James Mullarkey @jamesmullarkey@w3c.social

What happens when a society prizes shareholder value over everything else? You get surveillance capitalism.

Learn more about how tech giants profit off our instincts—and the data attached to them—in the latest episode of IRL: https://t.co/XDWtmILnKI tweeted by @Firefox

@t0k @Purism @privacylab this is certainly an issue with most news outlets. Journalists have no control over the profit schemes of their overlords and I still think it's important to try to reach readers beyond the FOSS / digital privacy choir.

watch how @diggity helps Kashmir Hill avoid the #BigTech giants using tools like RiseUp.net services and @torproject -powered OnionShare: https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-life-it-was-hel-1831304194

"Critics of the big tech companies are often told, 'If you don’t like the company, don’t use its products.' I did this experiment to find out if that is possible, and I found out that it’s not—with the exception of Apple."

What happened when a reporter blocks blocked Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple for a week.

Featuring:
- Onionshare
- Jitsi
- Purism laptop
- Nokia phone
- physical maps, calendar, and books
- cash

https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-life-it-was-hel-1831304194

facebook splitting up the word “sponsored” to sneak past adblockers

Kashmir Hill continues cutting out #BigTech: "I do have a computer, one that I can use for the final two weeks of the experiment: a Librem 13, made by a company called Purism that is fiercely opposed to the tech giants..." #SurveillanceCapitalism
https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-apple-out-of-my-life-it-was-devastating-1831063868

Was excited about this talk almost more than any other at #fosdem.

@ExodusPrivacy@twitter.com is doing amazing work in identifying surveillance patterns in native apps on Android.

And their learnings are set up to be dev-ready, easily used in your own projects.

Donate to support them!

There's no end in sight to Facebook's atrocities.

Facebook paid kids to install its VPN which granted "near limitless access" to their phone activity. https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas

Facebook just hired a handful of its toughest privacy critics

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/facebook-just-hired-a-handful-of-its-toughest-privacy-critics/

*worriedly checks self* Oh, phew, you mean the ones who were up for sale and never really its critics to begin with.

Also see: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/101488404889934170

#SurveillanceCapitalism #WhiteWashing #Corruption Via @foggy

I have now completely moved from my #iPhone to a smartphone with /e/. I must say that I'm terribly happy and proud to work with such a great team!
Appart some glitches/missing things all working fine! And UX better than #iOS
#Privacy #Android #opensource
https://e.foundation

GDPR complaints say Amazon, Spotify, and others are breaking EU law - https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/18/18188174/gdpr-complaints-streaming-amazon-apple-spotify-netflix

Unsealed court documents reveal that Facebook knew kids were being tricked into spending thousands of dollars on their parents' credit cards https://boingboing.net/2019/01/18/slot-machines-vs-parents.html #casinocapitalism ##deletefacebook #babywhales #parenting #Business #facebook #Games #Post #law

#LocalBookshops treat their staff well, pay their taxes and don't track their users.

They're the most ethical way of buying physical books, they have selections curated by human beings, and if they don't have a book they can order it in (often within 24 hours).

You can find your local bookshops here:

USA
https://www.indiebound.org

UK
https://indiebookshopweek.org.uk

France
https://www.librairiesindependantes.com/

Canada
http://www.findabookstore.ca

Australia
https://www.indies.com.au

#AlternativesAtoZ #DeleteAmazon #Books

Facebook routinely tracks users, non-users, and logged-out users outside its platform.

Here’s a video about what Privacy International found…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GMwaHqTQpQ

#SurveillanceCapitalism