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4 Jul, 5 tweets, 2 min read
"Zu Schichtbeginn wissen die Fah­re­r*in­nen nicht, wann und wo ihre Pause sein wird ... Der Algorithmus teilt es ihnen dann mit, wenn es gut passt"

Automatisiertes Management beim VW-Ridepooling-Dienst Moia. Ein Betriebsratskandidat wurde gekündigt:
taz.de/Arbeitsbedingu…
Jede kurze Pause muss im digitalen System "beantragt" werden. Moia hat gegenüber den FahrerInnen betont:

„Es ist wichtig zu wissen, dass solche Unterbrechungen nur im Ausnahmefall vorgenommen werden können, weil diese den laufenden technischen Betrieb in extremer Weise stören“
Falls vom System genehmigt, werden die kleinen Pausen aus der bezahlten Arbeitszeit herausgerechnet. Im Nachhinein kann für Toilettenpausen ein Antrag auf Erstattung gestellt werden, für die Antragstellung sind 2 Minuten Arbeitszeit vorgesehen.

Alles hochgradig absurd, pfft.
Also ernsthaft, das is alles völlig indiskutabel, ein kompletter #Fail von @VW

Es kann nicht sein, dass ein System so gestaltet ist, dass menschliche Grundbedürfnisse "den laufenden technischen Betrieb in extremer Weise stören".
Mit derart einseitig gestalteten Systemen auf Kosten von Beschäftigten wird das nix mit ökologischer digitaler Innovation.

Wäre ich VW, würde ich das Moia-Management sofort auf die Straße setzen, den Betriebsrat zurückholen und das System gemeinsam von Grund auf neu gestalten.

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25 Jun
In Jan 2020, Google announced it will 'phase out' Chrome third-party cookies and thus opaque marketing surveillance across hundreds of thousands of companies.

Now it says it may do so in 'late 2023'. It should have done so many years ago. Mobile is even worse.

Google is evil.
Actually, Google co-created today's broken digital economy based on data exploitation across myriads of *other* companies. It made billions and billions of it.

Under its shiny surface, Google has turned the digital world into a surveillance hell, and it will continue to do so.
...unless we, as a society, stop it, through political and legal measures.

It's not that I didn't expect Google to further delay blocking third-party cookies in Chrome.

I hope that (EU) regulators and public-interest litigators didn't already completely stop addressing them.
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9 Jun
Amazon Österreich sucht für das Logistikzentrum in Großebersdorf Bereichsleiter "mit militärischem Hintergrund".

Die sollen Beschäftigte "führen" und "motivieren" und als "rechte Hand des Standortleiters" Leistung sowie "Auffälligkeiten" überwachen 😬
amazon.jobs/en-gb/jobs/155…
Irgendwie bezeichnend.

Und passt zu den Berichten aus 2019:

"Überwachung, Disziplinierung, entwürdigende Vorschriften: Im Verteilzentrum in Niederösterreich weht laut einem Mitarbeiter ein rauer Wind"
derstandard.at/story/20001047…
Auch für deutsche Logistikzentren sucht Amazon jede Menge 'Area Manager' mit militärischem Hintergrund: amazon.jobs/en-gb/search?b…

"Working in an Amazon warehouse is like prison, according to an author who went undercover at a fulfilment centre"
insider.com/amazon-warehou…
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31 May
The German Research Foundation @dfg_public, who manages billions of research grants, published a paper on how data analytics, data harvesting and the reuse/resale of user data has become a relevant part of the business model of major academic publishers:
dfg.de/download/pdf/f…
The paper raises concerns about the integration of risk surveillance tech by ThreatMetrix/LexisNexis/RELX and third-party tracking by Google, FB, Oracle, Salesforce, Adobe, Neustar et al on academic publishers' platforms, as well as of publisher spyware in software for libraries.
This kind of research tracking can "fundamentally contradict academic freedom". Thus, the academic community should "reflect on the practice of tracking, its legality, the measures required for compliance with data protection and the consequences of the aggregation of usage data"
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31 May
"noyb developed a software that recognizes various types of unlawful cookie banners and automatically generates complaints ... noyb will give companies a one-month grace period to comply with EU laws before filing the formal complaint"

noyb doing the EU regulators' job, again:
"Instead of giving a simple yes or no option, companies use every trick in the book to manipulate users. We have identified more than fifteen common abuses. The most common issue is that there is simply no ‘reject’ button..."

EU regulators should have stopped this years ago.
"First 560 websites in 33 countries got a (free) draft complaint today. noyb started the new system today and delivered the first draft complaints to 560 websites from 33 countries ... Over the course of the year 2021, noyb plans to follow up with up to 10.000 further complaints"
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19 May
"Ring is the largest civilian surveillance network the US has ever seen"

"One in 10 US police departments can now access videos from millions of ... home security cameras without a warrant ... extending the reach of law enforcement into private property" theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
"Because Ring cameras are owned by civilians, law enforcement are given a backdoor entry into private video recordings of people in residential and public space that would otherwise be protected"

"By partnering with Amazon, law enforcement circumvents these ... protections"
"Ring blurs the line between police work and civilian surveillance and turns your neighbor’s home security system into an informant"

"...since Amazon bought Ring in 2018, it has brokered more than 1,800 partnerships with local law enforcement agencies" in the US.
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12 May
"there is no evidence …that would indicate that Google has any plans to favour its own over third-party apps"

"there is no evidence that Google plans …to lower prices below costs"

Things Google would never do.

The EU's full G/Fitbit decision is out:
ec.europa.eu/competition/me…
"Google would neither have the ability nor the incentives to discriminate in favour of Fitbit in Google Search results"

Disclaimer, those are just random statements that caught my eye. Also:

"it remains purely speculative whether the merged entity will indeed be successful…"
The term "insurance" is mentioned only twice in the full text of the 254p decision, and four times in the footnotes.

The Commission identified (only) the following four markets in 'digital healthcare' and, as of today, the acquisition does not affect any of them.
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