Nathan @polarhive@mastodon.social
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"Privacy is the cornerstone of freedom and democracy" 🇮🇳
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Joined Oct 2019
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Really interesting example of a privacy issue highlighted on r/privacy yesterday:
> visited a roommate's place and was bombarded with ads about engagement rings when I used his wifi. I asked him if he was going to propose to his girlfriend and he was shocked I found out. Helped him install PiHole/network wide ad blocking before she found out.
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/hqpxpt/visited_a_roommates_place_and_was_bombarded_with/
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RT @PwnieLuver
@LitzenUp @JohnRintz @taylorlorenz We already have it
https://youtu.be/S57uhCQBEk0
'Too big to fail': why even a historic ad boycott won’t change Facebook
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jul/10/facebook-ad-boycott-mark-zuckerberg-activism-change
"Chatterjee also pointed out that even as Facebook endures a “tongue-lashing in the US”, it continues to consolidate and expand its power abroad, such as through its $5.7bn deal with Jio Platforms in India, an investment that he expects will give it “unprecedented access to Indian consumers”."
#deletefacebook #deleteinstagram #deletewhatsapp #bigtech #surveillancecapitalism #jio #reliance
A public viewable link for public stories, like https://'instance'/'username'/story
https://pixelfed.social/polarhive/story
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Stories 2.0
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We can't wait to ship this 🚀
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RT @jamewils@twitter.com
MY NEXT PREDICTION
India may have more than 15.5 lakh #COVID19 cases by July 31st and will cross 16 lakh cases on August 1st
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RT @tomwarren
wait until Ninja finds out what Google and Facebook do https://twitter.com/Ninja/status/1281339740227338240
RT @_thebastion_
How is #socialmedia changing administration-student dynamics in private schools in India? Do #schools have a 'right to police' #students' online activities at all?
Sanjana Sundar explores
@SociallyBlog @apar1984
https://thebastion.co.in/ideas/from-bans-to-monitoring-why-are-schools-policing-teenagers-social-media-activity/
@mkb @zanko @privacyint @privacylab @torproject @Tutanota @mntmn @purism
In addition to this check out
@ChrisWere @protonmail @thenewoil @theprivacyfoundation @Decentralize_today @eff (bot)
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LimeSurvey is a free open source alternative to Google Forms. Follow them here:
You can self-host your own instance for free, or use their hosted service.
Their website is at https://limesurvey.org
#LimeSurvey #GoogleForms #Surveys #Forms #FLOSS #FOSS #Libre
RT @fsmi_in
Revenue model of both apps is #SurveillanceCapitalism
#privacy is in threat with both @zoom_us & @reliancejio meet. https://twitter.com/redditindia/status/1278962199357091840
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"Privacy is the cornerstone of freedom and democracy" 🇮🇳
minimalism // geek // blogging // editing
checkout my photos >
Joined Oct 2019
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