Notices by Janet Vertesi (cyberlyra@mastodon.social)

@aral Aral, I love this project. Let me know when/if you need people to run and test it out. I have been told I am a great bug-finder ;)

@aral i hear you, and I’m not a fan of victim blaming. But I think there’s another way, which is far more invigorating and empowering: build differently, and build with new communities. We don’t just have to clamor for change or sit helplessly waiting for big tech to grow a moral spine. I see alternative tech communities actively building different ideas into being that let us participate in the modern, connected world—with the conveniences but without the traps.

"We don’t often talk about “convenience” when we talk about data privacy, but we should. In the game of personal-data gathering, convenience is the bait. Privacy is essential to a well-functioning democracy, but companies have noticed that we are willing to throw it away and declare it “dead” for the sake of a few manufactured conveniences."

Please share if you know someone who needs to hear this.
https://www.publicbooks.org/data-free-disney/