Notices by صفر (charlyblack@mastodon.social), page 2

"What’s at stake in the July 5 #SaveYourInternet vote: The text, explained"
by Julia Reda

https://juliareda.eu/2018/06/article-11-13-vote/

this paper from 2010 is an example of how the warning signs and red flags about surveillance + information technology have been continuously raised since long ago,

it's a perfect description of surveillance capitalism ante litteram, 4 yrs before the term was coined

"Panopticon.com: Online Surveillance and the
Commodification of Privacy"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15506878jobem4604_6

@Antanicus not to mention the 'cult' aspects...

from researches @ TU Dresden

"DEDA - tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation toolkit"
app project https://github.com/dfd-tud/deda

paper https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3206004.3206019

from a research perspective it would be very interesting to see a microblogging platform identical to mastodon/pleroma but where every account can only post a limited amount of times in 24h (say 10 for example)...
to analyze how, beyond the trivial bypassing of the restriction by people setting up multiple accounts (which should equilibrate to a new threshold after a while), the content, the patterns and the dynamics of interactions would change

" In Rakhine State, near the border with Bangladesh in the country’s western region, the Myanmar authorities have for years systematically persecuted and discriminated against the Rohingya, a mainly Muslim minority. There, Rohingya are denied their human rights to nationality, education, health care, and even to move freely."

by Amnesty International + SITU

https://mapping-crimes-against-rohingya.amnesty.org/

1 - Competition and Cooperation
https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:19821/

2 - The Geopolitics of Open
https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:19819/

3 - Guerrilla Open Access
https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:19825/

4 - The Commons and Care
https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:19817/

5 - Predatory Publishing
https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:19827/

6 - The Poethics of Scholarship
https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:19815/

7 - Humane Metrics/Metrics Noir
https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:19823/

http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2018-06-25/apple-google-facebook-microsoft-technology-ethics-and-privacy/9893740

"from privacy and addiction management to AI, how will we know these companies have lived up to their promises?"

"Like privacy, "ethical" can be stretched and moulded to mean anything you like. Norms must be debated and chosen. There must be real consequences for failing to follow them."

"You don’t have a right to believe whatever you want to"

https://aeon.co/ideas/you-dont-have-a-right-to-believe-whatever-you-want-to

"Thomson Reuters Selling US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Access to Data"

https://medium.com/@privacyint/thomson-reuters-selling-ice-access-to-data-e4e7e6230614

the data-lake smells like rotten fish and toxic waste, and you are navigating with a crumbling raft made of precarious software

it's May 25th in this timezone!

here a picture of the GDPR fighting the Data-hoarder Panoptes

the always sharp Corey Mohler (Existential Comics) has a neat summary:

« Watching Elon Musk seamlessly moving from "the free market solves everything" to "trade unions sow social division among classes" and "we need a watchdog to discredit lying journalists" is like watching capitalism decay into fascism in real time on twitter. »

[the Existential Comics webcomic is great too, icymi https://existentialcomics.com/]

it should be clear at this point that the fight against government surveillance and corporate surveillance IS THE SAME FIGHT

if civil liberties groups & organizations are engaged in fighting surveillance technologies for their potential abuse by a government but fall short to question the power that corporations have to deploy surveillance tools in the first place.. it may backfire and turn out to be just a gift for the libertarian tech-overlords

the programming and linux #zines by Julia Evans are lovely,
I've seen a bunch of comics by her circulating here on Mastodon, like the one about grep in the picture, so a link to her website is due 😀

https://jvns.ca/

and here a link to support her by buying some zines if you are interested https://gumroad.com/b0rk

dirty money talk:
financially speaking the price to opt-out of surveillance capitalism comes down to supporting the open source & ethically designed services you use,

this also applies to #Mastodon,
so be like (*•̀ᴗ•́*)و ̑̑ and support your local instance or the project as a whole if you can!

it can be something as little as 1$ per month and it already makes a big difference if many do it

fuel to the Fediverse!

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@Angle here there's an extensive comparison and evaluation of possible alternatives https://thatoneprivacysite.net/email-section/
I personally went for fastmail and tutanota, but the choice is really tailored to your specific needs and threat model