New video about Signal📽️

Signal's President @Mer__edith on reclaiming privacy in the age of AI

Watch it here 🍿👉 https://aboutsignal.com/videos-podcasts/videos/the-individual-in-the-machine-meredith-whittaker-on-reclaiming-privacy-in-the-age-of-ai/

Organized by @publix @algorithmwatch

#signal #signalapp #signalmessenger #AI #privacy

Today, we are remembering David Graeber, who passed away five years ago.

“Nothing could conceivably be more violent than to tell us—and particularly our young people—we are forbidden to even dream of a peaceful, caring world.”

https://crimethinc.com/ShockofVictory

Instead of using AI to produce more stuff faster, where are the hot takes to work smarter and build less?

Like, instead of throwing more spaghetti at the wall, maybe we could make a delicious lasagna instead?

And then we can at least eat the lasagna because it turns out that wall spaghetti is kinda gross.

Look, Jeff Atwood, it is difficult to take you seriously when you write authoritatively on a subject you clearly don’t understand.

GDPR doesn’t mandate cookie notices.

Cookie notices are *malicious compliance* by the surveillance-driven adtech industry.

If you’re not tracking people, you do not need a cookie notice, period.

If you’re only using first-party cookies for functional reasons, you do not need a cookie notice, period.

If you’re using third-party cookies to track people – i.e., if you’re sharing their data with others – then *you must have their consent to do so*. Because, otherwise, you are violating their privacy. Even then, the law doesn’t mandate a cookie notice.

How would you conform to EU law without a cookie notice if your aim wasn’t malicious compliance?

You would not track people by default and you would make it so they have to go your site’s settings to turn on third-party tracking if, for some inexplicable reason, they wanted that “feature”.

Boom!

No cookie notice necessary.

What’s that?

But that would destroy your business because your business is founded on the fundamental mechanic of violating people’s privacy?

Good.

Your business doesn’t deserve to exist.

Because the real bullshit here isn’t EU legislation that protects the human right to privacy, it’s the toxic Silicon Valley/Big Tech business model of farming people for data that violates everyone’s privacy and opens the door to technofascism.

https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/115120175033311443

Today, it has been 25 years since we received the first printing of our first book, Days of War, Nights of Love.

It remains a powerful testament to what people are able to accomplish when they can imagine life beyond the constraints of capitalism and hierarchy.

Over a dozen printings later, we still have it available:

https://crimethinc.com/books/days-of-war-nights-of-love

Back in the year 2000, as we struggled to finance the project, we debated whether to make 1000 copies or 1500. One collective member finally resolved the debate by declaring that he would pay for the additional 500 himself, whatever it took, and give them out on street corners if need be.

We sold out of the whole printing in a month. It funded many subsequent projects.

#KPN waarschuwt voor de privacy- en beveiligingsrisico's van Meta AI in #WhatsApp, zowel voor particulieren als bedrijven ⚠️

Om de risico's te beperken wordt o.a. een overstap naar #Signal aanbevolen: https://www.kpn.com/beleef/blog/wat-is-meta-ai-in-whatsapp

Blijf veilig en privé, stap over op Signal 💙 https://signal.org/install