Notices by ar.al🌻 (aral@mastodon.ar.al), page 10

Privacy is not a science, it is a human right

https://ar.al/2019/02/14/privacy-is-not-a-science-it-is-a-human-right/

My response to a dangerous turd of an article by Bart van der Sloot (co-founder of Amsterdam Privacy Week – sponsored by Palantir and Google – and docent teaching “Privacy and Big Data” at Tilburg University)

Mr. Sloot attempts to reframe privacy as a “science” and shame those who work to protect it for having a “pro-privacy agenda” & not being “neutral”. He also calls for “new rules” to disallow such biased behaviour.

‘In healthcare, better data demands better privacy protections’

“How can we explain what is going on here? One possibility is that startup nation advocates pushed hard to ratify the plan as soon as possible, because of its contribution to innovation; these advocates view considerations of privacy as obstacles.”

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/12/medical-database-privacy/

Also on our forum: https://forum.ind.ie/t/in-healthcare-better-data-demands-better-privacy-protections/2590

Google/Facebook are to the health of our human rights and democracy what Philip Morris is to the health of our bodies and what Exxon Mobil is to the health of our habitat.

If you’re a doctor, you do not get sponsored by Big Tobacco. If you’re an environmentalist, you do not get sponsored by Exxon Mobil. If you’re a privacy advocate, a human rights activist, or a democrat, you do not get sponsored by Google, Facebook, or any other surveillance capitalist.

It’s that simple.

#Corruption

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

Thanks to Platinum Sponsors Google and Facebook, Shoshana Zuboff (who helped popularise the term surveillance capitalism) is launching her new book, ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’ in Europe this evening at the Data Protection and Democracy conference in Brussels.

https://www.cpdpconferences.org/events/cpdp2019-opening-night-book-launch-of-shohana-zuboffs-the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-the-fight-for-a-human-future-at-the-new-frontier-of-power

Dear Shoshana, can you name two of the largest surveillance capitalists in the world so we know who to protect ourselves from?

#SurveillanceCapitalism #whitewashing #InstitutionalCorruption

You know what, I don’t care if you’re part of CCC, I don’t care if every one of your friends is CCC, I don’t care if you founded CCC: if your knee-jerk reaction to my calling them out for hosting a Google keynote and whitewashing them by associating their name with them is to tone police me and tell me how disappointed you are in me and to tell me to apologise to them, you can go fuck yourself too.

Loyalty to people is how we got into this mess. Maybe try loyalty to ideals instead.

The cleverest tyrants know that the easiest way for an unjust system to perpetuate itself isn’t to fight, imprison, or kill its freedom fighters, it’s to employ them.

In case you want to help me raise awareness about institutional corruption on birdsite (repost, updated link):

https://twitter.com/aral/status/1089095326005424128

A big thank you to Google and Facebook for protecting our data & democracy & sponsoring @CPDPconferences (Data Protection & Democracy) alongside other similar organisations like @apple, @bitsoffreedom, @EPICprivacy, @mozilla, @privacy_salon & @accessnow.

https://www.cpdpconferences.org

#SurveillanceCapitalism #whitewashing #InstitutionalCorruption #FundingMatters