“While we worried that our doorbells and watches that connect to the internet might be spying on us, car brands quietly entered the data business by turning their vehicles into powerful data-gobbling machines.”

84% sell your data.

56% give data to law enforcement “on request.” (No court order required.)

92% give you little/no control over what they do with it.

More:
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

#Privacy #PersonalData #AutoIndustry #BigBrother #YouAreTheProduct #Mozilla #PrivacyNotIncluded

Maybe be evil, if it's good for the stock price.

#Google #privacy #tracking #ads #Firefox #youaretheproduct

stop using #zoom immediately!!
they basically steal your personality, your manners, your gestures to make money out of it!
this is waaay beyond text or images!
https://zoomai.info/
#AI #AITraining #YouAreTheProduct

Anyone else find it funny how we used to have folktales warning of the dangers of making deals with unknowable entities that're more powerful than us, fair folk, devils at the crossroads, and such, but today folx're just chuffed to sign up for the latest techbro megacorp junk?

#readTheEULA #youAreTheProduct

How will #Meta play with the #Fediverse? Well here’s what they’re doing right off (and nobody should be surprised)

#privacy #YouAreTheProduct https://sakurajima.moe/@chikorita157/110652612561255604

@kurtseifried
The combination of LockMeOut and Minimalist work great for me on Android, and imagine there're similar apps for iOS.
They give you the tools you need to coerce your future self to focus on the right things.

#Agency #Mindfulness #Wellness #Habits #FreeWill #WillPower

#DoomScrolling #PhilosophicalZombie #YouAreTheProduct

Since you've been the product all along, why not get paid for it. - https://www.wsj.com/articles/your-share-of-the-725m-facebook-settlement-will-be-tiny-93265db0

You might spend that money more wisely. Just saying.

#Meta #facebook #money #YouAreTheProduct

#Flipboard got a lot of press last week for announcing they are going to implement #ActivityPub, but don't install their #Android app.

It makes calls to every #analytics and #tracking service there is!

Shame on you @Flipboard

#privacy #security #youAreTheProduct

There are two kinds of apps:

#privacy #YouAreTheProduct

Everyone please watch this clip in its entirety.

I cannot think of a more potent argument for the #Fediverse and for getting off Big Social.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CkeJHcsJhAm/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=

#socialmedia #latestagecapitalism #youaretheproduct #dystopia

@neil I am pretty sure we could.

But: either for a price we would not be willing to pay, or for free, but with Google/Twitter/Facebook/Snapchat/Reddit/TikTok/Instagram/etc scanning our trash to know even more about us...

Imagine what the trash could tell them! Brands, habits, household composition... Unfathomable

#privacy #eviltech #youaretheproduct

When they sold people's data I said nothing, for I had nothing to hide.

When they deleted people's data I said nothing, for I had not said anything against the terms of service.

When they took *my* data there was nothing I could say because it didn't belong to me.

#decentralization #privacy #youAreTheProduct

Great point @ntnsndr

New Media, same New Media State?

Seems like a good time to share this classic from Richard Serra. An early reminder that if you're not paying for it (and increasingly even if you are), you're not the customer, #YouAreTheProduct. 𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗱.

(more on history of this phrase at quoteinvestigator.com/2017/07/16/product/)

Television Delivers People (1973)

https://youtu.be/LvZYwaQlJsg

https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/2/23288612/meta-hosptials-sued-patient-privacy-facebook-data-hipaa #YouAreTheProduct #Privacy

And what I am preaching inside BASF and how we use #Yammer: We need to learn how pull-communication works, and what it takes to make it work for our fellow human beings (and colleagues).

Only when we unlearn the lessons that #SocialMedia has taught us, tainted by #YouAreTheProduct and #Advertisement we can come back to meaningful asynchronous conversations, and not algorithm-"curated" content -- or the other extreme "chat".

I wonder what it is costing #OpenAI to offer free access to #ChatGPT, but I don't really wonder if they are getting their money's worth. #YouAreTheProduct

For the past couple of years my health insurance co. has been begging me to fill out some comprehensive health survey online. It offers a bribe of $50 for this information. Today the ins. co. sent me a shiny new, unrequested debit card as a reminder that they'll put money on it if I will just give them what they want. I'm definitely the product here. Insurance companies are profit ventures. Thanks for sending me more crap to shred.
#HealthInsurance #YouAreTheProduct

Out of the first three pages of Amazon search results, more than two pages are ONLY sponsored ad content.

#YouAreTheProduct #Amazon #capitalism #ada

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/amazon-shopping-ads

I wonder why all these celebs are jumping to Hive? 🤔
*sees it's VC-backed*
Um... no thanks 😬
#YouAreTheProduct #WillKeepChanging #LineGoesUp

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