Kalimah W. Lestari
kal-lestari.bsky.social
Kalimah W. Lestari
@kal-lestari.bsky.social
Lecturer in Political Science, Universitas Airlangga
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New article on AI and epistemic agency published in the journal Social Epistemology

www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
www.tandfonline.com
March 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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"As Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg continue to reshape the social media space, a group of international tech entrepreneurs and advocates has launched a campaign to protect social media from the control and influence of billionaires."

techcrunch.com/2025/01/13/a...
A new campaign aims to safeguard social media from billionaires using Bluesky's underlying tech | TechCrunch
The initiative, Free Our Feeds, aims to protect Bluesky’s underlying technology, the AT Protocol, and leverage it to create an open social media ecosystem that can’t be controlled by a single company ...
techcrunch.com
January 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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2/ "The Tech Coup", by @marietjeschaake.bsky.social. What's cool about this book is that Marietje is an insider to the political process, so she has some great stories to tell, and they are well told. "People are disenfranchised when they do not know the rules they are governed by"
January 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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A propos of everything: My book is called The Tech Coup, How To Save Democracy From Silicon Valley ↘️ bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley a book by Marietje Schaake
An insider offers a "forceful critique...of Big Tech's steady erosion of democracy" (The New Yorker) and describes what must be done to stop it Over the past decades, under the cover of "innovation," ...
bookshop.org
January 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Some of the world’s most popular apps are likely being co-opted by rogue members of the ad industry to harvest sensitive location data on a massive scale and then sell it to law enforcement and intelligence agencies
www.404media.co/candy-crush-...
Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location
A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the scenes.
www.404media.co
January 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Excellent @eff.org piece on how data brokers get ads-related data to sell (to spyware vendors, etc.) This is something that always mystified me, but after reading this I finally get it!
Online Behavioral Ads Fuel the Surveillance Industry—Here’s How
Each time you see a targeted ad, your personal information is exposed to thousands of advertisers and data brokers through a process called “real-time bidding” (RTB). This process does more than deliv...
www.eff.org
January 10, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Hey everyone

I'm super excited to announce I have a new book forthcoming with Simon & Schuster!!

"Chasing Shadows: Cyber Espionage, Subversion and the Global Fight for Democracy"

It's a series of chronicles of the last 20 years of Citizen Lab sleuthing

www.simonandschuster.ca/books/Chasin...
September 18, 2024 at 3:37 PM