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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/
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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
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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/
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I know privacy-conscious people who'd wipe their devices before and after entering China, but now it seems the surveillance is even more aggressive.
If you enter Xinjiang across a land border they put spyware on your phone.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/02/chinese-border-guards-surveillance-app-tourists-phones
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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)
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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
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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/
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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
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RT https://twitter.com/gael_duval
It's really awesome the number of trackers in #Android mobile applications.
We can inform /e/OS users about these, thanks to @ExodusPrivacy software.
Fight for your #privacy!
https://e.foundation
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And today, Delta Chat Android 0.500.0 was released, the most stable, feature-rich and UX-refined version of Delta Chat ever https://delta.chat/en/2019-06-28-android
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Please STOP, stop, stop using #Google #reCaptcha on your websites!
You are giving away your visitors' #privacy and they cannot even opt-out and avoid it if they want to reach your contents.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90369697/googles-new-recaptcha-has-a-dark-side
#privacyMatters #webdevelopment
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New fediverated collaborative project hosted on hubzilla and matrix
Find and share info about security and privacy on Android devices
#activitypub and #diaspora forum/feed federation at @android-priv-sec
wiki, webpages, documents and #zot feed/forum federation at https://hub.libranet.de/channel/and-priv-sec
matrix community at https://matrix.to/#/+and-priv-sec:matrix.org
#android #privacy #security #mobilesecurity
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Quantum resistant ledger and Keybase:
https://medium.com/the-quantum-resistant-ledger/qrl-and-keybase-84968003bca2
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RT @gonedark@twitter.com
One of the reasons contributions to open source fail is because they are submitted without the “why”, just the “what”.
Spend time to craft the PR with why the change is needed. What was the problem before? How does this solve it?
Facebook Production Engineer by day, #privacy enthusiast by night. #Linux user since 1998, #Fedora package maintainer since 2005. @michel-slm for my cat pictures.