Freddy @freddy@social.privacytools.io

What’s all this about Europe wanting crypto backdoors?

https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/09/whats-all-this-about-europe-wanting-crypto-backdoors/

https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/jswghu/nextdns_is_leaking_your_email_address_to/gc4b3u0/

NextDNS violated their Privacy Policy, which clearly states they will NEVER share their users' information with anyone.

Yet they *were* sending their users' emails to Intercom's servers without consent, subjecting their information to Intercom's Privacy Policy, and potentially other Policies.

NextDNS knew about the issue weeks prior, to be dismissed under the integration being temporary, and Intercom being labeled as a tool, not a data sharing platform.

We live in Philip K. Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s. Dick believed that we all live in a world where “spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups—and the electronic hardware exists by which to deliver these pseudo-worlds right into heads of the reader.” #distopia
https://bostonreview.net/literature-culture/henry-farrell-philip-k-dick-and-fake-humans

Me in @hackernoon: How @plausible is paving the way for ethical analytics.

https://hackernoon.com/plausible-is-paving-the-way-for-ethical-analytics-n0293z4l

US Government Continues #Encryption War

https://blog.privacytools.io/us-government-continues-encryption-war/

Popular app T&Cs 'longer than Harry Potter'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54838978

DEV.TO!!! WHAT YA DOING? You have a footer and an endless timeline on your homepage! I can't click on your footer links

One Clear Message From Voters This Election? More #Privacy

https://www.wired.com/story/one-clear-message-voters-election-more-privacy/

I won the lottery today!!!!

Well, I only got the first two numbers, but my lawyers are working on having them stop the count.