Tag: #privacy

“SFPD put rape victims’ DNA into database used to find criminals, DA alleges”

February 16, 2022

From the comments: And this is why people (me at least) don’t want all encompassing data collection. If the police have the data, absent some law protecting it (sometimes even if it does!) they WILL use it. Hell, someone was probably just trying to make their job easier. “Well we got some DNA evidence from … ⟶

person with handcuffs behind their back

“Meta may be forced to shutter Facebook, Instagram in EU”

February 7, 2022

Daaayyummm, why aren’t we that lucky in the US??? 😖

Boooo, Verizon Customer Experience

January 5, 2022

"...if you are a Verizon Wireless customer in the US, a new program launched today called Verizon Custom Experience. It tracks every website you visit and every app you use. The program automatically enrolls all customers, who must specifically opt out if they don't want to be tracked."

“Facebook Is Censoring People For Mentioning Open-Source Social Network Mastodon”

September 18, 2021

😂 It’s just getting to the point where I want to ditch Facebook forever but so many friends and family use it. :/ (And a lot of these people live miles and miles away, so no, I can’t just “visit them in person”. Especially not during a pandemic.)