‘Our lives are a string of experiences. Experiences with people and experiences with things. And we, as designers — as the people who craft experiences — have a profound responsibility to make every experience as beautiful, as comfortable, as painless, as empowering, and as delightful as possible.’
I’m a cyborg rights activist, a DiEM25 Advisory Panel member working on drafting a progressive tech policy for Europe, and one third of Ind.ie, a tiny social enterprise working for social justice in the digital age.
At Ind.ie, I work on Better, an ethically designed privacy tool that stops you from being tracked while surfing the web on Safari on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. (Read about how our ability to protect you in the EU is under threat from the European Commission’s new ePrivacy Proposal.)
You can buy Better for iPhone & iPad on the App Store, buy Better for Mac on the Mac App Store, or clone Better for free from our source code repository.
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- Decrypting Amber Rudd Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube (Google/Alphabet, Inc) have formed the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism and Amber Rudd is asking them to quietly drop end-to-end encryption from their products. You should not believe a single word any of those companies tells you about end-to-end encryption or privacy on their platforms ever again. PS. WhatsApp is owned by Facebook.
- Constructive Disobedience Join us for an evening of constructive disobedience at the G20. Starts 19:30 on 7 July, 2017 at the Audimax lecture hall on the University of Hamburg campus. No RSVP necessary.
- DiEM25 Internet of People launch in Berlin (video) To facilitate DiEM25’s goal to democratise Europe, we must create a compelling counter-narrative to the Surveillance Capitalism of Silicon Valley and set Europe on a path to fund and create an Internet of People.
- Introducing the 7th pillar of DiEM25: An Internet of People – a progressive tech policy for a democratic Europe. I’m excited to announce that I’ve been elected to the DiEM25 Advisory Panel to help lead a new initiative with Renata Avila to craft DiEM25’s 7th pillar: a progressive tech policy for a democratic Europe.
- We didn’t lose control – it was stolen The Web we have is not broken for Google and Facebook. People farmers are reaping the rewards of their violations into our lives to the tune of tens of billions in revenue every year. How can they possibly be our allies?
- Encouraging Individual Sovereignty and a Healthy Commons Mark Zuckerberg’s manifesto outlines his vision for a centralised global colony ruled by the Silicon Valley oligarchy. I say we must do the exact opposite and create a world with individual sovereignty and a healthy commons.
- The Nature of the Self in the Digital Age This is the original English version of an op-ed I wrote for Zeit Online.
Also see: other notes, quick scribbles, and the historic blog archive