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The specificity and quantity of information the text and multimedia platform can access poses a risk to most users, if it falls into the wrong hands or is used to target them, tech experts agree.
“This is a hacker’s dream,” said Claudette McGowan, a longtime banking executive who founded Protexxa, a Toronto-based platform that uses artificial intelligence to rapidly identify and resolve cyber issues for employees.
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I’m sure the 2 billion+ instagram, facebook and whatsapp users will be absolutely shocked by this and stop using it /s
To the suprise of… no one.
Oh no who could have predicted it?
Blocked Facebook, instagram, WhatsApp and Meta on DNS. One day I checked the logs and saw Facebook so I started investigating and turns out many apps have trackers in it like Spotify host Facebook trackers. Blocked Spotify now.
Sort of tangentially related to this… Today I was telling my mom about something I bought and I mentioned the brand + a general description of the item. About an hour later, she showed me a screenshot of her Facebook feed with an ad for the exact brand and item even though she didn’t google it, etc. Makes me so uncomfortable. I’d feel a lot better if I knew specifically how they were getting the data so I could try to block it.
Atleast she noticed so it’s good. Most people dont even notice stuff like this. The only way to stop this is to stop using Facebook but boomers are the only one stuck on Facebook now because of some BS neighborhood watch community or something similar.
How do you replace Spotify
I downloaded musify from Fdroid. Its not the greatest app out there but gets the job done and I am happy with it.
Ah yeah, I’m on iOS so I think I’m screwed
Lol thats okay. We all getting screwed one way or another and Yea I dont even trust iOS. Theres a huge divide among regulars between iOS and Android. I dont understand why they start a whole debate on how one OS is better than another 🤦♂️ Regulars need to understand they will always be on the losing end especially 9-5s.
Absolutely. What’s keeping you from using both? I use everyone of them and I don’t get this whole fan base divide.
Wait Hol’Up…“Keystroke Patterns”…??? Does that mean it is harvesting my password manager master password???
Everyone freaking out every time they realize every fucking ‘type ahead’ or “predictive text” system is essentially a Keylogger. Android and Iphone keyboards, the chrome browser, etc are keylogging all your shit already, and any javascript typeahead predictive engine that has to ask a service “what comes next” has to by it’s nature have the things that you’re typing to predict the next thing.
*We’re harvesting way more than that, Buster! *- Fuckerburg
I still can figure out how the app would have any access to my photos, finance or health information if I don’t give access
The simple answer is: They can’t.
So threads is basically Instagrams version of Twitter? I see no difference and it offers the exact same experience and features?
A Zuck is gonna Zuck.
Why would anyone use Threads/Facebook/Meta, is beyond me. Big Social and especially Zuckland collects so much sensitive data, and it freaked me out when I first learned about it. After that, I moved to Fediverse and have been there since. And became a much more privacy-conscious user. Of course in our day and age, escaping from surveillance is difficult but at least avoiding the Big Social is an important step, in my opinion.
And yet some want to hear meta out before deciding whether to federate or defederate from them.
I’m not sure what defederating from them solves in regards to this topic. If they wanted Lemmy, Kbin, & Mastodon’s data, they could always just set up another instance with a different domain name and not publicly announce what that domain name is, and we would have no idea who to defederate from. Or they could just scrape the data from the web page, no federation needed.
I don’t want to see their content, which is a valid reason to defederate (or block, if that were possible at the user level) imo. But defederating because we want to stop them from getting our data is not even slightly effective, so I think it makes an unconvincing argument.
You know how people keep talking about the Nazi Bar? Now say, you’ve been keeping your bar Nazi free for a while, and then, a massive venue opens up across the street that is way more inclined to cater to Nazis because they’re huge and don’t dedicate the resources in dealing with them. They reach out to all the bars in the area to and want to partner up by offering venue attendees one free drink at your bar. You can take that offer, and your volume of bar patrons goes way up even on slow days, but it will ruin the vibe for your regulars and you’ll have to accept that it’ll be a lot harder to keep Nazis out of your bar.
I’ve never given ANY platform accurate or correct information about me, and the information I DO give is salted to make it easy for me to trace where the leak/hack/whatever came from.
Why this is not taught in grade school is beyond me.
There’s a lot of things not taught in public schools that ought to be. Also a lot of things that are taught that shouldn’t be.
