I’m Leaving WhatsApp
I’m leaving WhatsApp. It’s an integral part of the Meta / Facebook empire, which is currently being sued by 29 states for the harm that it causes to children. While WhatsApp claims end-to-end encryption, they retain your metadata, which forms part of your social graph which they then use as part of their marketing efforts….
https://dave.moskovitz.co.nz/2026/08/26/im-leaving-whatsapp/
#OpenSource #privacy #signal #facebook #meta

Reason to get my old #Quest out, that I stopped using when #Meta forced account linking…
#Android #VR #games #bootloader

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/08/new-bootloader-lets-you-take-the-meta-out-of-the-original-meta-quest/

Oh, that should be interesting.

Reuters: Instagram head Adam Mosseri to testify at Meta child social media addiction trial https://www.reuters.com/business/instagram-head-adam-mosseri-testify-meta-trial-2026-08-25/ @Reuters #Meta #Instagram

#ArtificialIntelligence #AIPolicy #Meta

https://restofworld.org/2026/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai-for-everyone-manifesto-global-critique

Forbes: Meta, ByteDance And YouTube Take 94% Of A $150 Billion Vertical Video Market https://www.forbes.com/sites/maureenkerr/2026/08/25/three-companies-take-94-of-a-150-billion-vertical-market/ @forbes #Meta #YouTube #ByteDance

2️⃣ "The Morpheus" hat für ein YouTube-Video die Android-Version von #WhatsApp inspiziert, insbesondere, welche Daten an #Meta gesendet werden.

Sein Fazit: Deine Nachrichten werden Ende-zu-Ende-verschlüsselt übertragen, aber es fliessen so viele zusätzliche Daten an den #Facebook-Konzern, dass dieser ganz viel über deinen Tagesablauf erfährt. Und auch über deinen Beziehungsstatus. Und wie weit draussen in der Pampa du lebst (bzw. wie gut (bzw. teuer) dein Internet-Abo ist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79TFQ0ydR7c

🦅 #Meta #SocialMedia #TechLaw 👨‍⚖️

https://www.techpolicy.press/four-states-take-meta-to-trial-in-california-the-latest-front-in-sprawling-multidistrict-fight/

I see so many people (mostly men, this isn't random) talking about how Meta's Ray-Ban glasses are "incredible" or "still not ready" yet, I don't see anyone calling it what it is: Voyeurism.

This technology will increase voyeurism and stalking aggressions in unacceptable ways. These glasses are a voyeur's dream weapon. Also a doxxer's and stalker's dream weapon.

Why are our laws and cultures not protecting us against this?

#Privacy #Safety #Meta #RayBan #Consent

Is there anyone among us who uses the Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses outside of the US?
If so, how did you manage to set them up so that the region-dependent features work properly? For example, even something as basic as voice-controlled functionality should respond with something useful instead of simply telling you that the feature isn’t available in your region.
I’ve seen several people demonstrate them, but by that point everything was already working.
Here’s what I’ve already tried:
Using a reliable US VPN and having a brand new Meta account set to the US region
Skipping Wi-Fi pairing because of location detection
Denying location access
Setting my phone’s region to the US
Completely factory-resetting the glasses before doing all of the above
Completely clearing the Meta AI app’s cache and data, uninstalling and reinstalling the app, and then doing all of the above again
And that’s pretty much where I ran out of ideas.
What’s strange is that I see everything in dollars in the Meta AI app, so I don’t understand what the problem could be.
Does anyone have any ideas?

#meta #accessibility #a11y #MetaAI #smartglasses

#CyberSecurity #LLRX @bespacific

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 22, 2026

Five highlights from this week: How to check if your car has been searched by #Flock cameras; Amazon Order Email Change Raises #Phishing Concerns; Is resetting your phone after being stopped by Border Patrol agents a federal offense?; #Meta Heads to Court in Major Social Media Addiction Trial; and an AI broke #Snowflake 's code. Then another AI agent exploited it.

Posted in: #AI #cybercrime Cybersecurity, #Privacy

https://www.llrx.com/2026/08/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-august-22-2026/

Understanding the existence of Facebook

LifeLog was a project of the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the U.S.[...]

[...]The objective of the LifeLog concept was "to be able to trace the 'threads' of an individual's life in terms of events, states, and relationships", and it has the ability to "take in all of a subject's experience, from phone numbers dialed and e-mail messages viewed to every breath taken, step made and place gone".

