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American companies will never be able to resist the demands of American intelligence services. It doesn't matter if their servers are located in Virginia or Paris or on the damn moon.
Although the author does not mention alternatives, I think he makes a a strong case for self-hosted services (such as Nextcloud).
https://world.hey.com/dhh/american-data-spies-will-never-care-where-the-servers-are-371d4016
Well-written review, with thus nugget of a quote by Susie Alegre:
When my daughter asked why she couldn’t have an Alexa like her friends, I told her that it is because Alexa steals your dreams and sells them.
Via Arts & Letters Daily.
- Degoogle - a huge list of alternatives to Google products. Privacy tips, tricks, and links. Via Mailfence, "How to degoogle your life".
- The Ultimate List of Alternatives to Google Products by Matomo.
- εxodus, a web-based reporter than shows which trackers and permissions Android applications use.
- Degoogle subreddit
- Free and open source front-ends and alternatives to popular services, a list by FSM
- Open source alternatives to business tools
- https://oppetmoln.se
- also see my link on switching.software
"People You May Know", an FT Film (18 min) written by James Graham on the challenges presented by big data and algorithms, is released today in collaboration with Sonia Friedman Productions and supported by Luminate.
This short film appears to be the continuation of a paper titled "The Data Delusion: Protecting Individual Data is Not Enough When the Harm is Collective" edited by Stanford's Cyber Policy Center (the report's author is the managing director of Luminate), which has an adjoining Q&A session.
I think the film is worth watching, but one should keep in mind who the producer is.
Luminate was funded in 2018 by the Omidyar Group, which is owned by Pierre Morad Omidyar, who founded eBay which in turn bought PayPal. So not exactly a video by the people for the people...
Despite the notion in the film and the paper, I think the call for collective action does not negate the validity of individual action. Feeling like you should do something about this whole data privacy nightmare?
Well, you can! Switch from Chrome to Firefox. Switch from WhatsApp to Signal (or even better, Matrix). Don't let the Facebook newsfeed be your window unto the world; use your own RSS feedreader instead. Be the change you want to see!
Via kottke.org
switching.software, a list of easy-to-use alternatives to well-known software
https://switching.software
Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software
The source code for its website is published on codeberg (meaning you can suggest changes, etc.).
privacyguides.org
https://www.privacyguides.org lots of categories
The website itself is built from a public Github repo
Via https://mastodon.neat.computer/users/privacyguides/statuses/113002199475214098
yuuire, a list of open source and privacy-friendly apps
https://guide.yuuire.com/recommendations/software/foss-alternatives
Website's source code on github
F-Droid recommended apps by divestos.org
Another nice initiative by Aral Balkan of Small Technology Foundation.
Now easy to migrate your data from the following services to your Nextcloud account.
Note: in all cases, the administrator has to install the corresponding app first!
- OneDrive. To be able to migrate data, the Nextcloud instance administrator also has to setup OAuth credentials with OneDrive for their server.
- Dropbox. Connecting it to your account should just work.
- Google. To be able to migrate data, the Nextcloud instance administrator also has to setup OAuth credentials with Google for their server.
Also see Nextcloud's press release, and Forbes article.
By Open Sourced, a new project from Recode by Vox.