AI #Kids #Data #Security #Toys #Children #Surveillance #IoT #Cybersecurity #Regulation #Parents #Tech #Accountability #Google #Gmail
FBI agents reportedly failed to access a Washington Post reporter’s iPhone after a raid — the device was in Apple’s Lockdown Mode. 🔒
Court records suggest the feature effectively blocked access, highlighting limits of digital forensics vs. user privacy. ⚖️
#TechNews #Privacy #Security #Cybersecurity #iPhone #Mac #iOS #MacOS #Apple #Encryption #FBI #Data #Journalism #Rights #Digital #iPhone #Cybersecurity #Surveillance #Infosec #Accountability #WashingtonPost
Our Rx Inspector tool allows you to use information from your prescription label to locate the factory where a generic drug was made and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.
Explore the tool:
https://projects.propublica.org/rx-inspector/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
"Federal Data Is Disappearing."
https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/federal-data-is-disappearing
"Since retaking office, the Trump administration has transformed how the government collects data, cut access to previously-public data and stopped collecting some data altogether. This overhaul has left significant holes in data on everything from substance use to maternal mortality…Researchers estimate that well over 3,000 data sets have been removed from public access."
#Censorship #Data #DefendResearch #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
DomainTools Investigations | THE KNOWNSEC LEAK: Yet Another Leak of China’s Contractor-Driven Cyber-Espionage Ecosystem
#data-breach #cybersecurity #threat-intelligence
Happy first birthday, #DataRescueProject (@datarescueproject.org)!
https://www.datarescueproject.org/a-year-in-data-rescue/
"In a single year, we have rescued over 2500 datasets from over 90 government agencies. This work was supported by over 900 volunteers."
#Censorship #Data #DefendResearch #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
Europaweiter Zugriff auf deutsche Patientendaten?
Bislang können Patienten in Deutschland der Einrichtung einer elektronischen Patientenakte widersprechen. Eine neue EU-Verordnung könnte dieses Recht SWR-Recherchen zufolge aushebeln. Datenschützer warnen…..
#Datenschutz #ePA #Privacy #EU #Europe #Daten #Data #Gesundheit #Digitalisierung #Technology
Coinbase confirms insider breach linked to leaked support tool screenshots
#data-breach #cybersecurity #threat-intelligence
#ICE is rapidly expanding its use of #privacy -breaching tech after its "influx of cash" last July that increased its annual budget to ~ $28 billion from $8 billion.
#DHS "also spent nearly $10 million acquiring at least three social media monitoring tools & services that allow it to delve into people's cellphones..." 😳
ICE is also actively seeking to advertising data & buy big tech #data (e.g., phone identifiers, contacts). 🚨
4 of 4🧵
#USA #trump #immigration #1A
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/technology/tech-ice-facial-recognition-palantir.html
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The technology visible in the photographs was Mobile Fortify. The app was built on technology that had been created for Customs and Border Protection, the current and former Homeland Security officials said.
A department spokeswoman said
Mobile Fortify was a "lawful law enforcement tool" and "lawfully used nationwide in accordance with all applicable legal authorities."
In a 2024 agency report, the Homeland Security Department said it used a facial recognition tool from Clearview Al for child exploitation investigations.
But in a $3.75 million contract with the company in September, the agency said the tool would also be used to investigate attacks on law enforcement.
A Clearview AI spokeswoman said the focus of its contract with the department was supporting investigations into child exploitation and cybercrimes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/technology/tech-ice-facial-recognition-palantir.html
Accessed: 2 Feb 2026 at 1226 PST
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ICE is continuing to seek more technology. Last week, the agency published a request for information for ways to better acquire and integrate so-called big data and advertising tech into its operations, saying it was
"working with increasing volumes of criminal, civil and regulatory administrative documentation from numerous internal and external sources."
The questionnaire asked vendors to describe the types of data they could provide on "people, businesses, devices, locations, transactions, public records." It also asked vendors how their systems could help "identify subjects, entities or locations of interest" and whether people could be searched by identifiers including
"name, phone, device, account, location."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/technology/tech-ice-facial-recognition-palantir.html
Accessed: 2 Feb 2026 at 1226 PST
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Justin Sherman, a distinguished fellow at Georgetown Law's Center on Privacy and Technology, said the request showed ICE was "doubling down" on buying sensitive data.
