“The Times reviewed more than 270 pages of reports generated by the system — records that reflect just a portion of Facebook’s wide-ranging deals. Among the revelations was that Facebook obtained data from multiple partners for a controversial friend-suggestion tool called “People You May Know.” The feature, introduced in 2008, continues even though some Facebook users have objected to it, unsettled by its knowledge of their real-world relationships. Gizmodo and other news outlets have reported cases of the tool’s recommending friend connections between patients of the same psychiatrist, estranged family members, and a harasser and his victim. Facebook, in turn, used contact lists from the partners, including Amazon, Yahoo and the Chinese company Huawei — which has been flagged as a security threat by American intelligence officials — to gain deeper insight into people’s relationships and suggest more connections, the records show. Some of the access deals described in the documents were limited to sharing non-identifying information with research firms or enabling game makers to accommodate huge numbers of players. These raised no privacy concerns. But agreements with about a dozen companies did. Some enabled partners to see users’ contact information through their friends — even after the social network, responding to complaints, said in 2014 that it was stripping all applications of that power. As of 2017, Sony, Microsoft, Amazon and others could obtain users’ email addresses through their friends.”
A Glasgow nightclub has installed a two-way mirror which allows male revellers in private booths to spy on unsuspecting women as they visit the toilet! With no notification or signage anywhere in the venue many female club goers have been left feeling embarrassed and used. Although they do briefly show the mirrors in a promo video, the club has been quickly deleting comments and posts on their social media from club goers trying to alert others to the situation. This is pretty much illegal and hugley violates privacy. Thank you The Shimmy Club for giving us a shiny, new, creative and cool take on objectification. article here
i’m never leaving my house again, this world is just too fucked up.
WHAT!?
gross gross gross gross gross
Good morning disgusting.
Remember ladies:
“No space, leave the place” (fingernail test)
A two way mirror must be set INTO the wall, not placed on top of it.
If you rap/knock against the mirror, one installed onto a wall (a normal mirror) will make a dull sound, because there’s something behind it. A two-way will have more reverberation.
Use the flashlight on your phone to shine on the mirror, if it’s a two-way, you’ll be able to see into the other room.
You can also shield your eyes and see in if you lean up against the glass.
The room being viewed will have to be brightly lit (10x brighter than the room looking in), so if you’re in a typical dimly lit club bathroom, you’re ok.
boosting the fuck out of this
They have this in Continental Midtown in Philly, it’s fucking creepy and not cool at all
the most obvious solution i can think of is to break that motherfucker. what are they going to do? sue you for breaking something they shouldnt have had?
That’s fucking disgusting.
Hey, fellas. You ever feel like you have to check if you’re standing in front of a two-way mirror? Women do.
With G1 Group owner Stefan King watching the licensing board proceedings, the club was immediately forced to clear the building, with only two hours notice. The club has now been ordered to remove the two-way mirror, and put all its staff through equalities training, as a licensing condition…
It added the mirror was a breach of licensing conditions to protect children, who could attend under-18 discos at the Shimmy Club without adult supervision…
The club is also still under investigation by Police Scotland, which has reopened its enquiries after fresh complaints in the last week. [As of the time that was published, in 2013.]
The club still seems to be operating in 2018, but I’m thankfully not finding any mention of mirrors since the coverage then.
it worries me so much that there’s been this (mostly unintentional) culture built up around coming out, to where young lgbt kids are putting themselves in danger at school and at home because they don’t want to “live a lie.” i just want to say, i came out when i was 15 and it created a lot of difficulties in my life that i could have avoided by waiting until i was older. it isolated me socially, it exposed me to homophobia from my parents, my family, my teachers, and my classmates at the most important developmental stages of my own confidence and sense of self… closeted people are not living a lie. closeted people are surviving. don’t let anyone pressure you to come out before you’re ready. don’t put yourself at risk when you don’t have to.
Historically, the importance of coming out was put forward by Harvey Milk as a tactic for normalization through representation; if your librarian, your postal worker and seven of the people in your local sports fanclub are all gay & you’ve been friends for years with no disasters, the rhetoric of queers as a monstrous unknown Other collapses. The thing is, Milk was mainly talking to other adults who had their own means of survival; their own incomes, their own houses.
Yes, homophobia has been used & is being used to eject people from their apartments & that is monstrous, & yes there are vulnerabilities which can cause you terrible harm as an adult, but when you are so much more vulnerable, your job is surviving. The closet is a survival tactic, & that’s all it’s ever been. It is not your job right now to be on the front lines of queer representation. Ellen DeGeneres & Laverne Cox are taking care of that so that you can be safe, & we’re going to need you to still be with us in ten years, ok?
You can find people who are safe to be fully open with, and you deserve to be able to do that but you do not owe the intimate details of the way you fall in love to people who would not treat you with basic human dignity.
People who will put you in danger have no right to your privacy, and no right to honesty from you, if that’s the way you want to frame it.
