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🌍 The #Sustainability Index (upcoming) 🌲 Environmental #News & guides on sustainable products, companies & their impact. 💻 #Privacy, #AI, #Politics, #OSINT […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@madeindex, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

#Meta quickly changed their brand new commercial terms after the #news of their plans to "train" on data broke and were covered by major publications! Seems they haven't heard of the web archive yet […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of 2 versions of a paragraph of the new commercial terms for Meta services.

MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Part 2 of the paragraph: ...that are associated with your products or services, or that are made available through your or users' use of Meta Company Products and services, and to periodically pull updates from such domains, web pages, or URLs in order to provide, develop, improve, research […]

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MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Part 1 of the paragraph: "You authorize us (or any entity acting on our behalf) to use automated software (such as web scrapers, bots, robots, spiders, crawlers, and user agents) and create test credentials to access, index, cache, analyze, collect, retrieve, or crawl the domains, web pages, or […]

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MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Source: ¹ www.facebook.com/legal/commercial_t… #Demeta #Facebook #USA #America #Meta #Legal #AI #Artificialintelligence #technology #bigtech #instagram #whatsapp #messenger #corp

MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Businesses & affiliated entities should REALLY reconsider using ANY #Meta product. By using WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook... they now automatically opt-in to their websites getting scraped, collected & used to train (likely) #MetaAI. It includes the creation of fake accounts (so called test […]

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MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@sackofbones good point!!! 👍

MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

The #Fediverse is at risk, we need to: #STOPEUKIDSACT NOW! This law affects everyone, especially people in the #EU and is an attempt to implement ID verification in: Video-sharing platforms, #AI chatbots, AI companions, online games, software app stores and operating systems […]

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MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Meta glasses were caught spying on their users once more: www.androidauthority.com/ray-ban-me… Meta was quick to "fix" and therefore admit it: "This issue has been resolved..." #Demeta #Meta #Facebook #MetaGlasses #RayBanMeta #RayBan #Privacy #News #Smart […]

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MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Ad blockers are more important than ever, now that ads can pose a serious security risk: www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/is…

MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

On a side note: Reading stuff like that really makes you realize it’s just a spin-off, not an original Taylor Sheridan production ;)

MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

🇺🇸 Today I learned of the "War on Violence". Paradoxical as it sounds, I felt it perfectly captured much of #US domestic & foreign policy. From the "War on Drugs" to current conflicts, the US continues to invoke the prevention of #violence as a pretext for […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of the TV show Marshals preview on
https://www.primevideo.com/detail/0L6EHGWD6NDPAO6VEZAM68BVYX/. "War on violence" is underlined in red, with an American flag resembling arrow pointing toward it. In the background, a U.S. marshal is riding a horse, and two U.S. Marshal badges are circled in red.

MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Meta's Muse AI strongly reminds me of the Mechanical Turk. A magical device, pretending to function autonomously, when in all actuality a person inside is pulling the levers. www.404media.co/meta-tests-muse-ai-… […]

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MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

🌌 The #US Space Force is like a self-fulfilling prophecy: First they announce this: "...Pentagon has definitively deployed active space-based weapons platforms." Then they declare peaceful, untouched and shared #Space: "Space is both a battlefield..." Their counterparts around the world do […]

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MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

@freya True, but blind people also need their privacy protected and #META does not do that. There are plenty of alternatives (not sure about the quality though).

MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Looks like everyone who raised awareness about "Mark Zuckerberg Pervert Glasses" ultimately made a real difference <3 futurism.com/future-society/zuckerb… #Meta #News #Zuckerberg #Facebook #Technology #Tech #MetaGlasses #Privacy

Zuckerberg’s Pervert Glasses Have Been So Publicly Shamed That Meta’s Reportedly Now Working on a Version With No Camera

Does this really solve anything? The post Zuckerberg’s Pervert Glasses Have Been So Publicly Shamed That Meta’s Reportedly Now Working on a Version With No Camera appeared first on Futurism.

MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

As always the graphic is #publicdomain #CC0 #nocopyright, use it however you want <3

MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

🇪🇺 The new digital ID & biometric verification law, called EU KIDS ACT must be stopped! It is a serious #HumanRights nightmare, especially for #Privacy & would negatively change the internet forever. We need to stand together & fight this dystopian […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A square graphic design. The flag of the EU, on top is written in mostly white: #STOP EU KIDS ACT. EU is red and the bottom and top sides are also red.

MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

2/2 ¹not sure why we still accept people using nobiliary particles such as "von der" 🤢 ²or rebranded "age verification" ³ www.euractiv.com/news/gamers-will-h… […]

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MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

🇪🇺 Seeing Ursula Leyen¹ praised all day for her State of the European Union speech is upsetting to me. 🇨🇦 While closer ties to #Canada sound great, it also included her brandnew digital ID verification² law, the so called "EU Kids Act"! ➕ It goes one step further than #SocialMedia covering […]

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MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

[Pretty Dark Story] I saw a squirrel being hit by a car the other day and quickly dying after, which was really really horrible. That was an accident, but some kids in the #UK are hurting / killing #pets and #wildlife as part of some horrific #TikTok trend... Guess this is what happens when […]

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MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

🧑‍⚖️ Love how they are going after #Meta in "Alvarez v. Meta" for their use of #Instagram user biometrics to train #AI (EMU) plus their Smart Glasses and MetaAI facial recognition software (NAMETAG) 🥸 This could turn into a major win for everyone's #Privacy❣️ […]

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MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

@scroeser Pixelfed is way cooler anyway <3

MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

📌 #Pinterest used ~500 Million ROWS¹ of user pins² to train it's #AI! Data from 2009-Now, however the #SocialMedia corp claims "users have granted Pinterest a license". What license? Pretty sure AI training fine print wasn't a thing in 2009! It even […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of the "Generative AI and model transparency" section on this page: https://help.pinterest.com/en/article/ai-at-pinterest
Some sentences are underlined in red.
Pinterest Canvas Version 6 (“Pinterest Canvas”) is a
multimodal foundation model that powers Pinterest
experiences by enabling the enhancement of images.
Pinterest Canvas has been trained on approximately
500,000,000 rows of publicly available Pins, Pin
descriptions, and Pin metadata that Pinterest users
have saved or uploaded to Pinterest, to which the
users have granted Pinterest a license, as well as the
continuous use of synthetic data. Training data rows
may include one or more images together with text
instructions and a target image. The data in the
datasets were collected by Pinterest as early as 2009
and were first used in the development of Pinterest
Canvas in or around January 2023. The data collection
is ongoing. The data in the datasets may include
limited personal information, and material that may be
protected by copyright, trademark, and/or patent.
The datasets do not include aggregate user
information. The datasets were cleansed, processed,
and modified for quality purposes and to meet our
trust, safety, and other internal standards.

MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

🤞 Would be the best #news of the year ;) www.theguardian.com/technology/comm… #Tech #Zuckerberg #CEO #Technology #MarkZuckerberg #Facebook #Meta #Resign #Evil #Overlord

MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Resistance to #Meta #smartglasses is increasing around the world: cybernews.com/tech/hamburg-smart-gl… cybernews.com/tech/offenders-smart-… (Love how they put a pic of “#Epstein File Mark” in the article) cybernews.com/ai-news/meta-lawsuit-… It's […]

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MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

🪪 The recent idscan.net (&more?) breach exposed over 153M Driver's Licenses + 10m IDs + 579k Medical Cards mostly from the #US & #Canada. Age verification aka ID verification proponents should really think about how unsafe data is once it's collected en masse. Citizens' #Security & #Privacy […]

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MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Think the roughly $18 Billion #Meta has settled for over child safety is a slap on the wrist? Wait until you see the actual details: 😀 Paid in annual installments over a 10-year period 😜 States receive the money, not the victims 🤑 30% will only be paid if […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of META page with An Open Letter to TikTok and YouTube to
Join Us in Supporting Teens From August 26,2026
Source: https://about.fb.com/news/2026/08/open-letter-to-tiktok-and-youtube-to-join-us-in-supporting-teens/

MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

My take from this @cybernews article about an Android toolkit to trick KYC verification significantly differs from theirs! Them: "...the existence of such tools puts users and organizations at imminent risk." "Not a tool for the masses" Me: "Where can I find this amazing #Privacy tool?" "A […]

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MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Always "🎉 Good News!" waiting for you in the #Bluesky chat inbox 🤪 It makes you wish, more profiles would get hacked and send out spam. But only until you realize the "🎉 Bad News!" after clicking on the link 😵 #Hack #Virus #Warning #Spam #Scam #Link

Screenshot of the Bluesky Chat inbox with many messages waiting for the user, starting with "🎉 Good News!", they are encircled in red.

MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

So many vulnerable people are relying on Google Maps reviews & ratings to tell them where it is save to go. Some places have only 1000-2000 reviews but >250 reviews removed in the past 365 days! Like how bad must the situation there be?! Absolute shame.

MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

2/2 However that count is reset after 365 days and also only goes to 250! (🖼️ 2) Therefore companies can simply mass report negative reviews to improve their rating. support.google.com/contributionpoli… #Degoogle #Corporation […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of the Google Table of: "Notice ranges and displayed text"

"Removal range | Displayed text"
"1 | One review removed due to a defamation complaint.
25 | Two to five reviews removed due to defamation complaints.
6-10 | Six to ten reviews removed due to defamation complaints.
1-20 | 1110.20 reviews removed due to defamation complaints.
21-50 | 211050 reviews removed due to defamation complaints.
51100 | 5110100 reviews removed due to defamation complaints.
101-150 | 101 to 150 reviews removed due to defamation complaints.
151-200 | 151 to 200 reviews removed due to defamation complaints.
201-250 | 201 to 250 reviews removed due to defamation complaints.
More than 250 | Over 250 reviews removed due to defamation complaints."

"More than 250" is encircled in red.

MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

🗺️ While visiting Pride #Berlin, I learned how utterly pointless #GoogleMaps Reviews in #Germany are. ⭐ Any place can simply report negative #reviews for defamation or claim the person was never there and have it removed. Users can then appeal & risk a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of a business on Google Maps with "Over 250 reviews removed due to defamation complaints." in the past past 365 days.

MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

5/5 Just felt like putting these stories out there, as I'm repeatedly shocked how bystanders and security usually don't really seem to care, the legal system doesn't either and police is left with catch and release, with abusers and criminals laughing in their face (both of the cases - as they […]

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MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

4/5 I told him to "fk off" and he gave me a headbutt, and hit me in the face, luckily he didn't do too much damage, I then was able to overpower him, but bystanders kept pulling me off, which helped him escape, he then ran out of the club. The crowd & staff came at me until the we had explained […]

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MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

3/4 for like an hour, he told me "she is sooo beautiful", I asked him friendly to stop as the women in my group, especially one, were scared of him, he got aggressive, so I decided to tell security, the first time we didn't find him, but the 2nd time I saw him again, they finally got him, they […]

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MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

2/3 somebody had spit at them, maybe more, it was in a crowded area and I was the only person to stand between them, luckily there was coincidentally police around. This time they luckily separated the victims and the perps and as far as I saw before I left, they did a good old catch and […]

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MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

No simply means No, but some people really don't seem to care. Here are some examples from my life: 1) 3 guys were pushing a girl into a car, against her will, I told them to stop, they threatened me, the police came. The victim was asked next to the perpetrators, her "boyfriend" told her to […]

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MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

Just when you think Zucky @zuck is finally out of ideas - to steal. It starts to feel like even a weak #LLM like #MetaAI is more creative him. maybe we already have created truly artificial intelligence because he is more of an #SLM: a Small Language Model? […]

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MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

@dodo1095zd 😜

MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

@dodo1095zd love it haha #LG truely cares about its users ;)

MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

@jernej__s dang! So it's already here 🤯

MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

@splitmind my thought exactly!

MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

@radundtat 👍 That is the way <3 Even without the connection it might continue to collect data, if you or anybody else ever connects it again, it might be sent, better to turn it off just in case :))

MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

All about the safety of the kids¹ they said, All about the safety of users² they said, All about the safety of the citizens³ they said, All about the money, control & power⁴ they left unsaid. ¹ mastodon.social/@madeindex/11695951… ² […]

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MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

Most "Smart" TVs use Automatic Content Recognition (#ACR), essentially taking snapshots every 10+ms of what you watch and hear, then forwarding & selling that data to companies for ads, etc. I now feel it's only a matter of time before this "feature" finds its way to our ever "smarter" PC […]

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MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

🌎 Humanity is truly living its best #ClimateCatch22 dream: The hotter > The more ACs > The more Electricity consumption > The hotter ⛵ Meanwhile the #rich take advantage of the rising water levels, MOVING onto superyachts & forever cruiseships (for 1 last journey). ⛽ Burning through a cool $1 […]

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MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

If, like me, you have always been wondering if #eBay is a more ethical alternative to #Amazon, your question has just been answered: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07… Luckily we already have an alternative on the […]

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MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

@samuel I don't see any winning/militarized country being held accountable anywhere to be honest. Look at Europe or the US and their past wars for example. If you are strong you are right, if you win you are right 🤷 Fairness & accountability only seem to apply to people like you and me. Was […]

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MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

@samuel You are right, nothing is ever fully safe, I won't let this stop me , will try to visit again next year. my friend had a light heat stroke from the sun that day - you can always die anywhere from anything.

MadeInDex 📰🌎 @madeindex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

@samuel Very very true, good measures can just reduce the damage, as the surprise will always give the attacker the advantage. The attackers often just seem to be mentally unstable rather than cold & calculating, otherwise we would likely see much higher casualties. If they used a truck rather […]

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