Tag: privacy

“LA police ask people they stop for their Facebook and Twitter account info”

WTF LA?! I don’t live in LA, and I don’t foresee any police department in VC thinking this is a good idea, but how long till police everywhere will be required to ask for social media info? It’s like we need to go back to the old days where we kept our online identities separate from our offline lives.

September 12, 2021
FYI, Google Maps is no longer being used on giantpaper.

In order to continue using their Cloud Platform, I need to add billing info to my account. Which wouldn’t be so bad, since the pricing seems really fair, but they want a government ID to verify my info. 🙅‍♀️ So right now, the maps on the photoblog are currently non-existent, at least until I switch to an alternative (I did find a possible contender that I need to look further into.)

September 12, 2021
Australia’s answer to online abuse

The Australian federal government is planning to de-anonymize the internet to introduce a social credit system to combat “online abuse” – police will have access to individuals’ social media accounts, which will be linked to people’s passports. pic.twitter.com/C2ZsYZjEGH
— LADY AMINA (@Alpha_Mind7) September 2, 2021

This was about 6 months ago and supposedly hasn’t gone anywhere, but…Black Mirror anyone?

September 3, 2021
“Facebook’s “Metaverse” gets a bit closer today with Horizon Workrooms”

I would normally be ok with someone trying to recreate Summer Wars, but would rather that Facebook be left out of it. 😬

August 20, 2021