Also, you don’t owe this information to anyone. Even if you’re not in danger. Even if you just don’t feel ready, or just don’t want to.
Nobody is entitled to this information and if you don’t know what you want to do with it yet, you don’t have to do anything.
Always be vague. Say I think they’re in today or not until later. If they press say it’s company policy not to give out the schedule. Most companies do have this and even if they don’t how would a stranger know. Don’t give out specifics, they can get people injured or even killed.
At my last job someone came up and asked when “Sarah” was working next. I didn’t tell him and then texted her a description, turns out he was an abusive ex who had been stalking her. Don’t do this shit please.
I work at a sex shop and this kinda shit happens constantly. when I first started out there was this one girl working here who was pretty and friendly and not good at telling people to fuck off so she had a whole litany of stalkers who would try to get me to tell them when she was in. for random people who I didn’t know anything about I would literally pretend not to know who she was (like “oh, I’m new so I don’t actually know all the girls who work here” all wide-eyed and innocent lmao), but there were some recurring creeps who knew she worked there and wanted her schedule: for those guys I would say I wasn’t permitted to give out that information or that I didn’t know, and if they persisted I’d call them the fuck out, and ban them if they still didn’t back down.
most of the guys after her were easy to spot (it was usually the old creeps who rented stepdaughter porn) but one time it was an 18 year old from the nearby college who said the two of them had plans and he was supposed to meet her there today. I played dumb and got as much info off him as I could by asking him questions under the pretense of conversation. it didn’t take very long for him to expose himself: he started talking about how beautiful she was and how he wanted to date her and when I said “oh, I thought she had a boyfriend?” he said “no, most girls with boyfriends have pictures of them all over social media and she doesn’t have any pictures of a guy on her instagram or facebook, even as far back as 2014” and then he pulled up her instagram profile and started talking about how he’d shown his mom pictures of her and his mom thought she looked “slutty” but he didn’t care. then he hung around the shop for 5 whole hours waiting for her before giving up (she wasn’t even in that day lmao but I let him suffer). I made sure to get his name “so I can tell her if I see her!” and then when he left I contacted camera crew for his picture and messaged the girl about the situation. she didn’t have plans with him. she didn’t know how he got her social media. she was really fucking creeped out. we banned his ass and put his picture on our wall of shame.
stalkers don’t have one easily identifiable look so don’t ever give out your coworkers info, no matter how convincing or benign the person you’re dealing with is. if someone is actually related to or friends with your coworker, they’ll have a way to contact them independent of their job. if possible, also get as much info about the person inquiring as possible so that you can adequately warn your coworker and/or file a report on them. don’t let your friendliness enable stalkers and abusers.
mmk i’ve got v few followers but i’m hoping this helps at least one person so here I go.
Apple is coming out with something called ““Apple screentime” which will basically allow your parents to see what apps you use when and set restrictions and shit for when you can use what apps. If you are in a situation where you have apps or social media’s or really anything you don’t/can’t have your parents know about DELETE THAT SHIT before September 1st when this comes out. This works through the ““family sharing” shit on your iCloud account so if you can either leave your “family” or use a different Apple ID or something.
If you can’t do that, I personally access Tumblr and discord and YouTube and everything else through my laptop and the Pinterest web browser (yes that’s a thing) so if that’s an option for any of you out there join me.
This may sound hella dumb to some people but like my parents would LOSE THEIR SHIT and ground me if they knew I had tumblr or really anything and that’s the only thing keeping me alive tbh so just be safe out there kiddos.
I just googled this and it’s true holy shit
Oh my fucking god. Oh my god. I can’t let my parents find out about that shit or see my shit. I’d be outed immediately bhhbbbjdjd
The same for me.. I’m going to have to delete the mobile app and just use my computer because I don’t trust them to not limit me using Pinterest to get on here
My laptop is utterly useless so I have n o clue what I’m gonna do sjfjdjfjd
Guys, please, I don’t want you getting into trouble
I love you all STAY SAFE
I have some very important news!
I decided to find out more, and it is possible to hide apps from Family Sharing without deleting them! Apple themselves said how to do it, here you go:
Always be vague. Say I think they’re in today or not until later. If they press say it’s company policy not to give out the schedule. Most companies do have this and even if they don’t how would a stranger know. Don’t give out specifics, they can get people injured or even killed.
At my last job someone came up and asked when “Sarah” was working next. I didn’t tell him and then texted her a description, turns out he was an abusive ex who had been stalking her. Don’t do this shit please.
as the replies to the original tweet said, don’t even acknowledge they work here. they could’ve been going round all the local shops trying to find the one they work at, don’t confirm it for them so they can just stalk the shop until the victim comes in or out. pretend you can’t recognise the description and/or name, and then inform your colleague. chances are it’ll be someone they don’t want to see or don’t properly know. otherwise why wouldn’t they simply have texted them?
