My latest #podcast interview is with Dr Leonie Tanczer (UCL) the founder of the Gender and #IoT project, which looks at how IoT impacts on gender-based domestic violence and abuse. https://www.jamesmullarkey.com/2021/04/iot-and-technology-facilitated-abuse-with-dr-leonie-tanczer/ #WeDontStream #SuveillanceCapitalism
Lucky to talk to Ania Piotrowska from Nym as part of my #WeDontSteam #Podcast
Nym promises to be the 'better than #Tor' anonymous network - a bold claim but one she says they don't make lightly.
https://www.jamesmullarkey.com/2021/03/the-better-than-tor-anonymous-network-with-ania-piotrowska/ #SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy
Here's a new #podcast I've started which interviews #tech maverick renegades who are pushing back against #BigTech monopolies, #SurveillanceCapitalism and #ClimateChange and more #WeDontStream https://wedont.stream
What's the one thing every web user can do to fight #SurveillanceCapitalism ?
Replace the Google Chrome browser
I've started a new website to send a message to Google that we prefer the internet without them
Please don’t judge people in the UK by who runs the government. They are their worst people ever.
April is Earth month🌎 . Thanks to the strength and bond of the Purism community as well as the resilience of a local economies we have been able to cross the chasm and pursue a better way of contributing to a planet built on purposeful actions. Read more about the why and how: https://puri.sm/posts/purism-cares-about-environmental-impact/
@janci protonmail is only better than gmail as long as your main goal is to not have your data sold to the advertisers.
ProtonMail logged IP address of French activist after order by Swiss authorities
Facebook key tool in global destruction.
Nobody suprised.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58843166
Tedious Facebook double think. Their own research shows instagram is harmful. Their defense seems to be that it's only a teeny bit damaging.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58753525
No patients were ever asked if they minded if there medical records were passed to what became a Google company.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58761324
Starting your own #podcast without big tech surveillance is easy (ish) https://www.jamesmullarkey.com/2021/09/starting-your-own-podcast-without-big-tech-surveillance-is-easy/
“In the high stakes battles between governments and tech companies, human rights are the main casualties,” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/21/internet-freedom-decline-free-speech-study
It’s that wonderful time of year where you get free online talks about inclusive design for a whole 24 hours courtesy of Inclusive Design 24.
In two days: 23rd September, don’t miss out!
"A world with Facebook is going to be crueler, stupider, and more deadly than one without #Facebook" #BoycottFacebook
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/18/facebook-instagram-zuckerberg-teenagers
Prison time for Zuckerberg seems like the least he deserves https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58570353
RIP Sir Clive Sinclair I grew up with the Spectrum (I betrayed it for the Commodore 64 - so sorry)
It's still my ambition to own a working C5 before I snuff it https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58587521
"Back to the Future with RSS!" by Nicky Case https://ncase.me/rss/
RSS is still the best way to consume internet media IMO. Let's hear it for RSS.
"Facebook and its advertisers are ‘panicking’ as the majority of iPhone users opt out of tracking"
https://9to5mac.com/2021/07/14/facebook-tracking-app-tracking-data/
Someone should make a list of all the times social media execs have been called in to explain why they profit from their platforms being cesspits and the zero change that has followed these meetings. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/13/tech-chiefs-called-in-to-no-10-over-racist-posts-to-black-england-players
Our emails shouldn't be spying on us
Latest #podcast episode with web designer Dave Smyth who started the notospypixels.com website to push back against tracking guff in marketing emails. #WeDontStream
https://www.jamesmullarkey.com/2021/07/our-emails-shouldnt-be-spying-on-us-with-dave-smyth/
Digital professional person
Agitation Designer for a slightly better interweb
#NoToChrome #WeDontStream