From gertml at xs4all.nl  Mon Feb  4 20:34:40 2019
From: gertml at xs4all.nl (gertml)
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2019 20:34:40 +0100
Subject: <unlike-us> Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally
 Identifiable Web Tracking
Message-ID: <33b55ffe93a19946e90ec615503392ac@xs4all.nl>

Google quietly erased that last privacy line in the sand ? literally 
crossing out the lines in its privacy policy
...Existing users were prompted to opt-in to the change this summer.
...Google could now, if it wished to, build a complete portrait of a 
user by name, based on everything they write in email, every website 
they visit and the searches they conduct.
...Google spokeswoman Andrea Faville emailed a statement describing 
Google?s change in privacy policy as an update to adjust to the 
?smartphone revolution?

https://www.propublica.org/article/google-has-quietly-dropped-ban-on-personally-identifiable-web-tracking



From lidia.pmr at gmail.com  Sat Feb  9 10:21:11 2019
From: lidia.pmr at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?L=C3=ADdia_Pereira?=)
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2019 10:21:11 +0100
Subject: <unlike-us> Call for Submissions: Pervasive Labour Union #13
In-Reply-To: <CAL0m4GquoVDYs=0bZHrZ6ahKxzZzeYh5jZUYedyHCC=JiJakpw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAL0m4GquoVDYs=0bZHrZ6ahKxzZzeYh5jZUYedyHCC=JiJakpw@mail.gmail.com>
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DEADLINE EXTENSION: March 15th

Due to some server complications + unforeseen obligation the deadline has
been extended. As before, contributions can be submitted to
lidia at majesticmoo.se, lidia.pmr at gmail.com or nikos.vv at gmail.com

On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 2:30 PM L?dia Pereira <lidia.pmr at gmail.com> wrote:

> After three years of (semi) regular existence, wherein we have touched on
> topics ranging from Terms of Service, Smart Cities and Immateriality, it is
> now high-time that the Pervasive Labour Union zine <http://ilu.servus.at/>
> takes a very close and serious look at the universe of the alternatives.
> Alternatives to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube: you name it.
>
> What do these alternatives look like? Sure, plenty of services advertise
> themselves as "The alternative", but are they really all they claim to be?
> What are the requirements of a 'true' alternative?
> The Pervasive Labour Union zine already broached some of these topics on
> its Special Issue with the Homebrewserver Club on XMPP - "Have you
> considered the alternative?" <http://ilu.servus.at/issue9.html>. To
> follow the HBSC?s strategy,  a premium should be put on alternative
> approaches, not on any specific alternative apps.
> We need federated social networking solutions based on open standards that
> are able to communicate among themselves, regardless of the platform being
> used.
>
> Looking forward, what the new issue intends to achieve is a broader, more
> in-depth look at the field of The Free Network, which, according to Sean
> Tilley's article on the topic
> <https://medium.com/we-distribute/a-quick-guide-to-the-free-network-c069309f334>
> [
> https://medium.com/we-distribute/a-quick-guide-to-the-free-network-c069309f334],
> includes both The Fediverse and The Federation networks. These networks are
> comprised of projects such as Diaspora, Mastodon, GNU Social, etc. Which
> protocols can and are being developed to achieve interoperability between
> the different alternatives? How do scale and trust influence the field?
> What are the forces at play within this realm and how to engage with them?
> With this issue, we propose not only to collect a field guide of sorts,
> but also to open up the discussion on the alternatives and how to tackle
> the challenges posed by network effects, scalability and financial
> viability.
> As always, we welcome:
>
> - Texts (max. 1000 words). Texts can range from satire, theory, poetry,
> propaganda, educational etc. to personal rants;
> - Images (illustration, photo montage, photography, etc.);
> - Any other creative interventions that you might consider fit with the
> theme.
>
> DEADLINE: February 5th
>
> You can submit your contribution to lidia at majesticmoo.se,
> lidia.pmr at gmail.com or nikos.vv at gmail.com
>
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From Jenniferre at protonmail.ch  Tue Feb 12 12:46:03 2019
From: Jenniferre at protonmail.ch (Jennifer)
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 11:46:03 +0000
Subject: <unlike-us> unlike-us Digest, Vol 90, Issue 9
Message-ID: <jP9-OWXg_kiHAI4KqM9V18sk6OgISq-dmBdWvajH8mINJ800F3QRtPlOphlaPhqLFHx1G-85-98hGtgZEwuGMCeNFKduYOtn3JPBuMEQ21w=@protonmail.ch>

https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/tegenlicht/kijk/afleveringen/2018-2019/india-in-tijd-van-woede.html

A recent Tegenlicht (Backlight) episode (narrated in Dutch) on India in times of rage. Not necessarily about politics, but about how huge unemployment leads to rage, frustration, feeding a return to fundamentalist hinduism, protection of the holy cow. People who deal in cowmeat, mostly muslims are labeled as criminals and hunted down and lynched. The media of choice: Whatsapp and youtube. The films are shared and liked, giving lynchers status, even in politics.


