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Electronic Frontier Foundation  

After nearly two decades, it's time to put an end to the NSA's Call Detail Records program. act.eff.org/action/end-the-nsa

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There are two semi-related questions that have been repeatedly popping up in my head for the past couple years: 1) now that we know how to do real , are we sure we want a world where wiretapping isn't possible? 2) now that we know how to privately track usage without people, are we sure we want to encourage software development based on tracking data?

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Qwant  

"Data is not gold.
Data is more like oil. And we know what happens when a tanker sinks: the sea all over it gets polluted. We need to be extremely careful how we handle data."

Eric Leandri, founder & CEO of Qwant

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Qwant  

We're very happy to be a partner of the HTC EXODUS and thus to be the default search engine on it.

It's together that we can make progress in terms of privacy. Join the movement!

#SwitchToQwant

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PrivacyTools :ptshield:  

#Firefox starts blocking third-party cookies by default

venturebeat.com/2019/06/04/fir

#privacy #cookies

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PrivacyTools :ptshield:  

Hong Kong Police arrested protesters after accessing full details of injured protesters through Hospital Authority's "backdoor"

hongkongfp.com/2019/06/17/poli

#Privacy #HongKongProtest

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PrivacyTools :ptshield:  

Goodbye, Chrome: Google’s web browser has become spy software

Our latest privacy experiment found Chrome ushered more than 11,000 tracker cookies into our browser — in a single week. Here’s why Firefox is better.

washingtonpost.com/technology/

#privacy #google #firefox #chrome #spy #encryption #tracker #cookies #surveillance

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Hans-Christoph Steiner  

I've been researching for a decade and I've found always quite informative. as with any problem with digital media, there is software to make it easier
articles.forensicfocus.com/201

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are used to gain public approval and even to manipulate us, so it is important to know how reality can be different from intuition: "An Explainer on the Base Rate Fallacy and PNR"
epicenter.works/content/an-exp

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Guardian Project  

"Until appropriate safeguards are in place, we need a moratorium on biometric technology that identifies individuals" nature.com/articles/d41586-019

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Electronic Frontier Foundation  

A few aspects of Google’s Privacy Sandbox are good ideas. But most would be privacy disasters. eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/dont

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Hans-Christoph Steiner  

Reading about how browser aims to remove unique IDs when counting users makes me think about how hasn't been tracking users from the beginning, and stopped tracking downloads years ago, and seems to only have become more popular. Makes me think that developed by community motivated by doing the right thing is a better way than a or being driven by . Maybe improving the of tracking is missing the point.
vivaldi.com/blog/how-we-count-

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Don’t Let Encrypted Messaging Become a Hollow Promise | Electronic Frontier Foundation
eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/dont

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Don’t Let Encrypted Messaging Become a Hollow Promise
eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/dont

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Guardian Project  

is a new way for websites to practice and build trust with users by disabling access to APIs that are not used. Browsers already include it but the spec isn't final: it is missing a way to set the default to none. Join the discussion here github.com/w3c/webappsec-featu

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Sean O'Brien  

circa 1980. "And we concluded that one excellent way to protect people was to collect less information about them."

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Liberapay  

GitHub has added Liberapay to the funding platforms supported in the `FUNDING.yml` file: github.blog/changelog/2019-06-

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Guardian Project  

When looking at browser , and continue to make important improvements while continues to make excuses
freedom-to-tinker.com/2019/08/

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Trammell Hudson  

Caution! Phone zombies!

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NGI Zero open source funding  

@FastCompany details invasive categorization fueled by online #surveillance, not only inChina but also the US -> fastcompany.com/90394048/uh-oh. Everyone deserves #privacy & trust enhancing tech to combat extralegal profiling -> nlnet.nl/thema/NGIZeroPET.html

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