Does the arresting officer ask this question at EACH and EVERY traffic stop? If not, this is #profiling and #racial #discrimination. That's #illegal. This officer should be facing #civil #rights violation charges. Meanwhile, keep the pressure on. Highlight every #detention. Get the #press involved. Shine a #light on these #wrong #arrests.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/17/us/lopez-gomez-citizen-detained-ice-florida/index.html

LG’s Integrated #TV #Ad Tech Analyzes Your #Emotions

#LG has licensed tech that claims to interpret TV users’ feelings and convictions. The company will use this data to more directly #target the ads it’s showing to users of its smart TV platform.
#privacy #security #advertising #surveillance #profiling #smarttv

https://www.wired.com/story/lg-zenapse-integrated-tv-ads-emotional-analysis/

The #AI Tools #CBP Is Using to Scan #SocialMedia

Customs and #Border Protection ( #CBP ) is using various artificial intelligence tools, including ones that can quickly identify people of interest by pulling data from social media, according to documents published by the agency last week and marketing material from the contractors.
#privacy #security #facebook #Twitter #instagram #profiling #surveillance

https://www.404media.co/the-ai-tools-cbp-is-using-to-scan-social-media/

Meta’s toxic, profiling-based content feeds are affecting our lives and well-being – and today, @edri, @Freiheitsrechte, @bitsoffreedom, and Convocation Research + Design (CoRD Labs) filed a #DSA complaint against it.

Meta is violating the #DigitalServicesAct by making it hard for people to choose news feeds that are not based on #profiling.

We deserve to take back control over our own online experiences!

Read more about the complaint https://edri.org/our-work/civil-society-files-dsa-complaint-against-meta-for-toxic-profiling-fueled-feeds/

Very excited to have filed a formal complaint against #Facebook & #Instagram today under the #DigitalServicesAct.

Together with @bitsoffreedom, @Freiheitsrechte & Convocation Design+Research, @edri represents an Irish user and found that #Meta uses #DeceptiveDesign patterns to discourage people from choosing the #newsfeed that's not based on #profiling.

That newsfeeds option is a key requirement under the DSA and deceptive design is prohibited. So there you go.

https://edri.org/our-work/civil-society-files-dsa-complaint-against-meta-for-toxic-profiling-fueled-feeds/

Finnish Post has decided to start using your data for service planning and development. What for? Well of course for "personalized content and targeted advertising". This is opt-in by default.

"My data may be used for service planning and development, as well as for delivering personalized content and targeted advertising using profiling.
Profiling refers to automated processing of personal data where the information is used to evaluate personal characteristics, such as interests or service usage. The purpose of profiling is to enhance the customer experience and ensure that the customer receives relevant and interesting recommendations and services."

Notably for some reason this is separate from "Marketing consents" and is enabled by default.

You can turn off this option at: https://my.account.posti.fi/settings

And the #AI will just allocate resources to harass communities that have already been historically overpoliced and systemically targeted.

Jesus fuck. We’ve been over this so MANY times.

UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/08/uk-creating-prediction-tool-to-identify-people-most-likely-to-kill?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #police #crime #racism #profiling

Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist Cory Doctorow @pluralistic speech at the 2025 Ursula Franklin Lecture. >

https://vimeo.com/1059798497

#enshitification #monopsonies #twiddling #LockedUsers #LockedSellers #GAFAM #lecture #AlgorithmicWageDiscrimination#speech #SurveillanceCapitalism #interoperability #competition #regulation #WorkersPower #BigData #sellers #users #TechnoFeudalism #employment #ratings #Uberisation #queries #JediBlue #profiling #enshitified #internet #abuse #DataBrokers #AntitrustLaw #TechLayoffs #RegulatoryCaptures #TechnologicalAbuse #privacy #value #GiantPileOfShit #TechnicalMechanism #rankings #unions #digitalisation #nursing #speech #lecture #video #coporatocracy #monopoly

