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Comment Re:Active Bluetooth transmission 0.7 sq mm? (Score 2) 17

by applique on Thursday October 02, 2025 @03:26PM (#65699242) Attached to: Walmart To Deploy Sensors To Track 90 Million Grocery Pallets by Next Year

It would have been amazing, but the paywalled article is saying "The devices — MADE WITH microchips 0.7 square millimetres in size — are embedded in shipping labels stuck to the shrink-wrapped bundles of items trucked from warehouses to stores" So no mention of the actual tracking device's size.

Submission + - Brazil piloting dWallet - project that lets citizens earn money from their data (restofworld.org)

Submitted by applique on Saturday May 31, 2025 @03:30PM

applique writes: Last month, Brazil announced it is rolling out a data ownership pilot that will allow its citizens to manage, own, and profit from their digital footprint — the first such nationwide initiative in the world.

The pilot involves a small group of Brazilians who will use data wallets for payroll loans. When users apply for a new loan, the data in the contract will be collected in the data wallets, which companies will be able to bid on. Users will have the option to opt out. It works much like third-party cookies, but instead of simply accepting or declining, people can choose to make money.

The “dWallet” allows users to deposit the data generated by their daily activities into a “data savings account.” After a user accepts a company’s offer on their data, payment is cashed in the data wallet, and can be immediately moved to a bank account.

In the U.S., a 2019 “data dividend” initiative by California Governor Gavin Newsom never took off. The city of Chicago successfully monetizes government data including transportation and education. If implemented, Brazil’s will be the first public-private partnership that allows citizens, rather than companies, to get a share of the global data market, currently valued at $4 billion and expected to grow to over $40 billion by 2034.

Comment Re:robots.txt (Score 3) 42

by applique on Friday May 23, 2025 @06:23PM (#65400211) Attached to: Google's AI Mode Is 'the Definition of Theft,' Publishers Say

What great choices! Use robots.txt and disappear from the search results, or we'll take your content and use it in such a way that there is no need for people to visit your website, thus robbing you of the chance to make a buck on advertising.

Comment Re:Nothing of value was lost (Score 2) 42

by applique on Friday May 23, 2025 @06:15PM (#65400195) Attached to: Google's AI Mode Is 'the Definition of Theft,' Publishers Say

You're right... It's more like extortion.

Comment Re:fuck off hypocrite (Score 1) 41

by applique on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @12:24PM (#65359293) Attached to: AI Chatbots Are 'Juicing Engagement' Instead of Being Useful, Instagram Co-founder Warns

oh kinda like how instagram forced engagement with Threads by signing people up, integrating it into the app and continually pestering people to use it even when they have denied and turned off all notificatiosn and prompts for your stupid product?

oh you mean kinda like that?? fuck right off you fucking idiot.

He left Instagram in 2018. Threads launched in 2023.

Comment Re:Arkell v Pressdram (1971) (Score 5, Funny) 141

by applique on Monday May 03, 2021 @11:02AM (#61341504) Attached to: What3Words Sends Legal Threat To a Security Researcher For Sharing an Open-Source Alternative

Wikipedia - In the case of Arkell v. Pressdram (1971), the plaintiff was the subject of an article.[68] Arkell's lawyers wrote a letter which concluded: "His attitude to damages will be governed by the nature of your reply." Private Eye responded: "We acknowledge your letter of 29th April referring to Mr J. Arkell. We note that Mr Arkell's attitude to damages will be governed by the nature of our reply and would therefore be grateful if you would inform us what his attitude to damages would be, were he to learn that the nature of our reply is as follows: fuck off."

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