Mozilla Betrays Firefox Users
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/MozillaBetraysFirefoxUsers
(submitted by dogecoinbase)
It's worth remembering Teju Cole's incisive comments in times like these:
"The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening."
https://mobile.twitter.com/tejucole/status/177809558608150529
Sure, this FB exec isn't white, but that just illustrates the point...
Former Facebook executive: social media is ripping society apart
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/dec/11/facebook-former-executive-ripping-society-apart
Have I mentioned my love of infrastructure? 😀
https://boingboing.net/2017/12/04/some-people-can-hear-this-gif.html
Wow... The scripts keep writing themselves now, it seems...
Sources in Trump's White House report meetings to assemble a network of deniable wetwork/black ops spooks to target Trump's political enemies in the US and elsewhere
Sources in Trump's White House report meetings to assemble a network of deniable wetwork/black ops spooks to target Trump's political enemies in the US and elsewhere
https://boingboing.net/2017/12/05/amyntor-ollie-north-erik-princ.html
Facebook logged the posts you wrote but then erased and never posted in the first place, and now they kindly published a study about it https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM13/paper/viewFile/6093/6350 (PDF)
@ben I've only read Privacy in Context, but I'd be curious to know what you think of Obfuscation in light of this review. And now I feel obliged to read Obfuscation myself! #bookclub
While I've found Nissenbaum's work useful and interesting, I've always been bothered by the lack of politics in her arguments... This review of a recent book she co-authored cuts deep, to question her approach by taking the role of the state seriously:
http://computationalculture.net/poisoned-fruit-booby-trapped-privacy-guides-as-state-sponsored-propaganda-a-case-study-of-obfuscation/