Ms. Cleland, the Richfield resident, said that three days after the encounter with the ICE agent, she received an email from the Department of Homeland Security saying her Global Entry and Transportation Security
Administration travel privileges had been revoked. No explanation was provided.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/technology/tech-ice-facial-recognition-palantir.html
Accessed: 2 Feb 2026 at 1226 PST
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Ms. Cleland said she had swung from anger to fear. "I don't know how far-reaching ICE can be," she said. "I'm struggling to figure out what I can do, without putting myself at greater risk or putting other people at risk." Last week, Ms. Cleland signed a declaration joining a lawsuit against the Homeland Security Department in U.S. District Court in Minnesota. The lawsuit challenges ICE's treatment of observers. In her declaration, Ms. Cleland asked why her traveler status had been revoked.
"I am a totally average American, and I cannot abide by what is happening right now," she said.
Daniel Wood and Kashmir Hill contributed reporting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/technology/tech-ice-facial-recognition-palantir.html
Accessed: 2 Feb 2026 at 1226 PST
The Linux kernel community has quietly drafted a continuity plan for a post‑Torvalds era. 🐧
Rather than naming a successor, it outlines a collective process to select future maintainers — reducing “bus-factor-of-one” risk while preserving open governance and trust. ⚙️
Linus Torvalds says he has no plans to retire. ⏳
🔗 https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-community-project-continuity-plan-for-replacing-linus-torvalds/
#TechNews #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #Coding #Privacy #Governance #AI #Security #Data #Innovation #Developers #Accountability #Technology #LinusTorvalds
France mandates open source "Visio" across government by 2027, replacing Teams, Zoom, and non-EU videoconferencing tools 🖥️
MIT-licensed app runs on French infrastructure for full data sovereignty and security control 🔒
Emphasizes user freedom while challenging Big Tech 💻
🔗 https://itsfoss.com/news/france-ditches-microsoft-teams-and-zoom/
#TechNews #OpenSource #Privacy #Security #Government #EU #Data #Sovereignty #IT #PublicSector #Digital #Microsoft #Office #Software #Tech #Cloud #FOSS #France #Danmark #LibreOffice #Linux #French
Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site
#data-breach #ai-security #vulnerability
Chilling article on the manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, which was leaked yesterday via 404 media.
To target a "criminal or immigration nexus" the software pulls Americans' personal data from across the government, including data from Health and Human Services and other agencies unrelated to law enforcement.
A reminder that Palantir is currently hoovering up NHS data on UK citizens as part of govt contracts.
Google agrees to $135 million settlement for collecting Android users’ data
https://www.theverge.com/tech/870056/google-cellular-data-lawsuit-settlement
#tech #technology #data #dataprivacy #dataprivacy #datacollection #privacy #google
#OnThisDay Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L disintegrated after liftoff, killing all seven #Astronauts on board (1986).
The #Lego company patented the design of its Lego bricks (1958).
Happy Birthday Elijah Wood (1981) - known for portraying #Frodo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
https://knowledgezone.co.in/news
Corporate workers lean on shadow AI to enhance speed
https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/corporate-workers-shadow-ai-speed/810721/
#data-breach #cybersecurity #ai-security
Time Machine inside a FreeBSD jail
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2026/01/28/time-machine-freebsd-jail/
#ITNotes #FreeBSD #Apple #Backup #Data #OwnYourData #Server #TimeMachine #Tutorial #zfs #BastilleBSD #Bastille
"Nearly half of the databases that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used to update regularly — surveillance systems that tracked public health information like Covid vaccination rates and hospitalizations for respiratory syncytial virus — have been paused without explanation, according to new research."
