On Friday, 24 September 2021 08:17:04 CEST Nico Rikken wrote: > Interesting remarks and helpful to the discussion. Happy to hear that > the Norwegian Data Protection Authority came to that decision.
They aren't the only ones: "Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board leaves Facebook" https://www.bioteknologiradet.no/2021/10/bioteknologiradet-forlater-facebook/ Again, the motivation is that since they cannot assess how Facebook uses the data gathered about users by the platform, they cannot assess compliance with GDPR and other regulations, and yet a public institution with a presence on Facebook has a degree of responsibility for the data processing that is taking place. Purely to minimise user exposure to this kind of surveillance, the conclusion is that the only credible action is to leave Facebook. [FSFE's recommendations] > Apart from our press releases we regularly publish important news about > our work and our campaigns. To ensure you receive them, you can > subscribe to our newsletter: https://fsfe.org/news/newsletter This is indeed the alternative now chosen by the public institution featured above. Of course, people will whine about such outcomes and tell everyone how e-mail is "dated" - I read another filler article along those lines only yesterday in a major news outlet - but e-mail seems to survive nevertheless. I actually think that a campaign to make secure e-mail more usable, including the adoption of concrete technological measures, would be helpful. There is the FSF's e-mail self-defence guide, but a lot of the problems with mail, particularly when interacting with institutions, is that those institutions are not motivated to secure their communications. So, grassroots adoption of such technologies is neither sufficient, nor is it sufficiently persuasive for either institutions or wider society to change their habits. Paul _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfe.org https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion This mailing list is covered by the FSFE's Code of Conduct. All participants are kindly asked to be excellent to each other: https://fsfe.org/about/codeofconduct