This is a text automatically translated from Italian. If you appreciate our work and if you like reading it in your language, consider a donation to allow us to continue doing it and improving it.
Content index
We tried to summarize some good news within the scope of privacy. The good news for June it's nothing more than an article he wants to put together a little optimism and leave behind the usual "nothing changes anyway" or the ugly clickbait.
None of this news is so sensational as to probably deserve an ad hoc article, for this reason we decided to put them together because each of these is a small, but important, piece towards a society in some way more attentive to privacy.
The good news of June, let's start from Facebook
Let's start with the good old Facebook, now one old acquaintance. There are many companies (and private individuals) that are boycotting Facebook for several reasons. Both because he is allowing Trump to say anything without intervening in any way (unlike of Twitter) and because it is in no way attempting to counteract the racism within his social network. Many companies have decided to boycott it, we were saying. From Verizon And Unilever at the Coca Cola That will no longer advertise (for a month) on Facebook. Even companies Patagonia And North Face they decided to participate in the boycott avoiding advertising their products"until Facebook takes action against racism“. Last but not least Starbucks also added. Here you will find a list comprehensive of all companies.
Apart from this recently the European Parliament approved a non-binding motion (it's not a law, therefore) on blocking personalized advertising Google And Facebook. The risk that it is just a decoy is high, but the direction seems correct to us.
Latest news on Facebook: German antitrust wins appeal against Facebook. In fact, he stated that it is illegal to collect and melt personal data following users also on Instagram, Whatsapp and around the internet. A hard blow for Zuckerberg's company which makes the metadata collection a reason for living.
As we said at the beginning of the article: small pieces, little things that give us a little hope for the future.
Soro and the Italian cloud
Let's change the subject and we cite the Privacy Guarantor Antonello Soro who hopes for a national cloud. It is therefore enough to rely on American servers for the data of the Italian public administration. It's hard not to agree and we hope it can be achieved too something really competitive. Hoping it doesn't end, as too often happens, a tarallucci and wine (in bribes and to friends of friends).
Boston against facial recognition
Boston has decided to ban the use of facial recognition surveillance. It therefore becomes the tenth city of the United States to ban the Government's use of the technology Facial recognition. While here in some cities, for example How, they are going in the opposite direction. Let's hope they are just experiments destined to fail (also for reasons like this).
The good news of June: Italians and privacy
The last semi-good news: it seems that the Italians, at least in words, are raising their heads when it comes to privacy. In fact, in the polls they say so concerned about privacy, but many of them decide to don't give up on social media. It is really difficult for ordinary people to make a U-turn on this matter. To the people I like social media and you have to come to terms with it a little without generalizing And without blaming Nobody. However, it is wrong for social media to collect data more or less legally.
There must be a reason why Zuckerberg he's a billionaire while Facebook is free, no?
Don't know English? Use the extension of Mate Translate to translate the entire page! We talk about it in our article on alternatives to Google Translate.
Join communities
If you have found errors in the article you can report them by clicking here, Thank you!