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-databases-not-updated-vaccines-study-rcna255467
Original research: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/ANNALS-25-04022
#PublicHealth #CDC #surveillance #data #vaccines #immunizations #covid #pregnancy #ChildrensHealth
Whether or not folks like Mr. @pauleveritt and Mr. Anil Dash and all the myriads of other folks with sinecure "jobs" in #technology are ever going to admit it, they're counting on the same *coercion* that #ElonMusk and the #TSLA fanatics are counting upon to carry the day for automated cars. The TSLA folks figure that they've got the political clout to MAKE people accept Elon Musk's deathtrap cars...and the #AI boosters figure that people are going to be *forced* to swallow worthless "generative AI" software.
The tech execs are all in bed with fascist politicians. They're bribing governments to force immensely destructive and wasteful (not to mention nefarious, because of the surveillance and spying implications) of "#data centers". And meanwhile, Mr. Dash and the other tech weenies are collecting on
#investments in this whole sinister process—they are inured to thinking that they are *owed* an ever-increasing share of "passive income" because of this technological development.
(cont'd)
"Health Databases Have Gone Dark Under Trump: ‘The Consequences Will Be Dire’."
https://www.404media.co/dozens-of-cdc-health-databases-have-gone-dark-under-trump-the-consequences-will-be-dire/
"Nearly half of routinely-updated CDC databases have experienced delays or shutdowns in 2025, with vaccination-related systems disproportionately affected, according to a new study."
Primary source: "Unexplained Pauses in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Surveillance: Erosion of the Public Evidence Base for Health Policy."
https://www.404media.co/dozens-of-cdc-health-databases-have-gone-dark-under-trump-the-consequences-will-be-dire/
#Censorship #Data #DefendResearch #Medicine #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
Interestingly, #Toosheh is not listed on #LyngSat, cuz from what I can read it should be in that MUX on 52,5°E Al Yah 1 @ 11,766GHz (Vertical) with DVB-S (27.500 KSym/s & FEC 7/8).
https://www.netfreedompioneers.org/toosheh-datacasting-technology/
And it's not as if LyngSat doesn't list Data MUXes or anything (They literally show Satellite Internet Feeds), but even then Toosheh does send a custom screencard as they MUX their data in a way that consumer Sat Recievers will record it like additional audio tracks, which is different from your regular #SatelliteInternet or #Satellite #Data #Feed channels that require custom hardware and settings.
I had no idea this existed.
A public health dashboard for England, graphing metrics for everything from colds, to measles, to childhood vaccination rates and more.
Fascinating stuff.
My favourite app on macOS:
Dayflow is a native macOS app (SwiftUI) that records your screen at 1 FPS, analyzes it every 15 minutes with AI, and generates a timeline of your activities with summaries. It's lightweight (25MB app size) and uses ~100MB of RAM and <1% cpu.
If you use local ollama, it's 100% private, local. Open source.
Die Architektur der Abschiebung und Palantirs Rolle im neuen ICE-System #USA
Die US-Einwanderungsbehörde ICE digitalisiert die Abschiebung mit Palantir, Penlink, Datenbrokern und KI.....
#KI #Technology #ICE #Data #Palantir #Surveillance #Migration #Refugees
Rx Inspector, our free, searchable tool, allows you to look up where your generic prescription drug was made.
From patients and doctors to researchers, it is already reshaping how people make decisions. “This is a godsend,” one professor told us.
https://www.propublica.org/article/rx-inspector-reshaping-decisions-generic-drugs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Research #Data #Science #Medicine #Pharmacy #Journalism #Drugs
Quote-boosting @ami (minus the alt-text-less slop)
Every time you #verify through the likes of #cloudflare #hcaptcha #captcha #google etc, your unique device fingerprint is being stored.
Your device is a form of #identification and it is being used against you. There’s hundreds of data points they collect.
Crapflare and craptcha together cover over 90% of websites. They know where you go, what pages you visit and how you interact with the sites.
»#TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More #Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes:
According to its new #privacy policy, #TikTokUS now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US.«
Surprising, isn't it?! No, precisely because of the power because of #freeOpinion, that is, the influence, the #US wanted to buy it because #China is considered a competitor.
