Pew Research Fact Tank
How Americans see digital privacy issues amid the COVID-19 outbreak
6 min · · The coronavirus outbreak has brought privacy and surveillance concerns to the forefront. Here's what Americans think about those issues. · Shared by 26, including Pew Research Internet, Thomas Power, George M 🇪🇺
OneZero
‘Immunity Passports’ Could Create a New Category of Privilege
10 min · · Being infected with the virus could come with more freedom · Shared by 25, including Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, Evan Selinger, Undark Magazine
Matt Stoller
WeWork and Counterfeit Capitalism
9 min · · Hi, Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here. Or just read on… I’m back! One of the themes of this newsletter has turned out to be the… · Shared by 155, including Thomas Power, Justin Jackson, Vikram Dutt, ɯoɔ ʇop pןɐʍuɐƃɐɹ uo ǝɯ puıɟ, DHH, Tillmann Allmer, Simon Carless
The Atlantic
Capitalism the Apple Way vs. Capitalism the Google Way
7 min · · Whichever company’s vision wins out will shape the future of the economy. · Shared by 184, including Niklaus Gerber, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Tom Connor, Dominik Grolimund, Gerd Leonhard, Jochen Burkhard, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Thomas Telandro, blinch, Thomas Power
The Guardian
The end of capitalism has begun
20+ min · · Without us noticing, we are entering the postcapitalist era. At the heart of further change to come is information technology, new ways of working and the sharing economy. The old ways will take a long while to disappear, but it’s time to be utopian · Shared by 911, including Ward Plunet, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, Tomas Pueyo, Manos Hatzimalonas, Courtney Bolton ★, Inês Silva, Matthias Sala, Esther Crawford ✨, Florian Hanke 🍎, Francesco Marconi, John Battelle, Stephen C Sanders, Thomas Power, Helmut Adam, Sylvie Reinhard, Richard MacManus, Stowe Boyd, Marc Goldberg, Claudia Sommer, Fabrice Liut 🍌🥑😌
medium.com
The Birth And Death Of Privacy: 3,000 Years of History Told Through 46 Images — The Ferenstein Wire — Medium
19+ min · · 2-Minute Summary ¶
Privacy, as we understand it, is only about 150 years old. · Shared by 167, including Klaus Eck, Alain, Christopher Allen, Antonio Vieira Santos, Christian Müller, Rodrigo Prior, blinch, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Bernhard Huessy, Stephanie A Kowalski, Fabricio Teixeira, Su Franke, Stephan Leduc, krisdahn.eth, Agustin, Paddy Zab, Marius Bleuer, cbz, Nir Eyal, Nico Müller 🇺🇦
The New York Times
How Capitalism Betrayed Privacy
6 min · · The forces of wealth creation once fostered the right to be left alone. But that has changed. · Shared by 44, including Gerd Leonhard, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Bjorn Larsen, Aral Balkan
VICE
Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware
Summary · 11+ min · · A dive into the thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking. · Shared by 4227, including Ryan Boren, Nils Hitze, Antonio Ramos, Damien Van Achter, Helmi, Florian Hanke 🍎, Markus Merz, Parin Vachhani, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯🕶, Thomas Power, cbz, Björn Ognibeni, Flurin Capaul, Andrea Desiato, Faik Ersoy, Stowe Boyd, Michael Duergner, getAbstract, janfsauer, Philipp Ebneter
VICE
Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware
7 min · · A dive into the thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking. · Shared by 22, including Marcin Krzyzanowski, Kevin Kelly
The New Statesman
Slouching towards dystopia: the rise of surveillance capitalism and the death of privacy
12+ min · · Suppose you walk into a shop and the guard at the entrance records your name. Cameras on the ceiling track your every step in the store, log which items you looked at and which ones you ignored. After… · Shared by 500, including Liv 😷, Karla Oliveira, José Antonio Bolio Martínez, MΛRC VIDΛL, Katja Evertz, Seán Köhlmoos, Fern, Jansnet, Jennifer Hurst, Faik Ersoy, Jochen Burkhard, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Brian Ahier, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
VICE
Leaked Documents Expose the Secretive Market for Your Web Browsing Data
9 min · · An Avast antivirus subsidiary sells 'Every search. Every click. Every buy. On every site.' Its clients have included Home Depot, Google, Microsoft, Pepsi, and McKinsey. · Shared by 552, including John Koetsier, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Tamara McCleary, Bill Slawski ⚓ 🇺🇦, Mark Kaigwa, Daniel Newman, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Mathew Ingram, Peter Steinberger, William Toll, Gerd Leonhard, Builtvisible, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Graphic Mac, Josep M. Ganyet, Richard Joerges, DHH, Jonathan Kogan, EMERCE, John C. Havens (he/him)
Cloudflare
Announcing 1.1.1.1: the fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service
9 min · · Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better Internet. We're excited today to take another step toward that mission with the launch of 1.1.1.1 — the Internet's fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS… · Shared by 491, including Oriol Farré, Vinny Lingham, Josh Clark, Tris Hussey, Mark Kaigwa, Rate limit exceeded, adrianoesch, Thomas Pleil, Esther Schindler, Nils Hitze, Shawn Venasse, Mauricio Matias, Bjorn Larsen, Sachin Rekhi, Andreas Von Gunten, Helmi, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, David Butler, Ron McIntyre
The New York Times
Opinion | Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy
20+ min · · What we learned from the spy in your pocket. · Shared by 576, including Mathew Ingram, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Khoi Vinh, Alex Tabarrok 🛡️, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Robert Scoble, George J Huba PhD, Antonio Vieira Santos, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Rami Ismail (رامي), Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson 🐙, Randy Olson, felix salmon, John Battelle, zeldman, Rene Ritchie, Hilary Mason, Jeff Atwood, Gerry Moran, Chris Messina
medium.freecodecamp.com
How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour
Summary · 5 min · · “Only the paranoid survive.” — Andy Grove · Shared by 552, including يونس بن عمارة, Benoit Curdy, Nico Luchsinger, Nils Hitze, Bram Kanstein, Courtney Bolton ★, Matthias Lampe, Eric David Smith, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Thomas Power, Dez S. Papp, PotHix, Roland Wyss-Aerni 😷, Ryan Boren, Stephen C Sanders, Carl Morris, Benoît Perrier, Simon Wüthrich, Michael Duergner, Lorenz König
The Guardian
Internet privacy: the apps that protect you from your apps
8 min · · Worried about the data collected about you? A new generation of startups is making apps to put your privacy settings straight · Shared by 602, including Jonathan Kogan, Johannes Lenz, Mark Kaigwa, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Jansnet, Brian Ahier, Jane, Howard Getson, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Rob Go, Oliver Raduner, henrik, Joshua Walker, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Faik Ersoy, Katja Evertz, Luca Like, Josep M. Ganyet, Christian Müller, Matthias Lampe
Gizmodo
How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met
9 min · · In real life, in the natural course of conversation, it is not uncommon to talk about a person you may know. You meet someone and say, “I’m from Sarasota,” and they say, “Oh, I have a grandparent in Sarasota,” and they tell you where they live and their name, and you may or may not recognize them.
· Shared by 721, including Jane, Thomas Pleil, Oriol Farré, Ron McIntyre, Martin Stabe, Dominik Grolimund, Mathew Ingram, Ian Lurie 🇺🇦 @ianlurie@mastodon.social, Mike Butcher, Chris Messina, Matt Navarra, Nicolas Berg, Markus Maurer, Mark Kaigwa, Esther Schindler, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Kashmir Hill, Stephanie A Kowalski, Ralph Hutter, Adrian Zumbrunnen