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For the past five years, the antitrust movement has been focused on Facebook more than other companies.
But recently, we've learned that the true dominant monopoly in the tech ecosystem is Apple.
noahpinion.substack.com/p/di…
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Spend some time this weekend discovering For All Mankind, a slept-on streaming banger of the first order. wired.trib.al/kGyhLn5
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TikTok doesn’t just see its users dance videos.
It collects search and browsing histories, keystroke patterns, biometric identifiers, draft messages and metadata, plus it has collected the text, images, and videos that are stored on a device's clipboard.
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It's amazing to me that after all this time, almost all media coverage of Telegram still refers to it as an "encrypted messenger."
Telegram has a lot of compelling features, but in terms of privacy and data collection, there is no worse choice. Here's how it actually works:
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2021 was the year of VR, and I have one stat to show you why:
This year, Oculus has sold more headsets than Microsoft did Xboxs.
This marks the beginning of ARVR's predominance.
A thread on ARVRs growth, use-cases, and future below:
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It is absolutely critical to fight Apple's attempt to surveil one billion people in the name of a higher cause.
Apple's new end-user handset scanning is likely the most powerful tool for surveillance authoritarianism ever conceived by humans.
The most we can do for our children is to not go down this road.
maxhodak.com/nonfiction/2021…
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Apple is replacing end-to-end encryption with end-to-end surveillance. From dawn to dusk, every waking moment, your phone is watching you.
Parth retweeted
Apple's new end-user handset scanning is likely the most powerful tool for surveillance authoritarianism ever conceived by humans.
The most we can do for our children is to not go down this road.
maxhodak.com/nonfiction/2021…
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I've tried hard to see this from Apple's point of view. But inescapably, this is government spyware installed by Apple based on a presumption of guilt. Though Apple wrote the code, its function is to scan personal data and report it to government.
eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/ap…
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I read the information Apple put out yesterday and I'm concerned. I think this is the wrong approach and a setback for people's privacy all over the world.
People have asked if we'll adopt this system for WhatsApp. The answer is no.
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Apple's ads about their commitment to privacy already had a big asterisk.
nytimes.com/2021/05/17/techn…
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Neeraj Chopra won India's first-ever track & field gold medal, and he knew it the second he released the javelin.
xitter.cf/annamalai_k/status/142…
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Personalized ads are one of those things where stated preference and observed preference are almost total opposites. No one thinks that they do, but people really enjoy being catered to.
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Uber is sitting on >$20B of equity positions in companies that will mostly be public by end of the year
• Didi: ~13% (~$9-13B)
• Grab: ~15% (~$6B)
• Aurora: ~26% (~$2.5B)
• Yandex Taxi: 33% (~$2B)
• Zomato: ~9% (~$0.5B)
• Joby: ~6% (~$0.5B)
• Lime: ~31% (~$0.2B)
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India has so far donated 66M covid vaccines to over 95 countries. What the US chooses to do in holding back vaccines that, from what I hear, are over-stocked by 30-40M, will be a defining moment for Biden's legacy. The East remembers.
mea.gov.in/vaccine-supply.ht…
