Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: privacy

My interview with Steven Levy of Wired re: Frances Haugen leaking my Facebook Engineering “Goodbye Post”

2021/10/24
Social networks are famously already geared up to track behaviours & identities across the internet for advertising purposes; the Government should stop trying to force them to snoop on data, and instead let them play to their strengths to detect Abuse.

2021/09/13
This is your occasional reminder that some self-styled “privacy” activists will unwisely demand ALL of 1/ software monoculture 2/ gratuitous interoperability 3/ scraping protection; these are bad ideas singularly, and worse when combined

2021/06/15
Stop talking about who you think should *not* have #privacy. Instead: talk about who you think really, *really* needs it, and *why* they need it.

2021/05/30
This thread on @Fesshole, yet the @NSPCC & @ukhomeoffice are still attempting to frame the lack of end-to-end encryption as a “good” thing:

2021/04/30
#Privacy Activists: please never forget that UK Gov’t, Parliamentarians, Quangos & Officials will turn and mock you for your cause if it means that they can continue to surveil the populace via social media. “The Altar of Privacy”, indeed.

2021/04/21
Those who do not embrace @torproject are forced to reinvent it. Badly?

2021/02/05
How to become a Super #Privacy Activist (Unrolled)

2021/01/27
Digital Darwinism claims another victim… #mi6 #facebook #privacy

2009/07/05