Chris Wolff<p>The reason the Fediverse is more necessary now than it ever has been, is because by design, it objectively benefits anyone who uses it, regardless of any socioeconomic status they've ever had or ever will, if and only if they are not objectively dangerous towards society.<br><br>Content that is already illegal and should be in any jurisdiction who takes themselves seriously, is already defederated by any instance who takes themselves seriously. Likewise extremists. Likewise those who enjoy hurting people just because they can. Likewise those who would like to infringe upon the inalienable rights with which everyone including themselves were born. Likewise predators. Et cetera.<br><br>If you want to make the Internet safe, or at least as safe as it reasonably can be for everyone, including children, and also including anyone else who is vulnerable for any reason, this is what that's supposed to look like.<br><br>The law itself still exists, with or without age verification, and you can still report bad actors, with or without age verification.<br><br>I am 31 as of this exact moment, and I will be 32 on Friday. I just told you my date of birth. I could very easily be lying to you right now, and I'm not. I could very easily prove to you that I'm telling the truth right now, and I won't.<br><br>Edit: word missing; the suspense was unbearable.<br><br><a href="https://gts.pebcak.me/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://gts.pebcak.me/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://gts.pebcak.me/tags/privacymatters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacyMatters</span></a> <a href="https://gts.pebcak.me/tags/ageverification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AgeVerification</span></a></p>
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@adamshostack No.
The "Background App Refresh" setting allows for an app to execute code/tasks while in not in the foreground[1]. If you disable the permission for an app or for iOS-level, it **reduces the probability** of an app is allowed to persisting executing code when not in the foreground. Developers can still do shenanigans to persist beyond expectations though.
So if enabled, the setting allows the developer to register arbitrary background tasks such as analytics, cron jobs, etc. So Lyft MAY have registered a background task where they poll for network state changes or it may be time based or whatever else.
These background tasks allow for deduction of certain events (e.g. timezone change, IP change, etc.)
If you don't want to allow apps to persist in the background, you either have to turn it off system-wide OR on a per-app basis OR enable "Low Power Mode"[2], which also disables background tasks.
[1] Background App Refresh dev documentation: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/using-background-tasks-to-update-your-app
[2] Low Power Mode: https://support.apple.com/en-us/101604
Apple Developer DocumentationUsing background tasks to update your app | Apple Developer DocumentationConfigure your app to perform tasks in the background to make efficient use of processing time and power.
The EU (still) wants to scan
your private messages and photos… action is needed!
Europe…take action! 
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Monday 10:00 at #WHY2025 we give a talk "Digital sovereignty and the FOSS-stack at school." 
https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/XZBREW/
There is a live stream
program.why2025.orgDigital sovereignty and the FOSS-stack at school. WHY2025The need for digital sovereignty has always been great, but now there is an autocrat in the White house that is fighting everything he deems “Woke”. This renders USA Big Tech that is run by billionaires that have sworn loyalty to this new King unsuitable for use in education. In this presentation we'll present the WHY for the FOSS stack for schools, our plan how to get there, and the progress we have made so far on our pilot schools.
Flock’s nationwide license plate network is now using AI to label driving patterns as “suspicious.” This shifts it from tracking vehicles of interest to actively generating suspicion.
American Civil Liberties Union · Surveillance Company Flock Now Using AI to Report Us to Police if it Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are “Suspicious” | ACLUCompany crosses a dangerous line by beginning to offer AI suspicion-generation functions
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[Android] smartphones now form world's largest earthquake detection network.
Let's see… Is this type of tracking opt-in? #privacy #BoostingIsSharing
The jury verdict in the Frasco v. Flo #privacy case was good news. But the privacy laws of the near future are going to have to deal with surveillance companies that are already learning the lessons of the Frasco v. Flo case
blog.zgp.orginquiring minds (have a right to) know
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Don Marti
Keep an eye out for tomorrow's blog post! We'll be posting a development progress update for the past months and a roadmap for the next few.
I've been busy as hell this past week.
A lot of people have been asking hard questions about the security of LoRa systems when they hear about mesh radios.
I'm not one to trust the marketing so I and several friends put together two new LoRa tools to help us audit the security claims of LoRa mesh systems!
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@greenpeace a world without #Privacy is a world without Democracy.
#StopChatControl