Garry Knight

2020-04-06 17:02:08

Coronavirus: Call for single EU tracking app with data protection | BBC News

Europe's data protection watchdog has called for a single coronavirus app to be used across the EU, instead of every country making its own.
Several countries are developing tracking apps, but privacy advocates warn of the dangers they might pose.
The European Data Protection Supervisor says a single EU app with strong data protection built in is the best solution to the coronavirus pandemic.

#technology #tech #Covid-19 #CoronaVirus

Emmanuel Florac

2021-03-29 15:07:33

Neenster : Nina Paley@nina@neenster.org

#politics #freedom #freesoftware #FSF #RMS

@[url=https://spinster.xyz/users/rcz]Radek Czajka[/url] Thanks for asking. Yes I spent plenty of time with RMS; he stayed in my NYC apartment twice while on speaking tours.

He can, indeed, be "creepy." He commits no crimes, and backs off when told. He's presumably autistic. I understand why many women feel uncomfortable around him.

BUT THAT'S NOT A GODDAMN CRIME.
Richard doesn't understand many common social cues but as far as I can tell has ALWAYS respected stated boundaries.

The whole point of Richard Stallman is he's weird, sometimes "creepy," disagreeable, socially challenged, Asperger's-y, and simultaneously brilliant and perfectly suited to what he does best. That was something that always inspired me about him. Talk about "able-ism" - Stallman himself is pretty severely "challenged" but nonetheless contributes to the benefit of all. His story showed me that you don't have to be nice, or likeable, or agreeable, or socially skilled, to make profound contributions.

Theodotos Andreou

2020-04-01 15:05:33

Disroot Covid19-Kit

So, looks like the world went totally crazy the last weeks. Our cities feel more like ghost towns and we are all trying to avoid contact with others to stop the spread of the virus. While all this chaos is going on, we sadly start giving up our online liberties to the tech giants. Our kids are now forced into Google classroom, and we are forced to use tools like MS-Teams, Zooms, Slacks, Discord and all. It looks as if we all have sign off our virtual lives away in fear and panic. What's worse is that the same fate can soon happen to our IRL (in real life). We need to keep things in check. We are launching Covid19 Kit to help and provide services to those that seek alternatives and don't want to get caught trapped inside the walled gardens. We decided to throw in some extra services that do not require account creation into the mix. Hopefully we will continue to improve the new experimental services (Mumble and Cryptpad) as well as add new services as we go based on your feedback and requirements. You can find the Covid19 Kit page here: https://disroot.org/covid19. Of course the registrations and all other services continue to work as usual.

https://disroot.org/en/blog/covid19-kit

#internet #freedom #digitalrights #privacy #covid19 #coronavirus #disroot