Notices by ar.al🌻 (aral@mastodon.ar.al), page 5

Hey, China, The Good Place wasn’t meant to be an instruction manual.

https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/china-tests-social-credit-system-to-score-citizens-behaviors/5c104d8ebe4077635d69bc57

#SocialCreditScore #dystopia

I‘ve now submitted a pull request for mdbook that, if/when merged, will serve web fonts locally and not hit Google’s servers:

https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/mdBook/pull/848

In the meanwhile, if you want to create Google-free #Rust documentation, feel free to use my fork:

https://github.com/aral/mdBook?organization=aral&organization=aral

Your daily reminder that surveillance capitalism touches everything.

The generated book has Google tracking because the Rust mdbook tool comes with Google surveillance by default.

Weigh in on this issues if you care about changing that:

https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/mdBook/issues/847

https://github.com/datprotocol/book/issues/20

What happens when you watch my BBC Ideas video on Surveillance Capitalism or if you embed it on your own site?

That’s right… you get tracked! And you expose your visitors to third-party tracking.

Isn’t #SurveillanceCapitalism fun?

:arthurfist:

https://ar.al/2018/12/10/surveillance-capitalism-at-the-bbc/

If you want to raise awareness about #SurveillanceCapitalism, you can do worse than to retweet this on birdsite:

https://mobile.twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1072140635224842240

There’s something similar about all the Linux Format magazine contributors in the latest issue but I just can’t put my finger on what it is…

Company A makes a product used by 60% of the world.

This, rightly, worries people. When Company C’s product (used by 3% of the world) switches to using the core of Company A’s product folks suggest people use Company B’s product (used by 5% of the world).

Plot twist: Company B gets ~all its money (hundreds of millions of $) from Company A.

Welcome to the sewer of monopoly, institutional corruption and surveillance capitalism we lovingly call The Web circa 2018.

Stats: https://www.statista.com/statistics/268254/market-share-of-internet-browsers-worldwide-since-2009/

He sees you when you’re sleeping
He knows when you’re awake
He knows if you’ve been bad or good
He’s Mark Zuckerberg.

GDMR: this one simple regulation could end surveillance capitalism in the EU

https://ar.al/2018/11/29/gdmr-this-one-simple-regulation-could-end-surveillance-capitalism-in-the-eu/

#SurveillanceCapitalism #EU #Freedom #HumanRights #Democracy #Ethics #Technology #Regulation

Google accused of GDPR privacy violations by seven countries

https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/27/18114111/google-location-tracking-gdpr-challenge-european-deceptive

#SurveillanceCapitalism #Google #GDPR

If you missed the broadcast this morning, you can watch our recording of Inside Story on how to regulate surveillance capitalists like Facebook and Google and replace them with ethical alternatives at your leisure at https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestory/2018/11/facebook-forced-comply-privacy-laws-181128171228326.html

#SurveillanceCapitalism #EthicalTechnology

I’m on Inside Story on @AlJazeera talking about how we can move beyond surveillance capitalism.

Watch online now at https://www.aljazeera.com/live/

Looks like there are re-runs at 07:30 GMT, and 11:30 GMT: https://www.aljazeera.com/watch_now/epgschedule.html

Right, they just announced they’re moving to News Hour so it looks like our Inside Story has been bumped :(

We had a couple of technical issues but I think it went well overall and I feel I managed to get my points across.

Airs at 17:30 GMT. You can watch it on the live steam at https://www.aljazeera.com/live/

I’ll be on Inside Story on Aljazeera today to discuss how we can regulate the abuses of surveillance capitalists like Facebook/Google and how we can create an alternative to surveillance capitalism where we fund ethical technology owned and controlled by individuals from the commons for the common good.

We will be recording at 13:30 GMT and it will air at 17:30 GMT.

https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestory/

You can watch it on the live stream at: https://www.aljazeera.com/live/

Ethical design isn’t about trying to reform billion-dollar corporations like Google and Facebook that have fundamentally unethical business models, it’s about designing organisations with ethical business models that, therefore, can create ethical products and services.

https://ind.ie/ethical-design

#EthicalDesign #EthicalTechnology

Wow, Reuters, 1984 was meant to be a warning, not an instruction manual, you absolute muppets.

#SurveillanceCapitalism

Submitted my first (tiny) bug fix for Gnome Web. Feels good to be able to help with something I use everyday :)

There are a couple of other improvements I want to make to the bookmarks feature that will hopefully make adding bookmarks (and especially working with tags) easier.

Update: Michael’s on it (thank you!) and it looks like this can be fixed in Gnome Web :)

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/issues/495#note_371414

Also see: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/issues/625#note_119714907