Freddy @freddy@social.privacytools.io

My updated article on why privacy matters:

https://write.privacytools.io/freddy/why-privacy-matters-even-if-you-have-nothing-to-hide

How SEO is ruining everything you love about being online.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/12/how-seo-is-gentrifying-the-internet

Privacy... is an experience which is performed and therefore does not pre-exist in particular designated spaces. Privacy, then, is dependent on context and intimacy; it is negotiated between the people who participate in a communication process.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/whose-data-is-it-anyway/

This is as true of privacy as it is of politics, or any other subject. Always try and understand the other side.

First you don’t hear other views. Then you can’t trust them. Your personal information network entraps you just like a cult

https://aeon.co/essays/why-its-as-hard-to-escape-an-echo-chamber-as-it-is-to-flee-a-cult

A historian believes he has discovered iron laws that predict the rise and fall of societies. He has bad news.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/12/can-history-predict-future/616993/

We need to stop the data economy, before humanity pays the ultimate price

https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/blog/we-need-to-stop-the-data-economy-before-humanity-pays-the-ultimate-price/

Surveillance, Privacy and COVID-19

https://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2020/04/76-surveillance-privacy-and-covid-19.html

(I understand the irony of this being a blogspot link).

Yes, you do have something to hide

https://web.archive.org/web/20140525004902if_/http://safeandsavvy.f-secure.com/2013/11/27/yes-you-do-have-something-to-hide/

"Getting people to value privacy is like trying to get somebody raised on Burger King to value their heath. They won't know how important it is until they have that first stroke."

Possibly the best thing to come out of #lounge:privacytools.io

On the off chance that anyone lives in Gibraltar, please purchase the google.gi domain.

The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/08/the-truth-is-paywalled-but-the-lies-are-free/

We overshare information; information that can be used by commercial companies, by political parties and by governments. Carissa Véliz is a philosopher at Oxford University and author of Privacy is Power. She argues that the harvesting of data is undermining liberal democracy.

https://philosophy247.org/podcasts/the-future-of-privacy/

Fuck anyone who condones this shit. Absolutely disgusting.

https://nitter.net/WilliamTurton/status/1346940440935870472

Happy new year everyone!

The death of privacy

https://www.newstatesman.com/2020/02/slouching-towards-dystopia-rise-surveillance-capitalism-and-death-privacy

They have argued about other things too, I might add. However that doesn't seem to be going very well either...

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-deal-vote-boris-johnson-eu-trade-b1779874.html

Quick reminder that the Brexit deal that Britian has spent the past 4 years arguing about mentions Netscape browser and Mozilla Mail.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55475433

Controversial ‘spy tech’ firm Palantir lands £23m NHS data deal

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/controversial-tech-firm-palantir-23m-nhs-data-deal/?utm_source=tw

FFS