kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

In the Czech Republic, masks have been compulsory since March 18th. The country has only 2 deaths (as at March 24) and the growth of new cases has flattened.

One of the key reasons is a massive country-wide community initiative to create and wear home-made masks. In just 10 days the country went from no mask usage to nearly 100% usage, with nearly all the masks made at home with easily accessible materials, like old t-shirts.

See https://tiny.cc/masks4all

Zoom iOS App Sends Data to Facebook Even if You Don’t Have a Facebook Account

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7e599/zoom-ios-app-sends-data-to-facebook-even-if-you-dont-have-a-facebook-account

The European Union is to provide its residents with a right to repair their digital devices in an environmental action plan issued last week.

https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/eu-signals-future-right-to-repair-legislation-for-smartphone-users-in-member-states

@feld Oh no, their business model is precisely this - scan the whole Internet and *then* sell information like open SSH ports to their clients :)

@feld Yes, that's precisely what they do...

If you are Fitbit user, you should be certainly aware of these

https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.fitbit.FitbitMobile/latest/

Do you know any open-source or privacy-friendly fitness trackers?

I liked how Fitbit works but wasn't comfortable about my location and health data being shared with undisclosed hordes of 3rd parties.

@mcdonaldsofficial

Very much to the point, I'm afraid...

@CyberSocialist

If you have just a little bit of self-respect, how can you support a regime whose whole economic model is based on *preventing its own citizens from leaving the country?*

Maybe I'm a bit more sensitive to such oppression because I was born in country that operated just on this principle... When you are not free to leave you country you are nothing more than property of the state - and I wish Western leftists admitted that eventually.

@CyberSocialist

The truth is that all the current "communist" regimes are doing the same thing - outsourcing their citizens in other countries to get some dollars to continue supplying the elites with goods, while keeping regular people at bare survival level.

North Korea sells their workers to Russia to work on construction sites, Cuba sells their doctors. The country keeps most of the worker's salary and keeps them under guard to prevent defection.

How is that different from slavery?

@CyberSocialist

Or just arguing because someone dared to say people in Cuba are exploited?

@CyberSocialist Did you read it?

@CyberSocialist "Slaves" better describes their situation

@CyberSocialist Well, be sure to read it first 😉

Arizona man dies after ingesting chloroquine in an attempt to prevent coronavirus.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/man-dies-after-ingesting-chloroquine-attempt-prevent-coronavirus-n1167166