Aral Balkan — Certain Unalienable Cyborg Rights

Oct 31, 2017

Episode Description

Joined with Simon St. Laurent in talking with Aral Balkan. Aral is a cyborg rights activist and one-third of Ind.ie, a small non-profit organization working for social justice in the digital age. At Ind.ie, he works on Better, a privacy tool that stops trackers while you are surfing the web on Safari browser on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac.


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Time Jumps

  • 2:34 What is a cyborg rights activist?
  • 12:55 General Data Protection Regulation discussion.
  • 17:30 A lot of us were lied to when we started out.
  • 24:25 We’ve replaced the publishing industry with the behavioral advertising industry.
  • 26:10 China has embraced capitalism as well.
  • 35:50 How do we inform people about data security?
  • 41:50 The revolving door, multistakeholderism, co-regulation, and a conversation with Eric Schmidt.
  • 1:00:00 Mastadon and decentralized networking and the city of Ghent.

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