That also includes anyone coming in asking about a coworker. No matter how nonthreatening they might seem. Unless the coworker has expressly said that telling this person that information is OK.
Abusive family members can use the same tactics. And there are any number of other reasons the person may not want even that much info given out about them.
* * * This post may trigger paranoia or delusions about surveillance, so it’s totally okay to skip it if it will set anything off. * * *
I just ran across a Youtube channel where the parent of a young adult (YA) with schizophrenia (or it could be schizo-affective disorder? YA is 18-ish) posted surveillance footage from inside YA’s bedroom. YA was either in a hallucination or a delusion where they were doing some kind of martial arts moves and holding their shoes like weapons. It looked very similar to somebody playing pretend, but I’m sure YA was in combat with somebody real to them.
The parent says YA is medicated, but they still sometimes hear voices and often talks about going on adventures with a team that battles aliens or solves mysteries.
The parent says they have a nanny cam monitoring YA’s bedroom for YA’s safety, but I don’t know if YA is aware of the cameras or that the footage of their behavior is being posted for the world to see. (I’m avoiding linking because I don’t want to expose YA any further.)
The parent who posted the video is struggling with mental health issues themselves (depression) and has to keep a household with more than one disabled person afloat, one of which is their spouse (debilitating migraines). Their kids, including YA, are all autistic with comorbidities that complicate their needs. I think YA is the oldest, but I could be wrong.
The parent sounds like they try very hard to understand issues like autism and mental illness, but I feel like them posting YA’s adventure to be a serious breach of trust and privacy.
I don’t have schizophrenia or schizzoaffective disorder myself, but I’ve heard a frequent paranoid delusion you can have is that you’re being monitored by somebody for a million different reasons.
My question:
Does recording and posting videos of YA’s behavior during hallucinations / delusions (potentially) without their knowledge / consent risk intensifying symptoms or triggering new ones?
Whether it is directly perpetuating abuse and violence, enabling it, or failing to recognize the abuse and trauma, it is a failure of adults in their lives. You know what else is a parental and societal failure? Filming kids at their most vulnerable as a way to showcase how “challenging” it is.
You know what’s really important?
Not, as the NAMI spokesperson in the NPR article implies, framing it as a choice between psychiatric beds and intractable violence at home. Because it does not surprise me and my friends that one of the kids’ behavior “didn’t improve” when he got home from inpatient. Because we have witnessed the violence and hostility of inpatient institutions.
Maybe a focus on trauma-informed care and removing sources of abuse and violence in the kid’s life. Maybe that’s also important. Maybe it’s important to fight for community-based services and training providers need instead of more psych beds.
It’s possible to advocate for struggling children with dignity.
You aren’t educating anyone when you do that. You’re pity-seeking and you’re embarrassing the disabled / autistic person unless they gave you permission to mention their diapers. If the person’s development progresses in a way to let them be mainstreamed in school (even if part-time), their peers will be relentless. Yes, the stuff you blog is seen by everyone unless your blog is strictly private.
But most caregivers never friggin’ consider that. (Sarcasm) It’s all about them and how they are affected by living with an autistic / disabled person, right? (/sarcasm)
Stephen Hawking managed to go through the last years of his life without the internet knowing what’s under his trousers. I think you caregivers can afford the same dignity to the autistic / disabled person in your life.
If they want to mention their own diapers, fine. That’s their choice. Stop taking it away from them.
This is not what a free society looks like.
This is not what a free society looks like.
This is not what a free society looks like.
This is not what a free society looks like.
This is not what a free society looks like.
This is not what a free society looks like.
This is not what a free society looks like.
This is not what a free society looks like.
This is not what a free society looks like.
@astrotwilight: If you have nothing to hide then why are you scared, are you a drug dealer?
Yes, absolutely. And a thief. And a homeless person. And a sex worker. And a graffit artist. And an undocumented person. And a person having sex. And a person carrying illegal medication. And, if I’m brave enough, maybe even someone who would break the law not just for my own needs but to change this rotten world where people suffer and starve and are imprisoned and enslaved and deported and murdered in the name of ‘the law’.
How does anyone look at the sentence “Are you sure we’re not watching you” and not feel immediately threatened by that, to the point of DEFENDING it
“If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.” Okay then, take a shower in public where everyone can see you. Or pull your pants down in the middle of the sidewalk to take a crap. Or have sex with someone in public. EVERYONE HAS SOMETHING TO HIDE.
Anonymity and being discreet isn’t always about doing something wrong. Like we all have our own reasons to want to hide things from people lol
Those who are already marginalised and targeted know.
“Don’t hide,you have nothing to fear if you have done nothing ‘wrong’”
Just means “Don’t hide,let us see everything so we can decide on which part of you to label as ‘wrong’.”
maybe the person defending it is confused about the meanings of “we” and “you”. maybe they think they are included in the “we”. but how can they be sure?
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