Michel Salim @michel_slm@social.privacytools.io

Minnesota is now using contact tracing to track protestors, as demonstrations escalate

https://bgr.com/2020/05/30/minnesota-protest-contact-tracing-used-to-track-demonstrators/

"This was a mistake. We had imagined that the textual representation would be used for remote comparisons and the QR code for local (in person) comparisons, but some users found it easier to send a screenshot of both formats via a public forum like Twitter, unknowingly publishing the phone numbers embedded in the QR code."
https://signal.org/blog/safety-number-updates/

So, Signal apologists, remind me how forcing users to associate their phone number with their #Signal account isn't a privacy risk?

● NEWS ● #citizenlab ☞ #WeChat #Surveillance Explained https://citizenlab.ca/2020/05/wechat-surveillance-explained/

Half of Americans have decided not to use a product or service because of privacy concerns

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/g7ulzd/half_of_americans_have_decided_not_to_use_a/

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/04/14/half-of-americans-have-decided-not-to-use-a-product-or-service-because-of-privacy-concerns/

"Recently, [Google's] security team informed employees using Zoom Desktop Client that it will no longer run on corporate computers as it does not meet [their] security standards for apps used by [their] employees."

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"Earlier this month … SpaceX also banned employees from Zoom, citing 'significant privacy and security concerns.' And on Monday, New York City's Department of Education urged schools to abandon Zoom and switch to a service from Microsoft."

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/20/04/08/2119207/google-told-its-workers-that-they-cant-use-zoom-on-their-laptops-anymore

How to isolate zoom from doing too much nasty shit on your linux system, the easy way:

install firejail ("sudo apt install firejail" or whatever command it is for your distro you nerd).

Only run zoom with this command from now on (maybe even uninstall your current zoom and re-run it with this) "firejail zoom".

Done! You may wanna make a new menu icon or executable for running Zoom in a sandbox, so you don't accidentally launch it normally again.

Those of you real nerds will have noticed that I didn't suggest making a new firejail config or anything, that's because the latest firejail comes with a suggested zoom config by default! No extra work required!

#FuckZoom

At what point should we consider #Apple a #monopoly and stop them buying apps and killing off its #Android version?

https://blog.darksky.net/dark-sky-has-a-new-home/

Letsencrypt is going to revoke 3,048,289 certificates tomorrow that "may" have been wrongfully issued due to a wrong CAA DNS check.

To check if you're affected, and need to re-issue certs (before tomorrow!), check here:

https://letsencrypt.org/caaproblem/

Google Fi's terms are insane. You have to agree to let them pass all your data over a vpn to Google's network.

All. Your. Data.

They say it's to "enhance your privacy and security."

There is no privacy or security when sending all your data to the worlds biggest privacy violator.

Exclusive: Google users in UK to lose EU data protection - sources

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-privacy-eu-exclusive/exclusive-google-users-in-uk-to-lose-eu-data-protection-sources-idUSKBN20D2M3

When Orbán in Hungary had drafted a new constitution and only about a thousand of us protested way back in 2012, if I had to place a moment when hungarian democracy died then this would be it.

With the USA, that moment is after the senate didn’t convict Trump. No mass protests? No-one was throwing Molotov cocktails? That’s when authoritarianism received a silent, tacit approval from most people in the US.

Game over for now.