„The LifeLog program was canceled on February 4th 2004, the same day Facebook was launched, after criticism concerning the privacy implications of the system."

Lifelog

15 Years Ago, the Military Tried to Record Whole Human Lives. It Ended Badly

LifeLog
was real.

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#surveillance #military #facebook #meta #spyware #socialmedia

In 2010, #AaronSwartz downloaded 70 GB of articles from JSTOR. He faced a $1 million fine and 35 years in prison
➡️ Aaron took his own life in 2013.

#Meta illegally downloaded over 80 terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train its #AI models
➡️ facing no consequences.

Information is power, knowledge is power.

Beware and fight against those who want to keep you ignorant, unaware, and misinformed.

#digitalrights #openknowledge #opendata #privacy

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A black and white line drawing of Aaron Swartz with wavy hair, wearing a t-shirt and smiling.

"The man I’m talking to runs a business called Ghost Metas. He’s one of hundreds of vendors, easily discoverable online, who specialise in disabling the flashing LED light embedded in Meta’s smartglasses that blinks when wearers capture photos, videos and audio. After Ghost Metas disables the LED, it’s impossible for someone to know they’re being filmed" #creeps #glassholes #meta
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/aug/19/meta-glasses-privacy-surveillance

RT @Dan_Jeffries1: Prediction: There's a 65% chance that the strongest model available to you by the end of 2026 will be open source. There's a 75% probability it'll be Chinese model unless Reflection comes out swinging like Tyson or Meta really goes hard into open source again to round out the percentages. Oh don't get me wrong. If it goes like this, closed source American labs will still have better models. You just won't be able to use them. You'll read about them on Lab blogs. Why? Because they scared the government and regular people so much that they can't release them and so those models will be locked behind closed doors. The only wild card here that keeps this prediction from being something like 75% is Elon and Grok and his massive reach and single handed power to raise capital, buy businesses and apparently train amazing models. He alone seems able to buck the trend on data center building and has enough power to say, yeah, I am not submitting to the "voluntary" testing regime. But he is likely to get tangled up in whatever non-voluntary one is coming and be a target for it too. So Elon is our wild card. As usual it seems like the entire American innovation system, from space to data centers to clean electric cars stems from one guy and that's just not a wonderful thing for us. We need a dozen daring doers to ensure the next American century. All this is incredibly bad for American AI. There is no current business model that does not involve selling lots and lots of tokens to 100Ms of businesses. The models are not yet strong enough to own to create a British East India style super…

mehr auf Arint.info

#Grok #make #Meta #opensource #things #US #us #arint_info

https://x.com/Dan_Jeffries1/status/2090785389711597829

@OliDietzel: Prediction: There's a 65% chance that the strongest model available to you by the end of 2026 will be open source. There's a 75% probability it'll be Chinese model unless Reflection comes out swinging like Tyson or Meta really goes hard into open source again to round out the percentages. Oh don't get me wrong. If it goes like this, closed source American labs will still have better models. You just won't be able to use them. You'll read about them on Lab blogs. Why? Because they scared the government and regular people so much that they can't release them and so those models will be locked behind closed doors. The only wild card here that keeps this prediction from being something like 75% is Elon and Grok and his massive reach and single handed power to raise capital, buy businesses and apparently train amazing models. He alone seems able to buck the trend on data center building and has enough power to say, yeah, I am not submitting to the "voluntary" testing regime. But he is likely to get tangled up in whatever non-voluntary one is coming and be a target for it too. So Elon is our wild card. As usual it seems like the entire American innovation system, from space to data centers to clean electric cars stems from one guy and that's just not a wonderful thing for us. We need a dozen daring doers to ensure the next American century. All this is incredibly bad for American AI. There is no current business model that does not involve selling lots and lots of tokens to 100Ms of businesses. The models are not yet strong enough to own to create a British East India style super…

mehr auf Arint.info

#Grok #make #Meta #opensource #things #US #us #arint_info

https://x.com/OliDietzel/status/51e3509d-9e36-4f65-a444-221c9ef52f18

From the "Zuckerberg is a crappy human being" dept.

Maybe some jail time and and an end to META.

