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Notices by switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at), page 32

  1. switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at)'s status on Friday, 25-May-2018 08:49:03 EDT switching.social switching.social

    If you have a friend or relative who is still using #GoogleMaps to navigate with, it means that #Google is going to store everywhere they've been forever. This is hardly a good thing for #privacy.

    Instead, you might want to suggest they try out the privacy-conscious alternative OsmAnd on their #Android or #iPhone, which lets them navigate without tracking their movements:

    https://switching.social/ethical-alternatives-to-google-maps/

    In conversation Friday, 25-May-2018 08:49:03 EDT from mastodon.at permalink
  2. switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at)'s status on Thursday, 24-May-2018 09:13:29 EDT switching.social switching.social

    So, according to these allegations, #Facebook:

    1. Lost lots of ad money when people abandoned computers for phones.

    2. Panicked.

    3. Got smaller companies hooked on access to FB users' private data (not ads but personal data).

    4. Once the companies were hooked, FB forced those companies to buy expensive FB mobile ads. Companies that didn't comply had their access to user data switched off.

    In short, they allege FB was using our data to control these companies.

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/24/mark-zuckerberg-set-up-fraudulent-scheme-weaponise-data-facebook-court-case-alleges

    In conversation Thursday, 24-May-2018 09:13:29 EDT from mastodon.at permalink
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