Hi Giovanni, I do not think it's appropriate to speculate on the mental health of people you politically disagree with.
Best, Duncan Giovanni Biscuolo: > Hi all, > > I just discovered this study from "Freedom to tinker" [1] that clearly > shows > clinic evidence of psychotic disorders by few web market operators who > pretend to track every single bit of users data with a new "technology" > called "session replay scripts": > > «These scripts record your keystrokes, mouse movements, and scrolling > behavior, along with the entire contents of the pages you visit, and send > them to third-party servers. Unlike typical analytics services that provide > aggregate statistics, these scripts are intended for the recording and > playback of individual browsing sessions, as if someone is looking over > your > shoulder.» > > in some cases passwords are included in session recordings > > I'm always astonished by the fantasy _and_ resources some group of people > is willing to invest to try to control users > > apart from the clinical evidences, this also clearly shows that GDPR [2] - > that I *really* appreciate - will be as easily circumvented as the European > Union's net-neutrality rules _are_ circumvented [3]; this is why I agree > with #youbroketheinternet [4] folks that _both_ "net neutrality" and "no > massive surveillance market" can be achieved with and _only_ with a GNU > Internet, aka a free Internet *by design* (please do _not_ consider the web > as the whole Internet, as some unfortunately tend to do) > > my conviction is stronger after I read of another working paper [5] > co-authored from a Stanford senior fellow that shows that privacy tends to > take a backseat to convenience and can easily get tossed out the window for > a reward as simple as free pizza > > please consider that I *suspect* that this state of mind is also valid if > you think about user data "leaked" from our computing devices, not "just" > the web > > <joke> > I'm addicted to pizza and **they know* that! so if they promise to give me > a pizza I'll let them track any data they want about me without making any > question... where's my pizza?!? :-D > </joke> > > > ciao > Giovanni > > > [1] hosted by Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy > [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation > [3] > http://www.businessinsider.com/net-neutrality-portugal-how-american-internet-could-look-fcc-2017-11?IR=T > > [4] http://youbroketheinternet.org/ > [5] > https://news.stanford.edu/2017/08/03/pizza-privacy-stanford-economist-examines-paradox-digital-age/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discussion mailing list > Discussion@lists.fsfe.org > https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion > _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfe.org https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion