Imagine if #Google (or even #Apple) allowed us to use StreetView to add details to #OpenStreetMap ... We'd be able to add so much...
#Microsoft allows us to use StreetSide for #OSM mapping, but that coverage is tiny and never where I want to map.
Imagine if #Google (or even #Apple) allowed us to use StreetView to add details to #OpenStreetMap ... We'd be able to add so much...
#Microsoft allows us to use StreetSide for #OSM mapping, but that coverage is tiny and never where I want to map.
#Google Employees Uncover Ongoing Work on Censored China Search
https://theintercept.com/2019/03/04/google-ongoing-project-dragonfly/
"...there are still some 100 workers allocated to the “cost center” associated with Dragonfly, meaning that the company is maintaining a budget for potential ongoing work on the plan."
#FuckOffGoogle #FuckCensorship #SurveillanceCapitalism #China
“The genesis of the thinking for Sidewalk Labs came from Google’s founders getting excited thinking of ‘all the things you could do if someone would just give us a city and put us in charge,’” Toronto’s Globe and Mail reported Schmidt as saying, noting that “he joked he knew there were good reasons that doesn’t happen.”
From S. Zuboff's "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" (p. 271-275)
Google Hired Gig Economy Workers to Improve Artificial Intelligence in Controversial Drone-Targeting Project
https://theintercept.com/2019/02/04/google-ai-project-maven-figure-eight/
Being paid 1$/hour to help #Google help the #USA kill people with drones seems like a honest wage for a honest job!
@snowdusk_ Apple vs Google on privacy: a tale of absolute competitive advantage
https://2018.ar.al/notes/apple-vs-google-on-privacy-a-tale-of-absolute-competitive-advantage/
TL;DR Apple willingly giving up its absolute competitive advantage in privacy over Google would be as daft as Samson shaving his head every morning.
That said, the long term alternatives are p2p, e2e-encrypted, and free stack (software, hardware, and services).
TIL Google seems to have decided to ban free software from accessing their APIs?
> Developer credentials (such as passwords, keys, and client IDs) are intended to be used by you and identify your API Client. You will keep your credentials confidential and make reasonable efforts to prevent and discourage other API Clients from using your credentials. Developer credentials may not be embedded in open source projects.
#Google invents the ThermoStasi!
Apple restores Google’s internal iOS apps after certificate misuse punishment
Time to call #Google and for what they really are: data thiefs, data-scammers, mass-exploiters of our lives, ...
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/31/apple-ban-google-data-app/
Good #GDPR news: If companies don't protect your private data, it will cost them: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/france-fines-google-nearly-57-million-for-first-major-violation-of-new-european-privacy-regime/2019/01/21/89e7ee08-1d8f-11e9-a759-2b8541bbbe20_story.html 😃 #ThanksFrance #Google
Tutanota is among the top players that respect your privacy. Learn here how we can help you protect your business emails in compliance with the GDPR: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/gdpr-compliant-email/
I accidentally a Font Degooglifier:
https://git.occrp.org/libre/fonts-degooglifier
I was sick and tired of having to manually degooglify fonts, so I made this. Seems to work. Handles both local files and URLs.
Perhaps somebody finds it useful.
¿Se puede vivir sin #Google en #Internet? Te invito a leer este post: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/como-dejar-atras-google-gmail 😃
“How many ad blocks could an ad slinger block if an ad slinger could block blocks?
Google engineers have proposed changes to the open-source Chromium browser that will break content-blocking extensions, including various ad blockers … Adblock Plus will most likely not be affected”
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/22/google_chrome_browser_ad_content_block_change/
PS. Guess who gets millions from Google not to block Google?
Hint: A_block _lus.
#SurveillanceCapitalism #Google #Chromium #Chrome #ChromeOS #Chromebook
World: Google, you are so smart, impartial, and benevolent, please write all our protocols and standards.
Google: Oh yeah, btw, we don’t think you should be able to protect yourself from being tracked on our browser.
Google to break uBlock Origin on Chromium.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897&desc=2#c23
via @[email protected]
On Tuesday 22/1 #Google opens a new #Berlin location in Tucholskystraße.
Am Dienstag eröffnet Google einen neuen Berlin-Standort in der Tucholskystraße. Es geht um KI, späterer Ausbau nicht ausgeschlossen. Größeres Projekt mit DB, Telekom und DFKI womöglich wegen #FuckOffGoogle geplatzt.
Wednesday 19/12 - 20h00
Anti-#Google Post-Google party at SO36, Oranienstrasse 190, #Kreuzberg #Berlin
Let's cheer to our temporary, symbolic victory against a "#GoogleCampus", celebrate our solidarity, and plan the next steps! <3
NOISE AGAINST GOOGLE &CO!
Friday 07/12 - 18:00 - Umspannwerk, #Kreuzberg, #Berlin
Google &co still watching!!
While #google canceled its "campus" in #Kreuzberg, they still occupy the building, while tech-startup bullshit still hits hard on the 'hood.
Join a festive occasion of meeting with neighbors, having fun and moving towards the next steps of action! <3
#FuckOffGoogle #StartUpRevolt #ShutDownGoogle #BringTheNoise
"Company [#Google] Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview"
https://patentpandas.org/stories/company-patented-my-idea
#FuckOffGoogle #Exploitation #Expropriation #Brainxtractivism
Google accused of GDPR privacy violations by seven countries
#Google 'betrays patient trust' with DeepMind Health move
Moving healthcare subsidiary into main company breaks pledge that ‘data will not be connected to Google accounts’
hahaha! who's pretending to be surprised?
@wheeler @pallgone Fortunately for #Google, their customers help them get better at "identifying and following targets" for drone murder strikes!
https://globalnews.ca/news/4125382/google-pentagon-ai-project-maven/
"We kill based on metadata" - Gal. M. Hayden
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