“In what world can an organisation seriously think it is all right to run a prominent cancer event, bringing together world experts, while also taking sponsorship from a company whose product has caused millions of cancer deaths worldwide? Absolutely shocking.”
Ooh, ooh, ooh, I know the answer to this one: in the tech world!
#AccessNow #RightsCon #CPDP #NordicPrivacyArena #FOSDEM #etc #privacyWashing #tech #humanRights #institutionalCorruption
Wasn’t allowed to ask the question so tweeted it instead (Twitter has its uses sometimes):
Facebook just presented a keynote titled Privacy at Facebook at #NordicPrivacyArena.
Here’s the question I would have asked if I had been allowed to: “Privacy at Facebook is an oxymoron; it is a contradiction of terms. Facebook’s business model is based on violating privacy…”
“Will you be nice to Facebook and Google at the afternoon sessions?” — organiser to me at #NordicPrivacyArena
(I asked the transport minister of Finland and the Mozilla rep hard questions at their sessions.)
Me: “I don’t think that’s the right question to ask. Would you be nice to Exxon Mobil at an environmental protection conference?”
Aral Balkan