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Behavioural surplus is the extra information that can be processed when we interact with an app, website or device, in order to be repackaged and sold as accurate predictions about us.

#privacy #dataprivacy #shoshanazuboff #masssurveillance #behavioralsurplus #behaviouralsurplus #surveillancecapitalism

19h ago

From winbuzzer.com

Palantir’s Government Work Extends to New IRS ‘Mega API’ Project with Musk’s DOGE - WinBuzzer

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Elon Musk's DOGE group and Palantir have participated in an IRS "hackathon" to build a "mega API" for the IRS, potentially using Palantir's Foundry software as a data hub.

#ai #api #irs #doge #bigdata #foundry #govtech #elonmusk #palantir #peterthiel

22h ago

From openrightsgroup.org

Meta opt-out

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In March 2025, there was a huge victory for your data rights! Meta settled a four year court case with human rights campaigner Tanya O’Carroll. She had taken legal action to force the social media giant to stop collecting and processing her personal data for advertising purposes. Meta have...

#gdpr #meta #ukpol #adtech #privacy #ukpolitics #dataprivacy #dataprotection #stopstalkerads

on Mar 26

From posivi.com

South Korea suspends new downloads of DeepSeek - Posivi

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South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) announced on February 17, 2025, that new downloads of the Chinese AI app DeepSeek had been

#deepseek #technews #southkorea #dataprivacy #privacyrules #appsuspension #cybersecurity #dataprotection #privacymatters

on Feb 17

From schneier.com

Schneier: Full Disclosure of Security Vulnerabilities a 'Damned Good Idea' - Schneier on Security

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Full disclosure—the practice of making the details of security vulnerabilities public—is a damned good idea. Public scrutiny is the only reliable way to improve security, while secrecy only makes us less secure. Unfortunately, secrecy sounds like a good idea. Keeping software vulnerabilities...

#ciso #foss #dataprivacy #publicscrutiny #keepdataprivate

on Jan 15