In June 2021 Mark Zuckerberg announced a new Facebook project called the metaverse in an interview with The Verge. Since then, there has not been a lot of new information regarding the project. This changed a couple of days ago when Facebook released a blog post that they are going to hire 10,...

Matrix is an open-source project that publishes the Matrix open standard for secure, decentralized, real-time communication. In this blog post, I will compare the Matrix protocol with some of the most commonly used centralized instant messengers, namely Whats App, Signal, and Telegram. For a compari...

In my last post, I explained why it is important that you get rid of WhatsApp as soon as possible. You might ask yourself how this would be possible since almost everybody around you uses WhatsApp as their main or only instant messenger. WhatsApp is the most commonly used instant messenger in Euro...

It all began in September 2021 when The Wall Street Journal started to publish a series of articles called The Facebook Files: A Wall Street Journal Investigation. It is based on a review of internal Facebook documents, including research reports, online employee discussions, and drafts of present...

The Digital Markets Act (DMA) establishes criteria for qualifying large online platforms as so-called gatekeepers, a metaphor for internet monopolies, which keep their data and services locked up for the outer world and only grant access if users comply with their unfair terms of services. This ac...