Craig Cunningham @craigevil@librem.one

Mozilla announced "Enhanced Tracking Protection" to protect people from tracking (https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/06/04/firefox-now-available-with-enhanced-tracking-protection-by-default/), but if you check out the https://disconnect.me/trackerprotection list of trackers, all Google trackers are still allowed through. #privacy

New research based on publisher data has found that using invasive tracking for ads brings publishers just 4% more in revenue than ads that don't rely on tracking. Publishers should reevaluate the real costs and benefits of invasive ads. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/research-shows-publishers-benefit-little-tracking-ads

An update on Sunday’s service disruption https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/an-update-on-sundays-service-disruption

Police to Use TSA-Style Scanners to Spy on People in Public Places https://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2019/05/police-to-use-tsa-style-scanners-to-spy.html

How Monsanto manipulates journalists and academics | Carey Gillam

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/02/monsanto-manipulates-journalists-academics
#newsbot

Right now, Congress is working to remove key legal protections that protect people from patent trolls and other abusers of the patent system. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-we-don-t-need-more-bad-patents-8941b5c6-5bb1-4d93-9ca1-a2da87c4458e

This is a crucial time to stand up for civil liberties. Join us today. https://supporters.eff.org/donate

These are hardware kill switches.

Not a webcam cover. Not software disabled Wi-Fi. Kill switch.

Laptops should have these.

Ours do.

https://puri.sm/products/librem-13/

A patent bill is coming soon, and it's not good news. The Tillis-Coons bill would remove our best protections against patent trolls and other abusers of the system. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/05/terrible-patent-bill-way

In parallel with an on-going failure investigation, SpaceX is readying downstream Crew Dragon spaceflight for flight in hopes that corrective actions can be implemented in time to launch two astronauts to the space station before the end of the year. https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/05/28/nasa-says-spacex-readying-crew-dragon-capsule-for-possible-piloted-test-flight-by-end-of-year/ https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/1133542472280301568/photo/1