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Mark Zuckerberg would put a piece of tape on the camera and microphone of his computer.

At the same time he bought the 4 houses around his home to protect his privacy.

Anyway, !

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Four months after the launch of the Privacy Project, The New York Times takes stock of what has emerged.

Continue this excellent work of raising awareness about the importance of protecting your privacy.

Congratulations to the entire
team for this tremendous work of awareness 👏👏👏

nytimes.com/2019/07/16/opinion

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The government is demanding backdoor access to the private communications of 1.5 billion people using #WhatsApp. If @facebook agrees, it may be the largest overnight violation of privacy in history. nytimes.com/2019/10/03/us/poli

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"Accepting Alexa into your home means believing that Amazon isn’t somehow taking advantage of the data you’re giving it. In short, you have to trust them"

How can we trust voice assitants after all the scandals that have been going on?

theverge.com/2019/9/26/2088551

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The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. - John F. Kennedy

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Collaboration avec le FBI, la chance qui s’en mĂȘle & 1 million d’ordinateurs nettoyĂ©s sans que les propriĂ©taires ne s’en rendent compte: la gendarmerie française est revenue dans le dĂ©tail sur une spectaculaire opĂ©ration anti "botnet" liberation.fr/depeches/2019/09  @julesbonnard #AFP
#news

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I'd disable javascript, tracking, and fingerprinting in the browser, and even then I'd avoid the browser unless I had no choice. Better to browse on a laptop (w/ @QubesOS) which does not have a history of everywhere I've been, since it lacks GPS & Wifi, and has @Whonix built-in.

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I would not (and do not) use email, except as throwaways for registration. Email is a fundamentally insecure protocol that, in 2019, can and should be abandoned for the purposes of any meaningful communication. Email is unsafe. I'd use @Signalapp or @Wire as a safer alternative.

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We're worldwide! LibreOffice is available in over 100 languages, thanks to our community of translators and localisers. At the weekend, our Nepalese community celebrated Software Freedom Day with a localisation event: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl

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Apple unveiled iOS 13 yesterday. You may have noticed that many applications required permission to use Bluetooth.

This permission is not related to your headphones or Bluetooth headset. It is actually used so that apps can track you....

More explanations by The Verge âŹ‡ïž

theverge.com/2019/9/19/2086728

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“Qwant is created in Europe for the European citizens with European values”.

Former Mozilla Europe president, Tristan Nitot, who joined Qwant last year as VP of advocacy, has been promoted to Chief Executive.

techcrunch.com/2019/09/18/priv

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Le soleil se lÚve sur Nice, laboratoire en France de la Safe City et de la surveillance totale de l'espace urbain. C'est cette ville que nous avons choisi pour lancer un mouvement de résistance à la Technopolice

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September is coming soon and you will probably update your Linkedin profile.

On our blog , we explain how to protect your privacy as much as possible on this social network âŹ‡ïž

betterweb.qwant.com/how-to-pro

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More and more of you are using Qwant đŸŸ

Thanks to your support, we reached 80 million visits in July and the 20th position in the Top 30 in France.
Over the last three months, we have moved up to 29th position in the top 30.

This is huge! 👏 The movement is constantly growing! ⁠

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Tails, a live operating system relying on Tor that helps you to use the internet anonymously and circumvent censorship almost anywhere you go and on any computer, turns 10 today.

Happy birthday, Tails 🎂

lists.torproject.org/
/tor-
/2
tails.boum.org #FOSS #opensource #surveillance #internetfreedom #privacy

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#CroisonsLinfo

YouTube - comme tout systĂšme capitaliste - favorise l'extrĂȘme droite (promotion de vidĂ©os d'extrĂȘme droite et conspirationnistes) et est hostile aux LGBT (censure, dĂ©monĂ©tisation, affichage de publicitĂ©s hostiles aux lgbt)

Zéro surprise.

mamot.fr/@nothing2hide/1026143

pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/14/yout

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