Guardian Project @guardianproject@librem.one

The era of unchecked tech monopolies is over.

We're taking decisive action to enforce open, fair, and contestable digital markets.

Our measures had real consequences:

🛡️ Fined major platforms for anti-competitive practices and ignoring consumer data choices

⌚ Required strict hardware interoperability for smartwatches and connected wearables

☁️ Launched three investigations into dominance in cloud services and into search engines hiding media

Accountability is here 👉 https://link.europa.eu/YTddh6

"This case is one of the major judicial tests of the EU’s interoperability obligations under the #DMA. This law aims at preventing large technology companies from unfairly locking out competitors. The FSFE seeks to enforce the DMA in a #FreeSoftware developer friendly way" - Lucas Lasota, FSFE Legal Programme Manager

Find out more: https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260519-01.en.html

#SoftwareFreedom #Applelitigation

I had a chat wtih @eighthave about @fdroidorg on @OpenSourceSecurity

We cover how it works, the security angles for running an app store, and talk about some of the changes that are coming for Android that will make F-Droid's job a lot harder

I learned a ton from Hans, it's a great discussion

https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/2026-05-fdroid-hans-steiner/

🚨🔔 Job alert: The Tor Project is hiring a Senior Android Engineer to design, build, and ship privacy-preserving features used by people all over the world. Mentor teammates and shape architectural decisions.

If technical depth + real impact is your thing, we'd love to hear from you.

👉 https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/senior-android-engineer/

Hey #Google, cool you're adding a bit of #BinaryTransparency. Unfortunately, it doesn't mean much without #FreeSoftware #OpenSource and #ReproducibleBuilds. When can we expect you to adopt those practices?

https://blog.google/security/bringing-binary-transparency-to-the-android-ecosystem/

For the record #FDroid has offered binary transparency since 2017 https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidserver/-/merge_requests/226

And we even offer binary transparency for your #Gradle and #AndroidSDK binaries
https://f-droid.org/2021/02/05/apis-for-all-the-things.html#binary-transparency-logs

How about expanding your logging to all your binaries?

The App Fair Project has posted our thoughts on the Digital Markets Act review:
https://appfair.org/blog/gatekeeper-paradise/
#DMA #keepandroidopen #appfair

I'm honoured to have been elected to the Board of Directors of F-Droid, the most well-known #opensource alternative to the Google Play Store.

Imagine Microsoft deciding from now on what you can install on your laptop. No internet, you can only download things through the MS app store. Apps that MS has approved. Who wouldn't find that suffocating? Yet that is what Google wants to do on our Android phones (and what Apple already has - a closed ecosystem).

1/3

I am very happy to join the @fdroidorg Board of Directors for the upcoming two years.

F-Droid is in the heart of the Open Source community, which I see as a very important part of the shift away from the US big tech here in Europe. Success of Open Source on mobile is success we all can share.

F-Droid gives visibility to software developers who want to build experiences without predatory practices.

This is important.

https://f-droid.org/2026/04/28/board-appointments-2026.html

Apparently, #Google has lost track of their goal for #Android "We wanted to make sure that there was no central point of failure, where one industry player could restrict or control the innovations of any other. " https://web.archive.org/web/20120501080416/http://source.android.com/about/philosophy.html

That page is 404 Not Found now...

#KeepAndroidOpen

Privacy stalwarts in Congress just bought us a few more days to put together a bill that actually reforms Section 702. Keep pushing. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/keep-pushing-we-get-10-more-days-reform-section-702

On a train to #Dagstuhl, I finally got to read the nice write-up about on-device local-web-to-app tracking: https://localmess.github.io/assets/bridges-to-self-localmess-usenix-security-26.pdf

TL;DR summary: You might want to uninstall (or deactivate if pre-loaded) all #Facebook and #Yandex apps from your phone. That kind of behavior is pretty clearly malicious - not even just ethically wrong, but seems actually illegal (at least in the EU, though IANAL).

Google Play Integrity: what if Google dictated what software ran on your computer.

Open source implementations of attestation: what if a bunch of other people dictated what software ran on your computer.

Look, these handcuffs are permissively licensed!

No, thank you.

What if all public funding and all private donations to our efforts stop tomorrow?

Users should be fine for years thanks to the wonderful world-wide community of #chatmail relay operators 💜 Relays are dirt cheap to run. Also, our developments are much cheaper and less complex compared to what we know from comparable efforts.

No worries though!

We currently have moneys to help sustain ~15 contributors, with a sum similar to what other projects pay for their foundation president/CEO alone :)

“Meta on Thursday began removing advertisements from attorneys who were seeking clients that claim to have been harmed by social media while under the age of 18.” https://www.axios.com/2026/04/09/meta-social-media-addiction-ads

Schools should not be gateways to lifelong data surveillance. It is time to ask where these boundaries should lie, and who gets to decide.
https://privacyinternational.org/node/5696/

It would be really cute if it wasn't so costly: how so many people fall again & again for artificial hype creation in #AI:

1. Company says "our next model is super dangerous," we need to do this very responsibly. (But we'll sell it to whomever pays anyway. 🤷)

2. Journos blindly repeat industry claims without verifying them. "It'll destroy the world!"

3. Gov'ts demand "early access" & concede that "the future of our #security is now reliant on the future of AI."

#Anthropic #Mythos #AIhype

It appears one or more impersonators have already registered some of the #Android applications that I maintained, including @appmanager. I've reported this to #Google, but not sure what's going to happen. The Android developer verification is still in beta, and it doesn't have a lot of features now to deal with this kind of problems.

My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"

Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC

Using #RSS helps you control what you read, intentionally and algorithm-free. 🧹

No wonder the RSS reader #NextcloudNews is one of the more popular Nextcloud apps!

In his article on Medium, Cory Doctorow explains why using RSS is great:

“The one thing you can choose to do that will make your internet life better and make the internet better for everyone else, too.”

https://doctorow.medium.com/you-should-be-using-an-rss-reader-76aed31151f9

Thanks to @basernst for recommending the article!