Guardian Project @guardianproject@librem.one

California state agencies have standard privacy guardrails around data-sharing. But the cities and counties that collect some of your most personal info? Nope. Zip. Zero. A.B. 1337 would fix that. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/californias-cities-and-counties-must-step-their-privacy-game-ab-1337-can-do

The rampant data sharing fueled by online tracking has serious consequences. Privacy Badger blocks online tracking to prevent your browsing data from being used against you. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/online-tracking-out-control-privacy-badger-can-help-you-fight-back

Industry Committee vote: Technology sovereignty is only possible with Free Software

The Industry committee of the European Parliament shows necessity and benefits of “open-source first” policy but report lacks concrete measures.

https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20250603-01.en.html

#SoftwareFreedom

Are you working on a free and open source project that contributes to the digital commons? Consider applying for NGI Zero funding. Our next deadline is June 1. If you can't make that, no worries, the next call opens right after.
We offer grants between 5 & 50k and grantees can also request practical support with licensing, security, accessibility, long-term sustainability, mentoring, UX testing, trouble shooting, packaging, internationalisation & more. https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250401-call.html
#FOSS #funding

#whatsapp has been feverishly copying #telegram features the last year. Both are now in a battle who enshittifies faster. Mr. Durov announced that #Telegram, sitting on the biggest cleartext data and metadata pile second only to #Meta, is to integrate "AI" the next days, see https://youtu.be/JBCY3ZE9Rz0?t=10048 ...

Let them fight. We stubbornly continue to focus on resilient private messaging for families, groups and communities, with end-to-encrypted #webxdc apps and decentralized agency at all levels.

We’ve signed an open letter to the European Commission expressing our concerns around continued attempts to undermine encryption.

We ask the Commission to reconsider ProtectEU, and acknowledge that encryption is a positive that improves security.

https://www.globalencryption.org/2025/05/joint-letter-on-the-european-internal-security-strategy-protecteu/

DeGoogling is possible, and it doesn't need to be difficult. 👏

Take a look at our in-depth guide of Google alternatives to learn how you can take back your privacy in 2025. ❤️🔒

👉 https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-leave-google-gmail

Have you already DeGoogled? If so, let us know your favorite Google-free apps.

#DeGoogle #GoogleAlternatives #PrivacyMatters

We are celebrating 10 years of #reproducible builds in #FDroid this year, and we are overhauling the way the build server works.

Thanks to the funding from #NLnet, #NGI #NGIO part of #HorizonEurope, and your donations, our work is intended to power the future of #FDroid for the next ten and more.

Dig deeper for the why and the how in this 15 mins post: https://f-droid.org/2025/05/21/making-reproducible-builds-visible.html

Ever wonder how easy it would be for proprietary software like #WhatsApp to get around the end-to-end encryption? #TeleMessage provides a real world example. This is why there is no replacement for Free Software when it comes to privacy.

https://micahflee.com/despite-misleading-marketing-israeli-company-telemessage-used-by-trump-officials-can-access-plaintext-chat-logs/

#e2ee #FreeSoftware

My latest on the clean OPSEC saga: TeleMessage customers include DC Police, Andreesen Horowitz, JP Morgan, and hundreds more https://micahflee.com/telemessage-customers-include-dc-police-andreesen-horowitz-jp-morgan-and-hundreds-more/

Last Friday, we (again) added a statement on the next iteration of the ministry of internal affairs trying to legalize #statetrojan #spyware for secret services: https://www.parlament.gv.at/gegenstand/XXVIII/SNME/337

TL;DR: It is a slight improvement over the last draft, but still doesn't align with technical reality.

#Austria #politics

European Parliament LIBE committee votes on the #Europol report next week.

MEPs 👏 must 👏 vote 👏 against!

🐎 It is a Trojan horse for surveillance disguised as „anti-smuggling“
💰 It would expand the budget for a problematic agency

The EU must take responsibility for forcing migrants into life-threatening situations, change its hostile border & migration policies, and reject the expansion of Europol’s digital surveillance powers.

Share the #ProtectNotSurveil paper now:
https://protectnotsurveil.eu/

Pleased to see #Redis returning to an #OpenSource license.

https://redis.io/blog/agplv3/

We need your help, the future of the OSU Open Source Lab is in jeopardy

https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/

The beacons are lit, @osuosl calls for aid: 🚨 Oregon State University Open Source Lab will shut down this year if funding is not met. 🚨

Among countless other open source projects, OSL supports Rocky Linux by hosting our ppc64le and s390x build environments.

Please consider donating to #OSUOSL. Talk to your organizations about the open source software they depend on that in turn depends on OSL, and ask them to consider donating.

https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/

#EU wants to ask app (and app store) developers about their interactions with app stores (specially of the very big kind) in the context of the Digital Services Act #DSA

The study aims to better understand content moderation practices, recommender systems, advertising mechanisms, and emerging challenges within the app ecosystem.

If you have 15-20 minutes to share your experience, make sure you visit the link until Tuesday May 27th, 2025.

Go: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/c7161c9d-9db5-c881-5f50-7faab4af7387

As you plan your week ahead, don't forget to get your #FOSSY talk proposal in by Monday, April 28 (anywhere on Earth)! You can do it at https://2025.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/ . We are a small team putting this big event together and greatly appreciate your help in making sure everyone in your #freesoftware and #opensource circles knows about the opportunity and deadline! #portland

A Mobile track at FOSSY was just added to the schedule! 🎉

If you have a talk about FOSS on mobile devices that you've always wanted to give, now is your chance 😁

The submission thing is open until April 28:
https://2025.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/

#linuxmobile #fossy2025 #pdx

The #DMA is a step forward for #DeviceNeutrality, but Apple (one of the so-called gatekeeper) is taking it to court to protect its App Store monopoly.

The Free Software Foundation Europe is stepping in to defend our freedom and digital rights in this crucial EU antitrust case! 🚀

We are the only non-profit involved! Support us to continue our work! https://fsfe.org/donate

Lear more about the Apple litigation: https://fsfe.org/activities/apple-litigation/

#SoftwareFreedom