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As people stay in extended isolation, they are resorting to imaginative ways to organise collective, convivial and political moments. These are just some examples of the ways people are organising sociality and conviviality:
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# Web radio
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# Web radios
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# Conference Calls
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# Connectivity
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During this crisis, online video conferencing has come to the fore.
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## Problems with corporate tools
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Many of the main conference call tools people are using during the lock-downs have come under public scrutiny for having policies that might damage their users.
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ZOOM: According to Jamie Zawinski, one of the founders of Netscape and Mozilla.org, Zoom is particularly 'terrible':
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> Zoom's privacy page states: "Whether you have Zoom account or not, we may collect Personal Data from or about you when you use or otherwise interact with our Products." This includes, but is not limited to, your physical address, phone number, your job title, credit and debit card information, your Facebook account, your IP address, your OS and device details, and more." Further, the app allows your boss to spy on you far beyond what's okay in an office setting (Zoom has an attention-tracking feature that can alert hosts if you look away (update: as of April 2, 2020, Zoom have removed the attendee attention tracker feature due to widespread protests).. From EFF: [...] "Admins have the ability to join any call at any time on their organization's instance of Zoom, without in-the-moment consent or warning for the attendees of the call."
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> Zoom Meetings Aren't End-To-End Encrypted, Despite Misleading Marketing:
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> The meeting is secured with end-to-end encryption, at least according to Zoom's website, its security white paper, and the user interface within the app. But despite this misleading marketing, the service actually does not support end-to-end encryption for video and audio content, at least as the term is commonly understood. Instead it offers what is usually called transport encryption. [...]
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> Without end-to-end encryption, Zoom has the technical ability to spy on private video meetings and could be compelled to hand over recordings of meetings to governments or law enforcement in response to legal requests. While other companies like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft publish transparency reports that describe exactly how many government requests for user data they receive from which countries and how many of those they comply with, Zoom does not publish a transparency report.
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SOURCE: [Zoom is bad and you should feel bad](https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/03/zoom-is-bad-and-you-should-feel-bad/?fbclid=IwAR0D0YroobD_i4ZhmISVN4FbHuCe_n64o0u3hPkeAedqdHrPPg6km-WTFoI)
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We are very aware that engaging, experimenting with and learning about different tools and alternative technologies is something that not everyone is able to do, as conditions of work and life vary and often are not supportive of such extra efforts. However, the technopolitical aspect of the pandemic is calling for a very serious collective reflection around our technological futures. Could mainstream technological infrastructures be created beyond corporate solutions that extract data and provide employers and governments with biased surveillance tools? There are many initiatives out there that have been producing some amazing alternatives which go in the direction of empowering users and communities in their relationship with tech. While we are not purist in our approach, as our online presence is part of broad ecosystems and connectivity is in this time more important than ever, we hope some of the resources linked here will inspire and sustain others in become less entangled with set ups we don't want nor consent to.
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## Alternative tools
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Introduction to some of the key issues:
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- [What You Should Know About Online Tools During the COVID-19 Crisis, by Electronic Frontier Foundation, 19 March 2020](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/what-you-should-know-about-online-tools-during-covid-19-crisis) (ENG / ESP)
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- [Technology is Stupid, by Tactical Tech](https://tacticaltech.org/#/news/technology-is-stupid)
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**(some) Video conferencing tools**
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- [Jitsi.org](https://jitsi.org/) - a multi-user video conference client, or use ours, all our tools are 100% free, open source, and WebRTC compatible.
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- [Collective Tools: a cooperative cloud company.](https://meet.collective.tools/?fbclid=IwAR1cbNaWYUKKeFIcmI7N4n5VtIPS6n82h1HbCOKanpXCDc_zloJ6FZLAMjw) Encrypted open source video conferencing.
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- [p2p.chat](https://p2p.chat/) - free, no limit on participants, in a browser, no login/account, and fully p2p encrypted even in multiple-participants calls
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- [https://peercalls.com/](no registration, browser-based, FLOSS)
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- [https://chatb.org/]
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**Repositories with v useful resources / tools:**
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- The [Digital Solidarity Networks](https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/digital-solidarity-networks) has been collating a shared listing of tools, practices and readings for digital solidarity and conviviality.[Tactical Tech's Security in a Box](https://tacticaltech.org/#/projects/security-in-a-box)
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- [Online tools for the pandemic by the Faces + Eclectic Tech Carnival mailing lists](https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/online-tools-for-the-pandemic)
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- [Tactical Tech's Gender and Technology](https://tacticaltech.org/#/projects/gender-technology)
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- [Digital Self-Defense Knowledgebase](https://defendourmovements.org/)
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- [Detroit Community Technology Project](https://detroitcommunitytech.org/)
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- [Consentful Tech Project](https://alliedmedia.org/consentful-tech-project)
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- [Free Software Foundation's High Priority Projects page on Real-time voice and video chat](https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/voicevideochat)
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## Other resources on online meetings:
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- [Leading Groups Online. A down and dirty guide to leading online courses, meetings, training and events during the coronavirus pandemic](http://www.leadinggroupsonline.org/ebooks/Leading%20Groups%20Online.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1HrMP9KHWigpdYzxDhansutz_g8RIeA5Aslebe6Ky642Squi5bwGISFRM)
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- [The reason Zoom calls drain your energy](https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200421-why-zoom-video-chats-are-so-exhausting?ocid=ww.social.link.facebook&fbclid=IwAR1FugA5ky6jPmroVhu5PzS4dRnO3-Z8Gdct2vXrrfJNViZezC-x4hkEKmc)
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# Digital Solidarity Networks
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[Digital Solidarity Networks](https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/digital-solidarity-networks) is a shared listing of tools, practices and readings for digital solidarity and conviviality.
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To whoever encounters this pad: this is work-in-progress, please join! This is the start of a listing of some resources regarding mutual aid strategies and social closeness through alternative digital infrastructures in times of physical distancing, remote working or care giving, etc. This pad contains examples of collective digital alternative practices, in a time where everything points to the further consolidation and accelerated normalization of the Big Tech industry (Zoom, Facebook groups, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Skype, etc.). Other attitudes are possible.
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# Balconies' get-together
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# Balconies'get-together
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**Sources:**
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- [Aplausos en toda España para agradecer al personal sanitario su titánico esfuerzo](https://www.elperiodico.com/es/sociedad/20200314/coronavirus-aplausos-vecinos-personal-medico-7890204)
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