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TikTok's transition to U.S. ownership involves collecting even more data about its users, including precise location and AI interactions. It's also likely that the new privacy policy will lead to you seeing more targeted ads. Here's the lowdown from @WIRED.
Last month, we released Rx Inspector, a groundbreaking tool that lets you find the factories where your generic drugs were manufactured.
See the never-before-released data that ties everything together.
https://www.propublica.org/article/rx-inspector-generic-drugs-data?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Health #Medicine #Data #Research #FDA #Drugs #Science #Journalism
Google’s Gemini A.I. now scans your entire inbox to “help” you summarize, reply & organize. 📬
That’s not assistance — that’s surveillance wrapped in productivity branding. 🔍
If your emails need an opt‑out clause, maybe the feature shouldn’t exist by default. ⚠️
🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/technology/personaltech/gmail-gemini-ai-email-inbox.html
#TechNews #Privacy #AI #Google #Gmail #Surveillance #Data #Security #UserRights #BigTech #DigitalEthics #OnlinePrivacy #TechPolicy #Accountability #AIethics #Cybersecurity #Gemini #Email
🇩🇰 The #DK #DPA also states that, because the website (unsurprisingly) changed since #2022, they will not investigate the matter further. 🍪 This disregards the possibility that the complainant's #data may still be processed illegally, which was neither checked nor remedied.
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The Danish DPA issued their first decision on a cookie complaint after almost 3.5 years.
Among other things, the Danish DPA stated the controller should self-assess the legality of its cookie banner.
The time it takes to resolve Alaska’s most serious felony cases is three years, or more than twice as long as in 2015.
A state lawmaker wants an end to the delays. “I hate how slow this system is. It kills me,” he said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/alaska-murder-pretrial-delays-impact?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
"When data disappears: The impact of cancelled federal studies on student financial aid research."
https://www.pellinstitute.org/news-impact/blog/when-data-disappears-what-the-cancellation-of-federal-studies-means-for-financial-aid-research/
"In March 2025, the U.S. Department of Education made a quiet yet profoundly consequential decision to abruptly terminate major research contracts and lay off dozens of staff and contractors, [undermining] the nation’s ability to access credible, comprehensive data on college affordability, student success, and postsecondary outcomes."
#Academia #AcademicMastodon #Data #DefendResearch #Education #Funding #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
🗨️ Opinions and thoughts?
cc @n_dimension
This analysis, produced through GANNET SituationHub's #AI -powered #platform with human-in-the-loop verification, synthesizes #data from thousands of #humanitarian sources to provide actionable insights for decision-makers and field teams, responding to the #lebanon crisis 👇🏽
Lebanon SituationHub report
https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php?title=Main_Page
"The ICE List Wiki is designed for public use. Journalists, researchers, and advocacy groups use the data to track enforcement patterns, identify repeat agencies or jurisdictions, and contextualise individual incidents. Pages may be cited with attribution."
Spread the Message!
@Adrenochrome if it was my #decision there would be a #TotalEmbargo on both the #USA & #Russia, including an #ExportBan on any #data, rigorous enforcement of #GDPR & sharpening it to #BDSG standards as well as prosecution of #ICE members for their #CrimesAgainstHumanity, including #torture and #ForcedDisappearance, with a bounty on both #Putin and #Trump posted - to be paid in cash upon delivery to the #ECHR!
It’s time for a privacy checkup.
As data brokers, trackers, and government #surveillance expand, particularly in light of how #ICE is using commercial data, small changes can still make a real difference. I wrote a short guide on reducing our digital footprints.
https://nerdspice.net/blog/2026/01/15/its-time-for-a-privacy-checkup/
#privacy #browser #tracking #infosec #technology #dhs #data #security
digital hills
#Landscape #Data #Mountains #Colorful #Peaks #Futuristic #3D #Topography #Gradient #Night #Digital
#Img2img #AiArt #AiArtists #AiArtCommunity #StableDiffusion
this image on some stuff: https://aieris.art/featured/digital-hills-eris-and-ai.html
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Are your headphones and speakers vulnerable to hacking? If your audio accessories use Google's Fast Pair protocol, you may need a patch to avoid hackers eavesdropping on your calls and surroundings, hijacking your devices and playing their own audio through them, or even stalking you. Here's a @WIRED story that explains more.
