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Like communism, but for Uber
@blacklight447 congratulations!
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The NSA has collected information about millions of Americansâ phone calls. The program does nothing for national security. Time to end it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/04/end-nsas-call-detail-records-program-once-and-all
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The law requires that patents only be granted on "new and useful" technologies. Incredibly, the Senate is working on a new patent bill that would undermine that most basic requirement. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/04/tillis-coons-patent-bill-will-be-disaster-innovation
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Did you know that anything created by American federal government employees canât be copyrighted? That means itâs impossible for there to be any copyright infringement on, say, a report by the Special Counsel on the investigation into the President. https://www.eff.org/takedowns/mueller-report-cant-be-copyrighted-flagged-copyright-bots-anyway
@engel manjaro >:(
@marc0janssen @alsalahad can't really do anything to Safari, since you don't want Tor, probs go for a hardened Firefox.
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Saudi Arabia beheads 16 year old for sending WhatsApp messages about protests
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19761793
#hackernews #tech
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Ecuador recorded the private conversations of Assange in the embassy. This included meetings with doctors and lawyers.
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RT @eff: If people are upset about airport face recognition now, they will be furious to know this is just the beginning of the âbiometricâŠ
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"Trading privacy for convenience is a bad bargain..."
Be diligent.
"We must keep fighting to make sure that in the future, it gets easier, and not harder, to defend our privacyâbiometric or otherwise."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/04/skip-surveillance-opting-out-face-recognition-airports
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US Department of Justice is attempting to build a case against Julian Assange based on the Espionage Act. Convictions under the Espionage Act can be punished by death.
@win10ltsc @jonah @BurungHantu this is a mastodon issue not privacytools
@glitcher32 that's gonna be the privacy policy with all av's
@glitcher32 @merdo @tjmac ah, malwarebytes is pretty good iirc
@glitcher32 you don't really need an av for linux
@Wetrix no problem :)
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A brand new Huawei #P30 Pro smartphone has been found to be sending queries and possibly data to Chinese government servers, without the user having signed up for any #Huawei services.
