A Guardian’s op-ed on big data highlights the threat corporate surveillance poses not only on an individual level, but to democratic culture as a whole.
There are two kinds of privacy under threat in the emerging economy, where everyone is almost always connected to the internet […]
“All pages could support rich layers of conversation” – #Annotation is now a web standard https://hypothes.is/blog/annotation-is-now-a-web-standard/ #webstandards
This is great news: a web standard for annotations - in true #hypertext spirit
“All pages could support rich layers of conversation” – #Annotation is now a web standard https://hypothes.is/blog/annotation-is-now-a-web-standard/ #webstandards
Ian Bogost, in this piece on The Atlantic, expands the notion of “precarity” from the economic into the technological sphere - the instability and unpredictability of (technological) objects:
The frequency with which technology works precariously has been obscured by […]
Ethan Zuckerman, director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT and describing himself as part of the actors who established the ad-based web, investigates how and why advertising became the backbone of the fast-spreading web and the negative consequences it has brought along - making it “The […]
The PRISM Break project curates a comprehensive list of privacy-minded free and open source software projects that
Help make mass surveillance of entire populations uneconomical! We all have a right to privacy, which you can exercise today by encrypting your communications and ending […]
The Creative Reaction Lab questions the fashionable “design thinking” mindset and instead focuses on truly inclusive participation in design processes. This FastCoDesign article describes how
the Creative Reaction Lab starts from the premise that design’s greatest […]
NB. This is a two-years old post, only kept for archive purposes. The technology stack at either Twitter or Uberspace has since changed, and the described issue should no longer prevail - making this workaround obsolete. Ever since I migrated my website to HTTPS (and you should too!), I noticed […]
I don’t use Facebook nor Chrome for the very reasons this project advocates, so cannot put it to the test myself, but Data Selfie by Hang Do Thi Duc and Regina Flores Mir looks like a great tool to bring closer to the user just how much social network providers know about […]
“I have read and agree to the Terms” is the biggest lie on the web. We aim to fix that.Terms of Service; Didn’t Read (ToS;DR) is a site that dissects the terms and privacy policies nobody ever reads and evaluates services based on these. While the site […]
The blog post “What should you think about when using Facebook?” by Data Scientist Vicky Boykis is a thorough - yet likely not even close to exhaustive - summary of various ways how Facebook tracks, monetises and manipulates its users. It has rightfully gained quite some visibility over […]
We are living in the age of data. “What It Takes To Truly Delete Data” by Mimi Onuoha tells the story of hard drive disposal to illustrate three key facts about data: “All data […] is stored on a physical device somewhere.” As long as this is not a single device under […]
DuckDuckGo, the provider of a search engine that doesn’t track its users (see my earlier blog post), did a study about how users believe the “Private browsing” feature of their browser works:
Despite Private Browsing being one of the most commonly known and used […]
Tantek Çelik comments on the successful crowdfunding of micro.blog:
This is a huge step forward for the creation of an alternative to Twitter, in numerous ways, some obvious, many more subtle.Reading through the project’s goals and philosophy, this truly […]
This article by Fabien Girardin is an invitation to “imagine another version of the Internet respectful of people’s attention and time”:
In the current version of the Internet, digital artifacts connect individuals into feedback loops that drastically compress time […]
“Browsing Histories” is a journalistic illustration of how even the most barebone meta data trail created while using the internet gives away identity, interests, and more:
[…] the electronic communication transactional records, or the communication data – such […]