Consensual Software

“We committed to never writing the querying IP addresses to disk and wiping all logs within 24 hours” @Cloudflare doing some amazing stuff to keep everyday consumers safe from ISPs selling our browsing data! Wow! 😱 -D twitter.com/cloudflare/sta…

This is amazing 😍. Turn off the hot mic on your Alexa with 3 claps alexagate.com

i was trying out the Dave app to see how it worked. this was probably the craziest account cancellation step*s* i had ever gone through.

iOS 14 is outing a lot of extremely shady stuff that's happening thanks to new privacy controls and notifications. Unsurprising to see that Tiktok is doing all sorts of dodgy things, like scraping your clipboard regularly:

And yes, I am aware that I can turn off this feature and "just" block the person, but the damage has been done. Some of you don't have abusers/stalkers/harassers and it shows, through the careless product decisions you keep making over and over in the name of engagement.

CW: abuse/harassment If you have a messaging app, you should not auto add/alert all new contacts by phone number—sometimes people have blocked contacts in their phone. You've just now reminded me of someone who harassed me and alerted them of a way to contact me. 1/2

Jesus Christ @zoom_us, you've apparently let a whole school in Chile sign up for a paid account using my e-mail address, because you never verified it. I went to create my own account, it said I had one, so I "forgot password", and now I own this school's admin account.

The same day Instagram adds my birthday from Facebook to my account, I start getting fertility ads. Thanks but no thanks, Instagram. I never wanted you to have that info in the first place

Lol I’m sorry I have to do WHAT to opt out of you selling my data???

“In short, ad measurement data now goes out whether you like it or not, except for those protected by stronger privacy laws in Europe, the European Free Trade Association, and the UK” -D

Hey @zoom_us let us know if you need someone to help make safer products. We warned you last year this was going to be a problem and would love to help! -D

thinking about how software companies slowly chip away at the idea of consent by turning every "no" into "not right now," every "stop this" into "do this less often," every "i don't want that" into "maybe later"

learning about the mozilla foundation's grant program for integrating ethics into college CS curriculum, aka "how do we create less evil technology?" 💖foundation.mozilla.org/en/initiatives… #SIGCSE2020

@wardrox @stephenhay I have not read it yet, so I can’t tell you if that’s accurate or not! -D

Consent needs to begin with UX and design - don’t try to do dark UI patterns to steal people’s attention and data! Thanks for the shoutout! -D

Facebook’s “clear history” tool only disconnects your off platform data from your on platform data. The data is still collected as before -D

Facebook has just released a tool that lets you turn off some third-party tracking. But changing the new setting requires 9 different clicks, in a corner of the site that most users will never see. Here’s how to go turn it off now. (1/6) eff.org/deeplinks/2020…

Hey Byte, hit us up if you need help figuring out how to control spam and low quality content on your platform 😉 -D gizmodo.com/vine-successor…

"Multiple Avast users told Motherboard they were not aware Avast sold browsing data, raising questions about how informed that consent is." -L

An Avast antivirus subsidiary sells 'Every search. Every click. Every buy. On every site.' Its clients have included Home Depot, Google, Microsoft, Pepsi, and McKinsey. vice.com/en_us/article/…

Wow this is on a new level of data scraping -D