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A Facebook Employee Asked a Reporter To Turn Off His Phone So Facebook Couldn't Track Its Location https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/02/12/165259/a-facebook-employee-asked-a-reporter-to-turn-off-his-phone-so-facebook-couldnt-track-its-location?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Imagine: You and your family are sleeping innocently and one night, men with gnus burst through the door and

yes, with gnus

no, not Linux. Blue wildebeest. From southeast Africa. They point a gnu in your face and

the pointy end, yes

the one with horns on

they say 'we demand a stable population with clearly delineated migration corridors from Kenya to Tanzania or we toss you into a watering hole'

to show they mean business they toss a lion into your swimming pool

its not even your lion

Privacy could be the next big thing. My talk from @hackferencebrum about privacy, and how people are uneasy about what's being done with their data. And how to explain that it doesn't have to be this way.
Also includes chocolate for the audience.
https://kryogenix.org/code/privacy-could-be-the-next-big-thing-hackference/