kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

"Yet just hours before Zuckerberg reassured investors about Facebook’s commitment to privacy, his own lawyers argued in court that “there is no privacy” on Facebook." #privacy #facebook https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2019/06/01/in-facebooks-own-words-this-week-there-is-no-privacy-on-its-platform/#7a13868f5b32

Why you need to give Firefox a chance
https://dev.to/dtroode/why-you-need-to-give-firefox-a-chance-5g5a #privacy #firefox

UK ICO's Update report into adtech and real time bidding https://ico.org.uk/media/about-the-ico/documents/2615156/adtech-real-time-bidding-report-201906.pdf #privacy #advertisingandmarketing

BBFC age verification standard is pointless, misleading and potentially dangerous https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press/releases/2019/org-report:-bbfc-age-verification-standard-is-pointless,-misleading-and-potentially-dangerous #privacy

UK rights advocate co-owns firm whose spyware is 'used to target dissidents'
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/jun/14/yana-peel-uk-rights-advocate-serpentine-nso-spyware-pegasus #privacy

A Multidisciplinary Assessment of the Stalkerware Application Industry https://citizenlab.ca/docs/stalkerware-holistic.pdf #privacy

1. Upgrade/install the latest @firefox
2. Go to Preferences > Privacy & Security
3. See websites loading much faster with much lower traffic consumption
And no, websites do not need AMP and other #privacy invading crap, they need less tracking & fingerprinting code to work fast

Return on Data is a proposed ROI-like indicator to measure how much users actually get in return for their personal details shared with IT companies
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/05/the_concept_of_.html #privacy

Privacy in the Facebook era - my presentation on privacy-invasive Internet advertising andcountermeasures, from ad-blockers to P2P networks (including Mastodon) https://www.slideshare.net/kravietz/reading-geek-night-2019 #privacy