Category: AI
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Flock Safety: Eroding Your Privacy & Keeping You Safe with Surveillance
In an age where technology increasingly permeates our daily lives, the rise of sophisticated surveillance systems raises critical questions about the balance between public safety and individual privacy. One company at the forefront of this debate is Flock Safety, a major player in automated license plate recognition (LPR) technology. This blog post delves into the…
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How to Automatically Delete Facebook Posts
Managing your Facebook history shouldn’t be overwhelming. Today, Redact.dev introduces Disappearing Mode for Facebook — allowing you to automatically delete posts, comments, likes, and more after a set time period, giving you full control over your Facebook presence. Apps like Snapchat, Telegram, and Signal have popularized disappearing content. Now, with Redact, you can bring that…
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How to Automatically Delete Tweets
Your tweets shouldn’t define your future. Today, Redact.dev introduces Disappearing Mode for Twitter — giving you total control over your posts by automatically deleting tweets, retweets, and likes after a set time. Apps like Signal, Telegram, and Snapchat already offer disappearing messages. Now, with Redact, you can bring that same self-cleaning technology to your Twitter…
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Is OpenAI Building a Social Media Platform? (and why?)
The tech world is buzzing with rumors: OpenAI, the AI giant behind ChatGPT, might be building its own social media platform. While unconfirmed, this potential move shines a spotlight on a critical issue in our digital age: data privacy and the ever-expanding digital footprint we leave behind. Why Would OpenAI Want a Social Network? The…
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New X Rules for Parody & Fan Accounts – Audit Your Content
As of April 10, X (formerly Twitter) has implemented new rules requiring parody, commentary, and fan accounts (also known as PCF accounts) to explicitly label themselves at the start of their display names. The purpose of this change is to reduce confusion and curb impersonation – especially after a series of impersonator accounts have misled…
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How to Mass Delete All Your LinkedIn Posts
If you’ve been using LinkedIn for years, there’s a good chance your post history is longer than you remember. An extensive digital footprint can add to the already significant risk of targeted scammers, spammers, hackers and other bad actors. Or you might just want to avoid LinkedIn using your content to train their AI, or…
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Your Discord Messages Have Probably Been Scraped – Again. What Can You Do?
Just one year after the infamous spy.pet Discord scandal, a new claim has emerged with details of another massive (alleged) Discord scraping breach. @DarkWebInformer posted the claim on Twitter, along with a screenshot of a Breach Forums listing; The breach listing claims to have harvested over 348 million messages from public discord servers, between April…
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How to Delete All Your Bluesky Likes
If you’re a Bluesky user, you’ve probably accumulated hundreds or even thousands of likes across posts and profiles. Some of those likes might date back to when the platform first launched – and they’re still sitting there, even if they no longer reflect your interests today. Bluesky doesn’t offer a built-in way for you to…
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Will Discord’s IPO Lead to Enshittification?
Discord, the widely popular communication platform, is reportedly preparing for an Initial Public Offering (IPO) in 2025, collaborating with financial giants JP Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs to facilitate the process. While this move could bolster Discord’s financial standing and market presence, it raises significant concerns regarding user data privacy and security. The Implications of…
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Top 3 Ways to Make Money on Reddit 🤑
Quick disclaimer, you will need to own Reddit for most of these to actually make you money. In recent years, Reddit has made several business decisions that have significantly impacted its users and the broader community. From introducing API restrictions to rolling out the Reddit Contributor Program, these changes have sparked controversy and frustration among…