James Mullarkey @jamesmullarkey@w3c.social

While organisations like Panoptykon Foundation exist there is hope of pushing back the likes of Google and Facebook from their relentless attacks on democracies and our communities.

They have an English website worth checking out
https://en.panoptykon.org/

Panoptykon Foundation was founded by a group of lawyers in Poland to protect fundamental rights and freedoms in the context of fast-changing technologies and growing surveillance.

#SurveillanceCapitalism

Although these issues might seems quite EU focused we've already seen other parts of the world adopting aspects of GDPR locally so I think much of what is discussed is relevant to people living outside the EU. Major EU legislation could cause serious damage to #AdTech firms pushing #SurveillanceCapitalism if done right

PS - I live in the UK now outside the EU :(

New #Podcast episode: Karolina Iwańska is a lawyer at Panoptykon Foundation and has been leading their investigation into the online advertising industry’s practices related to #data protection and #privacy.

https://www.jamesmullarkey.com/2020/12/we-can-sustain-online-publishing-and-uphold-privacy-with-karolina-iwanska/ #WeDontSteam #SurveillanceCapitalism #AdTech #GDPR #DataProtection

Imagine Google Docs without the spyware...

It's called @cryptpad and I'm super grateful to @ansuz for taking the time to talk to me for my #Podcast #WeDontStream
https://www.jamesmullarkey.com/2020/11/imagine-google-docs-but-without-the-spyware-with-aaron-macsween/ #SurveillanceCapitalism #Encryption #Privacy

ICYMI Have a listen to my new #podcast which interviews #tech maverick renegades who are pushing back against #BigTech monopolies, #SurveillanceCapitalism and #ClimateChange and more #WeDontStream https://www.jamesmullarkey.com/we-dont-stream/

Episode 2 of my new #podcast talks to Finn Brownbill,
Head of Marketing at @Mojeek #Mojeek is a #SearchEngine with a fully independent search index (No Google or Bing here) and is privacy by design. https://www.jamesmullarkey.com/2020/06/building-the-worlds-alternative-search-engine-with-finn-brownbill/ #WeDontStream #SurveillanceCapitalism

The first guest on my new #podcast is @sam formerly the Tech Lead at #Cliqz

Sam is an anti-tracking pioneer who worked on the privacy focused Cliqz browser (a fork of #Firefox) and Cliqz search engine.

https://www.jamesmullarkey.com/2020/06/anti-tracking-and-peer-to-peer-technology-with-sam-macbeth/

Wedont.stream #WeDontStream
#p2p #DatProtocol #NoToChrome #SurveillanceCapitalism

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

OK Beeb: BBC voice assistant will learn regional accents - The BBC, an organisation I fund through a mandatory licence fee, further develops their #SurveillanceCapitalism offering.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52891155

Signal is better than WhatsApp so why aren’t you using it?

https://www.jamesmullarkey.com/2020/04/signal-is-better-than-whatsapp-so-why-arent-you-using-it/

#SurveillanceCapitalism #DeleteFacebook

We’re forced to use #Google and #Facebook but we don’t have to like it

A post I wrote for a UK charity publication

https://www.civilsociety.co.uk/voices/james-mullarkey-we-re-forced-to-use-google-and-facebook-but-we-don-t-have-to-like-it.html

#SurveillanceCapitalism #techforgood #NoToChrome

New post from me -
Charity Digital podcast: Ethics, technology and the #charity sector

https://www.jamesmullarkey.com/2020/03/charity-digital-podcast-ethics-technology-and-the-charity-sector/

#SurveillanceCapitalism #Tech4Good

To comply with #GDPR get rid of #GoogleAnalytics

https://www.jamesmullarkey.com/2020/01/to-comply-with-gdpr-get-rid-google-analytics/

#SurveillanceCapitalism #PECR #DataProtection

#PokemonGo is a Google project to demonstrate large scale puppet on a string manipulation for profit.

This article is so one sided it reads as propaganda #SurveillanceCapitalism

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-49731283

A brutal year: how the 'techlash' caught up with Facebook, Google and Amazon

Not nearly brutal enough - are things really changing? #SurveillanceCapitalism

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/28/tech-industry-year-in-review-facebook-google-amazon#maincontent

This is great but we need this in Europe too. These are global issues.

#SurveillanceCapitalism #BoycottAmazon

https://social.coop/@FreeScholar/103313172620747631

UK government is experimenting with #FacialRecognition on its own citizens

Police are testing their Stasi equipment on us without consultation, discussion or scrutiny #ICYMI #SurveillanceCapitalism #Surveillance

https://www.jamesmullarkey.com/2019/07/uk-government-is-experimenting-with-facial-recognition-on-its-own-citizens/

Signing off now for #DigitalClimateStrike

http://jamesmullarkey.com and http://notochrome.org both with banners up.

#SurveillanceCapitalism including Google - a big part of the #ClimateCrisis

#ClimateStrike #NoToChrome

#Fediverse peeps:

If I want to block several #Google #crawlers from my website is it excessive/pointless to use:

1. #htaccess
2. #robots.txt and
3. <meta name> in the header?

Need to send a clear message to their bots that they ain't welcome.

Belt / braces / another belt approach seems like it's making things crystal. #bots

Thanks :)

#SurveillanceCapitalism

Hey guys!

Need some help getting Oil out of the ground?

The nice people at Google can help because we are #BenevolentTechOverlords

https://cloud.google.com/solutions/oil-and-gas-equipment-monitoring-and-analytics

#SurveillanceCapitalism #NoToChrome