Best,
Jennifer

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> 1.  How Volunteers for India's Ruling Party Are Using WhatsApp
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 12:42:45 -0500
> From: Jos? Mar?a Mateos chema at rinzewind.org
> To: Unlike-us unlike-us at listcultures.org
> Subject: <unlike-us> How Volunteers for India's Ruling Party Are Using
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>     WhatsApp to Fuel Fake News Ahead of Elections
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> Message-ID: 20190127174245.GB2894 at equipaje
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> http://time.com/5512032/whatsapp-india-election-2019/
>
> > From the article:
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> --
>
> Ahead of national elections in April and May, India?s political parties
> are pouring money into creating hundreds of thousands of WhatsApp group
> chats to spread political messages and memes. Prime Minister Narendra
> Modi?s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has drawn up plans to have
> three WhatsApp groups for each of India?s 927,533 polling booths,
> according to reports. With each group containing a maximum of 256
> members, that number of group chats could theoretically reach more than
> 700 million people out of India?s population of 1.3 billion.
>
> In reality, the number is likely to be smaller because many people are
> in multiple group chats, and most chats have fewer than 256 members. But
> the strategy reflects a fundamental change in Indian society: at the
> time of the last national polls in 2014, just 21% of Indians owned a
> smartphone; by 2019, that figure is thought to have nearly doubled to
> 39%. And for most of them, WhatsApp is the social media app of choice ?
> by one count, more than 90% of smartphone users have it installed. In
> recognition of that shift, the BJP?s social media chief declared 2019
> the year of India?s first ?WhatsApp elections.?
>
> But according to researchers, as well as screenshots of group chats from
> as recently as January seen by TIME, these WhatsApp group chats
> frequently contain and disseminate false information and hateful
> rhetoric, much of which comes from forwarded messages. Experts say the
> Hindu nationalist BJP is fueling this trend, although opposition parties
> are using the same tactics.
>
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> Cheers,
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> Jos? Mar?a (Chema) Mateos || https://rinzewind.org/
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From gertml at xs4all.nl  Mon Feb 18 14:50:01 2019
From: gertml at xs4all.nl (gertml)
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 14:50:01 +0100
Subject: <unlike-us> =?utf-8?q?Disinformation_and_=E2=80=98fake_news?=
 =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=99=3A_Final_Report_published_-_News_from_Parliament_-_UK?=
 =?utf-8?q?_Parliament?=
Message-ID: <77f0b29b877abd08c1b6b86898e5dccc@xs4all.nl>

Disinformation and ?fake news?: Final Report published - News from 
Parliament - UK Parliament

https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/digital-culture-media-and-sport-committee/news/fake-news-report-published-17-19/



From paulmx at tuta.io  Tue Feb 19 20:01:24 2019
From: paulmx at tuta.io (Paul Sulzycki)
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 20:01:24 +0100 (CET)
Subject: <unlike-us> Bringing back the EFF's Secure Messaging Scorecard from
 the dead
Message-ID: <LZ67Zx---3-1@tuta.io>

INC folks! I'm resurrecting a project I loved, a scorecard for objectively assessing communication software to find a handful of the best, safest options. It's a monster of a project and I'd love to have as much input as possible. I've started gathering everything on https://gitlab.com/qqn/dctrl <https://gitlab.com/qqn/dctrl>... would anyone like to contribute? It's still in its fledgling state but I'm excited to see it lift off into something useful soon. I look forward to finding helping hands to contribute, even if that's just through conversation or simply telling me what to update!

---

Paul Sul?ycki
MSc, RMT, spmx.ca <https://spmx.ca/bio>
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From geert at xs4all.nl  Sat Feb 23 17:09:55 2019
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 17:09:55 +0100
Subject: <unlike-us> links
Message-ID: <94808F5C-940F-4EEC-82F4-6CC64C6CDE96@xs4all.nl>

Zuckerberg explains his good intentions, one more time
https://www.cnet.com/news/mark-zuckerberg-defends-facebook-advertising-model-we-dont-sell-peoples-data/ <https://www.cnet.com/news/mark-zuckerberg-defends-facebook-advertising-model-we-dont-sell-peoples-data/>

Life without the tech giants, including youtube videos
https://gizmodo.com/life-without-the-tech-giants-1830258056 <https://gizmodo.com/life-without-the-tech-giants-1830258056>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNSp-kzVVhU&index=1&list=PLx1XbvvfIlc4zQgE5ohJA9EJ2NCcGc2QQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGyEirsta_0&index=2&list=PLx1XbvvfIlc4zQgE5ohJA9EJ2NCcGc2QQ <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGyEirsta_0&index=2&list=PLx1XbvvfIlc4zQgE5ohJA9EJ2NCcGc2QQ>

The fall of Facebook has only begun
https://medium.com/@13DResearch/the-fall-of-facebook-has-only-begun-9d73a45adc8
(it was reported that 640.000 users in NL left Facebook in 2018)

Analysis of the German court decision against Facebook (in German)
https://netzpolitik.org/2019/kartellamtsentscheidung-zu-facebook-richtige-analyse-schwaches-schwert/

Facebook and Drug Abuse Link Suggests "Social Media Addiction" Is Real
https://www.inverse.com/article/52358-is-social-media-an-addiction-like-gambling-or-drugs <https://www.inverse.com/article/52358-is-social-media-an-addiction-like-gambling-or-drugs>



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