[governance] [bestbits] Nominations for IGF closing and opening speakers

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

As you say, there is a huge temptation to say yes.

There are also alternatives - even internet based ones, rather than postal mail - that are more privacy conscious and that everyone is perfectly welcome to / encouraged to use.

> On 29-Oct-2015, at 5:58 PM, Deirdre Williams <williams.deirdre at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This is why the "human right" that concerns me most at the moment is the right to say no, the right to choose, the right to differ.
> Somewhere the sense that we have the freedom NOT to click has got lost in a compulsion that "this is the only way". "If I don't have Facebook I'll lose touch with my family." "This is a 'must have' app". These statements are still NOT TRUE, and we should not allow them to become true.
> Admittedly when recently I posted a letter to Barbados, just over 100 miles away, I was told that the letter would arrive "in the next two weeks", but it did arrive.
> Without the internet the selection procedure which gave this thread its subject would not have been possible within the time, but it would still have been possible. Might have taken a year or two, but we could have done it. :-)
> We are supposed to be using the tool, not the tool using us.
> We have a choice and we should exercise it before it atrophies and disappears.
> Deirdre
> 
> On 29 October 2015 at 02:29, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net <mailto:suresh at hserus.net>> wrote:
> Those are applications that 
> 
> 1. You choose to install
> 2. You choose to specifically grant those permissions to
> 
>> On 29-Oct-2015, at 11:28 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net <mailto:parminder at itforchange.net>> wrote:
>> 
>> Avast CEO shared analysis done by company of top 100 applications on Android in the month of September.
>> 
>> As per the analysis, 99 per cent of these applications have entire control of mobile phone which means they remotely operate phone as a user does and 92 per cent can view network connections.
>> 
>> One out of 10 of top 100 applications can record audio and take pictures and videos and 9 out of 10 are able to read storage content which can modify or delete, as per the report.
>> 
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