TL;DR: Very few people advocating #Māori Data Sovereignty are walking the talk. It's oh so hard and expensive to do the right thing and oh so cheap and easy to use those shiny #datafarm alternatives.

Tautoko Dr Karaitiana Taiuru For This Important but depressing research.

Noting that even he decided to post this on LinkedIn. #selfreferential

Māori Perspectives of Data Jurisdiction, Online Identity and Privacy
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/m%C4%81ori-perspectives-data-jurisdiction-online-identity-dr-karaitiana-hcpcf?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&utm_campaign=share_via

Māori Perspectives of Data Jurisdiction, Online Identity and Privacy

This research is a follow-on from my previous article about Data Jurisdiction and why many Māori Data Sovereignty Principles are no longer relevant, in particular this article will look at jurisdiction. The findings of this research show that most Māori (individuals, whānau, hapū, marae and Iwi) wit

I just published a new #Disintermedia blog piece;

https://disintermedia.net.nz/hey-activists-dont-be-a-mailchump

It's another old favourite from the original CoActivate version of the blog, encouraging activists and other community groups to stay in control of our mailing lists, instead of outsourcing it to for-profit companies that may well use it to #DataFarm our members and supporters.

Hey Activists, Don’t Be a MailChump!

We don't need DataFarmers to send email for us

Disintermedia

@Salty
> Presumably something like this

That's a good metaphor for DataFarming; any revenue model for online services that involves getting large number of people onto a platform, gathering data about them, and selling it (or the use of it) to third-parties. Any online platform funded by ads is probably a #DataFarm.

#DataFarming

@jonoabroad

Chains is yet another #DataFarm:

"Meta and Threads collect a lot of data. Including but not limited to health and fitness, financial info, contact info, purchases, location and identifiers. While Threads does not currently show ads or sponsored posts, the company says ads will be how it monetizes the site. For marketers and advertisers, joining Threads seems obvious when considering the mass data collection and analysis currently being done by Meta."

#LeeYoung, 2023

https://archive.is/wzSju

Unfortunately I just found another #datafarm which may contain your publicly-facing information. The good news is that it seems (I'm still confirming to be sure) that the opt-out process is rather straight forward, so here you go:

1) Go to https [://] gladiknow [.] com
2) Find your name
3) Scroll to the bottom of the page and click "OPT OUT/REMOVE MY DATA"
4) Scroll to the bottom of that page and click "REMOVE MY INFORMATION"

"Committee hearings that would normally be open to the public will continue to be accessible via the Parliament website and committee Facebook pages."
https://www.parliament.nz/en/get-involved/features/update-on-public-access-to-new-zealand-parliament/

Why is the NZ government giving gratis promotion, on it's own website, to a corporate-owned #datafarm?

Update on public access to New Zealand Parliament - New Zealand Parliament

New Zealand has moved to COVID-19 Alert Level 2. Please visit covid19.govt.nz for more information.The following measures will be in place on the parliamentary precinct to help limit the spread of COVID-19, and protect members of the public and those who work on the precinct.

#MeWe is just centralized, proprietary #Hubzilla. Why is that attractive to anyone looking for replacements for the #datafarm platforms? A more user-friendly UI I guess?
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=iUZMtNS54ZU
An Overview of the User Interface for MeWe - The Next-Gen Social Network

MeWe is a fast growing alternative to Facebook with many similar features minus the inserted adverts and algorithmic tweaks that Facebook loves. MeWe respects privacy and control of its users. My video

There need to be clear rules around the placing of political ads online, especially around election times. Ads on #datafarm platforms etc that are funded by a political party need to be clearly labeled as such, and a copy needs to be publicly available, either on their own website, or an official channel on another platform. Ads designed to discourage supporters of political opponents from turning up to vote are anti-democratic, and if not banned entirely, must at least be publicly audited.
A core assumption of #democracy is that governments and "experts" can be wrong, that laws and policies sometimes need to be overturned. Discovering when that's the case absolutely depends on the ability of fringe groups to express and campaign on dissenting views, all of which will seem abhorrent and obviously wrong to *someone*. Governments forcing monopolistic #datafarm platforms to censor fringe views is a threat to an emerging global democracy. We must prevent this, not applaud it.
But some people are arguing that commons projects ought to be paying people "market rates" and I'm not sure that's equitable or sustainable either. Do we really want to emulate thd unjust distribution of the wage and salary budget in #datafarm corporations? I'd argue that a big chunk of the generous salaries they pay to developers is hush money, so they don't ask any awkward ethical questions about how their work affects people's lives, or refuse to develop abusive or violent technology.
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