PhyN🐰Ster
«#DigitalVegan's are deliberative about the hardware and software they use and the data they consume and share [..] an ethical computing environment helping its users #avoid the tech giants [..] proof of their monopolistic information power»
[ReT 🤹 10 Aug 2020]
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/technology/blocking-the-tech-giants.html
I Tried to Live Without the Tech Giants. It Was Impossible.

As lawmakers debate whether Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon are monopolies, a reporter recalls her attempt to avoid interacting with the companies.

The New York Times
Dec 3, 2022 at 10:43amWeb
Show threadPhyN🐰SterMar 9, 2023
«Through the metaphor of "digital diet", this book approaches social media and smartphone overuse as a consumption problem, as a failure of markets to meet our real needs rather than stoke contrived demands»
https://digitalvegan.net
Digital Vegan Book

Show threadPhyN🐰SterMar 20, 2023
«cellphone use is only protected as CPNI when it is being used as a telephone [..] Internet use, websites visited, search history or apps used are not protected CPNI because the company is acting as an information services provider not subject to these laws [..] carriers can share and sell this data because they’re not explicitly prohibited from doing so»
#OptOut
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/03/why-you-should-opt-out-of-sharing-data-with-your-mobile-provider/
Why You Should Opt Out of Sharing Data With Your Mobile Provider – Krebs on Security

Show threadPhyN🐰SterApr 7, 2023
«a blow to #democracy [..] Studies show that voting #decreases and corruption increases in communities without strong news outlets [..] ability to track people has turned out to be an #unbeatable advantage for the online ad industry, which has grown to a $540 billion market worldwide [..] limited #evidence to suggest that the efficiency and efficacy gains to advertisers and publishers of this #system outweighs the societal impact»
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/06/opinion/online-advertising-privacy-data-surveillance-consumer-quality.html
Opinion | Online Ads Are Serving Us Lousy, Overpriced Goods

Surveillance-based advertising is not only destroying democracy; it also pitches us lousy, overpriced goods.

The New York Times
Show threadPhyN🐰SterApr 25, 2023
«4,000 #DataBroker companies make up a global industry worth more than $200bn [..] #OptOut of technology requires deep engagement with the online communities that build alternatives [..] Opting out of #surveillance possible for more people [..] is extremely difficult, expensive and likely to make you look like a criminal» #PsyOps
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/columns/60888/an-internet-with-less-surveillance-could-be-possible.-this-is-how
An internet with less surveillance could be possible. This is how

Countries are banning TikTok over security concerns about Chinese snooping. We would do better to look closer to home—at the threats to digital privac...

Show threadPhyN🐰SterMay 5, 2023
«Over the past 12 months, 85% of #consumers said they deleted a phone app, 82% #OptOut of sharing personal data, 78% avoided a particular website and 67% decided against making an online purchase due to #privacy concerns [..] people have become increasingly worried about their privacy in recent years [..] the argument that most people are #agnostic, or worse, apathetic, about their privacy is on weak footing»
https://iapp.org/news/a/most-consumers-want-data-privacy-and-will-act-to-defend-it/
Most consumers want data privacy and will act to defend it

The IAPP's Müge Fazlioglu looks at the rise in consumer concerns about data privacy.

International Association of Privacy Professionals
Show threadPhyN🐰SterJun 30, 2023
«Konzern höhlt #Privatsphäre aus, um Aufmerksamkeit algorithmisch auszubeuten [..] gegen #Datensammelei und Tracking stark machen [..] nicht damit abfinden, weil Milliarden Menschen das tun»
https://netzpolitik.org/2023/meta-legt-ki-systeme-offen-ich-fuehle-mich-begafft/
Meta legt KI-Systeme offen: Ich fühle mich begafft

So genau wie nie verraten Facebook und Instagram nun, wie und wofür sie unsere Klicks überwachen. Die neue Transparenz von Meta beantwortet unser Autor mit Transparenz über seine Gefühle. Ein Kommentar.