→ Indigenous Nations Mobilize Against ICE Targeting and Profiling
https://truthout.org/articles/indigenous-nations-mobilize-against-ice-targeting-and-profiling/

“We should not have to prove our citizenship, […] We are the original people in this country, but we’re in a #scary time right now, and I don’t want any #American #Indian to get lost in the #system. [ICE] ‘lost’ children the last time they did this. They lost little brown children that will never be reunited with their parents. And that is horrible. […]”

Die Menschenrechtsaktivistin Tanya O’Carroll hat den Social-Media-Giganten Meta erfolgreich dazu gezwungen, ihre Daten nicht für gezielte Werbung zu verwenden. Die Vereinbarung ist Teil eines Vergleichs zu einer individuellen Klage, die sie 2022 gegen Metas Tracking und Profiling eingereicht hatte.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/21/meta-settles-u-k-right-to-object-to-ad-tracking-lawsuit-by-agreeing-not-to-track-plaintiff/

How to profile a .NET MAUI iOS application on macOS by Marco Siccardi.

https://msicc.net/2025-02-28-how-to-profile-net-maui-ios-app-on-macos/

Es gibt einige Stimmen, die nach Algorithmen im Fediverse rufen und meinen, dass damit eine Schere zu den Kommerziellen geschlossen wird und damit der Zuwachs neuer User:innen erheblich gesteigert werden kann. Der Ruf danach ist aber eigentlich ziemlich sinnfrei, da das Fediverse voll von Algorithmen ist, sie werden nur nicht als solche wahrgenommen.

Es geht vielmehr um das Profiling eurer Persönlichkeit, um daraus Entscheidungen abzuleiten, was euch als Nächstes gezeigt werden soll. Also weg von der chronologischen Timeline, hin zu einer orchestrierten Sicht auf das, was eine Person oder eine Gruppe entschieden hat, was euch zu interessieren hat.

Nun, Profiling über eure Daten gibt es im Fediverse nicht. Und das ist auch gut so. Denn genau diese Daten sind anfällig für Missbrauch. Sie sagen eben mehr über dich aus als das, was du beiläufig geliked hast. Damit werden detaillierte Persönlichkeitsprofile über euch erstellt, die einen tiefen Einblick in eurer Privatleben und Persönlichkeit erlauben. Das sind die Daten, mit denen META, Google und Amazon ihr Geld verdienen. Diese Daten zu sammeln und auszuwerten würde uns die Freiheit nehmen über uns selbst zu bestimmen.

Also, lasst uns die Begriffe bitte richtig verwenden. Nur kann können wir uns bei unseren Anliegen auch wirklich verstehen.

#Fediverse - Ja
#Algorithmen - Ja
#Persönlichkeitsprofile - Nein
#Profiling - Nein

„Ältere Bremer #Schildbürger verlangen auch ohne Smartphone getracked, ausgenommen und für dumm verkauft zu werden”

@peterhense und @spiritlegal schlagen wieder zu: Class Action gegen #X und #TikTok wegen #Desinformation, #AddictiveDesign und rechtswidrigem #Profiling. Man kann die Arbeit dieser Truppe nie genug hervorheben und wenn die Vorbereitungen abgeschlossen sind kann man sich der Klage auch noch anschließen.

https://www.spiritlegal.com/de/aktuelles/details/pressemitteilung-bewaehrungsprobe-fuer-dsa-dsgvo-und-ai-act.html

If you have been using #py5 for a while, this page about #matplotlib integration is a documentation gem It opens up the possibility of making "live", real time and interactive, maplotlib charts, but even if you are not into #dataviz, it shows the beautiful #profiling tools integrated with py5 and how to use #threading to improve performance. In the end you also learn about named colors and the clever "Colormap Color Mode" feature.

https://www.py5coding.org/integrations/matplotlib.html #python #processing4 #profilers #colormapps