#Technology #Tech #InfoSecurity #Data #InfoSec #Gadgets #Devices #Google
How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE
‚ICE has been invading U.S. cities, targeting, surveilling, harassing, assaulting, detaining, and torturing people who are undocumented immigrants. They also have targeted people with work permits, asylum seekers, permanent residents (people holding “green cards”), naturalized citizens, and even citizens by birth. ICE has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on surveillance technology to spy on anyone—and potentially everyone—in the United States. It can be hard to imagine how to defend oneself against such an overwhelming force.
But a few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology….‘
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/how-hackers-are-fighting-back-against-ice
Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' #ICE leak to unmask agents
‚A whistleblower has released the identities of approximately 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol agents, marking what may be the largest data breach in the Department of Homeland Security's history. The leak, published on ICE List, was triggered by national outrage following the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent….‘
Mit 3 FB exit post: Men hvad med ens billeder? Jo, køb en harddisk eller skift til en anden Cloud løsning.
Før #Google brugte jeg #Flickr (#Yahoo), så den er jeg på vej tilbage til. Ubegrænset plads.
Men er det ikke også amerikansk? Jo, men så vidt jeg ved deltog deres CEO ikke ved indsættelsen af I ved nok hvem.
Så snart der kommer et godt #Europæisk alternativ, er jeg dog den der er smuttet.
www.danmarkskifter.dk
#bigtech #danmarkskifter #Media #medier #kommunikation #data
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Hey #forkiverse people, and everyone else who has joined us recently!
You might be just learning about the thing that makes fediverse special, that it's made up of many communities spread across many servers running different platforms.
Now, I won't bore anyone with how all that works, but here are two cool ways to visualize this.
- https://data.stefanbohacek.com/projects/fediverse lets you see which servers you are connected to (I made this one!)
- https://moderation-explorer.online helps you understand the shared responsibility of fediverse moderators
Hope you'll enjoy!
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A chart showing the breakdown of fediverse servers I am connected to. Each server is represented by a rectangle with its size corresponding to how many users I am connected to on that server.
The top 10 servers with most connections are highlighted in pinkish color, the rest are varying shades of gray.
The top 10 servers are listed alongside of the data breakdown:
mastodon.social: 882 connections (19.7%)
mstdn.social: 135 connections (3.0%)
hachyderm.io: 132 connections (3.0%)
mastodon.online: 98 connections (2.2%)
fosstodon.org: 88 connections (2.0%)
infosec.exchange: 84 connections (1.9%)
stefanbohacek.online: 70 connections (1.6%)
indieweb.social: 59 connections (1.3%)
mastodon.world: 57 connections (1.3%)
techhub.social: 44 connections (1.0%)
17.5 Million Instagram Accounts Exposed in Major Data Leak
https://cyberpress.org/instagram-data-leak
#security #safety #data #InfoSec #cybersecurity #instagram #meta #social #media #SocialMedia #tech #technology #BigTech
While no passwords were not a part of this, remain vigilant of any phishing scams that may come your way.
An Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5 million users
#Instagram #Meta #Data #Breach #Privacy #Security #SocialMedia #Tech
uspol [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
The nation’s strictest privacy law just took effect, to data brokers’ chagrin
Californians can now submit demands requiring 500 brokers to delete their data.
Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/70x0i
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/data-broker-hoarding-is-rampant-new-law-lets-consumers-fight-back/#biz-&-it #california #data-brokers #personal-information #policy #privacy #security
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After the events of Jan. 6, 2021, we sifted through thousands of videos taken by Parler users during the riot at the Capitol.
Then we created an interactive database that lets you sort through the footage.