netzpolitik.org
Show threadPhyN🐰SterJul 17, 2023
«Sharenting nennt sich dieses übereifrige Teilen von digitaler Privatsphäre [..] knapp 40 Prozent der Eltern stellen ihre Kinder öffentlich im Internet zur Schau [..] Mit den neuen KI-Tools geht Identitätsdiebstahl viel schneller, besser und glaubwürdiger»
https://www.derstandard.at/consent/tcf/story/3000000178890/sharenting-mama-papa-bitte-beschuetzt-meine-virtuelle-privatsphaere
> Stellt niemals Kinderfotos ins Netz!
Sharenting: "Mama, Papa, bitte, beschützt meine virtuelle Privatsphäre"

Das Teilen von Kinderfotos ist riskant, speziell in einer Zeit, in der KI-Systeme im Mainstream angekommen sind. Warnungen dürfen nicht weiter verhallen

DER STANDARD
Show threadPhyN🐰SterAug 4, 2023
«Cult of the Dead Cow [..] giving people the ability to #OptOut of the #DataEconomy [..] a THING that will once again change the world, with the style and chaos that only the herd can bring» https://gizmodo.com/cult-of-the-dead-cow-launches-veilid-encryption-project-1850699803 #DigitalVegan
Cult of the Dead Cow Wants to Save Internet Privacy with a New Encryption Protocol

At a time when threats to digital privacy are at an all-time high, one of the web's most formidable hacktivist groups may offer a solution with "Veilid."

Gizmodo
Show threadPhyN🐰SterAug 31, 2023
«since 2015, Twitter [..] #NSFW analysis software makes use of the biometric identifiers and #biometric information of any individual included in each photo [..] forthcoming video and audio call service [..] #collecting biometric data and employment #history»
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/x-nee-twitter-wants-to-collect-your-biometric-data-and-employment-history/
X (née Twitter) wants to collect your biometric data and employment history

X to collect more user data as Musk teases plan to offer video and audio calls.

Ars Technica
Show threadPhyN🐰SterNov 1, 2023
«most difficult to understand is that the informative value of technical data is difficult to predict [..] apps collect this type of information [..] often without any type of user consent [..] crowdsourcing carried out by millions of people [..] feed the enormous, dark machinery of global marketing and advertising»
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2023-10-30/people-have-no-idea-how-smart-devices-spy-on-us-and-reveal-information-about-our-homes.html
‘People have no idea’: How smart devices spy on us and reveal information about our homes

Pioneering research has discovered how smart devices talk to Android apps and each other to share data that allows them to know who enters a home, when, and how much they earn

EL PAÍS English
Show threadPhyN🐰SterApr 24, 2024
«while user #consent is usually required [..] tracking takes place widely and usually without users’ #awareness or explicit agreement» https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b6a86de2-37be-4c00-817d-34171454d5bf
Regulatory technologies for the study of data and platform power in the app economy - ORA - Oxford University Research Archive

Tracking, the large-scale collection of data about user behaviour, is commonplace in mobile apps. While some see tracking as a necessary evil to making apps available at lower prices by showing users personalised advertising and selling their data to third parties, tracking can also have highly

Show threadPhyN🐰SterJan 28, 2025
«Welt wird zunehmend von einigen wenigen Konzernen kontrolliert [..] Kommunikation, Informationen und Dienstleistungen [..] digitale Abhängigkeit, aus der es kaum ein Entkommen gibt [..] Wechsel zu #Alternativen erfordert nicht nur den Willen, sondern auch die **Bereitschaft, Bequemlichkeit gegen Verantwortung einzutauschen** [..] an der Zeit, die Bequemlichkeit hinter uns zu lassen und aktiv nach Alternativen zu suchen, diese zu entwickeln, zu #fördern und zu nutzen»
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/digitale-abhaengigkeit-ein-aufruf-zum-widerstand-gegen-die-tech-monopole/
Digitale Abhängigkeit: Ein Aufruf zum Widerstand gegen die Tech-Monopole

Die Macht von Tech-Giganten beeinflusst Gesellschaft und Politik. Es ist Zeit für digitalen Widerstand und die Rückgewinnung unserer digitalen Souveränität.