Nathan Glyde
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Nathan Glyde
@nglyde.bsky.social
meditating music and nature loving vegan
This looks exactly how it must feel for him. And it more or less looks and feels that bad from here.

I just wish the alternative was as desirable as they are deplorable.
May 22, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Then it announced it would begin doing that integration in 2021.

It is time, once again, to consider if you wouldn't be better off asking everyone you love to be in contact with to delete it and join you on Signal (or one of the other many ethical, affordable, privacy-focused messaging apps).
The Best Private Instant Messengers - Privacy Guides
Other instant messengers make all of your private conversations available to the company that runs them.
www.privacyguides.org
May 2, 2024 at 6:45 PM
The EU listens to experts who have a lot more knowledge about the harms we will allow to be done to us. We should listen. In 2016, Facebook was fined $122 million in fines because it misled the EU regulators into believing that WhatsApp and Facebook had no possibility of integration with each other.
May 2, 2024 at 6:39 PM
When WhatsApp changed their privacy policy in 2021 (and led to an up tick in Signal users, temporarily), no changes were made in the privacy policy for users in the EU.

Why did this happen? Because the EU still has respectful privacy laws.
May 2, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Just as only a few trigonometry points are necessary to locate you geographically, and the same is true demographically, and sociologically from a few data points.

No one needs to read your messages to know who you are,
just triangulate the data they can suck up.

But they wouldn't do that…
May 2, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Why does this matter, when they can't read my messages?

They 'buy' your usage with "but, everyone uses it", and sell your data in the attention economy. Attention should not be for sale.

I find it shameful that technology is used against privacy.
May 2, 2024 at 6:34 PM
What data does WhatsApp share?
- Your phone number,
- your contact's phone numbers,
- information on how you interact with others,
- your phone's IP address,
- your location data,
- your activity patterns,
- profile pictures,
- transaction data...the list goes on.

But, many don't care…
May 2, 2024 at 6:30 PM
We have a responsibility to those near and far to establish human contact. I will endeavour to be a good neighbour.
May 1, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Giddings's lonely fate is becoming increasingly common. Theodore Estrin-Serlui, a London pathologist, estimates that 8,000-9,000 people were found in an advanced state of decomposition in 2022.
May 1, 2024 at 6:28 PM
I’m in favour of the Whale Safe technology, speed restrictions on ships, *and* making life changes on my/our consumption.
May 1, 2024 at 3:08 AM
Brilliant. Thank you. I went from the other end (Abbotsbury) last month, so much rubbish to get. Flooding limited me a lot. Took me so long I got a parking ticket. Still worth it.
April 22, 2024 at 7:04 PM