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When software turns churches from sanctuary to surveillance agents

There are the churches you do NOT want to enter if you care about digital rights, or even just privacy.

Of high-tech companies, and fablab potential in Trivandrum

Last month I visited Trivandrum for the Swatantra17 Conference. I already wrote about that event, but I saw more in Trivandrum.

A little proposal to make Eelo more valuable

Eelo is a project to build “Desirable, privacy-enabled smartphones & web services”. This is a proposal about the “web services” part of Eelo, as presented here.

That collapse brought by Facebook, and its Whatsapp/Telegram corollary

If the research is any indication, writes Dr Raynes-Goldie, Facebook and other social media make people “feel inadequate or maybe even a bit depressed”. Why, and how? The answer, as they say “is complicated”, but one part of it is especially fascinating, and everybody should be aware of it.

Most absurd and invasive things done by tech platforms

This is my own, personal selection of the “most absurd and invasive, but TRUE things done by tech platforms”(*):