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| DATE | 2016-03-28 |
| FROM | Paul Li
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout-NYLXS] hangout Digest, Vol 6, Issue 53
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Hi Rubin,
Is there a tech meeting tomorrow, Tuesday night?
Paul
Please excuse typos. Sent via mobile.
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> 1. Wired and Privacy News (Ruben Safir)
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> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 20:11:15 -0400
> From: Ruben Safir
> To: Hangout
> Subject: [Hangout-NYLXS] Wired and Privacy News
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> Alexander HanffAlexander Hanff
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> Privacy Consultant
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> Wired blocking access to privacy stories because I choose to protect my
> privacy...
> Mar 20, 2016
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> 6 Comments
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> Several years ago, Wired UK wrote a profile piece about my privacy work.
> I wasn't aware they were writing the piece, they never contacted me for
> any quotes or informed me they were planning to publish anything about
> me, so you can imagine my surprise when I was approached at a privacy
> event in Brussels and congratulated on the piece by several individuals.
>
> It was really something quite special for me, being a Wired reader since
> they launched and I have since contributed to many stories they have
> written on privacy. One could accuse me of being something of a fan.
>
> But if that same story were published today - I would not even be able
> to read it and it is likely that many other privacy conscious
> individuals wouldn't be able to read it either. Why? Because many of
> us are presently using adblocking tools to protect our privacy and
> security from illegal tracking, profiling and malvertising and currently
> if you are using such tools, Wired blocks you from reading their content.
>
> So today I stopped following Wired on Twitter because frankly, what is
> the point? Their Twitter feed is used to promote stories - stories I
> and many others can no longer read because we value our privacy.
>
> I would much rather see Wired lead the way by forcing the adtech
> industry to behave more ethically, than going to war with their readers.
> As I said to publishers recently at an event in Germany - they are the
> ones with the audience, they are top of the value chain and they should
> be the ones in control of the content on their web sites - not adtech.
>
> Sadly Wired have chosen to go the route of attacking their readers
> rather than defending them by removing intrusive scripts from their web
> site; it is a bizarre move and one I feel they will ultimately live to
> regret.
>
> I am ending this piece with a quote from Wired from that very same
> profile piece they wrote in 2010:
>
> "Inconvenient as it may be for advertisers and media owners, Alex Hanff
> and his colleagues remind us that the future remains unwritten. They
> stretch the conversation away from the easy assumption that being
> digital revolves exclusively around consuming goods, services and
> advertising. For that, we should thank them."
>
> ... but instead they choose to block us.
>
>> From Linkedin, which is itself a humorous twist on this story...
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> --
> So many immigrant groups have swept through our town
> that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
> proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
> http://www.mrbrklyn.com
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> DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
> http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software
> http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive
> http://www.coinhangout.com - coins!
> http://www.brooklyn-living.com
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> Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps,
> but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
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