FreedomBox#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.
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
"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.
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
"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.