National Health Service (NHS) UK website riddled with surveillance under misleading information and consent.

The Irony: talking about "European Digital Identity Regulation" while requiring people to accept "terms and conditions" dictated solely by a third party. I'm on vacation, and this is a rabbit hole - so Alice, let's jump in and click that terms and conditions link! [1/n] (edit: link to the page https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/electronic-identification)

"Like all websites these days this one uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience including personalised advertising. Please tell us that you're OK with that - AND confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor Learn More"
"I am not Anish Kapoor and I am happy with Cookies"
Funny, but this is still illegal and results in invalid consent.

Just finished reading "The Internet Con: How to seize the means of computation" by @pluralistic . Surprisingly, a lot of the book is about interoperability and making it happen *legally*. For me, this hit really hard because of how involved my work is around both. Key takeaway for me is that if we want to create a better tech society, we need to open up stuff with interoperability to drive innovation and competition rather than just regulate big tech expecting them to behave.

Finally arrived! Excellent book by @pluralistic that is a must read for the modern Internet economy.

iOS17 introduces “Namedrop” which allows people to swap contact details when holding their devices near each other. Finally after 20 odd years have we made digital cards to exchange. Only if there was an open specification to do this with any device, Apple or not. Or even simpler, generate a dynamic QR code that anyone can scan as a fallback?

Google's new Takeout interface (see image). Good stuff: allows storing the data in other non-Drive services (Box, Dropbox), periodic exports, granular selection of data, good coverage of common formats. Bad stuff: still no actual portability through interoperability - you cannot do service-to-service transfer.

N26 banking app prompt asking for consent to share and transfer data with "partners" in the US. Title is "we care about privacy" but the text clearly states the transfer would be to a jurisdiction with lesser protections.