Category Archives: Privacy
Who’s buying Facebook data? Is it you?
I installed an excellent plugin to my WordPress blog to track some basic, non-privacy invasive stats, and today I got the first report. I was surprised that most of my top keywords are still related to Facebook data that I was able to buy from a shady website ten years ago.. Who is buying (Facebook)…
‘Tis the season for Privacy
Privacy is important! Thanksgiving and the opening of the season of Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday, and end-of-the-year holidays in almost any religion and region are near. It’s worth spending some bytes and processor cycles to encourage you to invest your money, vouchers, bonuses, and good thoughts in Privacy-related products. The surveillance capitalist-supported industry…
How to contribute to Open Source privacy projects
I am sure that you reached a point in your career where you get bored with your work from time to time. That’s normal, and it happens to everyone. It happens to me most of the time, and initially, I was perturbed, thinking that something was wrong and that I was not enthusiastic enough to…
Why I donate and volunteer, and why you can do it yourself.
I am sharing a story about donating, volunteering, and supporting the things I believe in to show you that there is something you could do with your skills or financial assets to turn the world in a better direction. It’s not a secret that I donate more than $3000 a year for projects that align…
Github <> Fediverse (updated)
have a favor to ask. I want to add my fediverse (a.k.a Mastodon) account to my GitHub profile, but I need help. Could you please give equal opportunities to everyone to share their “social” accounts with everyone? It’s unfair to offer just a Twitter account.