Michel Salim @michel_slm@social.privacytools.io

The messenger #Wire and the web search service #Startpage have been taken over US companies. They are/were popular services in the privacy and #cryptoparty scene. Both companies appear to be interested in the data business. Takeovers like these will happen again. If these events teach us anything it is that we should seek decentral and self-hosted alternatives to take back control. Don't put your trust into centralized services!
#searx #yacy #xmpp #jabber #matrix #fediverse #mastodon #email

Et tu, DMV?

"The California Department of Motor Vehicles is generating revenue of $50,000,000 a year through selling drivers’ personal information, according to a DMV document obtained by Motherboard." #privacy

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evjekz/the-california-dmv-is-making-dollar50m-a-year-selling-drivers-personal-information

I'm actually very supportive of Tesla's Cybertruck. Such a low polygon model will really free resources when rendering the highway, enabling everyone to travel at higher speeds.

@egret

Last week the entire WH cybersecurity staff left enmasse’.

Congress should probably consider asking them about what happened.

They saw something, and refused to be a stool pigeon... I know this move, I’ve had to pull it before.

The Swedish government has also come to the conclusion that storing personal data at a US corporation is illegal under the #GDPR #DSGVO #privacy
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/karloskarbrannstrom_swedish-social-insurance-agency-one-of-the-activity-6603414501897363457-zI2s/

Amnesty International: Facebook and Google’s pervasive surveillance poses an unprecedented danger to human rights. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/11/google-facebook-surveillance-privacy/

The outrage over #Gitlab proposed policy of keeping employees from China and Russia away from customer data is harmful to the very people Ciresi claims are discriminated against.

When #Indymedia Belarus decided to use Samizdat web engine, I refused to keep admin access to the site and asked allies from countries with civil rights protections to run it, because I knew that otherwise I would one day find myself in a KGB basement. Don't put people living in oppressive regimes in that position.

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RT @JohnnyHumphry@birdsite.link
After Notepad++, released “Free Uyghur” edition, the project’s website was DDoSed and its Github repository was flooded by the Chinese bot army.@Jkylebass @matthew_d_green @0xDUDE @fs0c131y https://twitter.com/hardmaru/status/1189786782293872640

https://twitter.com/JohnnyHumphry/status/1190008655988457472

Oh $FB ...

I work there (not on any product) and ... obviously I can't comment much, but ... 🤦

#facebook
#monetization
#uspol
#politics
#rightwing

https://mashable.com/article/facebook-right-wing-social-network/

Ah yes, the usual airbnb routine:

Exchanging information and greetings on whatsapp, the welcome bottle of wine, and running the quick nmap scan on the wifi network to see if there are any obvious hidden cameras.

It’s sad watching Google kill itself this way. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-23/google-doesn-t-want-employees-debating-politics-at-work-anymore

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1164995625538215936

The wrong #Amazon is burning... #Capitalism #Brazil #Bolsonaro

Canada's election watchdog: ads saying climate change is real may break law - https://boingboing.net/2019/08/20/canadas-election-watchdog-a.html #climatecrisis is not a matter of opinion; @ElectionsCan_E are irresponsible idiots