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Social

Social Media and User Data: Hot Potato or Silver Bullet?

Why the future of Social Media and Digital Identity is decentralised As a start-up entrepreneur, I have a lot of ideas. Like most people, I use technology as a means…

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Identity

Are contact tracing apps a time bomb for civil liberties violations?

You didn’t install it. Apple and Google did it for you. According to the BBC, COVID-19 contact tracing is now baked into iOS and Android operating systems. This new functionality alerts…

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Social

Planet Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that he wants Facebook to become an online ‘metaverse’. He literally wants you to live, work and play on Facebook. I guess owning everyone’s social life isn’t enough for Zuck, and I suppose a net worth of $128 Billion isn’t enough either.

Are you as tired as I am hearing these multi-hundred billionaires telling the world just how great they are going to make our lives?

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Social

Reclaim Your Power: Decentralize the Social Networks

Douglas Rushkoff is an author, documentarian, and media theorist. He has written over twenty books on human autonomy in the digital age. In the article, “Why I am Leaving Facebook,”…

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Decentralization

How Internet Decentralization Benefits Society

We live in exciting times. Internet decentralization is no longer in the far off future. It’s here. But what exactly is decentralization and why is it a big deal? In…

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Social

Emperor Zuckerberg Has No Clothes

What if one of the greatest innovations in media and content ended up being a lie? What if, despite hundreds of thousands of articles about AI and bots and the…

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Decentralization

Necessity is the Mother of Intention

Long before COVID-19, we were talking about how decentralization could change the world and solve pressing issues like access to healthcare, climate change, and banking the unbankable. How decentralization could…

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Technology

A Tale of Two Internets

If you don’t live under a rock, you’ve probably heard of Facebook—but have you ever heard of Automattic—one of Facebook’s primary rivals? You’re probably familiar with many of Automattic’s famous products…

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Technology

Workplace by Facebook: Zuckerberg wants to share his God-like powers with your boss

What god-like powers does Mark Zuckerberg have? Well, for starters—he divides populations by spreading fear and misinformation, all while making astronomical amounts of money. Another power that one might not…

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Technology

Think contact tracing just for medical purposes? Think again

For the past three months I’ve been warning people about the dangers of contact tracing. I’ve said that if we continue to use centralized services to monitor potential spreaders of…

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