Master FoE Kommunikation (Visuelle Systeme)
What a superb discovery:
‘We think your personal info should be treated with respect, that you should be the steward of your digital self, that you shouldown your own data.’
There isn’t much more to say, just have a look and discover this to yourself. Don’t forget to read their privacy policy: ‘Our privacy policy, in a sentence: We don’t collect your IP address or any other personal info, except your email address if you ask us to write you.’
Yesterday I had an interesting encounter with Spotify. As probably many of you did as well, I was presented with the option of allowing access to my confidential information stored in Spotify in my keychain. Because of the three buttons ‘Always Allow’, ‘Deny’ and ‘Allow’, I naively assumed this was optional. And it may be, but it won’t let you make this choice. Try it. For about ten minutes, every time I clicked ‘Deny’, this window came again and again. Until I got impatient and wanted to choose ‘Allow’ which means allow once. Not even that is possible, it will keep popping up. So the only way it will leave you be in peace is if you choose ‘Always Allow’.
Now of course you have the option to then just stop using Spotify. (Un-) Fortunately, the service they provide is amasing. And the price you pay is your personal information it seems.
A friend of mine told me about a facebook group she has created a while ago:
” (…) a group on Facebook, Go ogle, I created for fun some time ago for the simple reason that whenever I googled for images there would always come up some nakedish person even though the subject was really dry. You can see some examples there. I don´t know if that is relevant for your master project but that is medium internet to me when I´m lets say looking for logo for an evironmental organisation and a naked person is in the mixture (even with moderate filter).”
