#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
OpenPush - A Free, #Decentralized Push Messaging Framework for #Android
"Push messages are an essential part of connected mobile devices. They are also one of the critical missing pieces in the #opensource Android ecosystem. Until now, free Android apps would either need to implement their own push notification system, do without any push messaging or use the proprietary Google Cloud Messaging service."
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
#Google Docs And #Office365 here we come... from @Forbes@twitter.com
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2020/01/17/nextcloud-hub-launches-to-compete-with-google-docs-and-office-365/
@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.
https://www.privacyinternational.org/long-read/3298/alexa-what-hidden-behind-your-contract-nhs
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: https://frphn.co/DesigningFairphone3
#WeAreFairphone and we #DareToCare
Thanks to a lawsuit by @privacyint unlimited storage of personal data is and remains illegal in Europe. #PrivacyWin #Privacy #Fight4Privacy
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/privacy-rights-europe
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