Freddy @freddy@social.privacytools.io

I won the lottery today!!!!

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

The #Privacy Glass House Mentality

https://www.startpage.com/privacy-please/privacy-advocate-articles/the-privacy-glass-house-mentality

Safety Detectives does seem to offer a lot of affiliate links, which seems against the mission of That One Privacy Site, so I don't know if I am being overly critical of this merger, or if in the end it doesn't really matter...

#ThatOnePrivacySite Merges with #SafetyDetectives

https://www.safetydetectives.com/blog/announcement-tops/

Two of our members have used the #GDPR to request access to their data from the coupon extension Honey. Our analysis of the responses shows that Honey collects browser history data, contrary to own their privacy policy. Thus, we have submitted complaints.

https://www.datarequests.org/blog/honey-data-collection/

Don’t Give Up on Your Digital #Privacy Yet

https://slate.com/technology/2020/07/data-privacy-surveillance-law-marketers.html

Why getting paid for your data is a bad deal.

«#Privacy should not be a luxury. It should not be a bargaining chip. It should never have a price tag».

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/why-getting-paid-your-data-bad-deal

#privacyMatters

Have a safe #Halloween, people of Mastodon and beyond ~ 🎃

I'm pleased to announce #Reddit has achieved its goal in becoming one of the top 10 green companies in the world!

The front page is now made up of over 90% recycled content

Big announcement time 🎉

This #keyoxide project started as a "labor of love" side project but the awesome community response clearly showed me it deserved even more attention and care.

I'm excited to announce that NLnet / @NGIZero will be funding the project, allowing me to dedicate my full time to it and contribute in my own way to our collective struggle for online identity and security.

I thank all of you for your motivating feedback. Now, we can really begin 😎

https://nlnet.nl/project/Keyoxide/

Heh Google is working on their own public VPN.

“Privacy is at the core of the products and services we build. With VPN by Google One, we will never use the VPN connection to track, log, or sell your online activity.

Open sourcing our VPN and providing an audit are just some of the steps we are taking to ensure user privacy.”

https://one.google.com/about/vpn

https://www.gstatic.com/subscriptions/marketing_page/vpn/white_paper_4f995ab5d7c7edc3d3f14f2e0593f790.pdf

#Privacy

This cat is vibing

“Surprise” of the day: if you add a security.txt file to your website, the only “people” to notice will be spam bots. 😢

#Zoom rolls out #encryption for all desktop and mobile users

https://www.zdnet.com/article/zoom-rolls-out-encryption-for-all-desktop-and-mobile-users/

Donald Trump’s website briefly defaced by cryptomining scammers

https://grahamcluley.com/donald-trumps-website-briefly-defaced-by-cryptomining-scammers/

Use a mask, use Tor. And now, use your Tor mask! Make a gift of $50 before Dec. 31 and get your very own 😷
https://torproject.org/donate/donate-usetor-md

The Digital Privacy Show: A weekly podcast that covers the most important news stories regarding the intersection between technology and your personal privacy. In 10 minutes or less.

https://dps.fm/

This is a good write-up of the #youtubedl situation that should be accessible to non-techies:
https://freedom.press/news/riaa-github-youtube-dl-journalist-tool/

If you need something to link your friends, family, or political representative to so that they can understand how absolutely preposterous and harmful the youtube-dl takedown is, this is a good link to have at hand.

SimpleLogin Review - How Have I Survived Without It!? https://tube.privacytools.io/videos/watch/6a9b78a4-8455-4cab-9fdf-03b016f81768

Note on the #youtubedl DMCA takedown this night.

In a very unusual turn RIAA justifies the takedown request with EU/German law and claim US analogy to EU rules. (the attachment with a copy of the Hamburg court rule they refer to somehow not linked, one can only guess that this links to §95a UrhG).

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-23-RIAA.md​