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A friend of mine texted me about the Shein app (Shein being a clothing store). He suspects there's AI in the app that uses the phone's camera to detect who's checking it out. So, when his 11 year old daughter uses it, it sends her pictures of pricey stuff (IE, $33 T-shirts). When he uses it, it sends pictures of cute but cheap things.

Targeted advertising.

Now, I have neither the app nor even Google Play Store on my phone. I use LineageOS & F-Droid apps. But, I figured I'd check out the Shein web site on my Fennec browser...

"For you: Emery Rose Plus Size Solid".

Eek! They think I'm fat!

"I feel empty," said Lavender, looking mournful.

"Um... maybe you need food?" suggested Craig.

"No, food is for creatures; I'm a living space. I feel empty because my residents have been gone so long."

Just then glowing circles appeared on her exposed skin. Craig felt a breeze pick up as tiny glinting things appeared out of nowhere. Each one #targeted a different circle on Lavender's arms & face, landed, & was absorbed. Lavender sighed contentedly. "That's better."

#France fines #Apple €150M for “excessive” pop-ups that let users reject #tracking

France's competition regulator fined Apple €150 million, saying the iPhone maker went overboard in its implementation of pop-up messages that let users consent to or reject tracking that third-party applications use for #targeted #advertising.
#popups #surveillance

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Ars Technica · France fines Apple €150M for “excessive” pop-ups that let users reject trackingBy Jon Brodkin
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@sarahjamielewis i would like to see you get more additive in nature like decentralized distributed p2p compute portals, projects like securedrop and books like the hacks series - a lot of collected ip, i'd like to see you boot like 3 or 4 different os at once and paste between screens - you need to find a good sales and mkt person and get some rev streams started #content #targeted ads #backlinks

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#Meta’s New #Policies Fuel #Concerns Over #Transgender #Harassment.

Meta’s newest #policy changes, including the removal of #professional #factcheckers, could lead to more #targeted #harassment against #transgender #users. This article delves into how weakened #hatespeech #rules and a shift toward looser #moderation may disproportionately #harm #marginalized #groups.

transvitae.com/metas-new-polic

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@jessejames @etherdiver

I tried #twitter three different times, including once for work. It wasn't engaging enough to keep me.

I have a dormant #Facebook because not everyone is on #Discord. I occasionally use #Messenger.

To be fair, I never used the FB app, and every once in while, I would clean out the ad crap. When I got an ad that could in any way be a likely #targeted ad.

I did update my profile pic, and scramble my name when I was laid off.

"In most cases where journalists have been killed, the IDF has described such incidents as tragic accidents or collateral damage."

There's been a LOT of collateral damage. Someone suspicious might even say the odds of dying as a journalist were much higher than chance.

#GazaStrip #journalists #targeted

‘I couldn’t cry over my children like everyone else’: the tragedy of Palestinian journalist Wael al-Dahdouh | Palestinian territories | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2024/oct

The Guardian · ‘I couldn’t cry over my children like everyone else’: the tragedy of Palestinian journalist Wael al-DahdouhBy Nesrine Malik

US doctor back from Gaza asks Biden to impose arms embargo on Israel

youtube.com/watch?v=J5D43nRpsr

“Someone in Israel has decided that these children need to die, and someone in America has decided that that’s okay”

US doctor Tammy Abughnaim, who has just returned from a humanitarian deployment in besieged Gaza, says more and more children are killed by gunshots from Israeli quadcopters just because they leave their tents.