What Google knows about you may be a shock: https://www.cnet.com/how-to/what-google-knows-about-you-may-be-a-shock-heres-how-to-download-and-manage-or-delete-your-activity/
To protect your info you can either regularly delete your activity, or you can quit for good and leave Google behind. Here's how: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/how-to-leave-google-gmail/
We ❤️ open source. Your Tutanota client is fully published as open source software. 😍 We even built our own captcha instead of using Google's Captcha. Read here why: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/open-source-email/
Pro-tip: creating better tools to protect the interests of enterprises isn’t going to magically result in better tools to protect the interests of individuals.
If you want to earn a billion dollars making enterprise software, sure, go ahead, waste your life that way, but don’t pretend you’re working to protect human rights or democracy.
Credit ratings based on your social media accounts. What could possibly go wrong? #privacy #surveillance
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmpgp9/credit-scores-could-soon-get-even-creepier-and-more-biased
System76 will start designing and building its own #Linux laptops beginning January 2020.
Amazon confirms police can keep Ring doorbell videos forever
https://www.engadget.com/2019/11/20/amazon-confirms-police-keep-ring-doorbell-videos-forever/ #bigtech #privacy #security
The recording of my talk today on the future of Internet regulation at the European Parliament is now available to watch.
Starts at 01:14:00 at https://web-greensefa.streamovations.be/index.php/event/stream/the-future-internet-regulation
#DigitalServicesAct #SurveillanceCapitalism #Mastodon #SmallTech #GDPR #EU
Since it's Men's day, it's a good opportunity to talk about how our society promotes aggressive toxic overly manly man behavior.
If you were a 'puny child' who goes to school, there is a 99% chance you were compared to other manly men, derided, taunted and made to feel unwanted.
I wish there was someone who had told me as a child, "It's OK to be puny, vulnerable and introverted. You do you."