James Mullarkey @jamesmullarkey@w3c.social

If I lived in/around London, I would be at this event with bells on. If you’ve not yet heard of surveillance capitalism, this would be the perfect introduction, with the woman who coined the term:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/surveillance-capitalism-shoshana-zuboff-and-misha-glenny-tickets-53865843187

(Hat-tip to @adamprocter )

#Manyverse is an Android app for the #Scuttlebutt social network:

https://www.manyver.se

Unlike traditional social networks, Scuttlebutt has no servers. Members store all their personal data on their own computer or phone, and connect directly to their friends' devices in order to update statuses. Scuttlebutt also works offline.

It's currently available on @fdroidorg and Google Play. (Note it's still in beta and many features are missing.)

#AlternativesAtoZ #SSB #OffTheGrid #SocialNetworks

404 → 302

A simple gesture for an evergreen Web.

What if links never died? What if we never broke the Web? What if it didn’t involve any extra work?

It’s possible. And easy.

Just make your 404s into 302s.

Thoughts, suggestions, and contributions welcome:

https://4042302.org

https://mastodon.ar.al/media/l-ma3skWzHNYvNQZYAk

Since I care about ethical alternatives to surveillance machines like Amazon Echo or Google Home, I've voted for #mycroft Mark I in the Internet of Arduino challenge ( https://www.arrow.com/arduino-voting ) from Arrow and Indiegogo, where they stand to gain $50.000 if they win (they're among the three finalists).
A warning to people in the US, though: Arrow's privacy policy says that they will use collected data from US users for advertizing, whereas outside the US they do it only with express consent.

@jamesmullarkey Here is the post on #HumaneTechnology forum:

https://community.humanetech.com/t/list-of-human-centered-design-resources/3242

Here's another Amazon product to keep out of your home: Ring security cameras.

"Ring has a history of lax, sloppy oversight when it comes to deciding who has access to some of the most precious, intimate data belonging to any person." https://theintercept.com/2019/01/10/amazon-ring-security-camera/

We've been at it every year since 2004, and 2019 will be no different.

https://t.co/Yj7PQZ51S0 tweeted by @Firefox

This comic by Jeff Lofvers (http://donthitsave.com) reminds me of @aral's excellent video, "Surveillance capitalism has led us into a dystopia."

Watch it here: https://ar.al/2018/12/10/surveillance-capitalism-at-the-bbc

New blog post: Why does decentralization matter?

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/12/why-does-decentralization-matter/

Don't use Google Chrome even if you're not worried about google (but you should), it is a terrible browser that consistantly hogs more resources than non-blink/webkit based browsers.

It makes me feel sick when I see it takes over 50% of browser usage.

Some accounts to follow if you are interested in digital privacy:

@switchingsocial
Pointers to privacy-conscious alternatives to various commercial products/services

@torproject
Official Mastodon account of the Tor Project

@fsf
Updates from the Free Software Foundation

@privacylab
Community project at Yale

@exodus
Android privacy issues (FR/EN)

@freedomboxfndn
Home-hosting network services

#FollowFriday

This is why we must be on Mastodon! #Facebook #NoPrivacy #DataLeaks
https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-scandals-2018/

Due to an internal error, Amazon recently sent 1700 private Alexa voice files to an unauthorized customer.
It’s now time to sue them using GDPR!

https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Amazon-reveals-private-voice-data-files-4256015.html

#SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy
/via @hypolite

The New York Times reports Facebook gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify, Netflix, Apple, Yandex, Yahoo and others far more access to users' data than previously admitted, including access to private messages:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/facebook-privacy.html

There is never going to be a better time to #DeleteFacebook, the violations are only going to get worse.

If you know someone who wants to try alternatives and needs a simple non-technical guide, try sending them this:

https://switching.social/ethical-alternatives-to-facebook/

(via @bobstechsite)

For those last-minute gifts, this guide from @mozilla can help you think about and shop for safe, secure products.

You can also easily filter by level of creepiness (if only more things let you filter out creepiness):

https://t.co/yDTnfKQjri tweeted by @Firefox

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and its COO Sheryl Sandberg, and its public relations people, and its engineers have lied repeatedly, exhaustively. They have lied so much they've lost track of their lies, and then lied about them.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/20/facebook_disaster/