Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

"Zoom's ease of use, feature base, and free service tier have made it a go-to resource not only for all those office meetings that used to happen in conference rooms but also for teachers, religious services, and even governments. The widespread use, in turn, is shining a bright spotlight on Zoom's privacy and data-collection practices, which apparently leave much to be desired." -> https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/zooms-privacy-problems-are-growing-as-platform-explodes-in-popularity/

Good info from F-Droid on the jitsi app.

Warning: when using a Jitsi Meet instance, your stream is encrypted on the network but decrypted on the machine that hosts the bridge. See https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/409#issuecomment-355406112 for more information.

The bluetooth contact tracing discussion is all over the news now.

There's this project, which is being sold as doing the right thing regarding privacy: https://www.pepp-pt.org/

Unfortunately they don't seem to intend releasing anything as free software :(

> We are establishing a partner management team to help you get going quickly.
> As a partner, you will: … have access to our documentation and the source code of a reference implementation.

Our ally and Electronic Frontier Alliance member, @STOPSpyingNY is working hard to shine a light on the privacy risks posed by the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. https://twitter.com/STOPSpyingNY/status/1245383575433871362

Privacy and protecting data is usually not much of a concern for SAAS providers - Zoom here shares your data on Facebook, even if you don't have a facebook account...
#selfhosting #onpremises
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7e599/zoom-ios-app-sends-data-to-facebook-even-if-you-dont-have-a-facebook-account

I'd like to remind you all that Jitsi is in F-Droid while Zoom is not. That's all for now.

Schools need to slam the brakes on surveillance and think about what kind of dystopia they’re creating for their students. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/02/schools-are-pushing-boundaries-surveillance-technologies

EPIC backed the plan to establish Best Practices to limit the distribution of child sexual exploitation material, but cautioned "against recommendations that would reduce privacy and security for Internet users." EPIC pointed out that actual end-to-end encryption "protects users, promotes commerce, and ensures cybersecurity." -> https://epic.org/2020/03/epic-backs-strong-crypto-and-2.html

Mandatory fully automated upload filters are at odds with the GDPR.

Yet the EU's #CopyrightDirective will lead to mandatory upload filters for all of Europe's platforms. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/02/upload-filters-are-odds-gdpr

Ein paar Highlights aus zehn Jahren http://epicenter.works. Und wir stehen erst am Anfang 💪💪💪
https://epicenter.works/content/10-highlights-aus-10-jahren-epicenterworks

Enough is enough. If Congress can't bring meaningful reform to Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act, they should let it expire. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-do-not-pass-a-clean-reauthorization-of-section-215

Schools need to slam the brakes on surveillance and think about what kind of dystopia they’re creating for their students. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/02/schools-are-pushing-boundaries-surveillance-technologies