Arvind Narayanan is één van degenen die publiceert op het ‘Freedom to Tinker’ blog, de digitale onderzoekssite van mensen van de Princeton universiteit. Arvind produceert op twitter mooie berichten over onze digitale tijd.

Een topper:

7 simple steps to control your privacy:
—Quit Facebook
—Install an ad/tracker blocker
—Destroy your smartphone
—Paint your face before going outside
—Write opt-out letters to each of the 4,000 data brokers
—Avoid other humans (FB gets your data from them)
—Move to a remote forest

— Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker) 16 april 2018

Maar ook interessant:

[1]

Proposal: an AdBlockPlus-like browser extension backed by a crowd-sourced repository of Dark Patterns—as you browse, it would highlight UI elements that are attempting to manipulate or trick you.

Image illustrates Dark Patterns in TurboTax, via https://t.co/7RZYpBfCRJ pic.twitter.com/FpoDNXZut8

— Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker) 15 april 2018

[2]

Here’s the dark pattern that allows Facebook to store your entire call and text history on Facebook’s servers. “Text anyone in your phone”—who could say no to that?!

Zuckerberg claimed in his testimony that it’s opt-in. Sure it is, except that you get harassed until you do. pic.twitter.com/hodUc9UOgC

— Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker) 15 april 2018

Meer informatie:

• Twitter account van Arvind
• Freedom to Tinker blog, waarop onder meer de session replay script praktijken werden bekend gemaakt