Violation of privacy by proxy is still violation of privacy.| Aral Balkan
Yesterday, I asked folks following me on my Mastodon1, if they’d help me blow up my Raspberry Pi Zero W: A story in three toots… Earlier this week, I got to test Site.js on the Pi Zero and saw that it runs flawlessly. Using ngrok, I exposed the Pi to the harsh and cruel Interwebs and then – for the fun of it – decided to see what would happen if lots of folks hit it at the same time.| Aral Balkan
Say “hello” to Small Technology Foundation. Today, Laura and I want to introduce you to Small Technology Foundation, where we will be continuing the work we started at Ind.ie five years ago. In those five years, we’ve developed a strong understanding of the problem (surveillance capitalism) and we’ve been iterating on solutions to it. Our work led us to leave the UK, move to Sweden, and finally, last year, to settle in Ireland.| Aral Balkan
You… yes you. Who should you thank for Facebook’s Libra? “One of the UK’s leading privacy researchers” University College London The DECODE project And, if you’re an EU citizen who pays their taxes, You. Surprised? Don’t be. None of this was unforeseen Today, the EU acts like an unpaid research and development department for Silicon Valley. We fund startups, which, if they’re successful, get sold to companies in Silicon Valley.| Aral Balkan
The Al Jazeera segment from yesterday. Source (Warning: The video is embedded here without trackers. If you watch it on Al Jazeera you will be tracked, including by Facebook). Yesterday, I was interviewed on Al Jazeera news about the Macron-Zuckerberg meeting (Warning: the linked page on Al Jazeera includes privacy-eroding trackers, including Facebook.)1 in which they apparently decided on a framework of “co-regulation.” This is not what I mean when I talk about the need to regulate surve...| Aral Balkan
“And my timelines lit up in a rare unity, the left and right, the rich and the poor, the healthy and the sick, all pleading and nodding and saying, yes, yes please, please do that.” - Adam Dalliance Well, it’s official, everybody hates Facebook. But why we hate it matters. As does what we intend to do about it. For more good reasons to hate Facebook and other people farmers, watch my talk, The Camera Panopticon.| Aral Balkan