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

Facebook and the battle for truth

https://www.tortoisemedia.com/audio/facebook-and-the-battle-for-truth/

How our personal data is exploited in unexpected ways

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p09blhfw/how-our-personal-data-is-exploited-in-unexpected-ways

Data Brokers Are a Threat to Democracy

https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-data-brokers-are-a-threat-to-democracy/

Your data is in deep danger

https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-your-data-is-in-deep-danger-20210412-2vfg3ntibzc3fa2lirdzjoff4q-story.html

The UK Is Trying to Stop Facebook's End-to-End Encryption

https://www.wired.com/story/uk-trying-to-stop-facebook-end-to-end-encryption/

Why Targeted Ads Are a Disaster for Democracy

https://lithub.com/why-targeted-ads-are-a-disaster-for-democracy/

The more someone knows about us, the more they can influence us. We can wield democratic power only if our privacy is protected.

https://bostonreview.net/science-nature-politics/carissa-veliz-power-privacy

Delete Google from Your Life Now

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=94ENNlF_05k

Why You Get Ads For Stuff You Just Talked About

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Auh8zcFfbjU

Happy Easter!

The Home Office is preparing another attack on encryption

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/uk-encryption-facebook-home-office-nspcc

The cookie is dead. Long live the cookie.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-05/google-puts-lid-on-cookie-jar-and-ends-an-internet-era

Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism, and what we need to do to reclaim the more benign impacts of the digital revolution.

https://www.ft.com/content/fe6cebe4-18e1-4f3f-9ab0-bd4e99b705fb

Should Google’s Ad Market Be Regulated Like the Stock Market?

https://www.wired.com/story/google-ad-market-regulated-like-stock-market/

Since I Met Edward Snowden, I’ve Never Stopped Watching My Back. After receiving a trove of documents from the whistleblower, I found myself under surveillance and investigation by the U.S. government.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/edward-snowden-operation-firstfruits/610573/

The sum of our clickstreams is not an objective measure of who we are, but a personal portrait of our hopes and desires

https://aeon.co/essays/why-big-data-is-actually-small-personal-and-very-human

Banning Facial Recognition Misses the Point.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/20/opinion/facial-recognition-ban-privacy.html

Trapped in a global surveillance society, we’ve lost sight of what privacy actually means. To reclaim its value, we must reconsider what we want to protect.

https://theprivacyissue.com/privacy-and-society/problem-with-privacy