Finally: academics/speakers pull out of Amsterdam Privacy Conference due to sponsorship by surveillance capitalists. Sadly, it took three years since @ncilla and I first publicly complained about this but better late than never.
https://data-activism.net/2018/09/why-we-wont-be-at-apc-2018/ …
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If you have any legitimacy in privacy and you speak at privacy conferences sponsored by surveillance capitalists like Palantir, Google, and Facebook, prepare to lose that legitimacy. PS. Last tweet via https://ps.s10y.eu/@how/100821925956258287 …
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Here are some older posts on the subject that are still as relevant today:
* Rightscon or a right con? https://2018.ar.al/notes/rightscon-or-a-right-con …
* Why I’m not speaking at CPDP (Hint: it’s the privacy-washing, stupid!) https://2018.ar.al/notes/why-im-not-speaking-at-cpdp/ …
* 2015 - origins: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/aekw4b/people-are-mad-that-facebook-and-google-sponsored-a-privacy-event …
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