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an “upton sinclair of targeted ads” or “bully to all data brokers” depending on who you ask // shoshana.wodinsky@gmail.com
Apr 8 38 tweets 10 min read
feelin cute, might livetweet some first impressions of the drafted American Privacy Rights Act: commerce.senate.gov/services/files… Impression #1:

140 pages????? in this economy??
Oct 12, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
tfw u’ve been facing 10 straight hrs of cross-border harassment bc you tweeted something like “idk sometimes tech reporters are wrong and the companies they cover are in the right. that’s not a failure, that’s being human”

meanwhile ur just Image fwiw i’ve gotten a *lot* more evidence from other meta workers over those 10 hrs that, again, pretty much confirm that these emails aren’t real. i’d share it here, but i’m kinda busy being Image
Oct 11, 2022 8 tweets 5 min read
just read the Big FB Scoop everyone's talking about and...... about these leaks.... 🧐

1. "instagram.workplace.com" isn't a URL that exists lmao
2. any emails sent from andy et al would be "@Meta," not "@fb"
3. a source just confirmed there's no email alias called "Internal" ImageImageImage @Meta @fb i am, as always, the last person to side with FB on.... anything; but like, these are clearly forged documents. and any article based off of them should be retracted, no matter which side it's on
Aug 25, 2022 9 tweets 3 min read
just realized that this children's protection/privacy bill would, if passed in its current state, actually be a huge boon to the online porn industry (and pornhub's parent company specifically). lemme explain: a popular pieces of software available for age-gated websites rn is "ageid," which rolled out in 2018 when the UK passed a similar online child protection law.

what most ppl *don't know* is that mindgeek (pornhub's parent company) made this tech ageid.com
May 3, 2022 18 tweets 5 min read
i can't tell you how easy it is to mash together voter registration data, location data, and like, your credit card history in order to figure out who's buying misoprostol, who's walking into a clinic, and who's voting pro-choice. and how *profitable* it is, too i wrote this piece 2 years ago when folks were dm'ing me, terrified abt attending protests and leaking sensitive data to cops in the process. this is a loooooong piece (and pretty grim), but most of the same steps apply here. and it's just as grim

gizmodo.com/your-phone-is-…