See the full collection here: https://projects.propublica.org/parler-capitol-videos/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
The Big Ass Data Broker Opt-Out List
Yaelwrites has been maintaining BADBOOL since 2017. It is a up-to-date list of all known databrokers that hoard your data and how to opt out from it.
https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List?tab=readme-ov-file
The Fed appears to be propping up the markets with additional liquidity.🚨The #TrumpRegime has already been caught fiddling with #BLS data. #Tariffs, the BBB, draconian policies... are still taking a toll on #consumers. What else are Trump & his⭕hiding?:
"Reserve pumps🚨$19.5B into the U.S. Banking System through overnight repos.🚨This is the 3rd LARGEST liquidity injection since Covid (the largest since Covid was on Friday)."
-Barchart
#Economy #Fascism #Data #Inflation #Uprising #Protest #USPol
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Line graph depicting the volume of Treasury securities purchased by the Federal Reserve through overnight repurchase agreements from February 2025 to January 2026. Data shows fluctuations, with notable spikes, and shaded areas indicating U.S. recessions.
#Data is control: what we learned from a year investigating the #Israeli #military’s ties to big #tech
Our reporting revealed a symbiotic relationship between the #IDF and #SiliconValley – with implications for the future of #warfare
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/30/israeli-military-big-tech
#Gaza #genocide #WarCrimes #AI #Israel #war #HumanRights #BigData #privacy #Orwellian #1984 #dystopian #authoritarian #oppressive
Did you know? Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people.
Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.
https://projects.propublica.org/supreme-connections/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Journalism #SCOTUS #Law #Ethics #Transparency #Research #Data
Denmark has begun phasing out Microsoft software in government, with the Road Traffic Authority piloting a switch to open-source OS and office tools. 🖥️
Officials cite data control and vendor lock-in risks, signaling a broader push that could affect up to 15,000 public employees. 🔓
🔗 https://itsfoss.com/news/denmark-road-traffic-authority-ditches-microsoft/
#TechNews #OpenSource #Privacy #Security #Government #EU #Data #Sovereignty #IT #PublicSector #Digital #Microsoft #Office #Software #Tech #Cloud #FOSS #Denmark #Danmark #LibreOffice #Linux
The 3 PCs I just brought in for my employer were $1079 a week ago, and are now $1320.
The memory prices are already making their way to pre-builts.
The SSDs, memory modules AND HDDs in my purchase history have all gone up substantially, if not out of stock completely.
The crowd funded public data server with 8x refurb data center HDDs was around $1200. Now it would be $1600.
This is bad. 2026 will be special.
HOT HOT HOT I've been adding some hot torrents to the solar powered crowd-funded public data server. The regime has been trying to cover up Epstein and CECOT, but they can't win against the data hoarding community. This media is now safely in the server and being seeded:
About: lydie.cc/data.html
These are the torrents of interest:
https://gofile.io/d/NGsU82
Point me to anything else that needs preservation!!
OFC all this #MassSurveillance and #DataHoarding csn only be used to amass "#Blackmail|ing Material"...
#USpol #politricks #SurveillanceState #data #blackmailing #politricks #politics #tech #fascism #cyberfascism #GamersNexus
Abusive Data Harvesting. Someone I know told me they had a awful #Data #Privacy interaction with Blue Cross and Blue Shield this week setting up their new Medicare plan.
She was setting up their new account and verifying their identity. Blue Cross asked several multiple choice questions with historical data. You know the kind. "Which car in the past have your owned." "Pick the town you once lived in" "Where did you once work."
The one that got them in the throat was, "Which person did you used to reside with and their current city and state."
It was her ex from over 40 years ago who she hasn't seen since then and tried hard to recover from because the relationship was extremely physically and mentally abusive and ended with a restraining order against the ex. The ex ended up going to jail.
They pull all this data and merge and link it with everybody. Who knows what they have and the sources these data harvesters use.
It really disturbed this person and brought up a lot of #PTSD, esp around Christmas time.
22TB seeded from the solar powered crowd-funded public data server!!
#data #fascism #fascist #regime #preservation #history
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A screenshot of a qBittorrent software interface showing a long list of active torrents. The theme is dark with purple and green highlights. Most entries are large datasets, often exceeding 100 GiB, with names referencing years, scientific organizations like NOAA and CDC, and academic archives. The majority of the items show 100% progress and are in a Seeding or Forced Seeding status. A few items at 99.9% are marked as Downloading. The left sidebar indicates a total of 473 torrents, with 461 completed and 11 currently active. The overall data volume being managed is very high, including several files over 500 GiB and one over 1 TiB.
