Amazon’s Ring is partnering with Flock—a network used by ICE, police & feds—in a major privacy red flag 🚨

Cops can now request Ring footage, expanding AI surveillance into our neighborhoods 🎥
Flock tracks vehicles & uses biased AI to ID people ⚠️

Given Ring’s privacy failures, this is deeply alarming 😠

🔗 https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/amazons-ring-to-partner-with-flock-a-network-of-ai-cameras-used-by-ice-feds-and-police/

#TechNews #Privacy #Surveillance #Ring #Flock #Amazon #AI #CivilRights #BigBrother #SmartHome #Police #Data #BigTech #DigitalRights #Security

As fascism descends, you are going to need easy to access and use alternatives to Big Tech (aka Fascist Tech).

So maybe bookmark the Chatons collective site initiated by our friends at Framasoft with hosted versions of free-software services for collaborative writing, video conferencing, scheduling appointments, collaborative spreadsheets, file sharing, picture sharing, etc.

https://entraide.chatons.org/en/

#chatons #framasoft #alternatives #SmallTech #BigTech #technoFascism #selfDefense #tools #tech #collaborativeWriting #videoConferencing #scheduling #collaborativeSpreadsheet #fileSharing #pictureSharing #postItBoard #linkShortener #secureTextShraing #hosted #online #web

As fascism descends, you are going to need easy to access and use alternatives to Big Tech (aka Fascist Tech).

So maybe bookmark the Chatons collective site initiated by our friends at Framasoft with hosted versions of free-software services for collaborative writing, video conferencing, scheduling appointments, collaborative spreadsheets, file sharing, picture sharing, etc.

https://entraide.chatons.org/en/

#chatons #framasoft #alternatives #SmallTech #BigTech #technoFascism #selfDefense #tools #tech #collaborativeWriting #videoConferencing #scheduling #collaborativeSpreadsheet #fileSharing #pictureSharing #postItBoard #linkShortener #secureTextShraing #hosted #online #web

By pure coincidence, @pluralistic 's reminder that everyone (Americans included) needs to reduce their tech dependence on the American broligarchy happened during a major AWS outage.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/

#bigtech #AWS #Microsoft #Google #Apple #Facebook #Meta #X #Twitter #Amazon

"Manufacturers' back doors and digital locks that prevent us from updating our devices with software of our choosing were never a good idea. Today, they're a catastrophe." - @pluralistic

And just to be clear: None of this is surprising. The people who did this - and we know who they are; they have names & lucrative jobs - were warned & warned again, and just went ahead & did it anyway.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115406895458429607

#privacy #internet #tech #business #resist #BigTech #uspol

By pure coincidence, @pluralistic 's reminder that everyone (Americans included) needs to reduce their tech dependence on the American broligarchy happened during a major AWS outage.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/

#bigtech #AWS #Microsoft #Google #Apple #Facebook #Meta #X #Twitter #Amazon

"Manufacturers' back doors and digital locks that prevent us from updating our devices with software of our choosing were never a good idea. Today, they're a catastrophe." - @pluralistic

And just to be clear: None of this is surprising. The people who did this - and we know who they are; they have names & lucrative jobs - were warned & warned again, and just went ahead & did it anyway.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115406895458429607

#privacy #internet #tech #business #resist #BigTech #uspol

The AWS outage just shows that you don't have to have accounts with Amazon (or Google, or Microsoft, or Meta) for them to digitally fuck you up.

We need the EU and the UK to start thinking seriously about digital sovereignty, to be independent of US Big Tech, and to be self-reliant as soon as possible.

#BigTech #AWS #Amazon #DigitalSovereignty #Internet #US #EU #UK

The AWS outage just shows that you don't have to have accounts with Amazon (or Google, or Microsoft, or Meta) for them to digitally fuck you up.

We need the EU and the UK to start thinking seriously about digital sovereignty, to be independent of US Big Tech, and to be self-reliant as soon as possible.

#BigTech #AWS #Amazon #DigitalSovereignty #Internet #US #EU #UK

Amazon’s Ring is partnering with Flock—a network used by ICE, police & feds—in a major privacy red flag 🚨

Cops can now request Ring footage, expanding AI surveillance into our neighborhoods 🎥
Flock tracks vehicles & uses biased AI to ID people ⚠️

Given Ring’s privacy failures, this is deeply alarming 😠

🔗 https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/amazons-ring-to-partner-with-flock-a-network-of-ai-cameras-used-by-ice-feds-and-police/

#TechNews #Privacy #Surveillance #Ring #Flock #Amazon #AI #CivilRights #BigBrother #SmartHome #Police #Data #BigTech #DigitalRights #Security

"The danger of #AI is not that it will achieve consciousness and hit the big red button. The end is much less flashy, far more stupid: The resource-intensive advertisement tools of AI will increasingly overtax the grid, leaving us to cook alive in sweltering darkness. The AI hype is part of a larger, false narrative justifying fossil fuel expansion. Let’s not get fooled."

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/ai-data-centers-climate-change/
#ArtificialIntelligence #tech #techFutures #BigTech #dataCentres #energy #climateChange

They promised us the Enterprise from Star Trek and instead they delivered us the Empire from Star Wars.

#bigtech #nokings #optout #reclaimcontrol

"The danger of #AI is not that it will achieve consciousness and hit the big red button. The end is much less flashy, far more stupid: The resource-intensive advertisement tools of AI will increasingly overtax the grid, leaving us to cook alive in sweltering darkness. The AI hype is part of a larger, false narrative justifying fossil fuel expansion. Let’s not get fooled."

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/ai-data-centers-climate-change/
#ArtificialIntelligence #tech #techFutures #BigTech #dataCentres #energy #climateChange

🚨⏳ Act now! You have until November 3rd, 2025 to prevent Microsoft from using your LinkedIn data to train AI.

You're opted in automatically, unless you take action and turn it off.

Here's how:

Go to your account → Settings & Privacy → Data privacy → Data for Generative AI Improvement & toggle the switch off to opt out.

Find out more: https://tuta.com/blog/linkedin-ai-user-data

#LinkedInAI#MicrosoftAI#BigTech

🚨⏳ Act now! You have until November 3rd, 2025 to prevent Microsoft from using your LinkedIn data to train AI.

You're opted in automatically, unless you take action and turn it off.

Here's how:

Go to your account → Settings & Privacy → Data privacy → Data for Generative AI Improvement & toggle the switch off to opt out.

Find out more: https://tuta.com/blog/linkedin-ai-user-data

#LinkedInAI#MicrosoftAI#BigTech

Tech Policy Press editor @justinhendrix recently interviewed @mallory and Burcu Kilic about their article, "Big Tech Redefined the Open Internet to Serve Its Own Interests." Here's a transcript of the discussion. "One of the big ideas of this piece is that keeping the internet protected, keeping the internet, the way it works in an unfettered way and preserving interoperability and so on has become the slogan or the rallying cry of these huge companies that are using their position as centralized services or networks to say, 'We are protecting that. If you come at us, you're destroying the internet,' and that's just not... So assuming that and accepting that is assuming this false narrative," says Knodel.

https://flip.it/Rh0u_m

#Technology#Tech#Decentralization#OpenSocial#OpenSocialWeb#Internet#Protocols#BigTech