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Er.. No, sorry: Facebook CANNOT provide transparency
Requests that Facebook “opens up its algorithms” continue to come. Because nobody seems to realize that, no matter how surely well-meaning those proposals are, they are structurally impossible to satisfy, on any centralized platform like Facebook.
The fix for Facebook is NOT a different PLATFORM
An article by Roger McNamee titled “How to Fix Facebook - Before it fixes us” does a great job of describing the problems created by Facebook or any other platforms working in the same way, but contradicts itself when it proposes certain kinds of regulatory fixes.
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.
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.
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”(*):
Forget blockchain. THESE are smart contracts
The blockchain is one of the two or three foundations of the business model of the century. One of its applications should be “smart contracts”. Unless another idea gets the credit it deserves.