Targeted Advertising Is Ruining the Internet and Breaking the World
The Surveillance Threat Is Not What Orwell Imagined
https://time.com/5602363/george-orwell-1984-anniversary-surveillance-capitalism/
Please check out @techlore 's AMA on Reddit:
Ad Tech Could Be the Next Internet Bubble
https://www.wired.com/story/ad-tech-could-be-the-next-internet-bubble/
Debunking the science of advertising
https://thecorrespondent.com/collection/the-nonsense-of-online-advertising
Is privacy dead?
https://www.ft.com/content/c4288d72-a7d0-11e9-984c-fac8325aaa04
What if We All Just Sold Non-Creepy Advertising?
We’re Outsourcing Our Self-Awareness to Silicon Valley
https://newrepublic.com/article/160748/amazon-halo-outsourcing-human-self-awareness-silicon-valley
The Problem With “Privacy”
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/11/covid-19-privacy-big-data-surveillance
Is Your Keyboard Spying on You?
If you are a Facebook user in Illinois, please claim your $345. Facebook allegedly used photo face-tagging and other biometric data without users' consent.
Digital privacy — can we reclaim it?
https://www.ft.com/content/5aa33f07-11ef-461e-80e8-be9b50f9c879
In an attempt to work more effectively, we’ve accidentally deployed an inhumane way to collaborate.
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/e-mail-is-making-us-miserable
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Are big techs threatening OpenStreeMap @openstreetmap by contributing to it?
Lessons from a year of Covid
https://www.ft.com/content/f1b30f2c-84aa-4595-84f2-7816796d6841
Why brilliant ideas can be overlooked
https://www.ft.com/content/a98bc707-eeb5-4270-b184-a916513c0a35
During the pandemic, Newton worked from home wisely
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My latest for HackerNoon on how easy it is to achieve privacy online. Fear of tech doesn't have to be an obstacle to internet privacy.
Privacy advocate, amongst other things.
https://pronoun.is/he
email/matrix: freddy [at] privacytools [dot] io