Freddy @freddyym@social.privacytools.io

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

TikTok copies your clipboard

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

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

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

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

@eff

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/

Learning a new keyboard layout is hard, especially when you keep tweaking things so it's more comfortable

Graham, Cotton, Blackburn Introduce Balanced Solution to Bolster National Security, End Use of Warrant-Proof Encryption that Shields Criminal Activity

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/graham-cotton-blackburn-introduce-balanced-solution-to-bolster-national-security-end-use-of-warrant-proof-encryption-that-shields-criminal-activity

To all #FOSS devs, I'm an experienced #writer and #proofreader, so please get in touch if you need my (free) services (e.g. for #documentation). I'll happily give as much time as I can spare.

#proofreading #editing #writing #development #opensource #git #gitea #github #gitlab #codeberg #sourcehut

A Former Google Executive Takes Aim at His Old Company

"The relentless pressure to maintain Google’s growth had come at a heavy cost to the company’s users. Privacy was sacrificed for online tracking tools to keep tabs on what ads people were seeing"

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/technology/google-neeva-executive.html

Apple Safari will start blocking Google Analytics from cross-site tracking. Site owners now fear that Google Analytics stats may become less accurate.

Here are reasons why you should consider removing Google Analytics

My latest on the TheStartup

https://medium.com/swlh/safari-to-block-google-analytics-e68f4078d473

@micahflee On #BlueLeaks https://www.wired.com/story/blueleaks-anonymous-law-enforcement-hack/

On Jul 1, I'm giving a seminar on how Big Tech distorts our discourse for the Oxford Internet Institute. It's free to attend, but you need to RSVP:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/6015930181073/WN_MnlH5x2XTRqiKKmhU0QPAg

This is a really urgent question, since it's pretty clear that our discourse is a mess, from fake news to conspiracism to the rise of authoritarian, genocidal movements.

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Build trust through better privacy

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10676/

80,000 printers are exposing their IPP port online

https://www.zdnet.com/article/80000-printers-are-exposing-their-ipp-port-online/

Hey everybody!

I'd like to do some tiny open-source projects. But I need your help to know what to build.

I'm extremely adept at writing dependency-less JavaScript and CSS. An ideal project would be a riff on something you use or would like to use, but is convoluted as a developer or a user.

Looking to make things that are plug-n-play and do one thing well, with all bases covered to be production ready-- performant, accessible, enjoyable.

So, what problems can I help you solve?

If you haven't been following it, the transparency collective DDoSecrets published 270gb of hacked police data called #BlueLeaks.

In response, yesterday,Twitter permanently banned their account and started blocking all links to https://ddosecrets.com/