Pluralistic: Amazon annihilates Alexa privacy settings, turns on continuous, nonconsensual audio uploading (15 Mar 2025)

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Amazon annihilates Alexa privacy settings, turns on continuous, nonconsensual audio uploading: "The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely."
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Apple's encryption capitulation: They put the gun on the mantelpiece in Act One, they don't get to be surprised now.
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Ad-tech targeting is an existential threat: Targeting people with chronic illnesses, parents of sick kids, military personnel with gambling problems, seniors with dementia, and national security decisionmakers.
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The cod-Marxism of personalized pricing: From each to their ability, to each according to their need?
Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 3): DEFINITELY not a pyramid scheme.
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Google's new phones can't stop phoning home: The call is coming from inside the house.
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Epic Systems, a lethal health record monopolist: Clinical needs sacrificed to profit maximization.
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