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- 533 million Facebook users’ personal data have been leaked
- Pandemic reveals Palantir’s troubling reach in Europe
- What’s Really at Stake with Vaccine Passports
Newsletter from 9 April 2021
[Advanced] Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Different Data Futures
This was such a treat to read and was quite interesting to imagine how as MyData community we can envision new imaginaries: “I suggest that these struggles and reactions are openings for thinking about different data futures through what I call an experiment in citizen data. It is an experiment that reconsiders relations between states, citizens and digital technologies in the production of data and statistics by imagining a new political subjectivity, that of the data citizen.” #future #reading
[Simple] 533 million Facebook users’ phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
The exposed data includes the personal information of over 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries, including over 32 million records on users in the US, 11 million on users in the UK, and 6 million on users in India. It includes their phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, and, in some cases, email addresses. #facebook #leak
[Intermediate] Your digital identity has three layers, and you can only protect one of them
[Intermediate] What’s Really at Stake with Vaccine Passports
What may appear to be temporary public health-related measures could risk embedding permanent digital identity infrastructure that threatens public life. #health-passport #privacy
