Notices by Ecologia Digital (josemurilo@ecodigital.social), page 3

#mustread on #california #consumer #privacy act

"on its face, it was not a frontal attack on Silicon Valley.. the proposal took aim at the so-called 3rd-party market for #personaldata.
Under the proposed law, every California consumer could demand her digital dossier, showing what categories of #personalinformation the company had collected... not only name and address but also your #browsing history, your #fingerprints, your #facescans or your #location data."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/magazine/facebook-google-privacy-data.html

Statement on #Ayahuasca

"we urge regulatory authorities in the countries where the #Brazilian ayahuasca religions are currently arriving to demonstrate tolerance and grant these groups the necessary degree of legal freedom and respectful engagement for them to continue evolving into safe and responsible contributors to today’s #multicultural and globalizing society."

http://chacruna.net/statement-on-ayahuasca/

"The solution to these #platforms’ #monopolies is to make the software, algorithms and protocols on which they run #open and free for anyone to use, build on and share. In addition, all users, competitors and innovators should have universal, equitable access to the platforms. Doing this is the only way to give everyone a stake in our #digitalfuture."
https://theconversation.com/facebook-and-google-need-fewer-controls-not-more-95237

Não se trata de uma lei sobre a internet ou sobre tecnologia --trata-se de um novo pacto sobre a utilização de dados pessoais, que parte de um conceito contemporâneo de confiança das pessoas na infraestrutura de tecnologia da informação: somente um ambiente de respeito à privacidade, de transparência do tratamento de dados e de empoderamento do cidadão permitirá o livre fluxo de dados, tão necessário para os serviços da sociedade da informação e para a contínua inovação.
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/opiniao/2018/07/laura-schertel-mendes-e-danilo-doneda-lei-de-protecao-de-dados-nao-pode-morrer-na-praia.shtml

"#ElectionSystems and Software is America's leading #votingmachine vendor, a category notorious for buggy, insecure software and rampant manufacturer misconduct."

…when the NYT asked them if their products shipped with #backdoors allowing remote parties to access and alter them over the internet, they said no.

But now they admit that they lied, and that they "provided pcAnywhere remote connection software … to a small number of customers between 2000 and 2006."

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mb4ezy/top-voting-machine-vendor-admits-it-installed-remote-access-software-on-systems-sold-to-states

"Only by thinking about #digitalplatforms as collective creations can we construct a new model driven by #publicpurpose.

…media stirs up a debate about the need to regulate tech companies, which creates a sense that there’s a war between their interests and those of national governments.

The #digitaleconomy must be subject to the needs of all sides; it’s a partnership of equals where #regulators should have the confidence to be market shapers and #valuecreators."

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611489/lets-make-private-data-into-a-public-good/

#CambridgeAnalytica
"no significant economic interests wish to open up critical public examination of the #surveillance model of #capitalism, so that means none of our political #establishment has any #incentive to go there.”
#SurveillanceCapitalism https://t.co/NnIyGend69

#Snowden on #Telegram and #Russia:
"I have criticized @telegram's security model in the past, but @Durov's response to the Russian government's totalitarian demand for backdoor access to private communications—refusal and resistance—is the only moral response, and shows real leadership."

https://themoscowtimes.com/news/telegram-founder-pledges-millions-fight-russian-political-censorship-61197

#RightToBeForgotten
#Google must delete links

"It is quite likely that that there will be an increase in the number of successful requests for delisting, as individuals take note of the court's analysis, and assert their strong and potentially enforceable rights to have out-of-date or inaccurate information about them on the internet made more difficult, at least, to find."

#privacy #personaldata
#digitalmemory

https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/law/google-must-delete-links-in-right-to-be-forgotten-case/5065677.article

"Embora deva estar totalmente aparente agora, vale dizer: não, a internet não se organiza por si mesma.

As regras que você faz e, mais importante, as regras que você não faz [e desconhece]
irão semear o solo com os tipos de ervas daninhas que acabarão criando raízes e eliminando as plantas benéficas."
https://social.coop/@rbenjamin

https://social.coop/@rbenjamin/99792951589526162

#Brazil #Landless
Amazon priest who championed land rights for Brazil's poor is arrested

Father Amaro Lopes, who continued the work of Dorothy Stang in Anapu, in the Amazon state of Pará, was hospitalized by the police.

Dorothy Stang was murdered in 2005 in a killing orchestrated by landowners during a dispute that continues today.

Some weeks ago, in an interview with @guardian, Father Amaro said, "They are working on a plan to get rid of me."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/27/amazon-priest-amaro-lopes-brazil-land-rights-arrested

"While the world rebels against #Facebook Inc., #Netflix Inc. is stirring up controversy in #Brazil."

#DeleteFacebook #DeleteNetflix

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-27/-deletenetflix-campaign-erupts-in-brazil-over-corruption-show

"#MarielleFranco’s death–a carefully targeted shooting by apparently professional killers–sent shockwaves across the world..
On Friday, Brazilian media reported that the bullets that killed her were part of a batch sold to federal police in Brasília in 2006.
EU parliament deputies condemned the killing, #Brazil’s prosecutor general, Raquel Dodge, called it an attack on #democracy. The great Brazilian music star #CaetanoVeloso wrote a song for her"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/18/marielle-franco-brazil-favelas-mourn-death-champion https://ecodigital.social/media/G2YA2rUFdRHHKzgmtl4

25 Years Later: What Happened to #Progressive #TechPolicy?
'When it came to the #Internet firms, a new mantra of “#multistakeholder engagement” took hold.
US Companies created their own self-regulatory processes for resolving real problems like governance, privacy, and consumer protection -- impacting the whole world.
https://washingtonspectator.org/rotenberg-tech-policy/

Big Vision for a #Decentralized Future:
"#AI algos aren’t invented in big tech companies anyway, they are invented by academics / students. So if inventors could wrap their #algorithms in a decent #API, then you allow the creators to benefit, rather than them having to create a startup and sell it to a big company.
Instead of putting their code on GitHub, they can put it on #SingularityNet and it can be found by businesses and then they can get paid for it."
#BenGoertzel
https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/22/singularitynets-ben-goertzel-has-a-grand-vision-for-the-future-of-ai/