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SFLC is trying to create and protect freedom in the 21st century. Follow us to learn how. Mastodon engagement ≠ endorsement.
Joined Jun 2018
"The #machine knows about you, it knows a great deal about you." - Eben Moglen's lecture on #dataprivacy @yale #ThrowbackThursday #technology #privacy #mydata #internet
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@akhilak, @busydot , Trishna Kriplani, @KartiPC & @MishiChoudhary present their views on "Creating Safe Spaces Online" #FreeSpeech #HateSpeech #SocialMedia
In #India, #Airtel is the latest in a long list of companies trying to grab your #personal information.
"While #India does need a #dataprivacy law it does not address the problems being presented by this case where all citizens’ #privacy and #security is held to ransom by a few notoriously malicious players." @mishichoudhary comments @MoneylifeIndia #dataprivacy #privacy #tech #TechTuesdays #BigTech
Open discourse in Cyberspace | @mishichoudhary moderates
#CyFy2020
"We ought to decentralize the #data...not store it in great big heaps where it is very easy for totalitarian #governments and others to go after it." - Eben Moglen's 4/4 talk "@snowden & the Future" #ThrowbackThursday #tech #surveillance #privacy
@mishichoudhary speaks on #India, #US, #Europe #Tech Policy and #Data Protection for #CyFy2020 #DataProtection #Privacy #TechPolicy
Don't miss @mishichoudhary speaking at @orfonline #CyFy2020 "Times Square Series" tomorrow Oct 15!
#tech #technews #CyberSecurity #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth #wednesdaymorning
For more info:
https://www.orfonline.org/cyfy/
"Anonymity of #reading is the central, fundamental guarantor of #freedom of the mind. Without it ... there is no #freedom ... there is literally slavery." - Eben Moglen's 3/4 talk "#Snowden & the Future" #ThrowbackThursday #thursdayvibes #privacy
📺WATCH:
http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/snowden/SnowdenAndTheFuture-PartIII.webm
READ our brief Amicus Curiae in #Google vs. #Oracle here: 📜
https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2020/SFLC-Amicus_Google-Oracle_18-956.pdf
Today, the #SCOTUS will take on #Google vs. #Oracle and decide if APIs can be #copyrighted. #StayTuned #TechNews #WednesdayVibes
READ @MishiChoudhary & @PrasanthTweets piece on how #data is exploited in #India's Ministry of Electronics and Information #Technology recent report on 'Non-Personal #Data Governance Framework'. #dataprivacy #mydata #CyberSecurity #mondaythoughts
📰READ: https://thelogicalindian.com/technology/non-personal-data-24154
"The effort to fasten the procedures of pervasive #surveillance on human #society is the antithesis of #liberty." - Eben Moglen's 2/4 talk "Snowden & the Future" #ThrowbackThursday #thursdayvibes #privacy #freedom
WATCH:
http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/snowden/SnowdenAndTheFuture-PartII.webm
Social networks' status as intermediaries allows them to facilitate #speech without being held liable for what is said - an issue in #India, the #US, & around the #world. @MishiChoudhary speaks to @Iyengarish @cnn @CNNBusiness #socialmedia #WednesdayVibes
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/22/tech/facebook-india-hate-speech/index.html
"While #India does need a #dataprivacy law urgently, in no way can this address the problems being presented by this case where all citizens’ #privacy and #security is held ransom" @MishiChoudhary speaks to @MoneylifeIndia #mydata #TechNews #techthursday
"When the morality of #freedom was withdrawn, our State began fastening the procedures of #totalitarianism on the substance of #democratic society." - Eben Moglen's 1/4 talk "Snowden & the Future" #ThrowbackThursday #ThursdayThoughts #surveillance
The why of copyleft, then, is to protect all downstream users’ freedoms by prohibiting proprietary enhancement."
READ @MishiChoudhary & Eben Moglen's piece on @sflc's "Guide to GPL #Compliance -2nd Edition" #GPL #WaybackWednesday #WednesdayThoughts
https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2014/SFLC-Guide_to_GPL_Compliance_2d_ed.html
The easiest way to understand #license terms is to begin with why, rather than what. The #GNU licenses have been written by #developers and their lawyers for #application by #developers without any aid or assistance from lawyers, for the purpose of assuring these #freedoms to all their #users, and all #users of modified versions or new #programs ... If a GPL’d #program can be enhanced with proprietary #code...then intentions of developers to protect users’ rights will be frustrated.
1. The #freedom to run the #program for any purpose, without any additional permission;
2. The #freedom to read, study, understand and use any know-how or techniques taught or contained by the #sourcecode of the #program;
3. The #freedom to modify, adapt, improve, or reuse any or all of the program #code; and
4. The #freedom to share with anyone, or no one, both modified and unmodified versions of the #program.
"There are several major types of free or #opensource software licenses. Many of those licenses, which are known conventionally as “permissive,” or “weak copyleft” licenses are concerned with preserving the freedoms of programmers. The “copyleft” licenses of the @fsf ... are concerned with protecting the freedoms of programmers, but more importantly they protect the freedoms of all users. The goal of the #copyleft licenses is to ensure that all users of a program ... have 4 fundamental freedoms:
Companies are now looking to target ads by #tracking your #phone's movements. @sidneyfussell writes for @verge #technews #TechTuesday #SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy #mydata #nowyouknow
https://www.wired.com/story/companies-track-phones-movements-target-ads/
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