Your #data is your digital #identity - protect it like your life depends on it... because in some cases, your life may literally depend on it.
With breaches - and police searches of social media - happening daily, it’s not paranoia; it’s #precaution
Encrypt, use fake data, stay anonymous as much as possible, and question who you share with. #Privacy isn’t just a right; it’s a #necessity
Update. "‘Breathtakingly Irresponsible’: Former Workers Decry Decimation of #Education Dept.’s #Data Warehouse"
https://www.chronicle.com/article/breathtakingly-irresponsible-former-workers-decry-decimation-of-education-dept-s-data-warehouse
"More than 160 contracts measuring educational progress across the nation’s schools and colleges were suddenly halted. Probationary workers were fired, employees were blocked from accessing information on their computers, and a national center that dates to the time of Abraham Lincoln was effectively decommissioned overnight. Employees worked late into the evenings downloading data that had taken decades to compile, according to interviews with more than a dozen people fired from the Institute of Education Sciences (#IES), an independent and nonpartisan agency within the U.S. Department of Education [#DOE], and its National Center for Education Statistics (#NCES)…IES, which had 173 employees before the cuts, was left with just over a dozen after Elon #Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency swept through the Education Department early last month. The crippling of the office was so swift and haphazard that it left serious doubts about how much of the educational data that has informed higher-education policy and practice will continue to be available."
The most and least diverse counties in the US [OC] https://www.byteseu.com/865744/ #Data #DataIsBeautiful #DataIsBeautiful
This presentation was developed for researchers and PhD students of Berdyansk University to promote the use of the open repository @zenodo_org as a key tool for preserving, publishing, and disseminating research outputs:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15089984
The presentation explains how to license research outputs properly, how to integrate Zenodo with services such as @ORCID_Org @GitHub and @OpenAIRE and how to align it with institutional and project-level DMPs.
My guess is Trump et al are fishing for #data they can use to claim a specific country (or countries) is conducting an invasion of the US in order to "justify" invocation of the Alien Enemies Act (which see:
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/alien-enemies-act-explained) as a pretext for mass deportations without due process of any and all foreigners or foreign-born present in the US.
It is important to understand that the personal data you give to a company becomes their "property". Even if a company that currently runs a service keeps the data private, it can be put up for sale. The new owners are then free to operate differently, especially when there is no GDPR like in the US.
Holy shit Polygon, 880 partners?!
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Ways we may use your data:
Use precise geolocation data. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Create profiles for personalised advertising. Store and/or access information on a device. Develop and improve services. Measure advertising performance. Use limited data to select advertising. Use limited data to select content. Use profiles to select personalised advertising. Create profiles to personalise content. Measure content performance. Use profiles to select personalised content. Understand audiences through statistics or combinations of data from different sources.
Judge Rips Elon Musk’s DOGE for Seizing Americans’ Personal Data
A federal judge has blocked DOGE from getting even more access to #Americans’ sensitive personal #data.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193084/judge-blocks-elon-musk-doge-personal-data
"Judge Deborah Boardman... ruled that Elon Musk’s #DOGE has no legal right to the personal #information of American citizens held at the Dept of #Education, the Office of Personnel Management, and the #Treasury Dept...
referred to the Privacy Act of 1974"
New from me: Companies in the EU are starting to look for ways to ditch Amazon, Google, and Microsoft cloud services amid fears of rising security risks from the US. But cutting ties won’t be easy
[OC] Only 6% of the world lives in a “full democracy” https://www.byteseu.com/854165/ #Data #DataIsBeautiful #DataIsBeautiful
Trump Admin Threatens to Stop Social Security If DOGE Can’t Have Personal Data
Trump’s interim Social Security chief says he wants to turn off the program if #Musk & #DOGE can’t access #Americans’ most sensitive #data
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-musk-stop-social-security-doge-data-1235300785/
"Dudek’s threat to block #SSA employees from using the agency’s #IT systems — a move that could halt #SocialSecurity payments — came in response to a judge’s temporary restraining order"
[OC] Executive Orders Issued During the First Years of U.S. Presidents https://www.byteseu.com/848655/ #Data #DataIsBeautiful #DataIsBeautiful
https://fedi.tips/owncast-live-streaming-and-chat-on-the-fediverse/
...this is very cool!
So...we have:
#owncast not #twitch
#mastodon not #twitter or #threads
#pixelfed not #instagram
#peertube not #youtube
#loops not #tiktok
#friendica not #facebook
#matrix not #whatsapp
#revolt not #slack or #discord
#libreoffice not #microsoft
Give #bluesky a pass (investor-owned)
Read more about why, and what the #fediverse is:
https://engagemedia.org/2020/facebook-fediverse-alternatives/
Trump-Musk Scandal on Ukrainian Kids Stolen by Russia Just Got Darker
Data vital to tracking these abducted #Ukrainian #children may have suddenly disappeared... Who did this, and why?
https://newrepublic.com/article/192924/trump-musk-scandal-ukrainian-kids-stolen-russia
"the #UnitedStates may now be... helping #Russia bury a potential #war crime...
The contract had been frozen... part of the Trump-Musk funding freeze...
“We have reason to believe that the #data from the repository has been permanently deleted.”"
Meanwhile on Mars: Curiosity rover drove 18 meters further south into the canyon that it's traveling through to reach its next major science waypoint. The ~28 minute drive during sol 4484 (March 18, 2025) took the rover to site 114.918. Attached: DeBayered workspace mosaic, drive data and 2 traverse maps (different scales). Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk
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