The workers in question were employed as content moderators by Telus Digital, a Canadian company that provides outsourcing services for TikTok.

How does China have anything to do with this?

If artificial intelligence can be trained on stolen information, then so should be “natural” intelligence.

Oh, wait. One is owned by oligarchs raking in billions, the other just serves the plebs.

Dad calls me randomly one evening. He can’t find the youtube app on his smart TV. I try to help him navigate it but over the phone communication isn’t really working especially since things I assume anyone would know (like the home button on the remote) don’t translate well to him. He gets pissed and tells me “why do you even work as a programmer what did you even learn in university?”. Apparently I missed my Samsung smart TV UI classes.

Do not bring your phone with you to a protest.

If you really need a phone on you, get a burner phone with a prepaid card not linked to your person. But remember, MITM attacks are possible and the police can intercept your traffic and in some cases even compromise your E2EE services (if the key exchange takes place on a compromised spoofed network, see stingrays [1]).

If communication is necessary, get a meshtastic device. It’s not the most reliable, and the channels can be jammed, but no one will bother with that. Because they work on usual IoT/smart home appliances frequencies, there is so much interference in cities that triangulating your position in a crowd of people isn’t very realistic.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2020/07/31/protests-surveillance-stingrays-dirtboxes-phone-tracking/

Tutamail is a great email provider that takes security very seriously. Switched a few days ago and I’m very happy.

Ah, the “free speech absolutist” doing completely free speech stuff.