Over 800 nonprofits joined together to Save .ORG. Now, they're calling on Public Interest Registry to commit to fair pricing and freedom of expression. https://savedotorg.org

**Freddy** · Jun 26, 2020, 03:30

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**Electronic Frontier Foundation** @eff@mastodon.social · Jun 26, 2020, 03:30

Jun 26, 2020, 03:30

Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff@mastodon.social

Google's buying FitBit...and slurping in all the data FitBit users provided. We asked FitBit users what they thought, and we got an EARFUL https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/your-objections-google-fitbit-merger

**Freddy** · Jun 25, 2020, 19:14

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**Privacy International** @privacyint@mastodon.xyz · Jun 25, 2020, 19:14

Jun 25, 2020, 19:14

Privacy International @privacyint@mastodon.xyz

Google's interests in our health data should worry us all! We’re working with @accessnow @article19org @edri @Homo_Digitalis_ @idec to fight their merger with Fitbit. Sign the petition to demand the deal gets blocked!

https://pvcy.org/googbit #NotOnOurWatch https://nitter.net/privacyint/status/1276232191165509637/photo/1

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**Freddy** · Jun 25, 2020, 19:41

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**phatboi** @fatboy@fosstodon.org · Jun 25, 2020, 19:41

Jun 25, 2020, 19:41

phatboi @fatboy@fosstodon.org

Google’s Promise to Delete Your Data Has a Major Loophole

https://gizmodo.com/google-s-promise-to-delete-your-data-has-a-major-loopho-1844152664

**Freddy** · Jun 25, 2020, 21:30

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**The New Oil** @thenewoil@freeradical.zone · Jun 25, 2020, 21:30

Jun 25, 2020, 21:30

The New Oil @thenewoil@freeradical.zone

TikTok copies your clipboard

https://nitter.net/jeremyburge/status/1275896482433040386

**Freddy** · Jun 25, 2020, 12:35

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**sтυx⚡** @stux@mstdn.social · Jun 25, 2020, 12:35

Jun 25, 2020, 12:35

sтυx⚡ @stux@mstdn.social

Sometimes I wish we never made Twitter <=> Mastodon coss-posting possible.

I don't wanna see your second hand 'Tweets' on here please

**Freddy** @freddyym@social.privacytools.io · Jun 25, 2020, 14:07

**Freddy** @freddyym@social.privacytools.io · Jun 25, 2020, 14:07

Jun 25, 2020, 14:07

Freddy @freddyym@social.privacytools.io

Today I heard someone say "I'm going to google something" , then they corrected themselves (with no prompt whatsoever) to "actually I'm going to DuckDuckGo it because google is devil spawn".

I am rather happy.

**Freddy** · Jun 25, 2020, 09:53

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**Decentralize.Today** @Decentralize_today@mastodon.social · Jun 25, 2020, 09:53

Jun 25, 2020, 09:53

Decentralize.Today @Decentralize_today@mastodon.social

The Senate’s New Anti-Encryption Bill Is Even Worse Than EARN IT, and That’s Saying Something

Right now, we rely on secure technologies like never before—to cope with the pandemic, to organize and march in the streets, and much more. Yet, now is the moment some members of the Senate Judiciary and Intelligence Committees have chosen to try to effectively outlaw encryption in those very...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/senates-new-anti-encryption-bill-even-worse-earn-it-and-thats-saying-something

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**Freddy** · Jun 25, 2020, 05:57

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**Strypey** @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz · Jun 25, 2020, 05:57

Jun 25, 2020, 05:57

Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

It's about time we stopped buying into the propaganda phrase "ad blockers", and started calling user-protection tools like #uBlockOrigin and #NoScript what they are; spy blockers. If I display ads on my website using HTML and CSS, spy blockers won't block those. As far as they know, the text, images, audio, or video that make up the ads could be anything. So what's really being blocked is not ads, but tracking. Thanks to the authors of this site, for pointing this out:
https://shouldiblockads.com/