Notices by Laura Kalbag (laura@mastodon.laurakalbag.com), page 2

Been trying to work out the origin of a tricksy tracker and I keep seeing this “purpose” in cookie notices:

“Collects unidentifiable data, which is sent to an unidentifiable receiver. The receiver's identity is kept secret…”

HOW IS THAT OK?

Just clicked “Do not accept” on the GDPR compliance modal on a news site and it just redirected me to google.com. 🧐

Can’t decide whether it’s being facetious, malicious, or a dev just used google.com as a placeholder and forgot to change it.

I also resent Sheryl Sandberg being referred to as a “feminist icon.” It’s not feminist to run a corporation that screws other women (and other marginalised groups) and makes them more vulnerable. Feminist success shouldn’t be defined by model set by the patriarchy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/facebook-data-russia-election-racism.html

Working on blocking a tracker that uses your “emotional data” to deliver video ads. I’m curious whether the devs, designers and marketing heroes ever stopped to think… “is this ethical?”

I’m going to assume nah.

We love a bit of autumn

Just read a cutesy privacy policy from a big tracking network and I think I prefer when they deliberately obfuscate their shady practices.

Feedbin is great. Others take note!

https://feedbin.com/blog/2018/09/11/private-by-default/