BREAKING: We’ve confirmed that the Ring doorbell app on Android covertly shares personally identifiable information on its users with third-party companies, including Facebook.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/ring-doorbell-app-packed-third-party-trackers
The tools are maturing... enabling products built entirely on privacy-oriented decentralized platforms.
Iotex is a user-first home camera alternative to Nest, Ring, Wyze.
Built with decentralized identity and IPFS.
Thx @jennwrites@twitter.com for spotting!
These are baseless accusations of "cybercrimes."
The charges are “an obvious attempt to attack a free press in retaliation for the revelations we reported about Minister Moro and the Bolsonaro government.” - Glenn Greenwald
https://nytimes.com/2020/01/21/world/americas/glenn-greenwald-brazil-cybercrimes.html
.onion: https://nytimes3xbfgragh.onion/2020/01/21/world/americas/glenn-greenwald-brazil-cybercrimes.html
I've seen the benefit of the Feed-In-Tariff, and am saddened that locally it has been stopped by the latest provincial government.
At least Germany is still leading the world with this.
Planet Money: #965: Das Green Old Deal https://www.npr.org/2020/01/17/797322305/episode-965-das-green-old-deal
@kyle mastercard sells realtime transaction data: https://www.mastercardservices.com/en/data-analytics
There was some way to opt out per card, but you need to look that up.
The Indicator from Planet Money: How Amazon's Counterfeit Products Threaten Safety https://www.npr.org/2020/01/14/796296810/how-amazons-counterfeit-products-threaten-safety
Tor Browser 9.0.4 is out now.
This release fixes a critical security issue in Firefox: CVE-2019-17026. https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-904
Enlightening look at the power of location data that almost everyone's phone is giving up constantly. Claims of anonymity debunked in chilling way:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html
"Yet Another #Librem5 and #PinePhone Comparison" is an in-depth technical comparison of the two devices by #postmarketOS developer @martijnbraam
You can read it here: https://tuxphones.com/yet-another-librem-5-and-pinephone-linux-smartphone-comparison/ #linux
Looking at #KDE Plasma Mobile and #PinePhone is giving me the sort of a glimmer of hope that I haven't felt in a long time as far as mobile anything is concerned.
This opt-in requirement is critical, and the precise thing tech orgs successfully lobbied to remove from the CCPA:
"As a first step, governments must enact laws to ensure companies including Google and Facebook are prevented from making access to their service conditional on individuals “consenting” to the collection, processing or sharing of their personal data for marketing or advertising."
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/11/google-facebook-surveillance-privacy/
Made a video of desktop apps running in #plasmamobile on #postmarketOS on the #pinephone
Oh hey, the BraveHeart #PinePhone is now available to preorder! Go get one! https://store.pine64.org/?product=pinephone-braveheart-limited-edition-linux-smartphone-for-early-adaptor