@ekaitz_zarraga @civodul There are funders who support project proposals, even specifically privacy-oriented ones. Has Guix tried to help students propose to them? If not that might be a constructive way to address the problem, for sure. (Not sure if you were being rhetorical, but I think the idea is great).
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Spoon 🇺🇦 (spoon@freeradical.zone)'s status on Friday, 03-Mar-2023 20:11:11 CET Spoon 🇺🇦 @civodul Interested in your thoughts on #GSoC : given it's historically been for young people, the worry that it is #privacywashing should be on our minds, right? (I so value Guix, and people who work on it are likely to be privacy-conscious people, deepening the problem).
Hardly needs saying, but: Google is a major, structural reason for today's privacy problems on the web. They continue to circumvent privacy tools, and normalize surveillance with all its ill-effects for their own profit.
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Spoon 🇺🇦 (spoon@freeradical.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Jan-2019 07:51:38 CET Spoon 🇺🇦 Privacy conferences certainly don't mind having the likes of Google, Facebook, Palantir, and Acxiom among their sponsors (https://fpf.org/about/supporters/). Prominent privacy researchers don't mind serving on the board of Palantir, either (https://www.palantir.com/2012/11/announcing-the-palantir-council-on-privacy-and-civil-liberties/)