@ScottMGS Loved this. Thank you for sharing. Feels very relevant to my ethics work as well.
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@ambivalena Bra jobbat!
@toooobeeee @giffengrabber Thanks!
@jerome Oh yeah, that would have been right up my alley.
@giffengrabber Thanks Carl. Good read :) Staying anonymous to my VPN provider was something I was diving into (disposable cards, burner emails, etceteras) 😅
Any opinions on which VPN service I should be using?
There was a time when every café, clothing store and friend did not ask you to follow them on Instagram.
@DavidBlue Wow, thank you. Will add this to my next newsletter.
@carl Grattis Carl! 👏
Just signed up for a course in freelance journalism. Took me 30 years but I finally remembered this is what I really want to do 😅
Feels very exciting.
Got my copy of Introvert Doodles today! It's divine. Making it a coffee table book so guests can understand me better.
@wednesday Thank you so much Wednesday! Proofreading is really helpful 🙏
@lbaclin Cloudron felt more stable and self-updating :) I'm still a rookie.
But I will likely try Yunohost on my planned home server.
@humanetech Thanks :) LinkedIn is a mess 😅
Finally felt it was good enough to publish:
Digital Ethics and Moral Theory Explained
A brief guide to moral theory and how digital ethics fits within the branch of applied ethics.
@ambivalena Wow vad häftigt. Tack för tipset!
@wednesday I really like this way of framing it.
Have spent many hours today writing on a blog post about applied ethics. Not quite done yet. Now reflecting on what makes me put in all those hours. All that effort.
I've been blogging for almost 25 years. Nobody asking me to do it. Nobody paying me to do it. Truly not asking for thanks. I am a privileged individual. Just reflecting on this fascinating passion and drive that still keeps me going. I'm the one who is thankful.
@abbe98 Very fair point. I'm not read up on how the whole data collection works in this case, but I'm also wondering how much is automated by FB advertising tools and how much is proactively shared.
All-in-all I think companies are extremely naive in their use of third-party tools. And data that may be collected under fair-use to process an order is inadvertently then also shared with subprocessors for profile building.
Nice bit of reporting from Swedish Radio. They built an online fake pharmacy and activated Facebook advertising tools. Thousands of simulated visits to the pharmacy were made each day, and the reporters could see all the sensitive, personal information being stored by Facebook.
Facebook sent no warnings to the pharmacy, despite saying they have tools in place to prevent this from happening.
A few weeks ago they revealed how this was happening with real pharmacies.