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| DATE | 2016-03-28 |
| FROM | Asia Suarez
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout-NYLXS] hangout Digest, Vol 6, Issue 53
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I'm still really sick, so I can't make it.
Sent from my iPhone
> On Mar 28, 2016, at 4:59 PM, Ruben Safir wrote:
>
>> On 03/28/2016 04:45 PM, Paul Li wrote:
>> Hi Rubin,
>>
>> Is there a tech meeting tomorrow, Tuesday night?
>
> yes, but next week I will be gone for 5 days until Wednesday
>
>> Paul
>>
>> Please excuse typos. Sent via mobile.
>>
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>>> 1. Wired and Privacy News (Ruben Safir)
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>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 20:11:15 -0400
>>> From: Ruben Safir
>>> To: Hangout
>>> Subject: [Hangout-NYLXS] Wired and Privacy News
>>> Message-ID: <56F72523.7040209-at-mrbrklyn.com>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>>>
>>> Alexander HanffAlexander Hanff
>>>
>>> Privacy Consultant
>>> Follow
>>> Wired blocking access to privacy stories because I choose to protect my
>>> privacy...
>>> Mar 20, 2016
>>>
>>> 422 views
>>> 18 Likes
>>> 6 Comments
>>>
>>> Share on LinkedInShare on FacebookShare on Twitter
>>>
>>> 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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>>> DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
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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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> --
> 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
>
> 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
>
> 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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