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@pinkman@social.privacytools.io
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Hello everyone!
We at #Privacytools.io recently launched our new forum and we would like to invite you to join it!
It is a place were can all discuss privacy and security related topics, talk about the latest news, and scan over the newest methods to protect your privacy :).
we host the forum ourselves and use the complete opensource #discourse software. We are tor friendly, and reachability over an .onion is in the works, join us at forum.privacytools.io !
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We produced guides that show how to minimise targeted ads on ⬇⬇
#facebook / #instagram
https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/2827/facebook
https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/2828/instagram-owned-facebook
#twitter
https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/2829/twitter
#google / #youtube
https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/2826/google-youtube
Who next? tell us: saran@privacyinternational.org https://twitter.com/privacyint/status/1123927869099364352/photo/1
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We’re a small nonprofit that develops free and open source software used by millions, and our community of contributors and users would greatly benefit from improved documentation on Tor.
Through Season of Docs 2019, we're looking for technical writers to help us: https://blog.torproject.org/google-season-docs-2019-help-tor-improve-our-documentation
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Social media surveillance tech is being rapidly adopted by school systems to monitor their students—despite any proof of effectiveness and a disproportionate impact on students of color. https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/school-surveillance-zone
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Like communism, but for Uber
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The NSA has collected information about millions of Americans’ 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 can’t be copyrighted? That means it’s 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
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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 “biometric…
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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 privacy—biometric 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.
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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.
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Police Use Drones To Spy On Suspicious People At “Potential Crime Scenes” http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2019/04/police-use-drones-to-spy-on-suspicious-people-at-potential-crime-scenes/ #surveillance #Privacy #Drones #drones #Police
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We think you should be able to use Alexa without people listening in on you so we have written to Jeff Bezos asking him to walk the walk when it comes to your privacy. Read our letter here: https://privacyinternational.org/feature/2820/alexa-stop-being-creepy-our-letter-jeff-bezos cc @AmazonHelp https://twitter.com/privacyint/status/1118873347058749441/photo/1
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Facebook says it 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5 million people's email contacts without their consent.
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Ecuador Says Hit by 40 Million Cyber Attacks Since Assange Arrest | SecurityWeek.Com http://www.securityweek.com/ecuador-says-hit-40-million-cyber-attacks-assange-arrest #infosec
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Mirrored from Twitter
RT @TheOliverStone
#JulianAssange is a publisher for truth. He’s done great work on behalf of mankind despite his inhumane treatment. This case is crucial to the survival of our right to know and our essential freedom against #USA and #UK oppression -- and now tyranny!
