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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.
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.
Even before… all this… anyone still on Twitter was an asshole.
Stop visiting the Nazi bar.
Worth considering that if Twitter ever ends up on the fediverse, the same will apply to any instance it federates with. Lemmy may be great because it’s not corporate, but its functionality necessitates that it be one of the least private versions of social media available.
Literally zero chance that Musk ever federates X. He went through so much trouble just to ruin the API, you think he’s gonna implement ActivityPub?
I made a twitter account that I never used and I deactivated it yesterday. I didn’t have to, but I did anyway.
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
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!
Interesting, I remember years of libs ruthlessly mocking right-wing users (and the lefties who agreed) for thinking Twitter and other social media was dangerous. Now all of a sudden we all agree social media is dangerous because the guy who owns one of the services is openly a shill rather than quietly like Dorsey was?
I’m a lefty with a working memory who knows authoritarians are not to be trusted no matter what side they claim to be on. It seems like the most obvious position a person can hold but people are struggling with even this…
Now all of a sudden we all agree social media is dangerous because the guy who owns one of the services is openly a shill rather than quietly like Dorsey was?
Yes, people are openly concerned about the world’s richest man making active threats that threaten democracy more than your made up perceived bias. Garbage take.
I guess I at least agree that we were naïve with regards to Dorsey and way too slow to realize Twitter was a threat. Looking back now it seems like it was bound to go to hell eventually, and if we look beyond the west it already went to hell a long time ago. And even in the west the tipping point was arguably years before Musk bought Twitter, it was just that people were too addicted to accept how dangerous it was.
So I guess you could criticize people for only realizing now how fucked up Twitter is. Then again, better late than never.
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.
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.
What is EXIF data? Location and time stamp? How do you remove that from photos and videos?
Scrambled Exif on F-Droid to wipe it.
Photo, share, choose Scrambled Exif, wait two seconds, share screen comes back, share with friend, and it sends the picture but not the privacy violations.
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.
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
Results are in. According to jimpl.com, saving as PNG in MS Paint does remove some exif data.
I don’t know what’s possible to be stored as exif data so I can’t tell you if this is everything. But here’s my result.
Interesting. Location is the big one though, which your test image didn’t have.
Good catch. I’m satisfied with the test so I won’t be doing another one. Feel free to try one of your own photos which includes location data and report back to us with your findings.
Eh, too much trouble to reboot into windows :)
Cool in that case thanks for your contributions
From a quick test, that does seem to remove most data.
Instead of that, if you’re going to through that process for just a few files, the Details tab in the file properties has a link at the bottom to strip all that stuff.
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:
If you’re on Windows, right click an image, and go into the properties. There should be a Details tab where you’ll find a bunch of text fields that can be edited.
There’s also data that doesn’t even show in there. For example, your camera/phone could be set up to save its GPS coordinates in EXIF so that you can keep track of where the pictures were taken. Naturally, unless it’s stripped from the file, that data can be seen by anyone who has access to the file.
Most image editing software should be able to delete any EXIF data, but there is also software that can mass-edit all of that stuff to simplify the process.
Edit 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.
I’m on android, is there software that you would suggest using?
I don’t know if there are apps that can’t be trusted or take your images or data.
Exif-eraser, open source and available on F-Droid, Google Play, etc.
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)
There’s no reason to have anything older than 12 months on Twitter, just auto delete anything older.
Even 6 months should be good.
If you’re the type who uses Twitter as a blogging platform, grab that shit and self-host it.
If you are the type that thinks any of the for profit tech companies are deleting your data I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
It’s not for the companies, it’s for the keyboard warriors looking for dirt when they get angry.
Case in point: James Gunn getting fired because of decade old tweets
There no reason Twitter would need to actually delete data from their backend.
You can also replace the content, depending on how their system is done.
Also we do have GDPR and CPPA if you want to go nuclear on your data
Twitter has been a right wing revenge honeypot since melon head took over.
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.