Hard to believe, but apparently some good stories can be told even without me. I guess I'm not the conditio sine qua nonfor a great conversation... a good guest is, and Sean Martin, CISSP can certainly hold the wheel.
I wasn't available, and I missed this one but I'm more than happy to help spread the word about yet another fantastic Brand Story told via Studio C60 / ITSPmagazine. This one's worth your attention.
Julian Hamood from TrustedTech joins Sean to talk about something most organizations are getting dangerously wrong: #AI readiness.
Here's the uncomfortable truth—AI doesn't clean up your mess. It makes it louder. Faster. More confident-sounding. And potentially more damaging.
Data scattered across personal drives, legacy servers, and random SharePoint sites? AI will find it.
Inconsistent permissions nobody remembers setting up? AI will exploit them. Architectural spaghetti connecting clouds, on-prem systems, and #SaaS platforms that were never meant to talk to each other? AI will inherit every flaw and present the results with the certainty of an oracle.
This conversation digs into what real readiness looks like—data classification, access controls, architectural clarity, and governance that doesn't get bypassed because someone in sales wanted a shiny new copilot.
Watch. Listen. Think before you deploy.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-adoption-without-readiness-when-ambition-collides-data-tzite
#AI #Cybersecurity #DataGovernance #BrandStory #StudioC60 #ITSPmagazine #infosec #data NRPR Group, Inc #infosecurity #aiready #tech #technology #genai #agenticai
Through our reporting, it became clear that patients and doctors don’t have all the information needed to make informed decisions about the medicines they take or prescribe.
More on how we gathered a trove of FDA information and put it all together:
https://www.propublica.org/article/rx-inspector-fda-generic-drug-tool-methodology?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#FDA #Medicine #Medication #Drugs #Health #Safety #App #Data #Research
Today, ProPublica launched a first-of-its-kind app to help you find out where your generic drugs come from and what the factories that made them are like.
Here’s how to use it: https://www.propublica.org/article/rx-inspector-prescription-drug-lookup?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead.
Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations:
https://projects.propublica.org/rx-inspector/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Data #Research #FDA #Health #PublicHealth #Medicine #Medication
Most companies (FaceBook, Google, etc.) have policies to handle user death. There have been laws passed about some types of #Data, in part to protect those who have been wrongfully declared dead. #OpenAI are too busy building an #AI idol to allow little things like that to take up five minutes.
As the Trump administration ordered agencies to eradicate “illegal” diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, we identified more than 1,000 nonprofits that removed such language from the mission statements in their tax filings.
#DEI #Diversity #Equity #Inclusion #Nonprofit #Charity #Trump #Data #Analysis
uspol [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
Senators count the shady ways data centers pass energy costs on to Americans
Senators demand Big Tech pay upfront for data center spikes in electricity bills.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/shady-data-center-deals-doom-americans-to-higher-energy-bills-senators-say/#ai #ai-data-centers #amazon #data-center-coalition #data-centers #google #meta #microsoft #policy
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#Privacy #Data #Datenschutz #Überwachung #Surveillance #Überwachungskapitalismus
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Zeichentrick Figur mit einer Brille aus Kreisen. Darüber steht Privacy is a human right. Figur trägt ein weißes Schild auf welchem Hands off my data steht.
Brent Spiner in the holiday spirit 😀🎄
#startreknextgen #startrek #data #christmas
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The image portrays an individual standing indoors against a festive background. The person is wearing a holiday-themed sweater featuring a monochrome depiction of a bald man, which appears to be a parody involving a well-known space-themed franchise. The sweater has a red, black, and white color scheme, embellished with snowflakes and futuristic symbols. Behind the individual, there are decorative elements like Christmas trees adorned with white lights and red ribbons, adding to a holiday ambiance. A chandelier and framed pictures on the walls are visible in the background, enhancing the cozy, celebratory setting. In the lower right corner, there is a logo with a green, three-leaf clover design above text.
