Freddy @freddy@social.privacytools.io

Why we’re suing over the £23m NHS data deal with Palantir

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/why-were-suing-over-the-23m-nhs-data-deal-with-palantir/

Say hello to a new Crypt.ee

https://blog.crypt.ee/say-hello-to-a-new-cryptee

Disqus, the dark commenting system

https://supunkavinda.blog/disqus

If you live in the UK, please sign this petition to ensure that it is not required for encryption services to establish backdoors to enable data access .

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/554027/

#DeleteFaceBook is trending on Twitter. Yesterday LastPass was trending for removing their free option. Privacy is trending. Does this make us trend setters?

“All digital infrastructure is used to shape human behavior in the direction that will be successful in the marketplace,”

https://hbr.org/podcast/2019/06/surveillance-capitalism

Should We End the Data Economy?

https://hbr.org/podcast/2020/11/should-we-end-the-data-economy

Treat social media like email and search engines

https://www.ft.com/content/a9ac257e-4897-11e8-8ae9-4b5ddcca99b3

A myth has been made: a tale of wolves on Wall St; a pack of principled amateurs biting the legs of greedy financial giants and bringing them down. But almost everything you think you know about wallstreetbets, GameStop and Robin Hood is wrong.

https://www.tortoisemedia.com/audio/fairy-tale-finance/

If the internet is addictive, why don’t we regulate it?

https://aeon.co/essays/if-the-internet-is-addictive-why-don-t-we-regulate-it

Predictive policing could help prevent crime. But do we want a future where computer oracles and spies track us from birth?

https://aeon.co/essays/do-we-really-want-to-use-predictive-policing-to-stop-crime

Yes, your data is used to sell you shoes. But it also may be used to sell you an ideology.

https://www.vox.com/recode/22250897/facebook-data-privacy-collection-algorithms-extremism

Life After Gmail: Why I Opted for a Private Email Server

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-08-06/you-should-use-a-private-email-server-google-makes-it-hard

Beware bad habits and mad ideas rushed through under pressure:

> Some innovations developed at speed during this crisis will endure... In 1798, William Pitt the Younger proposed Britain’s first personal income tax to... take “the burdens of the country, by a great temporary exertion”. The precedent allowed a later prime minister, Robert Peel, to reintroduce income tax in the mid-19th century. This time, it stuck.

https://www.ft.com/content/dedf1fc1-d917-44c9-8b96-87669b1a41e2

Do we underestimate the importance of privacy?

https://bridges-to-the-future.simplecast.com/episodes/do-we-underestimate-the-importance-of-privacy

Privacy and digital ethics after the pandemic

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-020-00536-y