#data

[ringneckedpheasant]

[datarep]

Wait times for family-sponsored visas to the U.S.

by nytopinion

[cloudemojisworld]

[probablyasocialecologist]

Social media and online video companies are collecting huge troves of your personal information on and off their websites or apps and sharing it with a wide range of third-party entities, a new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) staff report on nine tech companies confirms. The FTC report published on Thursday looked at the data-gathering practices of Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, Discord, Reddit, Amazon, Snap, TikTok and Twitter/X between January 2019 and 31 December 2020. The majority of the companies’ business models incentivized tracking how people engaged with their platforms, collecting their personal data and using it to determine what content and ads users see on their feeds, the report states. The FTC’s findings validate years of reporting on the depth and breadth of these companies’ tracking practices and call out the tech firms for “vast surveillance of users”. The agency is recommending Congress pass federal privacy regulations based on what it has documented. In particular, the agency is urging lawmakers to recognize that the business models of many of these companies do little to incentivize effective self-regulation or protection of user data. “Recognizing this basic fact is important for enforcers and policymakers alike because any efforts to limit or regulate how these firms harvest troves of people’s personal data will conflict with their primary business incentives,” FTC chair Lina Khan said in a statement. “To craft effective rules or remedies limiting this data collection, policymakers will need to ensure that violating the law is not more lucrative than abiding by it.”

19 September 2024

[ask-dcf]

According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.

*He goes about bumblebee facts for a while*

(12/25)

Art by @xjunjox

[neomedievalist]

anyway im getting very upset abt how nonbinary characters are treated in fandom and im going to hurt someone. if i was a worse person i'd make a passive-aggressive poll about it but i'm not so you guys are safe from me dictating this website's discourse for the next week.

[ejacutastic]

usb-c is like a cloaca for computers

[allmyandroids]

here he comes

[stra-tek]

He's got it down

[love-filter]

STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (1987-1994) “Data's Day” | S04E11

[fortooate]

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i think this mp4 has been missing from the sitecosystem too long

[datarep]

Chegg's Downfall Since ChatGPT

by spaceman-mark

[itberice]

Star Trek: The Next Generation I A Fistful of Datas

[positronichead]

The comment on levar burton’s unprompted daforge posting………

[autisticlegolas]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH FROM DATA !!

[neomedievalist]

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭INEED TO GET DICKED DOWN AGAIN😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