Qwant @Qwant@social.privacytools.io

This story sounds surrealistic, but it' s true. Mass surveillance is a real danger to our freedom and privacy.

Especially when our informations are sold on the black market... 🔒

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/12/06/as-moscow-s-facial-recognition-system-activates-journalists-find-access-to-it-for-sale-on-the-black-market

Where can we buy this sweater?

"These cookie disclosures are also a symptom of one of the internet’s ongoing and fundamental failings when it comes to online privacy"

Great article that explains well the role of cookies 👏

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/12/10/18656519/what-are-cookies-website-tracking-gdpr-privacy

🤔🤔🤔

https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/18/21028600/edward-snowden-book-profits-government-judge-ruling-memoir-sales

Congratulations to Ghostery which continues to grow and now unveils a new privacy friendly tool.

We share the same values and are happy to see that the web is finally evolving towards another model.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/19/21028041/ghostery-midnight-desktop-app-browser-privacy-tracker-ad-block-vpn

Christmas is coming soon. 🎁

Mozilla made a guide to help us to buy safe products. Have look at it before offering to your mum a smart speaker that spys on you 😉.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/

In a decade, technology has known everything and ended up losing its mind.

This model has come to an end.

It's time to close this interlude in the history of the Internet. Now let's go back to the values of its founders.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/15/technology/decade-in-tech.html

It's online!

T-shirts, mugs, mouse pads, sweatshirts.... Discover the Qwant store 👕

➡️ http://store.qwant.com/

Let's go for the #AskMeAnything marathon. 💻

Eric Leandri is in control. Tristan Nitot will join him in a few minutes!

Thank you all for your questions. We'll try to answer everyone.

https://www.reddit.com/r/france/comments/e4vo55/ama_je_suis_eric_leandri_president_et_cofondateur/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Partnership with Microsoft, the future of Qwant, the progress of Qwant Mail...
Our CEO @Eric_Leandri will answer your questions on Reddit.

From 2pm (Paris time)

We are very proud to be able to announce our partnership with
Samsung Internet.

It's now possible to set Qwant as your default search engine.

https://medium.com/samsung-internet-dev/welcome-qwant-3e665f5ce310

Google and Facebook are backers of the Contract for the Web, which lists privacy as a core principle. But the companies continue to slurp up user data.

https://www.wired.com/story/whats-digital-bill-rights-without-enforcement/?bxid=5c48f10c24c17c44341e77ef&cndid=52098189&esrc=Wired_etl_load&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_112619&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_term=list1_p2

except with Qwant 🙂

Privacy issues are still not well known to the public. It is also our role to explain the subject and raise awareness.

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/11/15/americans-and-privacy-concerned-confused-and-feeling-lack-of-control-over-their-personal-information/

Humanizing artificial intelligence so that you feel like you're talking to a real person who's telling the truth.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/26/20984629/amazon-alexa-voice-disappointment-empathetic-happy-excited-newscaster-music-us-australia

If the future is not private, we will force it to become so.

There are already several clothes available to fight facial recognition 🎭

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/clothes-accessories-that-outsmart-facial-recognition-tech-2019-10

If targeting companies were retailers...

We totally agree with that. Censorship and Internet surveillance are related topics.

That's why we provide a search engine without tracking and without customized filter bubbles.

https://www.cnet.com/features/the-watchdogs-tracking-secret-online-censorship-across-the-globe-ooni/?ftag=COS-05-10aaa0b

iPhone owners, beware. It appears Facebook might be actively using your camera without your knowledge while you’re scrolling your feed.

https://thenextweb.com/apps/2019/11/12/facebook-camera-ios-iphone/

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