Notices by jim (jim@campaign.openworlds.info), page 3

Thinking about VPN's do you pay for one? Do you understand how/if it works as advertised?

VPN - a Very Precarious Narrative - Dennis Schubert

A very long article about commercial VPNs, their marketing strategies, and the truth behind their privacy and security claims.

https://schub.io/blog/2019/04/08/very-precarious-narrative.html

Tweet from ABC News:

EXCLUSIVE: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg tells @ABC News' @GStephanopoulos that the company is "looking into" a report that its users' data is publicly available via Amazon Cloud Services. https://t.co/44v6yA4NV4 https://t.co/aWbVHBzLcj

#ABC

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1113754494196695041

Street battle: the activists fighting to save their neighbourhood from the tech giants

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/03/facebook-amazon-google-big-tech-activists-new-york-berlin-toronto-

"Facebook, Google and Amazon have not just colonised the internet: their hubs, campuses and offices are taking over huge sections of cities around the world. But campaigners from New York to Toronto and Berlin are fighting back"

Solidarity from Berlin to SF to Toronto to Rennes to NYC! <3

#FuckOffGoogle #FuckOffGoogleAndCo #FuckOffAmazon

When this eBook store closes, your books disappear too https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47810367

Last RT. I participated in crowdfunding #FreedomBox some years ago. Time and again, looking at the sticker I received and put in an external hdd, I thought about what happened to the project. I am happy to see that it is alive and kicking.

Talent is universal, but opportunity is not. Tanitoluwa Adewumi https://cubicgarden.com/2019/03/24/talent-is-universal-but-opportunity-is-not/

#allhailrobocopyright

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvpWQkbyW2A

#article13

BREAKING: privacy complaint shows that the online ad industry has known all along that profiling plus massive data sharing does not comply with data protection laws: https://fixad.tech/february2019/ #fixadtech

Electric scooters popular with ride-sharing services can be hacked to suddenly accelerate or brake
https://youtu.be/ASygXa8UVYk
via https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/12/18220635/xiaomi-m365-electric-scooter-hack-accelerate-brake

Good essay from @schneier@twitter.com on Blockchain and Trust
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/02/blockchain_and_.html

"However, this trend towards social engineering and "nudging" individuals towards "better" behavior is also part of the Silicon Valley approach that holds that human problems can be solved once and for all through the disruptive power of technology."

"In that sense, perhaps the most shocking element of the story is not the Chinese government's agenda, but how similar it is to the path technology is taking elsewhere."

https://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/27/opinions/china-social-credit-score-creemers/index.html

Government cancels Brexit ferry contract with no-ship firm https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/09/government-cancels-brexit-ferry-contract-with-no-ship-firm #Transportpolicy #Watertransport #EuropeanUnion #Transport #Politics #Brexit #UKnews

calling for #support #russia #anarchist #repression #torture #arrest #politics #putin

"For reminder : currently in Russia (and the recently annexed territories, such as Crimea) there are several penal cases against anarchists under « terrorist » charges. Here are some of them : the « Network » case, the case against anarchist Vyatcheslav Lukichev, the case against anarchist Kirill Kuzminkin, the case against Crimean anarchist Evgeniy Karakashev."

https://enoughisenough14.org/2019/02/03/russia-new-repression-against-russian-anarchists/?fbclid=IwAR0ufFzEa1xy-2zx4kGOlaPIrs6BRK_ikYZczkMaGxjAYS71Eyxi5l7wViw

RT @themikepan@twitter.com

"Why do I need a 4Ghz quadcore to run facebook?" This is why. A single word split up into 11 HTML DOM elements to avoid adblockers.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/themikepan/status/1093035372186034176

just watched the presentation about mastodon by @craigmaloney. i can totally recommend it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4amvKNpJoM