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“Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group as a suspected militant. Where are they getting this data? Is WhatsApp sharing it?”
https://blog.paulbiggar.com/meta-and-lavender/
I feel we have to make this relevant to USians given how low the exchange rate of Palestinian lives to the US Dollar is: Think of it this way, this probably means your credit score is also affected by the people in your WhatsApp groups.
(So, do we finally have your attention?)
@aral agreed, I remember when Facebook announced (got caught?) that your FB friends affected your credit score ten years ago 
Whats App has a documented history of slow patching of known vulnerabilities along with persistent rumours of them not patching certain well-known issues at the request of governmental security services.
(No, I don’t have any proof of the latter.)
@aral https://mapstodon.space/@fionag11/112292447957291915
(of course, there's plenty other reasons to leave Whatsapp for Signal or Matrix)
@aral hmm, my credit score is probably already affected by the publicly accessible list of people I follow on Mastodon, and by posts I boost.
Which is actually heavily politically"worse", than the majority of my private/IRL chats and contacts, who are predominantly US sympathizers.
Though, I don't use WhatsApp, because I don't want to support such a system - just as a matter of principle.
@miklo @aral not particularly useful.
Posting as anonymous underlines credibility of posts.
People often don't take anonymous posts seriously, because if the author doesn't back up a post with own name, and doesn't put their own name at stake, then the author probably is not confident enough about it.
And, it takes just one good link between a pseudo-anonymous account and a real person, and profiling agencies have the ability to build the full profile anyways.
Essential reading here.
@aral : 1 + 1 = 2?
1) #Palantir may have assisted in murdering World Central Kitchen aid workers: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/nsa-palantir-israel-gaza-ai/
(source: @youranonriots in https://kolektiva.social/@youranonriots/112265112977132716)
Note:
“We stand with Israel,” Palantir said in posts on X and LinkedIn. “The board of directors of Palantir will be gathering in Tel Aviv next week for its first meeting of the new year.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-tech-giant-palantir-decides-to-hold-first-board-meeting-of-new-year-in-tel-aviv/
2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel#Palantir
and immediately below that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel#Facebook
See also:
• https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
• https://www.gzeromedia.com/gzero-ai/gzero-ai-video/israels-lavender-what-could-go-wrong-when-ai-is-used-in-military-operations-gzero-ai
cc: @paulbiggar
#ConspiracyTheory ?
#Palantir #AI #BigData #Facebook #Meta #Israel #GamesWithoutFrontiers #LivesDoNotMatter (https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2024/01/31/billionaire-peter-thiel-backs-doping-friendly-olympics-rival---what-to-know-about-the-enhanced-games/)
@ErikvanStraten @youranonriots @paulbiggar You don‘t need the complexity of conspiracy theories when you have the simplicity of business models.
@ErikvanStraten @youranonriots @paulbiggar Also, Palantir are the nadir of assholes. One cannot sink lower on the asshole scale.
@ErikvanStraten @youranonriots @paulbiggar * Elon Musk may be the exception to this rule.
Why aren’t more people moving to ‘Signal’ and similar apps?
I'd say that TIcToc is the only one that "doesn't" give such info out to them.
@yianiris That’s because their firehose is likely going directly to the Chinese government. They’re all horrible.
@aral A related point is that this is why enthusiastic federation with Threads/Facebook may not be the wisest decision. I.e. anyone within the social graph of...
They are all corporations subject to operate under a government and within a state. Very few of those, and due to their federation through banking/financing, can become more powerful than governments and dictate back what they do. Their interests as capitalists and the capitalist state, is mutual against those who threaten this dominance.
Then we have states that act as satellites of another, they are not equal, and their agencies feed the satellite agencies.
Tic Toc is better!
@yianiris Agree to disagree.
I don't disagree that the firehose is going to Chinese gov. I doubt very much they cooperate with the western rats.
For the Chinese it is just as bad as google facebook X .. insta..etc.