#Facebook is notifying users that their personal data was mined. Many users did not consent to sharing their data, but their friends did.

The lesson: #privacy is environmental. If you endanger your data, you also endanger your friends' data.

#DeleteFacebook #WhyWeNeedFreedomBox

The recent #Facebook scandal might not lead to any changes: "Unless our social norms change, Facebook and other sites probably won’t, either."

We want to change social norms around #data by giving you a box you can control. Help us. #WhyWeNeedFreedomBox

https://nyti.ms/2HlSlHw

Failed by Facebook, We’ll Return to the Scene of the Crime. We Always Do.

The trade-off we make for free online content, social sharing and convenience is the willful relinquishing of our privacy. It’s part of the deal.

"We could arrange for [digital] services to be provided to us over very inexpensive server computers we purchase ourselves...Instead, we have been sold on the convenience of behaviour collection," say Eben Moglen and Mishi Choudhary.

#WhyWeNeedFreedomBox

https://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toi-edit-page/convenience-vs-freedom-facebook-cambridge-analytica-debacle-shows-how-social-media-companies-imperil-democracy/

Convenience vs freedom: Facebook-Cambridge Analytica debacle shows how social media companies imperil democracy

By Eben Moglen and Mishi Choudhary With the news that Cambridge Analytica swiped the personal data of more than 50 million Americans from Facebook for use in making electoral propaganda targeted by individual ‘psychographic’ personality typing,...

On Sunday, the Chinese Communist Party announced plans to abolish presidential term limits—enabling President Xi to rule indefinitely.

Chinese government #censors blocked online criticism of the plans.

This is #WhyWeNeedFreedomBox. #DecentralizeTheNet

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-43198404 https://mastodon.social/media/O9JUFaAjYu1et6dHhXs

Why China is censoring Winnie the Pooh again

Terms like "don't agree" and "re-election" are also banned after a proposal to keep Xi Jinping in office.

"I view #privacy not so much as the ability to keep your personal details away from prying government agencies or companies. Privacy is the right to choose which entities access information about you," says Times technology reporter.

#WhyWeNeedFreedomBox

https://nyti.ms/2CaQEwY

Limiting the Influence of Tech When You Report on It

How Natasha Singer, a tech reporter at The Times, uses tech when she chronicles the industry’s effect on education, privacy and our health.

The New York Times