"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
I've been thinking a lot recently about the addictiveness of media, particularly of software. When users are the product, then #AddictiveDesign is inevitable: such companies need to make users present on their platform as much as possible to make more money. It has gotten so severe that software has become like addictive drugs, ruining the lives of many. We as a society have forgotten that computers were invented to augment human intelligence, not turn us all into addicts.
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?
@ln4711 yes exactly, that's the alarming part, it looks like sites are removing #TLSv13 in favor of #TLSv12. This is the graph you mentioned: https://kjur.github.io/www/sslpulsetrend/index.html#protobest
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
Patent troll lobbyists want us to believe that Section 101 is harming U.S. innovation. In fact, it protects the public from junk patents. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/11/alice-doesnt-block-good-patents-it-protects-public-requiring-real-invention
🎂Happy Birthday, εxodus🎂
[EN]On the occasion of the second anniversary of the εxodus platform, a new update on the association’s progress.
https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/post/second-birthday/
[FR] Pour les 2 ans de la plateforme, faisons un point sur les projets de l'association !
https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/fr/post/second-birthday/
Thanks to @gandi @maiwann @codelutin @LaQuadrature @passageenseine @geekfaeries @fosdem and @Framasoft
We ❤️ open source. Your Tutanota client is fully published as open source software. 😍 We even built our own captcha instead of using Google's Captcha. Read here why: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/open-source-email/
There is no one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to VPNs. https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/choosing-vpn-thats-right-you
Am Wochenende hat die CDU auf ihrem 32. Parteitag beschlossen, sich der Forderung der FSFE anzuschließen, dass mit öffentlichen Geldern entwickelte Software als Freie Software allen Zugute kommen soll:
"Deshalb gilt künftig für alle (öffentlichen) Digitalisierungsprojekte in Deutschland: #Auftragsvergabe und Förderung sind an die Einhaltung der Prinzipien #OpenSource und offene Standards gebunden."
At its 32nd party conference this weekend, the German conservative party CDU resolved to join @fsfe in demanding that software developed with public money should be publicly available as #FreeSoftware:
"This is why the following will apply to all (public) digitisation projects in Germany in the future: the awarding of contracts and funding will be subject to compliance with the principles of open source and open standards."
After a steady increase in adoption over the past year, TLSv1.3 adoption just took a pretty big drop. Anyone have any data or ideas about why? https://kjur.github.io/www/sslpulsetrend/index.html#proto
People often think of the United States of America as a decentralized, federated, government. This is not true, the US Federal Government controls 55% of all government spending in the country, including federal, state and local. The EU currently controls about 2.5% of government expenditure. So in reality, the EU is much more decentralized than the USA.
props to #Google for working to upstream the #Android changes to #Linux, real #SoftwareFreedom and #security requires being able to run your own builds on your own device. If Android runs on the plain Linux kernel, that opens up many more possibilities.
LibreOffice is available in over 100 languages, thanks to our worldwide contributors! Here's Sidorela Uku and the Albanian community, running various events around LibreOffice localisation, design, marketing and more: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2019/11/18/libreoffice-localisation-sprint-and-other-events-in-albania/
In a big win for privacy, @microsoft will adopt encrypted DNS queries for Windows users.
This helps close a big privacy gap on the web by preventing on-path eavesdropping, spoofing, and blocking by encrypting your DNS requests.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Networking-Blog/Windows-will-improve-user-privacy-with-DNS-over-HTTPS/ba-p/1014229
We’ve long advocated against frivolous and harassing lawsuits intended to silence free speech, often called SLAPP suits. We’re thrilled that @LastWeekTonight has weighed in and discussed their own SLAPP experience. https://www.hbo.com/video/last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver/seasons/season-6/episodes/119-episode-178/videos/november-10-2019-slapp-suits