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🌍 The #Sustainability Index 🌲 Environmental News & Guides about sustainable Products, Companies & their impact 💻 Privacy, Journalism, Politics, Humor, AI, Pacifism, Animal Rights, Cleaning nature 💚 Vegan & vegetarian topics 🔗 madeindex.org

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"...An adult paid. A child was exploited. The platform took a cut." Somebody close to me also had something like that happen before... these companies are profiting from "transactional sexual content" 🤮 🔽 Part 1/2 🔽 www.npr.org/2026/10/20/n... #News #Tech #TikTok

npr.orgTikTok staff raised child safety alarms. Court records show executives failed to actThe warnings surfaced in a trove of unreported court records. "I have been fighting about fixing this for months with people who didn't think the harms are severe enough," wrote one executive.
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#Meta quickly changed their brand new commercial terms after the #news of their plans to "train" on data broke & were covered worldwide. Seems they haven't heard of the web archive yet: web.archive.org/web/20261016... The word "train" disappeared within a day of the #AI training speculations.

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It includes the creation of fake accounts (so called test credentials¹) to gain further access, to restricted data. Only options to opt-out: 1) #DeMeta 2) Robots.txt with: User-agent: FacebookBot Disallow: / User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent Disallow: / 🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽

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Tested the #Bluesky thread feature today. A thread of 6 posts was marked as 2, with the majority of posts sorted in random order. Example: bsky.app/profile/made... @support.bsky.team @bsky.app

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Businesses & affiliated entities should REALLY reconsider using ANY #Meta product. By using WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook... they now automatically opt-in to their websites getting scraped, collected & used to train (likely) #MetaAI. 🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽 #News #Tech

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Businesses & affiliated entities should REALLY reconsider using ANY #Meta product. By using WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook... they now automatically opt-in to their websites getting scraped, collected & used to train (likely) #MetaAI. 🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽 #News #Tech

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Businesses & affiliated entities should REALLY reconsider using ANY #Meta product. By using WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook... they now automatically opt-in to their websites getting scraped, collected & used to train (likely) #MetaAI. 🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽 #News #Tech

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Part 2: "...that are associated with your products or services, or that are made available through your or users' use of Meta Company Products and services.." "your or users' use" is especially concerning, as it is extremely loosely phrased and would cover a wide range of people.

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Businesses & affiliated entities should REALLY reconsider using ANY #Meta product. By using WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook... they now automatically opt-in to their websites getting scraped, collected & used to train (likely) #MetaAI. 🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽 #News #Tech

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Part 1: "You authorize us (or any entity acting on our behalf) to use automated software (such as web scrapers, bots, robots, spiders, crawlers, and user agents) and create test credentials..." So this data can even be collected by 3rd parties working with Meta? 🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽

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Businesses & affiliated entities should REALLY reconsider using ANY #Meta product. By using WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook... they now automatically opt-in to their websites getting scraped, collected & used to train (likely) #MetaAI. 🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽 #News #Tech

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Businesses & affiliated entities should REALLY reconsider using ANY #Meta product. By using WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook... they now automatically opt-in to their websites getting scraped, collected & used to train (likely) #MetaAI. 🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽 #News #Tech

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It includes the creation of fake accounts (so called test credentials¹) to gain further access, to restricted data. Only options to opt-out: 1) #DeMeta 2) Robots.txt with: User-agent: FacebookBot Disallow: / User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent Disallow: / 🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽

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Meta glasses were caught spying on their users once more: www.androidauthority.com/ray-ban-meta... Meta was quick to "fix" and therefore admit it: "This issue has been resolved..." #Demeta #Meta #Facebook #MetaGlasses #RayBanMeta #RayBan #Privacy #News #Smart #gadget #Smartglasses0

androidauthority.comBig surprise: Some Ray-Ban Meta owners say their glasses are listening without being asked (Updated)A handful of Ray-Ban Meta owners say their glasses are listening without being summoned, raising fresh privacy concerns around AI wearables.
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🇺🇸 Today I learned of the "War on Violence". Paradoxical as it sounds, I felt it perfectly captured much of #US domestic & foreign policy. From the "War on Drugs" to current conflicts, the US continues to invoke the prevention of #violence as a pretext for unleashing far more of it on the world 🪖🚀💔

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Meta's Muse AI strongly reminds me of the Mechanical Turk. A magical device, pretending to function autonomously, when in all actuality a person inside is pulling the levers. www.404media.co/meta-tests-m... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechani... #DeMeta #Meta #Facebook #Tech #News #AI

404media.coMeta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch."
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🌌 The #US Space Force is like a self-fulfilling prophecy: First they announce this: "...Pentagon has definitively deployed active space-based weapons platforms." Then they declare peaceful, untouched and shared #Space: "Space is both a battlefield..." futurism.com/science-ener... 🔽 Part 1/2 🔽

futurism.comSpace Force Chief Admits the US Is Actively Utilizing Orbital WeaponsAn announcement that the US has active weapons platforms in orbit has come as the Space Force seeks a $71 billion budget hike.
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2/2 Their counterparts around the world do the same, & these warmongers have brought us one step closer to turning the last frontier into a military #conflict zone. SPACE IS FOR ALL MANKIND - No leadership can change that! #News #USA #America #SpaceForce #Military

