Aral Balkan — Certain Unalienable Cyborg Rights

Joined with Simon St. Laurent in talking with Aral Balkan. Aral is a cyborg rights activist and one-third of Ind.ie, a small non-profit organization working for social justice in the digital age. At Ind.ie, he works on Better, a privacy tool that stops trackers while you are surfing the web on Safari browser on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

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Time Jumps

• 2:34 What is a cyborg rights activist?


• 12:55 General Data Protection Regulation discussion.


• 17:30 A lot of us were lied to when we started out.


• 24:25 We’ve replaced the publishing industry with the behavioral advertising industry.


• 26:10 China has embraced capitalism as well.


• 35:50 How do we inform people about data security?


• 41:50 The revolving door, multistakeholderism, co-regulation, and a conversation with Eric Schmidt.


• 1:00:00 Mastadon and decentralized networking and the city of Ghent.

Links:

• Christopher Schmitt


• Christopher Schmitt on Twitter


• Aral Balkan


• Better.fyi


• Aral on Mastadon


• Cyborg Rights Activism


• Human Rights Law


• General Data Protection Regulation


• Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization


• Without API Management, the Internet of Things is Just a Big Thing


• Why Exposed API Keys and Sensitive Data are Growing Cause for Concern


• Data Farming and Open Science


• People Farming (Data)


• Techno Economical Social System


• Thomas J Watson Sr, Father of IBM


• Peer-to-Peer (P2P)


• A Survey of Peer-to-Peer Network Security Issues


• Decentralized Web Summit


• Tim Berners-Lee


• Vinton G. Cerf at Google


• Vinton G. Cerf on Twitter


• Google’s Vint Cerf warns of ‘digital Dark Age’


• Vint Cerf: We Knew What We Were Unleashing On The World


• Ethereum


• How Serious Are Tech Giants About Blockchains? Ethereum Cofounder Grades Apple, Amazon, Google


• Springer


• SpringerOpen


• China’s Tencent is quietly testing a “social credit score” based on people’s online behavior


• Big Brother, Meet Citizen Score: China to Cull Online Data to Create Individual Rating System


• Big data meets Big Brother as China moves to rate its citizens


• Opera browser sold to a Chinese consortium


• Opera CEO: Sale To Chinese Consortium Wasn’t Our Decision


• Chilling Effect Law and Legal Definition


• Columbia Law Review: The Chilling Effect in Constitutional Law


• The ‘Chilling Effect’ of China’s New Cybersecurity Regime


• Lumen, research project studying cease and desist letters concerning online content


• Online behavioral advertising (OBA)


• Online Behavioral Advertising Compliance


• World Health Organization: eHealth


• E-Health, Privacy, and Security Law, Third Edition, with 2017 Supplement


• Managing the Privacy and Security of eHealth Data


• You could be sent to the back of the queue for NHS surgery if you smoke or are ‘obese’


• Sending fat smokers to the back of the queue is a betrayal of NHS values


• When It Comes To Security, We’re Back To Feudalism