Had a very full lap last night, it was like harmonic convergence or something 🐈 🐈 🐈

#catsofmastodon

Two key questions I always advise people to reflect on when they’re making new tech tools or platforms:

1. What happens if this succeeds? Does it make the internet better? The world better?
2. Who is harmed by the changes this causes? What would you choose to do if you loved them?

Every single choice gets easier if you know those answers.

RIP the man who was the absolute incarnation of XKCD's "one random dude holding up the entire internet". You may never have heard of David Mills, but your entire goddamn world depends on what he did.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Mills

On the one hand, there's that Douglas Adams quote about irrationally hating technologies that appear after the age of 35

On the other hand, when you're over 35, you're old enough to remember that they're re-using the same lie that they told you, two tech hype cycles ago

The UK Met Police have announced plans to use facial recognition tech to identify shoplifters – the new boogeyman to legitimise a explosion of biometric surveillance.

At the same time as the #DataGrabBill weakens the regulatory framework by scrapping the position of the Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner and the Surveillance Camera Code.

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrab #GDPR #DPDI #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67149222