The W3C – the standards body of surveillance capitalism – on privacy.
If you had any “privacy principles” to speak of, what would Adobe, Alibaba, Amazon, Baidu, Bloomberg, Google, Huawei, IAB, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, Samsung, Bilibili, SoftBank, Tencent, Yahoo!, Zoom, etc., be doing on your members list?
Are you a privacy professional? Would you like to work with companies like Google and Facebook to help them continue to violate our privacy? The W3C has a job for you.
Pays well, by the way (violating human rights always does).
W3C is seeking a full-time staff member to lead our Privacy standardization efforts.
The position is for remote work from anywhere in the world.
Requirements include: extensive knowledge of privacy technologies and methodologies, including authentication, identity management, cryptography and familiarity with core web technologies, such as HTML, HTTP, Web APIs, and scripting #hiring#webprivacy See more at: https://www.w3.org/news/2024/hiring-privacy-lead/
I love how this “Created by AI, edited by humans” summary of the chat I had with Doc this month starts off mildly enough with “A great chat on FLOSS Weekly regarding alternate funding models to support ethical tech projects…“ and ends a few paragraphs later with “…Balkan provided an urgent call to action to avoid extinction at the hands of unchecked capitalism.”
In a few weeks @w3c social web community group meeting may receive a proposal to explore chartering new social web working group that would only be open to people who work at W3C member companies. (The CG is open to all). Today there was an in person discussion at TPAC, the yearly W3C-wide f2f. It was a day-of addition to the agenda. Now is a good time to join the CG, subscribe to mailing list, and start participating in the discussions. https://www.w3.org/community/SocialCG/#vote#activitypub
The goals of The Small Technology Foundation are very laudable. I hope more people will follow them closely. They're allies in the fight against #BigWeb. Think #SmallWeb and big privacy.
"The Big Web is the centralised web; it is a web in the sense of a spider’s web [...] The Big Web has “users”": one "can fit thousands of users into a single server and Megacorps “scale” to run thousands upon thousands of servers in their farms" [1]
"On the Big Web, you never own your own home. You must rent your home from Megacorps. Most often, you don’t have to pay for your home using money" [1] #decentralisation
In case you’re wondering how little old Kitten performs in the tests of the Big Boys…
(And that’s from a development build of a Domain page, not a deployment build so no compression, live reload script in page, etc.)
Turns out it’s pretty easy to ace such tests when you’re not spending cycles and code doing horrible things to people in your web pages (like tracking their every move and attempting to exploit their behaviour for profit). 🤔