"Meta ran ads for an app promising to nudify female politicians"

One ad featured a pornographic video with deepfake closely resembling a US politician.

Presumably a a democratic politician, not a fascist one. META is a disease, facebook is the red swelling around the bite.

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https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/meta-ran-ads-for-an-app-promising-to-nudify-female-politicians/

#meta 2crap #disease #endMeta #zuck

Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta’s alleged strategy laid out in first week of landmark trial

"Meta’s business can be boiled down to four words that begin with the letter H: hook, hold, harvest, hide, according to a lawyer who is prosecuting the world’s largest social media company.

The owner of Facebook and Instagram “hooks” in users, “holds” them on its platforms for as long as possible, “harvests” their data and then “hides” the truth from the public, she argued.

“Meta’s business model worked especially well for kids,” said Megan O’Neill, a lawyer for the state of California.

Her accusation opened the blockbuster trial against the US tech company on Tuesday in Oakland, California, just north of Meta’s headquarters in Silicon Valley. California has joined 28 other US states in suing the £1tn ($1.36tn) company for allegedly designing addictive products that lead to children being harmed."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/22/meta-trial-children-privacy

#ChildSafety #OnlineSafety #DataHarvesting #News #HumanRights #SocialMedia #Facebook #Meta #Activism

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117133173684311534

You can detect who is wearing these things because they'll be a creepy man or boy behaving creepily and wearing sunglasses indoors...creepily.

#PervertGlasses #CreeperPeepers #Meta #Misogyny

The patent illustration directly shows a male directing his surveillant gaze at a woman. Plain and simple, openly and unambiguously, Meta is in the incel-tech business

https://www.404media.co/meta-patents-ai-glasses-to-use-facial-recognition-to-identify-people-make-highlight-reels-of-your-dinner-party/

#DefederateMeta #Zuckerberg #FediPact #Meta

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A patent illustration from the patent Meta has filed for pervert glasses facial recognition. The illustration depicts a male wearing the pervert glasses, looking at a woman, whose figure is encircled by the surveillance algorithm

"Other social media platforms will also be held to account." But ultimately, user agency also has a role to play here.

CNBC: No more doom scrolling or Instagram Stories? A Meta trial loss could end the social media we know https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/21/meta-social-media-lawsuit-trial-instagram-facebook.html @CNBC #Meta #Instagram #Facebook

In short, Fediverse Report says that launching Threads as part of the Fediverse is basically dead in the water. They have decided not to pursue it in 2026, and nobody is actively developing it anymore.

Well, good riddance, I guess. It was fun before it even started. Many of us saw this coming. I would not be surprised if they phase it out completely over the next few years. The Fediverse was never a real priority for them, it was just marketing hype all along. Just like some open source LARPing from the Big Tech corporates.

Direct quote:

"Threads’ integration with the fediverse is on maintenance mode, says head of Threads Connor Hayes in an interview by Alex Heath. Hayes said about the fediverse: ““It’s something that we’re supporting, it’s something that we’re maintaining, but it’s not the thing that we’re talking about that’s gonna help the app break out”. In October 2023, Mark Zuckerberg gave an interview with Alex Heath, who asked him about decentralisation and open protocols, with Zuckerberg saying he “always believed in this stuff“. With the fediverse integration for Threads now in maintenance mode, this must surely be a big blow for Zuckerberg’s belief in decentralised social networking.

Threads’ integration with the fediverse was never popular, especially from the side of Threads. In January 2025 the mastodon.social knew about 25k Threads accounts which had turned on federation. But while that number is already low considering the total number of Threads users, the interest in actually following an account on Mastodon from Threads was even lower: in January 2025, only 800 Threads users followed at least one account on mastodon.social. Threads deliberately made it difficult to follow fediverse accounts, and later updates deprioritised the fediverse feed even more. Regardless, it is not particularly hard to understand why a platform that now boasts about having 400M monthly active users is not putting in much effort to maintain a complex system that only a few thousand people at best make use of."

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-147/

#FediverseThreads #Threads #Meta #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Protocols #Platforms #SocialMedia #Mastodon

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Fediverse Threads marketing photo with post-like bubble shared to Fediverse

Mom knows her child... or thinks she does.
📊 Meta KNOWS it better, through data, tracking, algorithms. They know more about your child than yourself, and use this knowledge to keep them hooked to their platform.

