Freddy @freddy@social.privacytools.io

How Tesla Will Become a Monopoly

https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=vcu2YUCa0lA

I'm Not a Reporter. But I'm Verified as One on Twitter

https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-im-not-a-reporter-but-im-verified-as-one-on-twitter/

I need to start blogging again. Haven't done it in a while.

Podcast: Privacy is power

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/privacy-is-power

@Tutanota see also the recommendations at @privacytools !

Cancel Amazon Prime

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/amazon-prime-day-dystopian/619265/

@thenewoil I remeber seeing it on the site early on 🙂 We seem to be the start of a lot of people's journey towards online privacy...

Collective data rights can stop big tech from obliterating privacy

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/05/25/1025297/collective-data-rights-big-tech-privacy/

@thenewoil https://watchyourhack.com/ is the site I always recommend to beginners. If you want some more advanced stuff then move onto https://thinkprivacy.ch/ and finally https://privacytools.io/.

@krock Indeed. Hence, I see a lot of merit in newspaper/radio/tv/bilboard advertising for products that are accessible such as DDG. For less accessible products, we need to use them, and contribute to the project (on GitHub or via donations) in order to get them to a point where the wider public would use them.

On algorithmic culture and the creation of coercive “fun”

https://reallifemag.com/i-write-the-songs/

@krock advertising is largely pointless, in my opinion, unless you are targeting a very local audience. What I'd advise any FOSS brands/products to do is take a writing course, or buy a book on writing (for example: To Be Clear by Philip Collins). Then, you have learnt a skill - and you have the potential to write a post that will do well on HN/reddit etc... which could easily expand your audience.

Privacy is possible! "The problem for a company like DuckDuckGo isn’t making people care about #privacy; it’s convincing them that privacy is possible. Many consumers (...) have thrown up their hands in resignation"

https://www.wired.com/story/duckduckgo-quest-prove-online-privacy-possible/

@robert I would boost this, though I doubt there are many avid cricket followers on here besides you, myself and perhaps a few others.

@danarel Something like https://fosshost.org/ might be worth checking out?

Insecurity is the internet’s original sin, yet officials are fighting to undermine the encryption technologies that protect our personal information.

https://thereboot.com/the-assault-on-internet-privacy-why-data-encryption-is-essential/

Taking data from patients in England was so unpopular in 2014 it had to be shelved. Now it’s happening without the scrutiny

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/04/tories-nhs-data-grab-pandemic

The data economy depends on violating our right to privacy on a massive scale, collecting as much personal data as possible for profit.

https://thereboot.com/why-we-should-end-the-data-economy/

How the UK's Online Safety Bill threatens Matrix

https://matrix.org/blog/2021/05/19/how-the-u-ks-online-safety-bill-threatens-matrix

@info_activism same energy: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/20/opinion/location-data-national-security.html