It’s been reported that Cambridge Analytica has improperly taken and used data from Facebook users in an improper manner, an event which has called into question the way that Facebook handles data. David Shanske and I discuss some of the implications from an IndieWeb perspective and where you might go if you decide to leave Facebook.
Show Notes
Articles
The originating articles that kicked off the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica issue:
- 3/16/18: Facebook’s Newsroom: Suspending Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group from Facebook by Paul Grewal
- “Protecting people’s information is at the heart of everything we do.”
- 3/17/18: The Guardian: Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach
- 3/17/18: New York Times: How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook data of Millions
Related articles and pages
- 3/21/18 Anil Dash: The Missing Building Blocks of the Web, an article bringing the Facebook issue back around to regaining the good parts of the “old web”
- How To Change Your Facebook Settings To Opt Out of Platform API Sharing from the Electronic Frontier Foundation
- 3/24/18: Ars Technica: Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones
- 3/18/18: The Guardian: Facebook employs psychologist whose firm sold data to Cambridge Analytica
- Sebastian Greger’s Privacy policy
- Mastodon not supporting Webmention specification
- Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil
Recent Documented Facebook Quitters
Jonathan LaCour, Eddie Hinkle, Natalie Wolchover, Cher, Tea Leoni, Adam McKay, Leo Laporte,and Jim Carrey
New York Times Profile of multiple quitters: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/21/technology/users-abandon-facebook.html
IndieWeb Wiki related pages of interest
- https://indieweb.org/why
- https://indieweb.org/principles
- https://indieweb.org/Facebook
- https://indieweb.org/silo-quits
- https://indieweb.org/Getting_Started
Potential places to move to when leaving Facebook
You’ve made the decision to leave Facebook? Your next question is likely to be: to move where? Along with the links above, we’ve compiled a short list of IndieWeb-related places that might make solid options.
- Micro.blog for $5/month (or bring your own web site for free)
- WordPress.com
- Tumblr.com
- WithKnown (Paid service or host your own)
- WordPress.org (self-hosted or managed)
- Mastodon (doesn’t necessarily provide ownership of domain name unless you’re self-hosting an instance)
- Other possible projects/options: https://indieweb.org/projects
Very timely. Considering they started recording in March, perhaps even ahead of its time! #indieweb #DeleteFacebook
David Shanske und Chris Aldrich hosten seit ein paar Monaten einen ganz charmanten IndieWeb Podcast. David hat bei so ziemlich jedem IndieWeb-WordPress-Plugin mit gearbeitet und übernimmt die Rolle des „Erklärers“ und Chris ist Poweruser und versucht den Podcast zu moderieren und die Komplexität etwas heraus zu nehmen.
Bisher entstanden 5 Folgen und ein Teaser:
<a href="https://david.shanske.com/2018/03/18/an-indieweb-podcast-episode-0/">Episode 0</a>
<a href="https://boffosocko.com/2018/04/17/an-indieweb-podcast-episode-1-leaving-facebook/">Episode 1: Leaving Facebook</a>
<a href="https://david.shanske.com/2018/04/18/an-indieweb-podcast-episode-2-indieauth/">Episode 2: IndieAuth</a>
<a href="https://boffosocko.com/2018/04/30/an-indieweb-podcast-episode-3-syndication-2/">Episode 3: Syndication</a>
<a href="https://david.shanske.com/2018/05/08/an-indieweb-podcast-episode-4-webmentions-and-privacy/">Episode 4: Webmentions and Privacy</a>
<a href="https://david.shanske.com/2018/05/13/an-indieweb-podcast-episode-5-indieweb-summit-and-more/">Episode 5: IndieWeb Summit and More</a>
<a href="https://boffosocko.com/2018/06/05/an-indieweb-podcast-episode-6-wordpress-and-types-of-posts/">Episode 6: WordPress and Types of Posts</a>
<a href="https://david.shanske.com/2018/06/17/an-indieweb-podcast-episode-7-the-reverse-salmention/">Episode 7: The Reverse Salmention</a>
Ich muss zugeben, ich hätte ja schon auch mal wieder Lust zu podcasten…