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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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privacyinternational.org/long-

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

Tomorrow a German court will consider legality of mass surveillance, will it have implications on other counties that use similar programs?

eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/germ

Corporate third parties have built up a huge surveillance industry around us. A new report by the Norwegian Consumer Council shows how. #OutOfControl
eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/new-

when people know about and can easily do something about it, they do so by a large margin: "around 80% of [ 13 users] stopped all background tracking by apps."

appleinsider.com/articles/20/0

from BBCNewsPR: "You can access BBC News on Tor here: bbcnewsv2vjtpsuy.onion. You can also access BBC News' language services by adding a forward slash and writing the name of the language service you wish to access. For example, bbcnewsv2vjtpsuy.onion/persian will take you to the BBC Persian site."

@cis_india wrote about how Reliance Jio, the most popular ISP in India, is employing a SNI inspection to block websites (and why it matters): cis-india.org/internet-governa

from @privacyint: "Six years after the @Snowden
revelations, two governments describe their mass surveillance programmes - but who even noticed?

We break down why it matters."

privacyinternational.org/long-

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

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

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

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

Reminder: Privacy is your right. You shouldn't be exploited for using the internet. #privacy #humanrights

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