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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 23:37:30 JST Aral Balkan

   Are you a privacy professional? Would you like to work with companies like Google and Facebook to help them continue to violate our privacy? The W3C has a job for you.

   Pays well, by the way (violating human rights always does).

   https://www.w3.org/careers/2024-privacy-lead-job-posting/

   #W3C #hiring #webPrivacy #web #privacy #humanRights #privacyWashing #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #BigTech #BigWeb #google #facebook

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 23:41:40 JST Aral Balkan

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     • ⚛️Revertron :straight:

     @Revertron By working for an organisation that’s funded by them and exists to serve their needs? Odd approach.

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     ⚛️Revertron :straight: (revertron@zhub.link)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 23:41:43 JST ⚛️Revertron :straight:

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     @aral BTW, maybe this is a chance to get into position to be able to stop them? 🤔

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 23:43:09 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Snowshadow 🇨🇦

     @Snowshadow Oh, keep reading the list of members, it gets better ;)

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     Snowshadow 🇨🇦 (snowshadow@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 23:43:11 JST Snowshadow 🇨🇦

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     @aral
     I wasn't aware they were working with Meta (UGH)
     I knew I was following you for a good reason. Thanks for the info.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 23:51:33 JST Aral Balkan

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     • djw

     @_ Ditto. That salary would itself be enough to fund our work at Small Technology Foundation but would I consider letting corporations like Google and Facebook launder my legitimacy in privacy for any amount of money? Would I fuck! I’m not coin-operated.

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     djw (_@m.djw.li)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 23:51:45 JST djw

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     @aral Love your headline take.

     Principles do so often get in the way of making money, and I’m just fine with that.

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     Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (onepict@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jan-2024 21:12:47 JST Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

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     • ⚛️Revertron :straight:

     @Revertron @aral I don't think it's possible to change those orgs from the inside.

     Others have tried with places like Google and Facebook. The organisational cultures are ingrained into the foundations.

     Companies pay thousands of dollars to W3C to help formulate policy and web standards. Look at who pays in and formulates these standards.

     Yes there are community working groups. But very often those web standards are created to serve those big orgs needs.

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     ⚛️Revertron :straight: (revertron@zhub.link)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jan-2024 21:12:49 JST ⚛️Revertron :straight:

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     @aral I know, that it sounds silly, but what can we do? :(
     The best way is to take the job and try hard to ban those new "Privacy sandboxes" and such. Or am I being childish?

     Aral Balkan repeated this.