kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

"Ecuadorian authorities have arrested the executive of a data analytics firm after his company left the personal records of most of Ecuador's population exposed online on an internet server." #privacy Novaestrat

#Facebook “uses precise location even when you’re not using the app” #privacy https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2019/09/10/facebook_location_tracking/

#facebook asked people for their mobile numbers "only for #authentication purposes", then used them for profiling, and then leaked on the web... https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/04/facebook-phone-numbers-exposed/ #privacy

"This system behind Facebook’s $50 billion business makes it a liability for any user to “friend” another. There’s simply no way to be sure which friends will agree to surrender one’s personal information." #privacy https://gizmodo.com/alex-stamos-ex-facebook-security-chief-blames-journal-1837520235

A must see - "The Great Hack", Netflix original documentary about #facebook and Cambridge Analytica #privacy scandal

This document answers many questions about #privacy of #peertube tl;dr theoretically it's possible to determine IP watching a particular video but existing safeguards make it infeasible especially with #webtorrent https://scitech.video/about/peertube

"Brave Rewards for Android relies on SafetyNet (...) this means that Rewards only works on certain Android devices" (=devices with Google Play Services tracking enabled) https://github.com/brave/browser-android-tabs/issues/1865 #privacy #bravebrowser

"Twitter Inc said on Tuesday that it may have used data for personalized ads without a user’s permission due to issues with the microblogging website’s settings" #privacy https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-data-idUSKCN1UX02O

BTW OONI saw a huge spike in measurements in KZ in July https://explorer.ooni.io/country/KZ but show no blocking nor HTTP interception #kazakhstan #mitm #censorship #privacy however per this article https://censoredplanet.org/kazakhstan it may not capture the HTTPS interception

Brave Rewards cannot on ungoogled phones I'm afraid due to heavy usage of Google proprietary SafetyNet https://github.com/brave/browser-android-tabs/issues/1865 #privacy #android

Facebook is embedding tracking data inside the photos you download https://techstartups.com/2019/07/13/facebook-embedding-tracking-data-inside-photos-download/ #privacy #facebook

Hey @write_as on your Subscribe page could you use Captcha other than Google's Recaptcha? What's the point of federation if we're still feeding all our personal details to Google... #privacy #captcha

The Reg is bashing NHS for placing Google and FB trackers on sensitive pages, but this comment nails it https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/11/nhs_inform_loads_facebook_pixel_google_doubleclick_trackers/ #privacy

How to run a small social network site for your friends https://runyourown.social/ #privacy #socialmedia

If you follow the discussion about Conversations.im registering with Roscomnadzor you should be probably also aware that Threema.ch did that already in 2017... https://reestr.rublacklist.net/distributor/109474 #security #privacy #russia

Someone from 240e:00f7:c::22 (Chinatelecom) is slowly port scanning my /64 subnet. At the current rate it will take them 116'988'483'471 years to complete but they will reach the first allocated IP in only 80'429'582'386 years. #IPv6 RFC 4941 is your friend. #security #privacy

Conversations.im has just registered with Russian Roscomnadzor which means it has now obligation to provide user details FSB https://roskomsvoboda.org/48119/ https://reestr.rublacklist.net/distributor/109589 #xmpp #privacy #security #russia

So these are actually the first #privacy focused and production ready #android smartphones that you can buy with warranty etc https://e.foundation/smartphones-with-e-ready-to-ship/ been using it for almost a year now

Have you seen these misleading marketing practices recently? Now we have a directory of stores using them! https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/dark-patterns/ #privacy

Nice! Trick web trackers into thinking you're someone else https://trackthis.link/ #privacy