No Facebook, no iPhone, no problem: how I declared my digital independence | Dan Gillmor

Dan Gillmor | The Guardian 2014-07-04

Summary:

Why pledge allegiance to the united tech giants of America and the surveillance for which they stand? I am one man, relatively invisible, with liberty and justice online

More than a decade ago, over the July 4th holiday, I declared my personal Independence Day and attempted to sever ties with Microsoft, then a pervasive and abusive technology monopoly.

I failed.

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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/04/no-facebook-no-iphone-digital-independence

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Tags:

facebook iphone google privacy us constitution and civil liberties encryption internet safety internet

Authors:

Dan Gillmor

Date tagged:

07/04/2014, 08:10

Date published:

07/04/2014, 07:30