A much younger Aral delivers a warning about where surveillance tech is headed twelve years ago.
The terms I use might have evolved as I did since then (“free” as in freedom, instead of “open” as in open for business, “design” instead of “user experience”, “people” instead of “consumers”) but I’m still working on realising the exact same goal with Small Tech and the Small Web.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=yHoLopZSYJw
(Apologies for the YouTube link. Please feel free to rip and rehost if you like.)
💕
#tech #surveillance
Aral Balkan
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