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‘Facebook while black: Users call it getting ‘Zucked,’ say talking about racism is censored as hate speech’

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/04/24/facebook-while-black-zucked-users-say-they-get-blocked-racism-discussion/2859593002/

“Facebook is not looking to protect me or any other person of color or any other marginalized citizen who are being attacked by hate speech…They are just looking to protect their bottom line.”

‘How Big Tech’s cozy relationship with Ireland threatens data privacy around the world’

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/24/ireland-data-privacy-1270123

“Ireland’s failure to safeguard huge stores of personal information looms larger now that the country is the primary regulator responsible for protecting the health information, email addresses, financial records, relationship status, search histories and friend lists for hundreds of millions of Americans, Europeans and other users around the globe.”

‘That mental health app might share your data without telling you

https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/20/18508382/apps-mental-health-smoking-cessation-data-sharing-privacy-facebook-google-advertising

“Potentially advertisers could use this to compromise someone’s privacy and sway their treatment decisions…”

‘Why You Can No Longer Get Lost in the Crowd’

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/opinion/data-privacy.html

“Obscurity bridges this privacy gap with the idea that the parts of our lives that are hard or unlikely to be found or understood are relatively safe… And until lawmakers, corporate leaders and citizens embrace obscurity and move to protect it, your freedom and opportunities to flourish will be in jeopardy.”

Just released Indie Web Server 8.1.1: introduces a development-time reverse proxy feature

https://ar.al/2019/04/18/indie-web-server-8.1.1-reverse-proxy-local-mode/

The post has an example of using it with Hugo to test over https://localhost with functional live reload.

‘Communities at risk: How security fails are endangering the LBGTIQ+ community’

https://privacyinternational.org/blog/2782/communities-risk-how-security-fails-are-endangering-lbgtiq-community

“This enables governments and companies to construct profiles of them, using these highly sensitive details to make inferences or predictions that may or may not be accurate. Increasingly, profiles are being used to make or inform consequential decisions, from credit scoring, to hiring, to policing.”

This site now runs on Indie Web Server

https://ar.al/2019/04/17/this-site-now-runs-on-indie-web-server/

🐹🥜

#IndieWebServer

Also, as Indie Web Server natively supports the 404→302 method for an evergreen web, all I had to do was create a file called 4042302 with the domain the previous version of the site is on (https://2018.ar.al) and all old links still work. e.g., ar.al/notes/the-nature-of-the-self-in-the-digital-age/

Just switched my personal web site https://ar.al from nginx to Indie Web Server.

Took a few seconds.

What’s Indie Web Server? Check out a two-minute introductory video here: https://ar.al/2019/04/16/set-up-a-live-static-personal-web-site-in-seconds-with-indie-web-server-8.0.0/

#IndieWebServer

‘Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police’

“Technology companies have for years responded to court orders for specific users’ information. The new warrants go further, suggesting possible suspects and witnesses in the absence of other clues. Often, Google employees said, the company responds to a single warrant with location information on dozens or hundreds of devices.”

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/13/us/google-location-tracking-police.html

Introducing Indie Web Server 8.0.0: install the server and start serving a secure static personal web site in literally seconds

Video demo + short post: https://ar.al/2019/04/16/set-up-a-live-static-personal-web-site-in-seconds-with-indie-web-server-8.0.0/

I hope it makes your lives easier. This is one of the earlier pieces of the puzzle in the Hypha project.

(It took two weeks and a couple of false starts but Version 8.0.0 introduces native binaries for Linux and macOS. Production use via startup daemons is supported only on Linux platforms with systemd.)

‘Discrimination’s Digital Frontier’

“An ad system that is designed to maximize clicks, and to maximize profits for Facebook, will naturally reinforce these social inequities and so serve as a barrier to equal opportunity.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/facebook-targeted-marketing-perpetuates-discrimination/587059/

Also on our forum: https://forum.ind.ie/t/discrimination-s-digital-frontier/2675

‘Are you serious Mr Zuckerberg?’

“Facebook is seeking yet again to apportion blame for its failures elsewhere - this time on governments for failing to regulate. Yet Facebook continually obstructs regulatory reform with its powerful lobbying capabilities , appeals against regulatory judgments and then investigates its critics.”

https://privacyinternational.org/blog/2773/are-you-serious-mr-zuckerberg

Also on our forum: https://forum.ind.ie/t/are-you-serious-mr-zuckerberg/2657

‘Privacy’s not an abstraction’

“Privacy for marginalized populations has never been, and will never be an abstract. Being surveilled, whether by private actors, or the state, is often the gateway to very tangible harms–violence in the form of police brutality, incarceration, or deportation. And there can be more subliminal, insidious impacts, too”

https://www.fastcompany.com/90323529/privacy-is-not-an-abstraction

Also on our forum: https://forum.ind.ie/t/privacy-s-not-an-abstraction/2652

‘State websites are aiding a disgraceful silent surveillance’

“Of ‘special concern‘ is that, by cross-referencing such data to the vast trove of personally-identifying information Google also holds from services like Gmail, Android apps, and Search, Google can ‘easily associate web activity with the identities of real people’, the report warns.”

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/state-websites-are-aiding-a-disgraceful-silent-surveillance-1.3832911

Also on our forum: https://forum.ind.ie/t/state-websites-are-aiding-a-disgraceful-silent-surveillance/2648

‘Trading privacy for survival is another tax on the poor’

“Personal data is used to deny low-income people access to resources or opportunities, but it’s also used to target them with predatory marketing for payday loans or even straight-up scams.”

https://www.fastcompany.com/90317495/another-tax-on-the-poor-surrendering-privacy-for-survival

Also on our forum: https://forum.ind.ie/t/trading-privacy-for-survival-is-another-tax-on-the-poor/2641

‘Tech giants do not face enough competition, new report says’

https://privacyinternational.org/news/2763/tech-giants-do-not-face-enough-competition-new-report-says

“As for forcing the big companies to provide access to their customers' data troves to other companies, we urge significant caution. Personal data is not just any other economic asset. Privacy and the protection of personal data are fundamental human rights.”

Also on our forum: https://forum.ind.ie/t/tech-giants-do-not-face-enough-competition-new-report-says/2634