Freddy @freddyym@social.privacytools.io

If you run a website that uses reCAPTCHA to distinguish between humans and robots, you're sending your users' data to Google.

Respect their privacy and look for an alternative.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/cloudflare-drops-googles-recaptcha-due-to-privacy-concerns/

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1252232304816078849

Germany’s #CoronoApp as described by @PeppPt@twitter.com seems to have quite an Orwellian feel. I’m not only disappointed. I’m quite shocked. https://github.com/DP-3T/documents/blob/master/Security%20analysis/PEPP-PT_%20Data%20Protection%20Architechture%20-%20Security%20and%20privacy%20analysis.pdf

How one blog post can change the traction of a startup.

Since publishing "Why you should stop using Google Analytics", Plausible Analytics has had a huge week:

https://plausible.io/blog/blog-post-changed-my-startup

The people who are protesting to have the quarantine lifted... Are doing exactly what happened during the 1918 pandemic and then twice as many people died during the second hump... so if we want three times as many people to die overall then we should lift the sanctions early... So no we should not lift the sanctions.

@OCRbot

With #privacytoolsio shutting down their gitea instance, you might want of #selfhost your git forge from now on.

If you want to exchange about what might fits your needs, how to setup things and how other people handle some situations and setups, might join the git hosters rooms on matrix:

https://shivering-isles.com/matrix#git-hosters

See you around

Pop_OS! is great, and is now my sons OS, but I couldn't stay away from Manjaro.

I think I have a problem. lol.

U.S. judge blocks Twitter's bid to reveal government #surveillance requests

#Twitter Inc will not be able to reveal surveillance requests it received from the U.S. #government after a federal judge accepted government arguments that this was likely to harm national security after a near six-year long legal battle.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-twitter-lawsuit/u-s-judge-blocks-twitters-bid-to-reveal-government-surveillance-requests-idUSKBN2200CS #socialmedia

Whistleblower: #NSA Goal Is 'Total Population Control'

William Binney worked for the National Security Agency as a code-breaker for more than 30 years. At a recent conference, he said their ultimate goal is total population control.

https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=pHIT2f1l_MQ #surveillance #privacy

Swiss pull out of European contact tracing App project
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/sci-tech/coronavirus-science_swiss-pull-out-of-european-contact-tracing-app-project/45699230 #privacy #covid19

How many of us would it take to publicly persuade Mozilla to ditch #Google Analytics on their website?

They are on Twitter https://mobile.twitter.com/mozilla and https://www.instagram.com/mozilla/

The lockdown forces Hong Kong demonstrators to stay home. To keep up the fight, they now organize demonstrations on the Nintendo game Animal Crossing.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/animal-crossing-hong-kong-protests-coronavirus

Twitter has removed the ability to opt out of data sharing, underscoring the very real problem with #privacy on many websites that utilize ads to “keep the lights on.”

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/twitter-removes-privacy-option-and-shows-why-we-need-strong-privacy-laws

#twitter #mastodon #decentralize #tech

Want to turn your blog into an eBook? We just launched a new feature to do just this — eBook exports for all your blogs & hashtagged posts!

We'd love for you to try it out. Take a look at our announcement to learn how to participate: https://discuss.write.as/t/ebook-add-on/1271

My Dad just asked my why Libre Office changed the save icon to a down arrow, I showed him this pic to explain 😂

If you want to introduce someone to Tor, this animation is a great place to start. https://youtu.be/JWII85UlzKw