"Social media" companies are built on a big lie: they don't care about us socializing; they are data mining companies that make money through targeted ads
Elena RossiniNovember 30, 2021
We've entered a brave new world of "Smart TVs": virtually all television sets now record, store and sometimes share with third parties massive amounts of data about viewers' TV habits.…
Elena RossiniFebruary 4, 2020
Let’s play a game. It’s 2008. You have a brand new smartphone that is making your life so much easier: from ubiquitous email, to maps and GPS, and the world’s…
Elena RossiniJanuary 15, 2020
In praise of friction. Friction is the best defense against Big Tech's assault on our attention and power of concentration.
Elena RossiniNovember 19, 2019
Amnesty International's director Kumi Naidoo spoke at Web Summit 2019 about the "surveillance industrial complex" and what we should think about when we talk about "breaking up Big Tech."
Elena RossiniNovember 18, 2019
American whistleblower Edward Snowden at Web Summit 2019: "But data isn't harmless. It is not data that is being exploited. It is people that are being exploited."
Elena RossiniNovember 5, 2019
I believe the real reason has to do with surveillance capitalism: extracting more precious user data and increasing the time spent on the platform.
Elena RossiniJuly 30, 2019
Hundreds of millions of websites have hidden, secret trackers that measure our behavior online. Here is how I enhance my privacy on mobile devices.
Elena RossiniJuly 19, 2019