AS REQUESTED, SOME #DATA FOR U
Bringing the Enshittification report here to Kolektiva [since update on Infosec] the other day:
Here are the cowards that joined every Republican sucking the juicy excrement from Drumpf's diarrhea bag yesterday (sorry for earlier post, it was advertised as being live)
And since it has been 24 hours since the #Impeachment vote, is good to confirm that these will all be voted out sooner rather than later:
Shomari Figures of #Alabama
Greg Stanton of #Arizona
Jim Costa of #California
Jimmy Panetta of California
Jason Crow of #Colorado
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of #Florida
Sharice Davids of #Kansas
Jared Golden of #Maine
Hillary J. Scholten of #Michigan
Kristen McDonald Rivet of Michigan
Susie Lee of #Nevada
Maggie Evillander of #NewHampshire
Josh Gottheimer of #NewJersey
Thomas R. Suozzi of New York
Josh Riley of #NewYork
Donald G. Davis of #NorthCarolina
Henry Cuellar of #Texas
Vicente Gonzalez of Texas
Eugene Simon Vindman of #Virginia
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of #Washington
Kim Schrier of Washington
Rick Larsen of Washington
👆🏾 👆🏾 👆🏾 👆🏾 👆🏾
Bad people to vote like cowards with Trumpanzee party
[since update on Infosec]:https://infosec.exchange/@indie/115701143178339529
Amazon’s Ring is rolling out “Familiar Faces,” an opt-in facial-recognition tool that catalogs up to 50 known visitors 🚪
Amazon says data is encrypted, but past law-enforcement partnerships and security issues raise concerns about biometric handling 🔒
#TechNews #Privacy #AI #Surveillance #Security #Data #Biometrics #ConsumerRights #SmartHome #BigTech #Policy #Safety #Ethics #DigitalRights #Accountability #Amazon #Ring #Encryption
Smart TVs use ACR to track what you watch, sending screenshots and device data for targeted ads 📺
Turning it off on Samsung, LG, Sony, Hisense, and TCL requires digging through menus but reduces profiling 🔧
Less data shared means fewer risks tied to ad networks and third-party access 🔒
#TechNews #Privacy #Security #Data #SmartTV #TV #Television #LG #Samsung #Sony #ConsumerRights #DigitalSafety #Cybersecurity #Ad #Ads #Tracking #Tech #Streaming #HomeTech #Awareness
Age-verification laws now cover half the US, requiring IDs or face scans to access “harmful” content 📄
Advocates warn these mandates expand surveillance, increase breach risks, and could enable censorship under bills like KOSA ⚠️
Groups like @fightforthefuture.org are pushing for safer alternatives 🛡️
🔗 https://www.wired.com/story/age-verification-is-sweeping-the-us-activists-are-fighting-back/
#TechNews #Privacy #DigitalRights #Censorship #Security #Data #AI #Policy #Internet #Safety #Freedom #Surveillance #USA #OnlineSafety #AgeVerification #US
EFF launches a hub on rising age-verification laws, noting risks of surveillance and reduced access for youth and adults. 🔍
These mandates often rely on intrusive ID or biometric checks that expose sensitive data. 🔒
Experts will discuss impacts in upcoming AMA and livestream. 🎙️
🔗 https://www.eff.org/issues/age-verification
#TechNews #Privacy #Data #Security #Policy #Internet #DigitalRights #Surveillance #Censorship #Children #Safety #AI #Law #OpenWeb #Tech #EFF #Age #AgeVerification #Adult #ID #AMA
Mullvad is removing OpenVPN in desktop app v2025.14, shifting all users to WireGuard for security, performance, and newer anti-censorship tools. 🔄
Some OpenVPN setups may break, and routers/external apps will lose support by Jan 2026. ⚠️
🔗 https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2025/12/10/removing-openvpn-from-the-mullvad-vpn-app
#TechNews #Privacy #Security #VPN #Data #OpenSource #Linux #Networking #Censorship #Security #Internet #Tech #Software #Cybersecurity #Mullvad #OpenVPN #WireGuard