Tag: xformerlytwitter

“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
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
Santa is Facebook, News at 10

So I decided to download my Facebook data after learning I was a part of the 533m breach.

Clicked on a folder called “your_off_facebook_activity” and was unsurprised to learn that Facebook is following me all over the internet. pic.twitter.com/MSkceFAqYg
— Zamaan Qureshi (@zamaan_qureshi) April 11, 2021

They know when you’re sleeping

They know when you’re awake

They know when you’ve been bad or good

So be good for goodness sake!

April 12, 2021
“Twitter CFO says Apple is ‘leveling the playing field’ with iOS 14 privacy changes”

Facebook, be like Twitter.

March 5, 2021