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It's not just big tech that has a responsibility to stop tracking people online. Any website owner can protect their users' privacy by dropping invasive code like Google Analytics, as @LauraKalbag has. laurakalbag.com/i-dont-track-y

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anyone ever seen a API that lets you query by SHA256? Like start with the hash of a JAR, then see which repos it is on?

@nicooo @fdroidorg@mastodon.technology Yes, a crowdfunding drive would be amazing! I could see a combined @exodus @fdroidorg@mastodon.technology project in a project for that. The only block is someone running the crowdfunding drive, as far as I can see.

The public domain is populated by formerly copyrighted material and material that was never copyrightable in the first place. That second, less glamorous, category—the one of ideas, facts, procedures, laws, etc.—has become highly contested. #CopyrightWeek eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/publ

Thanks to @OpenTechFund@twitter.com for the continued support of Delta Chat developments, and for prominently promoting our recent milestones, Android and iOS appstore releases. More releases and other surprises are coming soon :)

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What if a single parking ticket carried a fine of up to a year's salary? What if there were no way to know consistently how much the fine would be before you got it? Something very close to this scenario is a reality in copyright law. #CopyrightWeek eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/key-

@fdroidorg we are so happy to read about a collaboration between #FDroid and @exodus two projects we both love and funded in 2019! Stronger together!

RT @eff: Copyright is a monopoly right, and monopolies have a tendency to accumulate in the vaults of big companies, who use them to domina…

After signing a deal with the NHS, Amazon now wants to become a pharmacy.

We would love to tell you more, but the Department of Health decided Amazon’s commercial interest matters more than the public interest.

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What if you could buy a phone that will last five years, can be easily repaired and is made as ethically as possible?🤔

Check-out out guest feature from the Fairphone 3’s lead industrial designer James Barber: frphn.co/DesigningFairphone3

#WeAreFairphone and we #DareToCare

👍 Un grand merci à l'association @42l qui nous a accueilli·e·s pour une conférence et un atelier samedi ! Nous vous informerons quand la vidéo de la conférence sera en ligne.
En attendant, retrouvez tous nos événements sur exodus-privacy.eu.org/fr/page/

150+ US universities encourage incoming students to download mental-health apps, but @thedeannapaul points out the privacy risks:

• Insurers can use it to calculate premiums
• Employers can use it to assess risk
• Advertisers can use it to tailor ads washingtonpost.com/technology/

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In 2019, the first large-scale study of pre-installed software on Android devices found harmful behaviours and backdoored access to sensitive data and services without user consent or awareness.

Tell @google it's time to take action

#LowCostTech

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One phone we looked at endlessly tries to transmit the user's name, gender, data of birth and IMEI to a missing server. It does so insecurely, giving away the data to any eavesdropper on any network that the user connects to

#LowCostTech

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Here is a Delta Chat talk from end December at #36c3 -- it discusses Delta Chat's unique messenger-approach, its use of the e-mail server network, its resilience against internet shutdowns, the crypto engine rPGP, and then tons of Q&A from the audience media.ccc.de/v/36c3-oio-154-de

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