Thanks Olivier About upcoming data portability ?
https://euobserver.com/digital/137977 " As of 25 May 2018, EU citizens will have a new legal right that will help them switch digital services. It is called the right to data portability. " https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_portability On Wed, Jan 10, 2018, 18:50 olivier auber <[email protected]> wrote: > Open letter to Yann LeCun, former Professor at College de France, Head of > Research in Artificial Intelligence at Facebook. > > From Olivier Auber, researcher, Free University of Brussels (VUB) > > Dear Yann > > as a researcher as you are too, but in another area, that is Natural > Intelligence (NI), I would like to address you publicly to let you know > that I'm leaving Facebook, probably definitely. > > The reason is simple. Facebook is obviously a powerful tool of > communication. Many researchers I work with have become accustomed to using > it without asking too much questions for their informal exchanges. The > conversations that are conducted there are sometimes futile, but often also > of the greatest interest. > > But I realize that these conversations, in a way, no longer belong to us > when they are conducted on Facebook! > > The proof is that when you want to leave Facebook, the platform offers to > bring with you a summary archive. But this archive does not contain: > > - links included in your personal posts (just that!) > - discussions following your personal posts. > - Comments left on other posts > - the links of posts that you republish. > - your address book (you get the names, not the mails or other coordinates > theoretically shared with you) > > In short, it's a real hostage taking! > > In other words, Facebook looks like a sort of Far West saloon in which > alcohol would be free. If you go in, not to drink, but to simply chat with > your friends, you realize when you go out that your conversations and your > address book no longer belong to you. They belong to the boss of the > saloon! To top it off, the boss forbids you to say goodbye one by one to > your friends and retrieve their details. Personal messages are indeed > blocked after a few hundred! > > In short, by this open letter, I wish to alert my colleagues and more > generally all professional or independent intellectual workers. Do not post > your ideas on Facebook! Do not lead any interesting conversation on > Facebook! Instead, choose to chat on free distributed social networks such > as Diaspora or Mastodon. Choose shared intelligence platforms like > Seenthis. In particular, my friends, independent researchers or independent > artists, do not wait until Mark Zuckerberg, enriched to the extreme by your > free work, wants to pay you a basic income. He has no legitimacy to do > that! Instead, experiment with distributed free money creation networks > such as Duniter. > > Dear Yann, to conclude, I do not doubt that thanks to your talent and that > of the researchers you have gathered, Facebook can one day realize the most > beautiful Artificial Intelligence. On this day, however, by behaving like > this, Facebook is likely to be emptied of its users. Gone! > > Cheers > > Olivier Auber > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] > # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
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