One thing I love about Germany is that people have this understanding where privacy is fundamental and not something to argue about. Because they know being able to easily identify people leads to disaster. It’s just about a political swing away.

So Kanye doesn’t get a penny from his songs he made before 2012?

Here’s a scientific dissertation on how and why that phrase sucks: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565

It’s so easy to use but very hard to fights against. Worst case of bullshit.

4$ per dose is quite a lot of money for African countries. Not patenting it would allow them to create their own, which he blocked based on bullshit reasoning.

Tech companies touting privacy with “trust us bro” slogan

Saying “fuck you” would be more like “we’re no longer selling devices in uk and iCloud won’t work anymore”

It’s not “WWF is benefitting from…”, it’s “WWF helping facilitate trade in polar bear fur, investigation reveals”. “Investigation” here refers to the article published in guardian. The proof is the lobbying WWF did. They’re complicit in allowing this, sadly. Other NGOs stood strongly against WWF: https://ssn.org/app/uploads/2019/03/Cop16_PolarBear_EN.pdf

That’d only create a black market and illegal hunting. No one needs a polar bear fur rug / coat.

https://wwfeu.awsassets.panda.org/downloads/polar_bear_position_cites_cop_15_final.pdf?

There are links all over the article

WWF said in a 2013 statement: “If, at some stage in the future, polar bear populations become so diminished by climate change and habitat loss, and/or if international trade presents a greater threat, we would want to revisit the Cites listing issue. But we’re not at that point.”

Yeah lets wait until it’s too late for the species

Show them this: https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/22/whatsapp-wins-reprieve-in-india-over-user-data-sharing/

The dispute began when WhatsApp required users to accept expanded data sharing with Meta’s platforms or risk losing access to the messaging service. While European users can opt out of such sharing, Indian users cannot — a distinction that regulators found problematic.

Meta doesn’t know what you’re talking about, because WhatsApp is e2ee. But they know:

• who are you talking to
• when
• how often
• what else were you doing before/during/after the talk
• links that are shared (the preview fetch is not e2ee afaik)

These are all valuable metadata and given enough of it, they can even infer what you were talking about. Target you with ads on their other platforms (but rumors are that WhatsApp will have ads inside eventually)

I install some local adblocker to their devices and they don’t see those ads

Did you miss when its founder sided with Republicans (the current ones, mind you) or are you ok with it?

He might be born on 1988, although I could not verify this. He started his PhD on 2009, that’d make him 21 at that time, which is not unusual