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She/her - 30’s - Iowa

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Arkhip Kuindzhi - Birch grove (1881)

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Court rules automakers can record and intercept owner text messages

A Seattle-based appellate judge ruled that the practice does not meet the threshold for an illegal privacy violation under state law, handin

beginning in at least 2014 infotainment systems in the company’s vehicles began downloading and storing a copy of all text messages on smartphones when they were connected to the system. An Annapolis, Maryland-based company, Berla Corporation, provides the technology to some car manufacturers but does not offer it to the general public, the lawsuit said. Once messages are downloaded, Berla’s software makes it impossible for vehicle owners to access their communications and call logs but does provide law enforcement with access, the lawsuit said.

Yikes. Your car is probably keeping all your text messages and sending them to its manufacturer if you connect to your infotainment system.

The manufacturer does two things with this data:

shares it with law enforcement

sells it to advertisers for extra revenue

HOW WONDERFUL

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The car manufacturers being sued in this case are

Ford, Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen and General Motors

If your car allows you to connect your phone via Android Auto, Apple CarPlay, the car manufacturers' own systems, or any other system, assume your data is being scraped and sold to third parties for profit.

The best thing you can do about it is:

Disconnect your phone from your car (make sure you choose the "forget this device" option, or your phone will reconnect the next time you turn the car on)

Call your car manufacturer's customer service line

Demand a copy of your data, including who it has been sold to (or shared with)

Demand to be opted out of all data sales or sharing

Demand your data be deleted effective immediately

If they ask, you just moved to California and are exercising your rights under the CCPA.

Also, name and shame these auto manufacturers for this practice wherever you can. Give them hellish publicity all over social media - talk up how they're stealing your data for their own profit. If they can't or won't comply with your CCPA demands, talk that up too. The law is too far behind adtech right now, unfortunately - the only way to stop this bullshit is to make it unprofitable and socially unacceptable.

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My grandmother talks about how growing up in Belfast, Ireland, British soldiers would raid the local Irish people's houses, steal from them, smash up their homes or burn them out, beat up or kill or imprison the men, rape the women, and then justify their actions by saying the local people were harbouring IRA terrorists and illegal weapons stores even though they weren't. Any time the British committed an act of violence against the Irish it was the same excuse.

And every time Israel blows up a school, hospital, refugee camp killing hundreds of civilians in the process and justifies it by saying they were harbouring Hamas it makes me think of that. Colonialism never changes.

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happy tuesday i am processing nothing properly

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ATTENTION MARVEL FANS!!!

BDS has added a specific MARVEL BOYCOTT because the next Captain America film features “Sabra/Ruth Bat-Seraph”—a character that personified apartheid israel.

This character is known to:

work for mossad

continually talk about her hatred towards palestinians and arabs in the comics

have attacked the hulk for helping a palestinian child (hulk briefly convinced her that palestinians are humans)

have a syrian character (batal) as her antagonist

bear the name of a horrific massacre (the sabra massacre—where pregnant women were murdered and their babies were cut out of their wombs) *i am aware sabra refers to a fruit but let’s be real: it is still connected to a massacre carried out by israeli armed forces on innocent civilians. (here’s a longer statement)

Marvel is complicit in anti-Palestinian racism, israeli propaganda, and the glorification settler-colonial violence. Having this character in a movie by of the biggest franchises in the world, especially now while there is a genocide going on, is appalling and disgusting. There is no new approach one can take when the character has always been grounded in racism and propaganda.

BOYCOTT ALL MARVEL PRODUCTS UNTIL MARVEL REMOVES THIS CHARACTER

LATEST BDS ACTION ALERT

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happy what fucking day is it now friday

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A way to donate data plans! Mirna has much more information on her Instagram x

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You can continue adding more data to the same activated card if they're about to run out, here are all the plans available

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woke up today and realized that tumblr entirely killed fuck ya life bing bong so here ya go again

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[wearenotjustnumbers2]

The consistent dehumanization language used in describing Palestinians in western media is unfathomable. The consistent denial of seeing our children as children. For everybody seeing this, don't fall into this, seek out the truth and educate yourself because that's the best and only way we can help people in Palestine. We have to amplify their voices.

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this is your thanksgiving reminder that the chinook tribe is still fighting for federal recognition, which means they are unable to access programs and resources. please take some time today to sign their petition and donate if you’re able to. and if you live in washington or oregon please write to your elected officials.

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and another reminder that the quileute tribe (the very real tribe that was featured in twilight and received no compensation) is still located in a tsunami zone and is trying to move to higher ground. please consider donating.

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“Crowds chant for the resistance and Al-Qassam Brigades outside of ‘Ofer’ prison while waiting for the release of the prisoners as the IOF fires tear gas at the crowd.

Families of the soon to be releeased prisoners said outside of ‘Ofer’ earlier:

‘Joy mixed with the sorrow of our people in Gaza, we are dwarfs in front of Gaza's resilience... We feel the defeat of the occupation, and the enemy only understands the language of resistance.’

‘Prisoners freed by the blood of martyrs, we feel the sorrow, and the resistance is our pride and has brought the occupation, America, and the unjust world to its knees.’”

24 Nov 23 via RNN

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U.N. Calls For U.S. To Abolish Laws Criminalizing Homelessness

The United Nations Human Rights Committee recently called on United States officials to abolish laws criminalizing homelessness.