Re: [projectvrm] Right now: 4PM EST Please join Data & Society for this talk by Shoshana Zuboff

[Adrian Gropper < >]

I switched my browsers to Duck Duck Go about a year ago and see no loss of functionality whatsoever.

Switching from Google to Apple maps has been harder but I'm working on it.

Gmail will be the hardest. I almost always use my own domain but really enjoy the functionality of Gmail. I don't have a plan for that yet.

Twitter is yet another matter. I use Twitter strictly for business - public business - and I'm not sure where that should go. I'm clearly at risk of being manipulated by the AI that Twitter uses to create my Notifications stream. (I never look at the Home or Moments tabs). However, replacing that notification AI with self-sovereign AI is not possible yet.

Slack and similar forums can disappear tomorrow and I would not miss them. They are easily replaced by more focused forums such as Mattermost.

My point is that Zuboff talked a lot about democracy and how it's up to us to evolve it to extinguish surveillance capitalism. All of us "users" can start by voting with our feet with respect to digital services. Facebook anything and Google Search can be the first to go.

Adrian

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 5:21 PM Paul Fraser < "> > wrote:

On 14/02/2019 7:55 am, Adrian Gropper wrote:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6b9DhGgVJc&feature=youtu.be
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> Please join Data & Society for this talk by Shoshana Zuboff based on her latest book, The Age of
> Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power.
> -

Very interesting presentation. Very enlightening. Thanks for the link, Adrian.

As I see it, I can do without Facebook, Instagram and the other perpetrators of "Surveillance
Capitalism" except for "Google Search".

Unless Google changes to a user pays system or someone undertakes the massive task of creating an
equally effective search setup I cannot see a way out of this problem.

"Do no evil" did not last long.

Paul Fraser

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