Michel Salim @michel_slm@social.privacytools.io

MIT Tech Review: ".5 ˚C of warming could already be enough to expose 14% of the global population to bouts of severe heat, melt nearly 2 million square miles (5 million square kilometers) of Arctic permafrost, and destroy more than 70% of the world's coral reefs." https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613900/weve-already-built-too-many-power-plants-and-cars-to-prevent-15-c-of-warming/

Google market share worldwide

Chrome Browsers - 63.69%
Google Search - 92.62%
Android Operating System - 39.61%

#google #statcounter #webbrowsers #browser #search #searchengines #os #android #chrome

US lawmakers tell Facebook to halt the launch of its Libra cryptocurrency - https://www.engadget.com/2019/07/03/us-lawmakers-order-halt-facebook-libra-cryptocurrency/

UK government plans for a "world-leading package of online safety measures" risk introducing, rather than reducing, "online harms".

Read our full response to the #OnlineHarms White Paper:

https://privacyinternational.org/advocacy/3027/privacy-internationals-response-uks-open-consultation-online-harms-white-paper https://twitter.com/privacyint/status/1146426618484875265/photo/1

5 stages of data privacy grief

I'm really looking forward to this talk, next week, at #WCOTT. It doesn't take much to improve our privacy for ourselves and for those who visit our sites. https://2019.ottawa.wordcamp.org/session/privacy-tech-for-everyone-how-to-improve-the-privacy-of-your-site-for-you-and-your-users/

One of the biggest problems in computer security is how much just plainly incorrect information people spread as security advice

Good security advice gets turned into useless security folklore by the internets game of telephone

Riseup, a radical tech collective now has a VPN for censorship circumvention, location anonymization and traffic encryption.

People can use it for free (though donations are welcome)

https://riseup.net/en/vpn

#DigitalCommons #Surveillance #MovementTech

Cases of female and gender diverse public figures being targeted with online harassment have become common in the news. Too often an "easy fix" is suggested: the end of online anonymity.

But this is not a solution - here's why and what can be done: https://privacyinternational.org/advocacy/2778/gender-lens-anonymity-social-media-debate https://twitter.com/privacyint/status/1144642613913350144/photo/1

Your regular reminder that you don't actually own the vast majority of your digital purchases. https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-ebook-apocalypse-drm/

Not everyone realizes the media oligopoly also works in team with a rarely seen companion: the mobile operators. Everything in Google and FB platforms encourages bulky downloads. This is one of the features I love most in F-Droid: being able to quickly transfer all of your apps to another devices without using even a byte of mobile data. You can transfer apps over LAN WiFi, Bluetooth or SD cards. https://f-droid.org/en/2019/06/20/two-new-ways-to-get-apps-nearby-without-internet.html

so in the same day, trump tells putin in a live interview that he'd love to see journalists killed, and the trump administration suggests banning end-to-end-encryption

these things couldn't be related at all amirite