Excellent reporting, alarming findings. Bloomberg's @dmehro.bsky.social et al found U.S. state government health websites are sharing people's personal info (sex, citizenship & race data) with tech giants via pixel-sized webpage trackers. Several states pulled the trackers after Bloomberg disclosed.
Race, location and immigration information has been sent to TikTok, Meta and others.
www.bloomberg.com
P s. (It does not specify, so I am assuming international sign-ups are allowed.)
And I just found that @jelaniya.bsky.social is here in the blue firmament, though they do not seem to be regular.
Here's the FTC press release: www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
"this service did not, in fact, listen in on consumers’ conversations or use voice data at all [...] Instead, the service the companies provided consisted of reselling—at a significant markup—email lists obtained from other data brokers."
Zack Whittaker
www.ftc.gov
The Federal Trade Commission will require Cox Media Group (CMG) and two smaller marketing firms to pay a total of $930,000 to settle allegations they deceived customers by falsely claiming to offer
I’m going to be annoyed if Apple launches disappearing messages in Siri before iMessage
An interesting finding here is that TikTok’s “sensitive data” filter for state health sites is a bizarre keyword list with terms like MAGA, antifa, Teamsters, bhagavad, mulatto, queer, and nationalist.
If your answer isn't on the list, it could still get sent
w/ @suryamattu.com and Tanaz Meghjani
Nine of these are within five minutes of my apartment, and there have been weeks where I've been to three or four of them. I love JH/Elmhurst.
Curious to see what DOT does with this road they're merging with the adjacent park (h/t @[email protected] on Mastodon)
Simon Fondrie-Teitler
Recent status: watching someone that works at Zoom take a past due security training about not taking meetings in public spaces while he was on a train going between Copenhagen and Stockholm. He completed his training then had a sales meeting about volume discounts.
The annual list is back. Our new chief critic ranks her favorite places to dine in all five boroughs.
20 Facebook pages spreading fake news to their 200,000 followers. A network of connected websites, and real money behind it.
We investigate a sprawling content farm. It gets pretty dystopian.
escapecollective.com/fake-cycling...
Columbia University in the USA has an online course on opinion writing led by Jelani Cobb that has a limited-time free registration offer (otherwise USD 99). Use the code WRITEFREE on check-out.
Particularly useful if you are an expert in your field but have no formal writing training.
Simon Fondrie-Teitler
Excellent reporting, alarming findings. Bloomberg's @dmehro.bsky.social et al found U.S. state government health websites are sharing people's personal info (sex, citizenship & race data) with tech giants via pixel-sized webpage trackers. Several states pulled the trackers after Bloomberg disclosed.
plus.columbia.edu
escapecollective.com
Inside the automated ad-tech machine flooding Facebook with AI-generated cycling misinformation.
Sources: Apple's revamped Siri may launch in beta, and will have an option to auto-delete chats; Apple plans to add Suggested Genmoji to iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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