Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

@Karlitschek explains at #FOSDEM why GPL is actually great for business (like it is for @nextcloud ), and why open source should not become closed/proprietary just to fight back against cloud competitors like Amazon, Google & Microsoft. #NextGenerationInternet

The latest iOS & Android updates make the option to opt-out of location tracking very pronounced, & users are acting on it.

"Since the launch of iOS 13 last fall, the amount of background location data that marketers collect has dropped by 68%." https://www.fastcompany.com/90454921/apple-and-googles-tough-new-location-privacy-controls-are-working

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1223981147937562624

In 2020 our world is only 8.6% circular. In other words - we waste more than 92% of everything we consume. Our global engine is stuck in reverse. We've teamed up with @circleeconomy@twitter.com to explore how we can close this circularity gap.

Here is some good #privacy news: the Eu Advocate General has concluded national mass retention laws in the EU are illegal. Countries can not demand that internet providers just keep massive amounts of personal data because it might be useful some day.
https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/3334/advocate-generals-opinion-national-security-mass-retention-regimes-are

I installed T-UI (Terminal based launcher - https://f-droid.org/app/ohi.andre.consolelauncher ) today and it instantly eliminated all check emails, check mastodon, check all messenger, check emails again habits.

I guess it's more because of the unfamiliarity of the interface than any inherent benefit to it. Let's see how this will go. Maybe I'll just have to keep changing my phone UX radically every few months.

Chelsea Manning has been incarcerated for more than 9 months. She is being held in jail and fined $1,000 per day for up to 18 months or until she agrees to cooperate with the Grand Jury. #ReleaseChelsea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz_zBfjP2PE

As President Trump prepares to sign the USMCA, remember that when copyright creeps into trade agreements, it's almost always bad news. #CopyrightWeek https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/dont-write-copyright-law-secret

When reading source code comments...

"I believe that different providers have the right to configure their communities in certain ways" - @biellacoleman. Check out our interview to learn more about how Biella thinks about free expression: https://www.eff.org/speaking-freely/biella-coleman

Do you work with or support an organization with a .ORG website?
Then you should be concerned about the potential sale of the .ORG registry to a private equity firm, which would have an incentive to sell censorship as a service, says EFF's @mitchstoltz https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-12-12/dot-org-sale-outrage-internet-society-ethos-capital

Unless you take precautions, your data is invasively tracked then auctioned off to the highest bidder.

"It is time for Congress to hold tech & ad companies accountable & make opting out of tracking a meaningful choice, if not the default setting." https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/21/opinion/location-data-privacy-rights.html

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1216008617842880517

How many of you employed by a company active in the field of collecting, cataloguing and searching personal data have read IBM and the Holocaust?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

Just the fear of #surveillance can turn us into self-censors and stop us from exercising intellectual freedom and curiosity.

If we think we're being watched, our behavior changes.

Let's choose an internet free of mass surveillance. #TakeBacktheInternet https://blog.torproject.org/we-can-choose-internet-without-surveillance