Tactical Tech ✅ @info_activism@mastodon.cc
We are an international NGO that engages with citizens and civil-society organisations to explore the impacts of technology on society T/RT/Like ≠ endorsement
Joined Apr 2017
Big Tech Companies Donated Nearly $2 Million to Republican 'Sedition Caucus' https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2021/01/21/big-tech-companies-donated-nearly-2-million-republican-sedition-caucus
Itvan Kebadian’s art of protest
His murals in Paris document clashes between demonstrators and police https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2021/01/23/itvan-kebadians-art-of-protest
Project Alias, home privacy http://neural.it/2021/01/project-alias-home-privacy/
A radical vision for a Green New Deal https://rsa-events-a7ace734.simplecast.com/episodes/a-radical-vision-for-a-green-new-deal-rG6RnWKl
RT @amysticgirl@twitter.com
The #Zoom Boom: It Matters Which Tech Tools You Choose to Work from Home
A new article for the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, by our Programme Director Christy Lange, asks: how secure are the digital tools that have become a part of our everyday life?
https://buff.ly/3dp56kD
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/amysticgirl/status/1321349884537131008
Digital control: how Big Tech moves into food and farming (and what it means) https://grain.org/e/6595
RT @angelesbriones@twitter.com
Doublecheck > a quiz showing how difficult it is to analyze the content and the context of an image to recognize whether it is reliable or not on social media. Find it at #TheGlassRoom @Info_Activism@twitter.com @andreafebresmed@twitter.com @densitydesign@twitter.com #DD15 https://twitter.com/azoubig/status/1349030192518455306
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/angelesbriones/status/1352629068420833283
Who Will Control the Software That Powers the Internet? https://a16z.com/2021/01/14/internet-control-crypto-decentralization-community-owned-operated-networks/
RT @davidenrich@twitter.com
Check out the gifts that people –– including the CEOs of @Boeing@twitter.com, @Ford@twitter.com and @Apple@twitter.com –– gave Trump. (from his final financial disclosure report, released today) https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/trump-donald-j/45faa29051c5c338/full.pdf
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/davidenrich/status/1352055331376025601
RT @azoubig@twitter.com
RT #bibsen From bursting your #filterbubble to clearing your location data, there are many simple & powerful steps you can take to improve your #digitalwellbeing, #privacy & security. Explore the @Info_Activism@twitter.com Data Detox Kit as part of your #TheGlassRoo…
Where surveillance cameras work but the justice system doesn’t https://restofworld.org/2021/mexico-city-security-theater/
RT @vbashyakarla@twitter.com
For background, here's a piece from early 2018 we've written on the use of campaign apps with examples from the Dominican Republic, France, India, the UK, and US.
(Available in Arabic, English, Khmer, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian.)
https://ourdataourselves.tacticaltech.org/posts/campaign-apps/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/vbashyakarla/status/1352389265334931457
Choosing the VPN That's Right for You https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/choosing-vpn-thats-right-you
Google Details Patched Bugs in Signal, FB Messenger, JioChat Apps https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/google-discloses-flaws-in-signal-fb.html
RT @AndreaigV@twitter.com
"...when we rely on technologies to work from home, we have to think about what kind of future we want and what we are willing to live with."
https://www.boell.de/en/2020/08/31/the-zoom-boom-it-matters-which-tech-tools-you-choose-to-work-from-home
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AndreaigV/status/1320754235005435905
Zuckerberg’s WhatsApp follies: Tight integration with Facebook is a way of selling your data to advertisers and others https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-edit-page/zuckerbergs-whatsapp-follies-tight-integration-with-facebook-is-a-way-of-selling-your-data-to-advertisers-and-others/
RT @azoubig@twitter.com
RT #bibsen #MediaLiteracy comprises many dimensions – how savvy are you with #visual information?
#TheGlassRoom “Doublecheck” offers an opportunity to try out your skills in identifying visual mis- and dis-information.
http://bit.ly/3oCQT8L @Info_Ac@twitter.com…
Biden Has a Peloton Bike. That Raises Issues at the White House. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/us/politics/biden-peloton.html
RT @make_and_think@twitter.com
A good place to start caring for your digital wellbeing:
https://datadetoxkit.org/en/home/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/make_and_think/status/1352225469861650433
Google threatens to shut down search in Australia if digital news code goes ahead https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/22/google-threatens-to-shut-down-search-in-australia-if-digital-news-code-goes-ahead
We are an international NGO that engages with citizens and civil-society organisations to explore the impacts of technology on society T/RT/Like ≠ endorsement
Joined Apr 2017
