Olaf Kolkman @olaf@social.secret-wg.org

As my EFF colleagues Gennie Gebhart and Bennett Cyphers explain, Safegraph's claims that they don't sell this data are just a shell-game.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/safegraphs-disingenuous-claims-about-location-data-mask-dangerous-industry

After a series of scandals that resulted in Safegraph being banned from Google's App Store, the company spun out Veraset, which sells the data that Safegraph says it no longer sells:

https://qz.com/1934587/who-is-safegraph-the-company-giving-your-location-data-to-covid-researchers/

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Periodically, I like to check up on how the SCO vs. IBM case is going. It was finally settled in November 2021.

Meanwhile, SCO no longer exists, Darl McBride went bankrupt, and debtors had to pay IBM $14,250,000. https://www.zdnet.com/article/last-of-original-sco-v-ibm-linux-lawsuit-settled/

Hello Mastodon art people! I’m Julia, an illustrator and naturalist from Germany. I’ve quit all social media a few years ago because addictive algorithms, ads, infinite scrolling and tracking surveillance were killing my creativity.
Mastodon is likely the last social media experiment I’ll try. Here are some birds for you, because although I’ve left Twitter, I love drawing birds.
#introduction
#MastoArt #art #illustration #birds #watercolor #TraditionalArt

Thing that is lovely: Seeing so many people obviously coming from a place/culture where accessibility is secondary, being so quick and willing and eager to adopt it here.

Thank you everyone who's been adding alt-text to their images. I know it's a hard habit to get into, but the blind community here will absolutely love you for it <3

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