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Inside: Facebook employees stalk users; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/14/who-watches-the-zuckmen/
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Facebook employees stalk users: Moral hazard vs the ACCESS Act.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/106580189086874051
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#20yrsago Spam blacklist MAPS starts charging for access https://slashdot.org/story/01/07/13/0513251/last-month-for-free-maps
#20yrsago Original Hotwired guidelines https://web.archive.org/web/20010722002246/http://www.freedonia.com/~carl/#2001.06.12
#5yrsago North Carolina adopts the nation’s worst police bodycam law https://abc11.com/1422569/
#5yrsago Vivendi lobbyist appointed to run copyright for UN agency https://web.archive.org/web/20160717052135/https://www.keionline.org/node/2614
#5yrsago The long, racist history of Brexiteer Boris Johnson, the new UK Foreign Secretary https://www.bbc.com/news/world-36792746
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#5yrsago It’s official: the Olympics result in the worst budget overruns of any megaproject https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2804554
#5yrsago America’s infrastructure debt is so bad that towns are unpaving roads they can’t afford to fix https://www.wired.com/2016/07/cash-strapped-towns-un-paving-roads-cant-afford-fix/
#5yrsago UK Labour’s dirty trick excludes 130,000 members from leadership vote https://www.itv.com/news/2016-07-12/corbyn-opponents-try-to-fix-vote
#5yrsago For the first time, a federal judge has thrown out police surveillance evidence from a “Stingray” device https://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/federal-judge-throws-out-evidence-gathered-with-stingray-cell-phone-tracker/
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#5yrsago The US has spent $122B training foreign cops and soldiers in 150+ countries, but isn’t sure who https://theintercept.com/2016/07/13/training/
#5yrsago Security researchers: the W3C’s DRM needs to be thoroughly audited https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/06/call-security-community-w3cs-drm-must-be-investigated
#1yrago Privacy as a right, not a product https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/13/youre-still-the-product/#privacy-not-a-luxury
#1yrago Don't talk about cancer on FB https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/13/youre-still-the-product/#targeting
#1yrago California goes antitrust on Google https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#feeling-lucky-punk
#1yrago Big Oil can have you locked up https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#privilege-private-law
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#1yrago Target workers strike over chickenization https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#stay-on-target
#1yrago Artists vs tax havens https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#moneylab
#1yrago Catalan politician hacked with NSO Group malware https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#catalunya
#1yrago Poesy the Monster Slayer https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#poesy
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Monday's threads: Podcasting "Tech Monopolies and the Insufficient Necessity of Interoperability"; The Sacklers will get to keep billions; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/106568456850551828
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My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books. @washingtonpost called it "a political cyberthriller, vigorous, bold and savvy about the limits of revolution and resistance."
Get signed books from @darkdel: https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1840/Available_Now%3A_Attack_Surface.html
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My book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:
https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59
Signed copies here:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p2024/Available_Now%3A__How_to_Destroy_Surveillance_Capitalism.html
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
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Upcoming appearances:
* Privacy Without Monopoly, Defcon 29, Aug 7
https://defcon.org/html/defcon-29/dc-29-speakers.html#doctorow
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Recent appearances:
Reset the Internet? (Project Syndicate)
https://www.project-syndicate.org/podcasts/reset-the-internet
* Trustbusting (Nicole Sandler)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLtbU-D1ay0
* Launch for Neil Sharpson's When the Sparrow Falls (Mysterious Galaxy):
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/virtual-event---neil
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My first picture book is out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt Rockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.
https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#poesy
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My latest Medium column is "Are We Having Fun Yet?" part one of a series on themepark design, queing theory, immersive entertainment, and load-balancing.
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