Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Facebook is putting profit before public good, says whistleblower Frances Haugen https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/03/former-facebook-employee-frances-haugen-identifies-herself-as-whistleblower

Did you know that it’s prohibited for a teacher to read my previous post out in class in English schools?

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/sep/27/uk-schools-told-not-to-use-anti-capitalist-material-in-teaching

#capitalism #freedom

Good news for #macOS users : lately Lukas Oberhuber is contributing to package the dev version of #GIMP (and has contributed a few fixes to GIMP code too). More issues must be handled, yet looks promising ! 🙌
(real screenshot though apparently not fully functional GIMP yet)

The #PandoraPapers contain 12M documents from 14 service providers.

Our investigation uncovers the financial secrets of 35 current and former world leaders, 330+ politicians and public officials, and a global list of fugitives, con artists and murderers.

https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/global-investigation-tax-havens-offshore/

Refugees help power machine learning advances at Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon
Big tech relies on the victims of economic collapse.
https://restofworld.org/2021/refugees-machine-learning-big-tech/

TIL that iphones regularly transmit the Mac addresses of devices attached to the same WiFi network to Apple. In addition to their geographical location of course.

So essentially you can be tracked across all locations where an iPhone is near you (and you haven't disabled your WiFi).

Wow.

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/android-ios-data-collection

I have decided to delete my YouTube account. It is done. I will set up a Peertube instance instead. Peertube is a decentralized video hosting service, and entirely Free Software: https://joinpeertube.org/

Pandora Papers leak: “a sweeping look at an industry that helps the world’s ultrawealthy, powerful government officials and other elites conceal trillions of dollars from tax authorities, prosecutors and others."

https://inkl.com/a/zQkdlYuwPNw

#PandoraPapers

As Kenyan president mounted anti-corruption comeback, his family’s secret fortune expanded offshore -

🔴 Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta

The #PandoraPapers show that Kenyatta’s family has been secretly accumulating a personal fortune behind offshore corporate veils for years.

ICIJ
https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/kenya-uhuru-kenyatta-family-offshore-wealth/

Facebook whistleblower revealed on '60 Minutes,' says the company prioritized profit over public good
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/03/tech/facebook-whistleblower-60-minutes/index.html

No patients were ever asked if they minded if there medical records were passed to what became a Google company.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58761324

DIY Haunted Jack in the Box with a Raspberry Pi https://diode.zone/videos/watch/3341f693-cb91-4f0d-afb3-1cf91570dc97

Found a place :)

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