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Pokémon Go players' 30 billion scans trained navigation tech now bound for military drones, via Niantic Spatial's defense partnership with Vantor.Haye Kesteloo (DroneXL.co)
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Reminder that Mark Zuckerberg really really really wants you not to read Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams.
So, obviously, whatever you do, don't read it or little Mark will get upset.
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Sarah Wynn-Williams did not speak during event after lawyers warned of possible sanctions from tech firmEmma Loffhagen (the Guardian)
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It's really good, I'm a out 1/4 of the way through. These sociopaths are unhinged.
They shouldn't manage a Denny's, much less a social media website.
"We’re about to travel to the one country in the world where there’s an open arrest warrant for Mark Zuckerberg. And Mark thinks this is the time to show us his fake gangsta handshakes."
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It would not be difficult to ensure than any further harassment over this by Meta would create a huge "Striesand effect," tons of very nasty publicity, and hopefully encourage people to close Facebook, IG, and Whatsapp accounts and block ads on FB and IG if they feel they cannot.
Adblock and NoScript in fact are effective ways to take money out of Zuckeberg's pockets. So is blocking all content from FB embedded in other websites.
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My review of "Careless People"
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Pluralistic: Sarah Wynn-Williams's 'Careless People' (23 Apr 2025)Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
Reminder that Mark Zuckerberg really really really wants you not to read Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams.So, obviously, whatever you do, don't read it or little Mark will get upset.
theguardian.com/technology/202…
Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival
Sarah Wynn-Williams did not speak during event after lawyers warned of possible sanctions from tech firmEmma Loffhagen (the Guardian)
Excellent book!
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Attached: 1 image Tämä kirja kertoo siitä miten kammottava työpaikka Facebook (nykyinen Meta) on. Millään muulla kuin rahalla ja vallalla ei ole väliä. Kirjasta löytyi netistä varsin osuva blogikirjoitus: https://doctorow.medium.Juha Haataja (Mastodon)
Already did! And yes I recommend it:
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#Facebook #CarelessPeople #books
Sarah Wynn-Williams - Careless People Lively first-hand story illuminating the forces which have shaped social media.Jennifer's BookTrail (Sunny Garden)
@kibcol1049@mstdn.social We need an international Close Your Meta Accounts day. People who still use those platforms are not just exposing themselves to digital harm, they're exposing the rest of us too.Reg (Mastodon)
I can recommend the audiobook, read by Wynn-Williams.
I also recommend not using FB or any apps owned by this vile sociopath. It's hard to say no but we absolutely need to.
In an extract from his book, Ian Lucas reveals how dark forces have interfered in our politics on both sides of the AtlanticByline Times
Actually I don't need to read it to know that in a just world Zuckerberg would be in jail for life and all his websites and products shut down.
Also that US law makers are responsible for the toxic landscape that gives corporations more rights than people and refuses to properly regulate them.
"Libertarian" politics and "Liberal" economics lead to Fascist Capitalism treating people as things, like slaves, and serfs.
This is way beyond any lines that should have been drawn by now.
Meta is explicitly taking part in fascism.
And the fact that I ever used anything FB/Insta makes me downright sick.
i will not change my statement
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@bloke_zero@ravenation.club @pluralistic@mamot.fr The book starts with a shark attack, and then slowly increases the size of the sharks.lobingera (chaos.social)
is anybody aware of translations of this book? There is quite a bit of material in English that elaborates on Meta's problems, but I observe that people that do not speak English are much less aware of these problems.
I guess the gag order prevents the author from pursuing that it gets translated :(
Introducing the panel, Cadwalladr said: “I think this might be a Hay first, in which we have an author in a hostage situation. Blink once if you can hear us, Sarah, twice if [Mark] Zuckerberg is an asshole.”
🤣 I don't want to read about Mark's great accomplishments in lawbreaking, but can I purchase 700 copies of the book to be delivered to his doorstep?
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Meta filed a sanctions motion alleging that Wynn-Williams violates the emergency arbitration order “any time she appears in public in a place where she should know that her book is available for sale and her presence might draw attention to it”.
In her next book signing, she should be hidden behind a veil, in complete privacy for the whole thing. Devotees can submit the holy text under the edge of it for her to privately and not publically sign.
I'm currently at the point in 2016 where an unnamed board member suggested supporting fascist parties in Europe, to prevent Facebook from being regulated. My money is on Peter Thiel.
The News Agents podcast replayed part of their interview with her tonight. Link should be to the right point, some 25:45 in.
A critical flaw in Meta's AI account recovery tool allowed attackers to trick the chatbot into sending password reset codes with no identity verification, enabling theft of premium Instagram accounts worth over $1 million.dark6 (Secure Bulletin)
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in reply to Simon Richter • • •Wer unpolitisch sein will, stärkt damit die Kräfte, die die freiheitliche Demokratie schwächen wollen.
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torb aka t0rt0i53 ⁂
in reply to Katja Diehl • • •Dann doch lieber wieder Pokemon Blau auf dem GameBoy Classic?
