Stefan A. Mager

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Blog about Digital Sovereignty:
- How to best move between online services
- Which services best to select depending on what's important to you
- How to participate in the value capture of information that was generated by you

Find further information on my website: https://stefanmager.org

Former profiles:
Mastodon: https://mastodon.bayern/@sam

Websitehttps://stefanmager.org/
heise: Big tech dependency: Trump as a booster for digital sovereignty in the EU? https://www.heise.de/en/news/Big-tech-dependency-Trump-as-a-booster-for-digital-sovereignty-in-the-EU-10294992.html What's your opinion? #Nextcloud
Big tech dependency: Trump as a booster for digital sovereignty in the EU?

Should the EU introduce tariffs on US software to promote open source? Not everyone wants to go that far. However, the trade war reveals the costs of dependency.

heise online

Europe needs more visionary politicians like Emmanuel Macron. Thanks for this passionate and inspiring speech about European sovereignty at Sorbonne:

https://youtu.be/CZzt-9SgZns?si=G_l0N5oojtq9NJFA

We need more politicians in Germany that cooperate with Macron on this path. It's time!

REPLAY: French President Macron's speech on the EU • FRANCE 24 English

YouTube

Interested in /e/OS 2024 roadmap?

I just published "Your 2024 journey with /e/OS and Murena (and a V2!)"

https://gael-duval.medium.com/your-2024-journey-with-e-os-and-murena-and-a-v2-daea5c519abb

Your 2024 journey with /e/OS and Murena (and a V2!)

At the heart of /e/OS’s philosophy is a strong belief that individual choices can drive significant change. The decision to use one product over another is a powerful statement about the kind of…

Medium

Did your #Gmail data train the AI Bard? Bard itself claims your emails in Gmail trained the AI, Google denies this, saying Bard made a mistake.

But who is correct, #Google or #Bard 🤔 Check here for more:
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/gmail-trained-bard

The undeniable truth we learn here is: Data is the new oil. It's time to protect yours! 🔒

#PrivacyMatters

Did your Gmail data train the AI Bard?

Bard itself claims your emails in Gmail trained the AI, Google denies this, saying Bard made a mistake.

Tutanota
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I mean, think about this for just a sec: LinkedIn, Twitter, SnapChat, Instagram, the list goes on and on. The VERY first thing these platforms will do after you've installed the app and logged in is to ask you to share all of the information in your address book. Ever wonder how these social networks got so big so fast? It's remarkable how much of their growth is based on convincing everyone it's totally fine and normal to give away all of the contact information given to them by friends, family and acquaintances.
I'm pretty sure Mastodon is the first social network I've been on that didn't immediately ask me to betray all of the people in my address book.
The Breadth of the Fediverse

The Washington Post recently published an op-ed by Megan McArdle titled "Twitter might be replaced, but not by Mastodon or other imitators." The article argues that Mastodon is falling into a common trap for open source projects: building a look-alike alternative which improves things a typical...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Das zweite Standbein meines Amtes ist die Informationsfreiheit. Und auch heute gilt noch, was ich 2019 sagte: „Der Staat ist Ausführungsorgan der Bürgerinnen und Bürger. Er ist nicht ihr Vorgesetzter oder ihr Regent. Und daher ist der Staat den Bürgerinnen und Bürgern Rechenschaft pflichtig. Rechenschaft und Einblick auch in behördliche Vorgänge.“ [10/12]
„Deswegen fordern wir Priorität für sichere IT-Systeme und keine Hintertüren. Deswegen fordern wir Privacy by default und privacy by Design von Anfang an mitzudenken. Deswegen fordern wir: Im Zweifelsfall für mehr Datenschutz, weil die Zahl der Datenerhebungen so stark steigt, dass der Kumulationseffekt unabsehbar wird.“ Das gilt aus meiner Sicht sowohl für staatliche als kommerzielle Überwachung und Datenverarbeitung. [9/12]