WhatsApp Moderators Can Read Your Messages – Slashdot

Gizmodo highlights the findings of a new ProPublic report on WhatsApp’s content moderation system. What they found was that there are at least 1,000 WhatsApp content moderators employed by Facebook’s moderator contract firm Accenture to review user-reported content that’s been flagged by its machine learning system. “They monitor for, among other things, spam, disinformation, hate speech, potential terrorist threats, child sexual abuse material (CSAM), blackmail, and “sexually oriented businesses,'” reports Gizmodo. “Based on the content, moderators can ban the account, put the user ‘on watch,’ or leave it alone.” From the report:

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What a surprise, don’t you think? I already wrote about it in italian (here WhatsApp non ti legge, ma ti spia)

That’s why it is important to avoid it. Use Telegram, Session or Briar.

Write on Medium? No thanks, you’re proprietary

Today I found this flashing notice on the daily mail I get from Medium.com:

Write on Medium. Post a quick thought or pen a long story. It's easy and free to get started.

Let me be cristal clear:

Write on Medium? No thanks, you’re proprietary

While I appreciate some tech blogs hosted by Medium, in the improbable event that I will become a tech-blog-star I will never rely on proprietary software, not when there are so many excellent alternative libere, alterternatives based on software libero, aka libre.

WhatsApp non ti legge, ma ti spia

Leggete con attenzione Whatsapp: attenzione al ban, soprattutto nelle chat di gruppo.

È arrivato il momento di parlare più chiaramente usando termini comprensibili a chi tecnico non è.

In prima battuta stavo per sbottare con un “Facebook legge tutto quello che scrivi in WhatsApp”, ma non ho prove per suffragare una tale affermazione.

Per implementare un tale tipo di censura tutta devono necessariamente leggere le informazioni sui gruppi, sui contatti, sulle icone di gruppi e persone. Quindi ci sarà la mantomatica crittazione “da un capo all’altro” ma tutto il resto lo spiano, eccome se lo fanno! Percui

Facebook vi spia sempre quando usate WhatsApp!