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🇪🇺 The new digital ID & biometric verification law called EU KIDS ACT must be stopped! It is a serious #HumanRights nightmare, especially for #Privacy & would negatively change the internet forever. We need to stand together & fight this dystopian, authoritarian mass-surveillance movement! 🔽 1/2 🔽

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Part 2/3 ➕ It goes one step further than #SocialMedia covering video-sharing platforms, #AI chatbots, AI companions, online games, software app stores and operating systems³ Europeans should fight this surveillance state law tooth and nail! #STOPEUKIDSACT www.euractiv.com/news/gamers-...

euractiv.comGamers will have to prove their age under EU Kids Act | EuractivTech companies will have to pay supervisory fees to the European Commission to enforce the tough regulations
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⚠️ DARK STORY: I saw a squirrel being hit by a car the other day and quickly dying after, which was really really horrible. That was an accident, but some kids in the #UK are hurting / killing #pets and #wildlife as part of some horrific #TikTok trend... Part 1/2 www.dailymail.com/news/article...

dailymail.comThe TikTok catapult killers: Youths target pets and wildlife for fameGangs of young people with weapons loaded with ammunition such as ball bearings and bolts target and even kill beloved pets, waterbirds and wildlife in London and further afield.
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2/2 Guess this is what happens when lazy people let corporations co-parent their kids and #AnimalRights are weak. Animal abuse should be punished much more severely IMO. www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/ex... www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03...

kentonline.co.ukExposed: The sick world of TikTok animal abusersBlood-soaked squirrels, rabbits, and pigeons – KentOnline reveals the harrowing actions of those filming themselves killing wildlife with catapults.
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📌 #Pinterest used ~500 Million ROWS¹ of user pins² to train it's #AI! Data from 2009-Now, however the #SocialMedia corp claims "users have granted Pinterest a license". What license? Pretty sure AI training fine print wasn't a thing in 2009! Part 1/2

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2/2 cybernews.com/ai-news/meta... It's interesting to see how these corps don't really care about or put significant effort into helping people with disabilities (or anybody), while using them for #PR whenever they get a chance. about.fb.com/news/2026/06... (June, AFTER all the #privacy scandals)

cybernews.comMeta AI glasses lawsuit widens over bystander recordingsMeta AI glasses lawsuit now covers bystanders allegedly recorded without consent as Meta disputes claims. Read what the complaint alleges
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🪪 The recent idscan.net (&more?) breach exposed over 153M Driver's Licenses + 10m IDs + 579k Medical Cards mostly from the #US & #Canada. Age verification aka ID verification proponents should really think about how unsafe data is once it's collected en masse. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Part 1/2 ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #Privacy #News

idscan.netHomepageBest-in-Class ID Fraud Platform Provider & ID Scanning Software Solutions For Compliance and Security - IDScan.net
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2/2 Citizens' #Security & #Privacy need to be prioritized and considered BEFORE implementing any form of verification for anything. Are the Western courts in charge of protecting the people sleeping right now? 💤 #Privacy #News #Verification #AgeVerification #HumanRights

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Think the roughly $18 Billion #Meta has settled for over child safety is a slap on the wrist? Wait until you see the actual details: 😀 Paid in annual installments over a 10-year period 😜 States receive the money, not the victims 🤑 30% will only be paid if #YouTube & #TikTok: ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Part 1/2 ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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I take something completely different from this article about a tool to trick verification! Them: "...the existence of such tools puts users and organizations at imminent risk." "Not a tool for the masses" Me: "Where can I find this amazing #Privacy tool?" "A tool the masses need access to ASAP"

cybernews.comThis Android toolkit feeds fake selfies to KYC systems pretending they're live cameraCybernews researchers have uncovered an Android toolkit that can make fake photos and videos appear as live camera feeds during identity verification checks.
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Always "🎉 Good News!" waiting for you in the #Bluesky chat inbox 🤪 It makes you wish, more profiles would get hacked and send out spam. But only until you realize the "🎉 Bad News!" after clicking on the link 😵 #Hack #Virus #Warning #Spam #Scam #Link

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🗺️ While visiting Pride #Berlin, I learned how pointless #GoogleMaps Reviews in #Germany are. ⭐ Any place can simply report negative #reviews for defamation or claim the person wasn't there & have it removed. Users can then appeal & risk a lawsuit. 🔽🔽🔽🔽 1/2 🔽🔽🔽🔽 #Google #Internet #German

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So many vulnerable people are relying on Google Maps reviews & rating to tell them where it is save to go. Some places have only 1000-2000 reviews but >250 reviews removed in the past 365 days! Like how bad must the situation there be?! Absolute shame.