Aral Balkan — Certain Unalienable Cyborg Rights

Non Breaking Space Show

Joined with Simon St. Laurent in talking with Aral Balkan. Aral is a cyborg rights activist and one-third of Ind.ie, a small non-profit organization working for social justice in the digital age. At Ind.ie, he works on Better, a privacy tool that stops trackers while you are surfing the web on Safari browser on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

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Time Jumps

• 2:34 What is a cyborg rights activist?
• 12:55 General Data Protection Regulation discussion.
• 17:30 A lot of us were lied to when we started out.
• 24:25 We’ve replaced the publishing industry with the behavioral advertising industry.
• 26:10 China has embraced capitalism as well.
• 35:50 How do we inform people about data security?
• 41:50 The revolving door, multistakeholderism, co-regulation, and a conversation with Eric Schmidt.
• 1:00:00 Mastadon and decentralized networking and the city of Ghent.

Links:

• Christopher Schmitt
• Christopher Schmitt on Twitter
• Aral Balkan
• Better.fyi
• Aral on Mastadon
• Cyborg Rights Activism
• Human Rights Law
• General Data Protection Regulation
• Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization
• Without API Management, the Internet of Things is Just a Big Thing
• Why Exposed API Keys and Sensitive Data are Growing Cause for Concern
• Data Farming and Open Science
• People Farming (Data)
• Techno Economical Social System
• Thomas J Watson Sr, Father of IBM
• Peer-to-Peer (P2P)
• A Survey of Peer-to-Peer Network Security Issues
• Decentralized Web Summit
• Tim Berners-Lee
• Vinton G. Cerf at Google
• Vinton G. Cerf on Twitter
• Google’s Vint Cerf warns of ‘digital Dark Age’
• Vint Cerf: We Knew What We Were Unleashing On The World
• Ethereum
• How Serious Are Tech Giants About Blockchains? Ethereum Cofounder Grades Apple, Amazon, Google
• Springer
• SpringerOpen
• China’s Tencent is quietly testing a “social credit score” based on people’s online behavior
• Big Brother, Meet Citizen Score: China to Cull Online Data to Create Individual Rating System
• Big data meets Big Brother as China moves to rate its citizens
• Opera browser sold to a Chinese consortium
• Opera CEO: Sale To Chinese Consortium Wasn’t Our Decision
• Chilling Effect Law and Legal Definition
• Columbia Law Review: The Chilling Effect in Constitutional Law
• The ‘Chilling Effect’ of China’s New Cybersecurity Regime
• Lumen, research project studying cease and desist letters concerning online content
• Online behavioral advertising (OBA)
• Online Behavioral Advertising Compliance
• World Health Organization: eHealth
• E-Health, Privacy, and Security Law, Third Edition, with 2017 Supplement
• Managing the Privacy and Security of eHealth Data
• You could be sent to the back of the queue for NHS surgery if you smoke or are ‘obese’
• Sending fat smokers to the back of the queue is a betrayal of NHS values
• When It Comes To Security, We’re Back To Feudalism
• Harvard Business Review: You Have No Control Over Security on the Feudal Internet
• Facebook, Google: Welcome to the new Feudalism
• Just 8 men own same wealth as half the world
• Ethical Design Manifesto
• Blog: The Ethical Design Manifesto
• A Public Space
• Project for Public Spaces (PPS)
• The Occupy Movement and the New Public Space
• In defense of public space: Why planners should protect the right to occupy public space during the Trump Administration
• The Internet as Public Space: Concepts, Issues, and Implications in Public Policy
• Internet as a Commons: Public Space in the Digital Age
• Platform Cooperativism
• What is Platform Cooperativism and Why is It Important
• Google spent millions on lobbying
• The Über-Lobbyists: How Silicon Valley is changing Brussels lobbying
• European Publishers Play Lobbying Role Against Google
• Google is spending millions more to lobby Europe
• Jared Cohen at Council on Foreign Relations
• Jared Cohen on Twitter
• The New Digital Age
• Big Data and the Future of Privacy
• Big data privacy is a bigger issue than you think
• There’s No Good Decision in the Next Big Data Privacy Case
• Can Big Tobacco Really Quit Cigarettes?
• Seeking Redemption, Big Tobacco Says New Products Eliminate 90 Percent Of Smoking Toxins
• Neoliberal institutionalism
• Neoliberal Institutionalism by Arthur A. Stein
• The False Promise of International Instituions
• UN calls for global economic makeover to replace neoliberalism
• Internet Governance: Why the Multistakeholder Approach Works
• Multistakeholderism in Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Language
• The transformative effects of multistakeholderism in Internet governance: A case study of the East Africa Internet Governance Forum
• Self-regulation, Co-regulation, State Regulation
• Internet co-regulation: A view from the UK
• Internet Co-Regulation and Constitutionalism: Towards a More Nuanced View
• Mozilla: Three tips for phone privacy
• Tristan Nitot talks about Clouds and the future of privacy
• We didn’t lose control of the Web – it was stolen
• diaspora
• JoinDiaspora
• .gent
• Mastadon
• Puri.sm Laptops
• Tim O’Reilly
• Steve Krug on Non Breaking Space Episode 108
• Scott McCloud on Non Breaking Space Episode 84
• Laura Kalbag on Non Breaking Space Episode 129
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