Did you know Google Analytics is the biggest tracker on the web?
Website owners: Knowing you're sharing your users' data with Google should be enough to stop using Google Analytics but just in case, @markosaric has more reasons that go beyond privacy.
https://plausible.io/blog/remove-google-analytics
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1254406628591501312
I share this without any schadenfreude:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-europe-tech-idUSKCN22807J
Tor for Android by @torproject is a mobile browser that provides both privacy and anonymity online by masking who you are and where you are connecting as you browse. Review our guide on using Tor for Android to get set up. https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/how-use-tor-android
The massive infrastructure required to run face recognition cannot be easily dismantled when the COVID-19 emergency is over. We cannot allow law enforcement and other government officials to use a time of crisis to normalize this invasive tactic. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/face-surveillance-not-solution-covid-19-crisis
Expanding patent rights would make healthcare less accessible and is the wrong response to the current crisis.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/lengthening-patent-terms-10-years-exactly-wrong-response-covid-19
The next step in making #localization easier: Markdown and long-form texts, from docs to blogs. Here is what we have learned so far:
https://guardianproject.info/2020/04/23/figuring-out-crowdsourced-translation-of-websites/
Zoom failures teach a valuable lesson about what really matters in a software
We have started a public wiki page to gather all the gov/etc #Coronavirus #Android apps, we are also monitoring what is in those apps. Please let us know if any are missing, or direct edit if you have access.
https://gitlab.com/trackingthetrackers/wiki/-/wikis/Coronavirus-apps
There is now a nice comic of the PEPP-PT protocol idea for #Covid #ContactTracing https://ncase.me/contact-tracing/ anyone know of anyone working on implementing it?
Together with many Dutch civil rights defenders the FSFE has signed a statement to outlines 10 principles a contact tracing app should abide by #freesoftware #privacy
Heute Abend ist @dieseidl@twitter.com im ServusTV Reportage zur Bekämpfung von #COVID19. Schaltet ab 21:10 ein! https://win.gs/2VgaspJ
Médiateur·ices numériques, nous avons besoin de vous !
Nous voulons créer un kit pédagogique autour des enjeux de vie privée et des smartphones. Pour connaître vos besoins, merci de répondre à ces quelques questions avant le 15 avril :
https://framaforms.org/questionnaire-destine-aux-mediateurs-et-mediatrices-numeriques-1585662577
Merci ! #mednum
Wir begrüßen die Bestätigung des Gesundheitsministers, dass die Stopp Corona App freiwillig bleibt. Zwei Professor*innen für Verfassungrecht an der Universität Innsbruck haben hier erklärt, warum eine Verpflichtung verfassungswidrig wäre: https://bit.ly/2Xk0Fl0 @peterbussjaeger@twitter.com
This is a complementary effort to #Framatalk, which is @Framasoft's effort to make #JitsiMeet widespread. https://framatalk.org/
Its great to see the current explosion of public #Jitsi Meet. To help choose which one works for you, we set up a test project "jitsi-monitor" to gather data on public #JitsiMeet instances daily:
* config including STUN, analytics, etc.
* TLS setup
* TCP traceroute
* what else?
This should run locally for choosing the closest instance. Our results are in basic HTML format. This can be used to make Javascript UIs. The full JSON, source, etc. are available at
https://guardianproject.gitlab.io/jitsi-monitor/
Automated technology doesn’t work at scale—that's why it's vital that companies take precautions now to ensure transparency and accountability, and roll back new automation later https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/automated-moderation-must-be-temporary-transparent-and-easily-appealable
For private meetings with video/audio, the real choice remains open source software: Jitsi, @nextcloud Riot/Matrix, Wire, Signal. For groups, Wire seems to be the only end-to-end encrypted option, so using a trusted service provider is essential. You can find a list Jitsi instances here: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/wiki/Jitsi-Meet-Instances
1-on-1 conversations with #Nextcloud Talk are E2E encrypted. With the HPB, larger calls go over your own infra. In no case can anyone listen in!
So take back control over your communication. Host your own #Zoom #Skype #MSTeams!
https://nextcloud.com/talk
We, alongside a network of advocates, have launched an online resource centre to track and explain worldwide Covid-19 measures - you can find it here: https://privacyinternational.org/campaigns/fighting-global-covid-19-power-grab
Anyone with updates can contact us at: info@privacyinternational.org.
What if you could replace a broken phone screen, by yourself, in under 5 minutes? Fairphone 3 is the only smartphone in the world to be awarded a perfect 10 out of 10 repairability score by @iFixit@twitter.com. 🛠️ 🌍 Available now 👉 : https://frphn.co/nvI6X
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