copycat_b @copycat_b@social.privacytools.io

Chapter 99 in The Tech Industry Is Broken With Problems It Has No Desire To Fix.

**NYPD officer charged with using banned chokehold on Black man**

"David Afanador was arrested on charges of strangulation and attempted strangulation over an altercation."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/06/nypd-officer-charged-banned-chokehold-black-man-200625152920276.html

#news #bot

If the "EARN It" anti-encryption bill wasn't bad enough, the newly introduced “Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act of 2020” is the the encryption backdoor mandate we've been dreading: https://u.fsf.org/33z

The contact-tracing apps springing up all over the world have the same potential to violate user freedom and privacy that all proprietary programs do. Plus, they can open the path for authoritarian governments to further violate human rights: https://u.fsf.org/33-

Don't get fooled by statements like this. A 3 months moving timeframe is more than enough for #Google to build a profile on you and selling it to ad-companies or States. They are just throwing away already analyzed data.

https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/keeping-private-information-private/

#privacyMatters

Man says he was falsely arrested after facial recognition mistake

Link: https://www.npr.org/2020/06/24/882678392/man-says-he-was-falsely-arrested-after-facial-recognition-mistake
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23628394

Facebook Announces Plan To Break Up U.S. Government Before It Becomes Too Powerful

@markosaric Hackers [are now] Using Google Analytics to Bypass Web Security and Steal Credit Cards

https://outline.com/k6dwY6

● NEWS ● #Schneier #Microsoft #Surveillance ☞ Identifying a Person Based on a Photo, #LinkedIn and Etsy Profiles, and Other Internet Bread Crumbs https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/06/identifying_a_p.html

● NEWS ● #Vice #Surveillance ☞ #Privacy -Focused OS Wants to Know How Facebook and the FBI Hacked it https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dyz3jy/privacy-focused-os-tails-wants-to-know-how-facebook-and-the-fbi-hacked-it