The Great Hack workshop wiki
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The Great Hack workshop (Q1096)
Practicalities
- Day 1 4.45pm-5.45pm
Introduction
Lessons from "The Great Hack"
- David Carroll's actions have helped go beyond the usual (lack of) data protection enforcement.
- Authorities sometimes need complaints and evidence.
- You can be an inspiration.
- Journalists dropped the ball
- Time for action.
Youtubers' Union
Youtubers are affected by algorithms demonetizing their content, based on unclear criteria. In the FairTube campaign, they are demanding better working conditions, mostly through transparency. They are exercising these demands collectively in an alliance with IG Metall (one of Europe's largest labor unions), with a threat of going individual(!) through the GDPR.
By now they got out of their ultimatum to Youtube some formal sitdown encounter.
Uber drivers
Transparency surface
- concept
- examples (recent complaint)
- rights associated to it
- expansion
Plan
- Right of access: why it exists
- Overall strategy: think, request/demand, argue, amplify, pressure; rinse and repeat
Use case
- Lumascape