<div dir="ltr">Can we add those freedoms to what we are struggling for?<div>And commit individually and as a group to a "measured and balanced response"?</div><div>I certainly hope so. And I do.</div><div>Deirdre</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 October 2015 at 09:29, Seth Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:seth.p.johnson@gmail.com" target="_blank">seth.p.johnson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Plus: the right to have root on your own general purpose computing<br>
device. And to put your own keys there (rather than, say, Apple's).<br>
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Seth<br>
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On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Deirdre Williams<br>
<<a href="mailto:williams.deirdre@gmail.com">williams.deirdre@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> This is why the "human right" that concerns me most at the moment is the<br>
> right to say no, the right to choose, the right to differ.<br>
> Somewhere the sense that we have the freedom NOT to click has got lost in a<br>
> compulsion that "this is the only way". "If I don't have Facebook I'll lose<br>
> touch with my family." "This is a 'must have' app". These statements are<br>
> still NOT TRUE, and we should not allow them to become true.<br>
> Admittedly when recently I posted a letter to Barbados, just over 100 miles<br>
> away, I was told that the letter would arrive "in the next two weeks", but<br>
> it did arrive.<br>
> Without the internet the selection procedure which gave this thread its<br>
> subject would not have been possible within the time, but it would still<br>
> have been possible. Might have taken a year or two, but we could have done<br>
> it. :-)<br>
> We are supposed to be using the tool, not the tool using us.<br>
> We have a choice and we should exercise it before it atrophies and<br>
> disappears.<br>
> Deirdre<br>
><br>
> On 29 October 2015 at 02:29, Suresh Ramasubramanian <<a href="mailto:suresh@hserus.net">suresh@hserus.net</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Those are applications that<br>
>><br>
>> 1. You choose to install<br>
>> 2. You choose to specifically grant those permissions to<br>
>><br>
>> On 29-Oct-2015, at 11:28 AM, parminder <<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net">parminder@itforchange.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Avast CEO shared analysis done by company of top 100 applications on<br>
>> Android in the month of September.<br>
>><br>
>> As per the analysis, 99 per cent of these applications have entire control<br>
>> of mobile phone which means they remotely operate phone as a user does and<br>
>> 92 per cent can view network connections.<br>
>><br>
>> One out of 10 of top 100 applications can record audio and take pictures<br>
>> and videos and 9 out of 10 are able to read storage content which can modify<br>
>> or delete, as per the report.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
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