Access to a critical health service should not hinge on whether or not you have a Google account. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/verilys-covid-19-screening-website-leaves-privacy-questions-unanswered
#Zoom on iOS is sending personal data to #Facebook https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7e599/zoom-ios-app-sends-data-to-facebook-even-if-you-dont-have-a-facebook-account
🤨 @Whatsapp has failed to respond to our letter on #CloudExtraction - which allows warrantless, broad access to cloud stored data. This is a vital issue for security of Whatsapp's customer data. Help us demand they respond now and retweet. 🔁
Read more: https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/3302/big-tech-companies-must-protect-customer-data-legal-backdoors https://nitter.net/privacyint/status/1243463016747634688/photo/1
We're starting another round of translation workflow improvements for websites working with #Weblate: this time the focus is taking the pain out of translating Markdown texts, this builds upon the work on the @fdroidorg@mastodon.technology website
https://guardianproject.info/2020/03/05/improving-crowdsourced-translation-of-long-form-text/
#MachineLearning is proving to be quite #exploit-able, humans need to stay in charge, with #AI only as an assistant:
"Hackers stuck a 2-inch strip of tape on a 35-mph speed sign and successfully tricked 2 Teslas into accelerating to 85 mph"
https://www.businessinsider.nl/hackers-trick-tesla-accelerating-85mph-using-tape-2020-2?international=true&r=US
After more than ten years working to remove #tracking in software, I now see that tracking usage without tracking people is possible. Tracking is essential to #AddictiveDesign, so #DataDriven #SoftwareDevelopment is still full of moral hazards
It has been interesting to dig into this, the vast #malware body of knowledge has gotten us started, but it isn't the same problem, so similar but different tools are needed.
#TrackingTheTrackers I'm digging into tools these days, #faup provides lookups if a string is a known domain name, and #ipgrep returns all strings that resolve to an IP address. The #ipgrep approach seems much more useful since it doesn't need a pre-prepared list of "known domain names", instead #DNS provides that
https://github.com/stricaud/faup
https://github.com/jedisct1/ipgrep
One murky area of #FreeSoftware is what the #mirrors do with the all the #metadata they inevitably collect. Big mirrors like https://mirrors.kernel.org/ have no apparent public #privacy #policy. Purdue PLUG https://plug-mirror.rcac.purdue.edu/info.html and FAU https://ftp.fau.de/datenschutz post theirs
#Privacy policies need not be dense legalese meant to confuse and obscure, @EFF's #DoNotTrack #Policy provides a well crafted, privacy promise for like minded organizations to adopt https://www.eff.org/dnt-policy
Ich halte am Donnerstag einen Vortag über #FDroid bei der FSFE Berlin.
Wer mag kann vorbeikommen!
You have the right to obtain legal help and access the justice system when your rights are not respected.
Find out why privacy matters: https://privacyinternational.org/case-study/3357/it-facilitates-our-access-justice https://nitter.net/privacyint/status/1225115620892499968/photo/1
Morgen 2020-01-28 ist internationaler Datenschutztag. Wir veranstalten deswegen einen Workshop wo Du Auskunftsbegeheren nach DSGVO an Unternehmen und Behörden erstellen kannst.
2020-01-28, ab 19:00 Uhr
Rathausstrasse 6, 1010 Wien
Die Teilnahme ist selbstverständlich kostenlos! Komm' einfach hin und mach mit!
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. https://laurakalbag.com/i-dont-track-you/
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1221806820794171394
The NHS hands over patients data to Telefonica so they can predict mental breakdowns before they happen. We think your mental health should stay between you and your doctor.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nhs-medical-records-given-to-telecoms-group-to-predict-mental-breakdowns-9qlwxqssg https://nitter.net/privacyint/status/1221806401149906944/photo/1
anyone ever seen a #maven API that lets you query by SHA256? Like start with the hash of a JAR, then see which repos it is on? #TrackingTheTrackers
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 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/public-domain-rule-copyright-exception
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 :)
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 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/key-fixing-copyright-ending-massive-unpredictable-damages-awards
Some of @google's own findings demonstrate the contempt some manufacturers hold their users privacy and security in
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