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I’m part of a panel talk organised by Queers Against Fascism in Stockholm! We will talk about digital privacy and alternative platforms. Tonight 15th of May at 19.00 It is online and public, join us!

We’ve all heard it before. Google, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Amazon track our every click and tap. They surveil our contact lists and map out our social connections. They read our every message and use this knowledge to increase their profits in any way they can.

After Meta changed their moderation policy to allow for overt hatred towards LGBTQ groups, people all around me have only one thing on their mind. How the heck do we stop using TwitterX, Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp? What if we also want to stop using Google, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon? Is that even possible? Where do we go!?

Some years ago I was completely locked up in facebook. Now the newsfeeds of social media no longer control me. I manage my own news sources using the free open technology called RSS. You can too, it is surprisingly easy!

Queer Haus is an alternative social media space created by and for artists, sex workers, queers and hacktisvists who want to challenge the dependency on the big-tech monopolies, to create a safer digital social space under the light of queer feminist anti-racist hacker values.

We live in the age of data collection. Everywhere we go we leave a trail of small pieces of knowledge. Each piece on its own doesn’t do much, but collecting and assembling these pieces into a personality profile is a huge business. That’s how advertisement networks target ads to you across apps and devices.

When you buy an Alexa speaker or a device with built in Google Assistant, you probably expect it to listen and record, at least when you talk to it. But there is something else in your home that is monitoring you all the time and sending that data to third parties. It is your “Smart” TV.

Most web developers work with their projects locally set up on their laptop to easily test things without having to push changes to a server. I prefer to use docker-compose and the “.test” top level domain so each projects ends up at: “www.project.test”

Take a look at this condensed keynote presentation from Facebooks developer conference. They know they are failing our trust and are trying do better. Sounds almost believable right? Clicking play above allows Google to track your visit to this website. Here's a non tracking link to this video ›