Kann man sich echt nicht ausdenken
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in reply to Katja Diehl • • •Das war das, was die Bedenkenträger damals im Big Data Hype mit " wir wissen nicht, wer in Zukunft was mit den Daten machen wollen wird" meinten.
Seufz.
Wenn wir wenigstens draus lernen würden ...
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in reply to Katja Diehl • • •and where do we think that map that includes the US will be used? and against whom?
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my bet is waging war against Americans on American soil, aka treason by #18USCs2381
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Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World
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The best part? There are Pokestops on military bases. So whoever gets a hold of that info has scans of bases too. They’ve played themselves.
I deleted the game when the Saudi company bought it, and happy to say I never scanned even one stop.
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in reply to Katja Diehl • • •I still have a Bluetooth Pokeball from when I was messing with that "game."
For what it's worth, the damned thing kept demanding that I turn on my camera to enable the "more immersive AR experience." I never did. Because I knew it wasn't necessary. So, as far as I know, Niantic never got scans from me.
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in reply to LukefromDC • • •Niantic has always admitted their games were mostly a tool to build a geospatial library. They never said it was for military applications, but anyone who looked very hard knew the games were just a means to an end. I'm curious how useful it will be given that A) the data is frequently out of date and B) they deliberately excluded sensitive areas from their games.
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in reply to Katja Diehl • • •" *Most of* the players .."
this is a strident gem.
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in reply to Katja Diehl • • •I read about this when Pokémon Go came out, it was a minor tech story then, but I don't think this approach will actually work in practice because as soon as any military action gets severe enough, like in Ukraine, the carefully trained models are going to be useless as the urban terrain changes. Collapsed buildings, bomb craters, static defenses, etc won't be on the map and the area may become unrecognizable, making the very expensive drones into paperweights, lost, easy targets. This only has some utility for light civil unrest where the built environment doesn't change much.
The checks will have been cashed by then, so maybe that doesn't matter to the manufacturer.
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in reply to Katja Diehl • • •Nein!
Doch.
Oh.
Es hatte seinen Grund, warum ich bei den kurzen Momenten, in denen ich das gespielt hatte, nie die Kamera gestattet hatte. 🤷♀️
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in reply to Mike P • • •Came here to mention this as well. I knew the moment PG was released, it was about gathering location data.
These companies are soulless pieces of trash.
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in reply to Katja Diehl • • •Our whole family quit pokemon go a couple years ago when we realized this. Extremely upsetting, as we have 2 small children who really bonded with the game, and outings to go find rare pokemon were a happy time in our lives for years and years.
FUCK NIANTIC and their military industrial partners! We dont even use smartphones anymore.
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in reply to Katja Diehl • • •Das überrascht auch wirklich nur die, die bei jeder Gelegenheit die Augen verdrehen, wenn man über Datenschutz oder freie Software spricht, als sei man irgendein verstaubter Verschwörungstheoretiker.
Wer jetzt bei diesem Artikel schockiert tut aber dann zwei Minuten später wieder glücklich all sein Geld und seine Daten in Google, WhatsApp, Instagram, Amazon usw. wirft und Datenschutzaktivist:innen wie weltfremde ewiggestrige Utopiker behandelt, hat wirklich fertig.
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in reply to Katja Diehl • • •Pokémon Go Data Wasn’t Shared With Drone Company, Niantic Spatial Says
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in reply to Katja Diehl • • •"Niantic Spatial Denies Pokémon Go Data Is Being Shared With A Drone Company":
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Pokémon Go Data Wasn’t Shared With Drone Company, Niantic Spatial Says
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in reply to Katja Diehl • • •Wirtschaftsfluechtling
in reply to Katja Diehl • • •Um ein paar Kids/Nerds ein knuffiges Monsterjagdspiel für lau zu ermöglichen?
Hahaha. Um das zu glauben, muss man schon arg gutgläubig sein.
Funfact: Nicht nur Niantic bietet aktuell ein weiteres Spiel wie Pokemon Go an: Pikmin Bloom, auch andere Firmen bieten Spiele an, bei denen man durch Straßen rennt und Dinge sammelt 😁
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in reply to Katja Diehl • • •Auskunft einfordern, Einwilligung widerrufen, Löschaufforderung, Beschwerde wegen Verarbeitung ohne Rechtsgrundlage (es lag keine gültige Einwilligung vor), Verstoß gegen den Grundsatz der Verarbeitung, etc.
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in reply to Katja Diehl • • •Bin irgendwie nicht schockiert. Habe mal eine Doku geguckt, aber auch schon halb gepennt dabei, deswegen weiß ich auch nicht mehr wo und wie die hieß. Da hieß es das Niantic der CIA gehören soll.
Deswegen wundert mich das da irgendwie gerade nicht, falls das den gehört.
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in reply to Katja Diehl • • •zu meinen Ingress Zeiten habe ich 900km gespielt.
In einer koordinierten Aktion hatten wir die obere Hälfte der Erdkugel erobert.
Schade, was aus Niantic geworden ist