There is definitely constant industrial, corporate and state sponsored misinformation. All major news outlets including the more left leaning ones fall in line when it comes to war.

But yes i agree, at least in more recent times, there is no need to suppress the truth anymore. I dont really know why that is, but the political landscape is so full of lies next to the truth that nobody believes or cares about anything anymore.

Cursed but probably rational.

Yep in the last two or so years it should have become even more clear for people how important federation is.

I mean its pretty similar to the US recruiting their poor citizens to fight in the middle east. They are often just as oblivious to the fact that its usually entirely one sided aggression or resource wars.

Yes.

Yeah the whole orc thing instantly rings dehumanization bells as we know them from Netanyahu and other fascists like Hitler.

Nah it probably wont. He has gotten away with so many actual crimes, so this wont change anything.

Glad to see they arent going along with the bullshit of “all russians are evil and deserve to die” that is recently going around. The russian people is under dictator oppression and deserves just as much support as any other people in the same situation.

It used to be much less brainrot and doomscroll filled on their version. When people from the west noticed that they started calling tiktok a form of psychological warfare. I think its almost as bad there now but ofcourse still much more censored.

It was there before i think but maybe they dont mind seeing it again

Yeah its entirely expected. Its a global trend and its not gonna stop.

HW backdoors are probably not something that brokers like these leverage so its a different topic. They just like making easy money from ad tracking systems, they dont wanna work hard and fuck around with zero days.

If you have physical security worries (government trying to kill you) then you either need graphene on a pixel and hope there are no RCE HW backdoors or something else entirely or no phone.

But the “tracking by default” in normal phones, with data being easily available is an issue that affects almost everyone not just high risk individuals.

Found it (In german but we have translators these days…) https://netzpolitik.org/2024/databroker-files-firma-verschleudert-36-milliarden-standorte-von-menschen-in-deutschland/

This is about phone location data, but i dont see any reason why cars would be any different, they create less privacy sensitive data than phones in a way.

The people that wrote this article actually got a huge amount of slightly older data for free just as a sample. But this is the scale these data brokers operate at:

The data itself comes from the US company Datastream Group. It offers such location data on a monthly subscription basis. According to the offer, it comes from up to 163 countries and is updated hourly.

You can buy huge amounts of location data for anyone anywhere that uses a standard google or apple phone. Im not sure if you even need to have some random app, like socials or anything with ads in it, installed that leaks this data or if its just google and apple themselves that sell it. All you need is a single identifying point of confirmed time+location for your target and then you can reconstruct their entire movement from that.

This has very obvious and less obvious horrible implications. Things like tracking victims of abuse, finding out peoples home address after meeting them once, tracking military personnel movement, tracking people going to sex related locations, prisons, abortion clinics, endless potential for abuse.

claim to be a private investigator or something

Oh no absolutely not necessary, this is commercially for sale data that anyone can buy as long as you dont make it obvious that you are up to no good. I will see if i can find the last article i saw about someone testing this themselves.

Good function will usually result into nice form anyways. Like old thinkpads for example.

Enjoy this wonderful Posy video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjKjZwd_KY0

You go to a data broker that sells “anonymized” location data and give them money and a region of interest. Done.

It shouldnt just be called a privacy risk. Its a safety risk because it enables stalking with little to zero effort on the stalkers side.

Chinese apparently actually

Things never change, companies never break promises, shareholders never hold power over decision, people can not be bought

Those would all have to be true in order for anyone to have a reason to put trust into Bluesky.

Meta auto created threads accounts for all instagram users iirc so they kinda forced thwir way into the market by pre inflating their numbers.