Freddy @freddyym@social.privacytools.io

What Edison Mail's Security Disaster Means for Your Email https://lifehacker.com/what-edison-mails-security-disaster-means-for-your-emai-1843526187/amp?__twitter_impression=true #StayCasuallyPrivate #Privacy

How a Chinese AI Giant Made Chatting—and Surveillance—Easy

https://www.wired.com/story/iflytek-china-ai-giant-voice-chatting-surveillance/

“Since I Met Edward Snowden, I’ve Never Stopped Watching My Back”

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/edward-snowden-operation-firstfruits/610573/

#Privacy

Modest suggestion: next time you plan on buying some luxury item (starbucks, a video game, a dinner out, etc), consider donating that amount to an open source project that you love. Not every time - you can have that frappachino tomorrow - but just this time, let's give back to FOSS.

#mailvelope provides an easy-to-use interface to send PGP-encrypted emails with the email service you are familiar with. If secure IMs are not an option, this is the next best thing for less tech-savvy people.

I wrote a short introduction note.

https://yarmo.eu/notes/mailvelope

#100DaysToOffload

Starting today, you can get the ProtonVPN Android app from F-Droid. This means our #VPN app is now:
✅ Verified by the @fdroidorg team
✅ Independent of Google's app store
✅ Harder for governments to block
Read more here: https://protonvpn.com/blog/f-droid-download/

My answer to "how does Plausible Analytics compare to Matomo/Piwik?" on Dev.to.

I also wrote a full post on the topic https://plausible.io/vs-matomo

Love the advice from Tim Soulo on Indie Hackers on "How to avoid Analytics Data Overload?"

Less is more. Truly understanding your audience is more important than any test you can do or hours you spend obsessing about collecting even more data about them.

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-to-avoid-analytics-data-overload-1f3e808775

Imagine for a moment that your sight began to look blurry. You can't see things clearly and you need to go out to buy groceries or something.

You start walking and stumble into people. You get cursed at for not looking where you're going.

"Hey! Can't you see the sign? Can't you read? "

You stumble upon a crowd. "What's going on?"

"Can't you see?" you're asked rudely.

And nobody tells you what's actually going on.

They all expect you to see.

Well, that's what it feels like when reading Mastodon and there are no captions in your images.

Mastodon has an image captioning feature. If you can use it, please do for those of us who can't. 😎

There's no need to break encryption to prosecute criminals: https://gizmodo.com/new-earn-it-act-alternative-seeks-5-billion-to-hunt-ch-1843290551

Here's why we are against the #EarnIt Act proposed by Barr: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/earn-it-barr-encryption/

fellas who self-host email: what's the best way to improve my domain's reputation score in the eyes of google?

it is unfortunate, but i happen to communicate with people who use gmail, and my mail ending up in their spambox is not ideal. all suggestions welcome!

fwiw, i have dkim, spf and dmarc already setup.

Coronavirus Concerns: More People Working from Home Means More Employer Tracking

https://socialhax.com/2020/05/16/coronavirus-concerns-employer-tracking/

"The more we humanize technology — the more it becomes not just part of the furniture, but part of the family — the more our lives will become less human."

Are smart speakers useful tools or privacy invading gadgets?

https://medium.com/s/story/why-the-next-privacy-war-will-be-over-sound-d7b59b1533f3?source=search_post

Tech Could Be Used to Track Employees—in the Name of Health

https://www.wired.com/story/tech-used-track-employees-name-health/

New Blog: A Plea for Patience From a Privacy Enthusiast

https://write.as/thenewoil/a-plea-for-patience-from-a-privacy-enthusiast

To put the “if we have nothing to hide, they should know everything we do” into a more tangible perspective:

On a basic level, imagine if we automatically got a traffic ticket every time that we exceeded the speed limit, because of GPS tracking by police.

On a deeper level, imagine a place where it is illegal to be gay. Then after police read an unencrypted email between lovers, they & those that know are arrested.

#Privacy erosion is easily abused on levels from nuisance to human rights.