Don't think this will only affect the us. This can be used against anyone living in a country that's friendly with the turd.
Leave twitter. For your own safety.
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It's literally a matter of national security for other nations.
Oh no, it's fine, we're just being softly threatened with the enabling of a Russian invasion of our eastern borders should we force Twitter to comply with our laws. No real problem here, keep posting.
Super serious job of CEO for three different billion dollar companies is so time consuming that he has spare time "to work" as a head of a government department, as well.
This makes me think that maybe CEOs don't actually do that much.
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Even before... all this... anyone still on Twitter was an asshole.
Stop visiting the Nazi bar.
Just stop using Twitter. I'm so glad I erased myself from the Internet and I would encourage others to do the same. Thought crimes are actually going to be a thing, because America is now fully fascist. Some people will find out what it's like to live in a fully authoritarian country. Don't be one of them if you can avoid it.
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Twitter has been a right wing revenge honeypot since melon head took over.
whatever data anyone has (google, facebook, your employer, your bank, the credit bureaus) basically belongs to trump's nsa, fbi, cia, etc now
And the stasi! Don't forget the stasi!
Worth remembering that if you send something to an external website, what they do with it is completely outside of your control.
Trust no company with your information.
I post photos online, and despite the fact that the platforms (Tumblr, and I think Pixelfed too?) scrub exif data, I do it manually anyway.
Pro tip:
exiftool -overwrite_original -All= file.jpgIf it’s a photo on my phone, I have location tagging turned off… but I definitely take a screenshot of the photo anyway. The lower quality doesn’t matter to me if I can easily just remove EXIF data.
Can twatter app not also track location, and use mic & cam at will?
On modern phones, it will tell you if it's using them. And you can block permissions.
however, given who is the owner, right now the best course of action is to consider xitter as a compromised app and treat it as malware/spyware
If you’re still hanging out with Nazis you deserve whatever happens to you.
Keep in mind that we're in an echo chamber here. We see and read stuff that most people don't care to know about, and we communicate amongst ourselves without considering the people who are outside of our echo chamber. In the same way people last week were googling about Biden dropping out of the election, a lot of people don't know what's happening with a lot of things around them. It doesn't make them bad people, just ignorant.
TBF, any of the big players are rife to capitulate to fed demands with the admin changes. Keep that crap out of Facebook, X, Google, Microsoft, unencrypted chat.
No idea why anyone that's not racist, sexist, or has a reasonable level of intelligence is still on that site.
My friend was way into it for news directly from journalists and had been on the site since the beginning. As soon as Trump's victory was secure he deleted his account and moved to BlueSky.
Time to leave that site to the deplorables and move on.
I knew a journalist who said she used it for work. Apparently that's just where a critical mass of people refuse to leave.
But also she'd send me stupid memes from Twitter.
I hope I live to see it turn into a soulless pile of bots reposting porn clips for D-grade advertising agencies with no human users.
If you don't think every major US site has been freely giving your data to the government for 20+ years, you're painfully naive. US law has never required a warrant for this type of thing due to the Third Party Doctrine.
I did.
I'm on Mastodon and Bluesky. My family is the only reason I'm still on Facebook.
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What is EXIF data? Location and time stamp? How do you remove that from photos and videos?
Or for a one-off, copy the image in one program and paste it into another. Then it's just pixels.
Depends, some know how to handle the metadata. You could take a screenshot and send that though.
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Metadata contained within the image file.
Using the one from this post this is what I can see (exif data has been stripped or wasn't there):
Here's another example where the data is plain as day:
Exif data can contain everything from the make/model of device used to take a picture, to a gps location of where the picture was taken.
Removing that information depends on what you're using to do it, but can be done with an exif editing tool in pretty much any OS I'm aware of.
Edit: Autocorrect is a pita.
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For techies: would opening my photo in MS Paint and doing "save as png" remove exif data?
Maybe but I wouldn't trust MS to do the job even if it appeared true. Use a reputable open source tool made for the job if you can
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It is metadata that can include what type of camera took the photo and precise location from GPS. I open photos in GIMP and then export them, taking care to uncheck the exif and a couple other metadata options.
One way is to take a screenshot of the photo. Or load and save in a different format. Or use image sharing sites that remove metadata (imgur used to be the standard one, not sure what's good now)
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Facebook messenger. Every keystroke is recorded. Go ahead, as for your data from Facebook. Every keystroke is logged.
Facebook Messenger is the worst way to be communicating right now.
Now is the time to migrate yourself and your people to WIRE or Signal. Your messenger people will likely only move once, if ever.
One way to encourage this is by simply refusing to be available by text on anything but WIRE or Signal. They will eventually give in and use it. You can still FaceTime, and for free, via Signal or WIRE.
Sure glad I never had a Xitter account.
I made a twitter account that I never used and I deactivated it yesterday. I didn't have to, but I did anyway.
This is basically good advice BUT it would have been equally relevant under Dorsey.
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