That's not normal.

#meta #dataprivacy #privacy #algorithms #socialmedia #children

AP: Meta defends its child safety efforts but critics say the social media giant falls short https://apnews.com/article/meta-social-media-addiction-children-teens-0fb522327e48ac0389f8b476916a938e @AssociatedPress #Meta

fighting #Meta and big tech, one distant cousin at a time 😈

#ArcaneChat #decentralization #android #Europe #European #signal #telegram #family #encryption #bigtech

#meta #privacy #privacymatters #algorithms

Meta's new model wants "deep access" to your personal life...

https://odysee.com/@fireship:6/meta%27s-new-model-wants-deep-access-to:1

~
#artificialintelligence #ai #meta #api #zuckerberg #surveillance

U.S. Textbook Authors Sue OpenAI for Copyright Infringement

If AI companies are allowed to “continually update their content by ingesting new editions of textbooks as they come out," instructors and schools may consider dropping textbook adoptions altogether in favor of “substitutes” that rely on the use of LLM models, the suit argues.
The post U.S. Textbook Authors Sue OpenAI for Copyright Infringement appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/08/u-s-textbook-authors-sue-openai-for-copyright-infringement/

#AI #Copyright #FairUse #lawsuits #Meta

#Friedberg #Hessen
Ich komme am 27.09. mit meinem Solo und lasse Hirn regnen. Ich schwör! 🧠

Ich mache in meinem Programm mobil gegen #bigtech und die #afd und ganz viel Werbung für @kuketz den #diday und #digitalesouveraenitaet

Wäre toll, das Theater mit #fedipower voll zu bekommen, denn ich werbe NICHT über #Meta 💪

Also bitte #boosten 🙏

https://www.mvp.de/hessen/veranstaltungen/pe-krieger-solo-das-letzte-einhirn-gewinnerin-des-reinheimer-friedberg/

#Fb #Insta #tiktok #bigtech #unplugtrump
#lachen #kabarett #musik #live #theater #comedy #musikkabarett #kleinkunst #reinheim

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Plakat von mir mit rosa Hirn Strickmütze vor weißem Hintergrund. Den Kopf abgestützt mit der rechten Hand, die den Mittelfinger zeigt. Überschrift Pe Krieger Das letzte Einhirn , Friedberg 27.09.

#Meta Ran Ads for an App That Promised to #Nudify Female Politicians

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ran-ads-for-an-app-promising-to-nudify-female-politicians/

#privacy #deepfake #AI

Wer sich in der Schweiz schon einmal betätigen will: Campax hat eine Petition gestartet, die ein Verbot von Smart Glasses fordert und der man sich anschliessen kann. Dort wird insbesondere das heimliche Filmen von Frauen und Kindern mit anschliessender Veröffentlichung ohne Zustimmung der Betroffenen thematisiert, beispielsweise in Badis und Umkleidekabinen.
#SmartGlasses #Überwachung #Meta
https://act.campax.org/petitions/smart-glasses-stoppen

Meta won't be walking out of this one unscathed,

Reuters: Ex-Meta executive says Zuckerberg put growth before child safety https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/former-meta-engineer-resumes-testimony-landmark-trial-over-social-medias-harm-2026-08-19/ @Reuters #Meta #Zuckerberg

What a delightful new generation, part cyber crooks, part bullies. The future is in good hands.

Futurism: Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/teen-boys-meta-glasses-harass-bully-girls-school @Futurism #Meta #privacy

#PervertGlasses #Meta #SpannerBrille https://mastodon.social/@ckoever/117122450812179507

🦅 #Meta #SocialMedia #TechLaw 👩‍⚖️

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly5r7vr7q1o

#News #USA #Meta #BillionairesShouldNotExist
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/19/meta-safety-trial-whistleblower-testimony

What sort of screwed-up, fu**ing parents buy their kid perv glasses?

Teen boys are using Meta's AI Glasses to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them with insults. In several videos girls plead with the harasser to stop filming.

You just know this would have been Mark Zuckerberg back in the day.

