Guardian Project @guardianproject@librem.one

Wow – pure SnakeOil, those so-called anti-virus or anti-malware scanners! "we are unable to proceed with the whitelisting request unless the application is available on the Google Play Store"?!? WTF?!? 🤯

And yes, that's part of a real response a dev got.

So they claim: your app is malware, as long as it is not at Google Play. I'd say we've heard it the other way around, too…

#SnakeOil #AntiVirus #MalwareScanner #falsePositive #Google

Public records confirm that the Austrian Ministry of the Interior bought Webloc, a geolocation mass surveillance system based on data from mobile apps and digital advertising = almost certainly illegal under the GDPR.

Austria is now - after Hungary - the second EU state known to use such a system.
https://mastodon.social/@wchr/116817729453918994

I'm leaving #Google: https://www.mayrhofer.eu.org/post/leaving-google/

While I believe that I have been able to do some good with my continuing (part-time) engagement in the Android security and privacy team since returning to Austria a couple of years ago, the deal with the US #DoW is completely misaligned with my personal ethical principles. I will, therefore, no longer be able to act as a contact point to Google-internal teams and discussions, but will continue our research on private digital identity, end-to-end secure communication and storage, network privacy, (embedded/mobile) operating system security, supply chain transparency, etc. from a purely academic point of view. Android - and in particular AOSP - will remain a research interest, so please feel free to reach out on any of those topics for potential collaborations or discussions on the academic side.

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue

https://www.404media.co/hackers-simply-asked-meta-ai-to-give-them-access-to-high-profile-instagram-accounts-it-worked/

RE: https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/116679473218827225

I'm so proud of our government institutions that are moving to Mastodon 🥹

There are now several Dutch ministeries, provincies, agencies and municipalities, but also officials such as state secretaries and ministeries on social.overheid.nl 🥳

A big thank you to @manfredzielinski for making this happen.

The era of unchecked tech monopolies is over.

We're taking decisive action to enforce open, fair, and contestable digital markets.

Our measures had real consequences:

🛡️ Fined major platforms for anti-competitive practices and ignoring consumer data choices

⌚ Required strict hardware interoperability for smartwatches and connected wearables

☁️ Launched three investigations into dominance in cloud services and into search engines hiding media

Accountability is here 👉 https://link.europa.eu/YTddh6