Freddy @freddyym@social.privacytools.io

One of the first and most important steps when deciding to take data privacy more seriously is to create an honest threat model.

What information am I trying to protect and who are you protecting it from?

Learn more in my latest blog for Startpage.

https://www.startpage.com/blog/privacy-awareness/first-step-toward-privacy-design-threat-model/

#Nextcloud Partners with #IONOS

In times of crisis, #opensource projects step up big. That’s exactly what Nextcloud has done. In the current climate, companies have had to quickly migrate to cloud solutions, only to find themselves bumping up against serious #privacy and #security issues. Because of the 2018 CLOUD act, The CLOUD Act, authorities could obtain data without prior judicial review for this request. http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Nextcloud-Partners-with-IONOS

The #Matrix crew are hoping to turn on #E2EE by default soon, with device cross-signing. Demo here, starts about 1:42:00: https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=APVp-20ATLk

Israeli spyware firm says #Facebook tried to buy its spy tools in 2017 - Business Insider

https://www.businessinsider.com/nso-group-facebook-buy-pegasus-spyware-lawsuit-2020-4
#deletefacebook #whatsapp

Over 1.4M doctor's personal information is being sold underground. This underscores the need for good #encryption, #privacy legislation & better data practices.

Reach out to your member of Congress now. Let them know that #COVID19 doctors, and the pandemic at large, are being used for nefarious deeds. Ask them to denounce the EARN IT act & to create strong privacy legislation in their district.

https://www.hackread.com/personal-data-us-doctors-sold-hacker-forum/ (FYI This site uses trackers)

Originally found at @Decentralize_today

EARN IT is a law proposed by Attorney General William Barr to stop American tech companies from using encryption. We must fight any attempt to destroy encryption! 💪✊ #fight4privacy
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/earn-it-barr-encryption/

Live streaming is booming and one open source app is a key part of this growth. OBS Studio is used by tens of millions of creators and some 320,000 unique visitors come to its site every day.

"Anyone's a Celebrity Streamer With This App"

https://www.wired.com/story/anyones-celebrity-streamer-open-source-app/

More ProtonVPN servers arrive in Latin America! We recently installed 3 new Basic Plan and 5 Plus Plan servers in Buenos Aires, Argentina! 🇦🇷 You can find all the details in our blog post: https://protonvpn.com/blog/argentina-new-servers/?utm_campaign=ww-en-2a-vpn-coms_com-vpn_blog_post&utm_source=mastodon.social&utm_medium=link&utm_content=argentina_servers&utm_term=ms_post_11

UK government using confidential patient data in #coronavirus response

Exclusive: Documents seen by Guardian show tech firms using information to build ‘Covid-19 datastore’
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/12/uk-government-using-confidential-patient-data-in-coronavirus-response #privacy

Johnny Magrippis has done this on his personal site.

He writes: "I’ve also made its analytics public, if you fancy a look, which is a feature Plausible offers I wanted to try out while I’m evaluating the whole thing!"

The site is at https://magrippis.com/ and the stats are https://plausible.io/magrippis.com

Using a VPN can help protect your privacy online, but it isn't a catch-all. @RaeHodge explains that a VPN can't:

1. Hide "gaming at work" from your boss
2. Protect you from computer viruses & tracking
3. Get you online during an internet shutdown

https://www.cnet.com/news/vpns-3-things-they-cant-help-you-with/

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1249333198447837184

TIL how v3 onion services improve over v2:
- Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
- Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to directory servers.
- Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for targeted attacks.
- Better onion address security against impersonation.
- More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
- A cleaner and more modular codebase.

https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/tor-onion-service.html.en#four

#Privacy #Tor

All eyes on Zoom:

1⃣ Zoom will “probably” strip all tracking and cookies from its website
2⃣ All meetings will require password protection
3⃣ They'll consider open-sourcing Zoom’s code

Promising words. Now hope to see some action.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2020/04/03/all-eyes-on-zoom-how-the-at-home-eras-breakout-tool-is-coping-with-surging-demand-and-scrutiny/

Friends don’t let friends use Google Analytics.

If your favorite site/blogger uses Google to track you, ask them to reconsider. There are alternatives.

If they need reasons to remove Google Analytics, see my post. Let's make the web a better place!

https://plausible.io/blog/remove-google-analytics

RT @trevortimm
Doctors and nurses who bravely alerted the public about the startling lack of protective gear in hospitals are being suspended or fired for speaking the press. It's unconscionable. https://freedom.press/news/brave-whistleblowers-saving-lives-coronavirus-covid-pandemic/