#men #abuse #boys #meta #smartglasses
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/teen-boys-meta-glasses-harass-bully-girls-school

I know we have a few #blind people here who use the #meta #smartglasses. I'm scratching my head over whether it's time to go for a pair, the market seems to have slowed down to the point where I'm tempted, and I hope to see the second generation go through a price drop shortly. My problem, of course, is that I don't want to go out and buy them knowing nothing, it would be a headache and I would never know whether the problems I found were my own idiocy or real ones. Here are a few questions which I would appreciate answers to. Boosts are very welcome. First, and sorry this is so simple, it's a religious question for me and I need people with real experiences to answer it. I'm told there is a power switch. Is it a real switch which you can feel slide back and forth, or is it a button? To put it differently, can I, who have no light perception, tell if the glasses are on or off without reference to the app? My issue is will there be any time where I believe the glasses to be off but when they will be actually on? Is this sort of failure possible at all? Secondly, I don't want to use the AI at all. I may use it occasionally, but the main point of these will be to show my environment to people, BME/Aira is the sort of thing. Do they work well for that? Is the non-ai use more of a gimmick or does it work well? I ask because all the tutorials I've heard/read focus on the AI. I don't care about the AI. Finally, I have hearing aids and send my iPhone audio to a transmitter through the iPhone's wired output (lightning, in my case). I want the calls I make to be routed to the wired output, not to the glasses. How is this possible? I have asked this before but the answers have been inconclusive. When I call BME with the glasses and a person answers, where does the sound go? Does it go to the glasses, or does it go to the iPhone's output? What happens if I disconnect a lightning cable and plug it back in? Does it switch to that output, assuming it wasn't there before? Again, I know the AI goes to the glasses, but I don't care. Thanks to anyone who has read this screed, and particularly to @JamminJerry for giving me the necessary shove to finally ask all this.

Und? habt ihr #Facebook, #Insta. #WhatsApp und die anderen #Nazibars endlich verlassen? Brav. Die wollen nämlich nur an die Seelen euerer #Kinder und sind da zu allem bereit. Dafür werden sie jetzt in den USA verklagt, mit einem Streitwert von 1,4 Billionen Dollar (US-Trillionen), mehr als die Mutterfirma #Meta wert ist.

https://www.golem.de/news/social-media-sucht-bei-jugendlichen-ein-streitwert-so-gross-wie-meta-selbst-2608-212039.html

If we want #surveillance to be curtailed to any extent we need to watch the watchers.

Report everything. Surveil them so closely that they can't scratch their butts without it appearing somewhere online.

Monitor their cars, planes, everything!

Let them know how it feels to be watched, quantified and reported on non-stop.

#bigtech #google #meta #amazon #apple

So, aside from possibly being able to visually identify them, does anyone have any ideas on how exactly one might be able to scan for or detect #PervertGlasses in the wild? With #Apple now sinking to a similar low as #Meta with their next model AirPods, these bloody things are gonna be showing up everywhere.

Boston Police Department: Officers Arrest Suspect for Recording Children Using Camera Sunglasses at the Boston Common Frog Pond

"...Upon arrival, officers spoke to a witness who stated that he observed an unknown male arguing with the suspect. Officers spoke with multiple witnesses who stated that the suspect was recording children in the playground by utilizing sunglasses with a camera installed in them. Witnesses further stated the suspect also used his cell phone to record the children.

Additional witnesses stated the suspect used the glasses to record a family who was attempting to change their children, who were wrapped in a towel for privacy. When the family attempted to move due to the suspect’s behavior, he followed them, scanning the children up and down with the camera sunglasses...."

https://police.boston.gov/2026/08/18/officers-arrest-suspect-for-recording-children-using-camera-sunglasses-at-the-boston-common-frog-pond/

#pervertglasses #meta #metaaiglasses #csam #crime

ICE agents can't wear Meta glasses while they work, official memo warns

Smart glasses have become a recurring accessory amid the immigration crackdown.

https://www.engadget.com/2239642/ice-agents-can-t-wear-meta-glasses-while-they-work-official-memo-warns/

#Tech #Gadgets #AI #Cybersecurity #Engadget #Meta #WorkplacePolicy #SmartGlasses #GovernmentRegulations #ImmigrationCrypeacks updates #CorporateRestrictions #WorkplaceTechnology #TechPolicy [Engadget]

@bitbear great insight. Forgive me here, but I think this deserves a poll.

The road to hell 👹 is paved with (please check that all that apply):

#microsoft #Meta #Instagram #javascript #slop #AI #docker #google #SocialMedia