Web developer and Studio Lead at Deloitte Digital in Düsseldorf, Germany.
The World Wide Web started with so much promise: to connect people across any distance, to allow anyone to become a publisher, and to democratize access to knowledge. However, today the Web seems to be failing us. It’s not private, secure, or unifying. The Internet has, in large part, ended up centralizing access and power in the hands of a few dominant platforms.
But what if we could build something better, what some are calling the decentralized web?
In this series of six workshops, METRO will be joined by our partners at Internet Archive, DWeb, and Library Futures to explore the ways in which moving to decentralized technologies may enhance your privacy, empower you to control your own data, and resist censorship:
On January 6th, WhatsApp users around the world began seeing a pop-up message notifying them of upcoming changes to the service’s privacy policy. signal, syndicated, tech
This article sums it up nicely on the "messenger app" drama of last week.
The encrypted messaging services have become the world’s hottest apps over the last week, driven by growing anxiety over the power of the biggest tech companies and privacy concerns. internet, messenger, privacy, syndicated, tech
“The whole world now seems to understand that Facebook is not building apps for them, Facebook is building apps for their data,” said Moxie Marlinspike, the founder and chief executive of Signal. “It took this one small catalyst to push everyone over the edge of making a change.”
Hoping that many people realized the power Facebook held or is still holding over them and saw the benefit of moving to a service that is outside of "Big Tech"'s greedy hands.
Now everyone should also really consider to start using DuckDuckGo.com for their search and set up a free email account somewhere else.
Get a protonmail.com account or even better, get your own domain name and host your own mailbox, like I do to be even more free.
At Signal, we want to make privacy simple. From the beginning, we’ve designed Signal so that your information is in your hands rather than ours. Technologies like Signal Protocol secure your messages so that they are never visible by anyone but you and the intended recipients. security, signal, social media, syndicated
Tim Berners-Lee wants to put people in control of their personal data. He has technology and a start-up pursuing that goal. Can he succeed? Three decades ago, Tim Berners-Lee devised simple yet powerful standards for locating, linking and presenting multimedia documents online. internet, solid, syndicated
Analysis Six years ago, Google revised its reCAPTCHA service, designed to filter out bots, scrapers, and other automated web browsing, and allow humans through to websites. The v2 update in 2014 added an iframe or HTML Inline Frame, which is a way of embedding one web page in another. privacy, syndicated
The most surprising thing about the rebirth of flat Earthers in the 21st century is just how widespread the evidence against them is. internet, privacy, surveillance, syndicated
Gemini is a new internet protocol which:
- Is heavier than gopher
- Is lighter than the web
- Will not replace either
- Strives for maximum power to weight ratio
- Takes user privacy very seriously
Scuttlebutt was started in May 2014 by Dominic Tarr (dominictarr) as an alternative offline-first invite-only social network that allows users to gain total control of their data and privacy.
Until recently, Hoan Ton-That’s greatest hits included an obscure iPhone game and an app that let people put Donald Trump’s distinctive yellow hair on their own photos. Then Mr.
Google has now given us an option to set search and location data to automatically disappear after a certain time. We should all use it. Last year you may have been addicted to Beyoncé. But nowadays you’re more into Lizzo.
Already took care of most of this. Doesn't hurt to delete the history again occasionally.