Why is your privacy fucked? You should go ask at the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection conference where the brightest minds in the field meet, sponsored by Google and Meta.
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •A privacy conference sponsored by Google and Meta is like a healthcare conference sponsored by Phillip Morris or a climate change conference sponsored by ExxonMobil. In other words, it is bullshit.
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CPDP2021 Computers, Privacy and Data Protection conference • Platinum Sponsors
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in reply to Ondine • • •See the bit about the people who are fine with letting Google and Meta launder their reputations using their legitimacy.
It’s *worse* if “the good guys” are there. That says “we think it‘s perfectly fine for Google and Meta to sponsor a privacy conference. There’s nothing wrong with that. Look, I’m here, aren’t I? I’m a Good Guy™ So if I’m here, Google and Meta cannot be that bad. I wouldn’t go to a healthcare conference sponsored by Philip Morris, of course, but here I am…
Spoon
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Upcoming #RightsCon has this problem too.
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in reply to Spoon • • •Aral Balkan — RightsCon or a right con? (or How I learned to stop worrying and love corporate surveillance.)
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Great analysis, thanks for writing it!
I just wanted to tell you that, unfotunately, Uber actually is in the list of the sponsors, just not in the 'platinum' one but the 'premier' ones
Aral Balkan
in reply to Volpit • • •Hah, when I wrote that six years ago, it was meant to be a warning, not an instruction manual 🤷♂️
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