KevinTheBA @kevintheba@librem.one

Looking for a secure communication channel which doesn't leak the crucial meta-data of who-communicates-with-whom? Try #selfhosting a #nextcloud Talk server!

Version 6 Introduces:
🎛Commands
🗣persistent one-on-one conversations
📓Projects
https://nextcloud.com/blog/talk-6.0-brings-commands-improved-user-experience-and-more/

US cloud platforms are not #GDPR compliant - that's becoming very clear. Is your organization already looking for a better solution?
https://nextcloud.com/blog/eu-and-us-government-agencies-converge-on-conclusion-us-cloud-platforms-not-compliant/

RT @eff: San Francisco: Join EFF and over 25 civil society organizations in telling the Board of Supervisors to stop secret surveillance in…

RT @TRF_Stories: "We are entering a potential future where everywhere someone goes, the government knows who they are, who they are with an…

RT @onekade: 🚨 ALERT! 🚨 Somerville, Massachusetts to join San Francisco and Oakland in proposing a full ban on the government’s use of face…

If governments push social media companies to take down “terrorist content,” they will also force them to remove important documentation of everything from atrocities and war crimes to police brutality as well, say journalists and human rights activists. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/facebook-algorithms-are-making-it-harder/588931/

LibreOffice 6.3 is being developed by our worldwide community! Join our Bug Hunting Session on May 13 to fix issues in the first Alpha release, and make the final version rock-solid: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2019/05/09/libreoffice-63-bhsalpha1/

Unconstituional searches of travellers' laptops and mobile phones at the US border have nearly quadrupled since 2015

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-48118558

Read @coincenter's paper exploring how the Constitution protects coders developing ideas for privacy-enhancing cryptocurrencies and decentralized exchanges. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/05/coin-centers-report-explores-privacy-coins-decentralized-exchanges-and-first

Californians: Tell the Senate empower you to enforce your own privacy. Call Sen. @Portantino (916) 651-4025, to tell him you support SB 561. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/05/california-tell-your-legislators-stand-your-privacy

A company that filed more than 170 patent lawsuits last year wants to keep all of its licensing deals hidden. We said that's wrong, and now a federal judge has agreed with us—twice. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/05/court-refuses-keep-patent-licensing-secrets

Who to follow on #Mastodon? We are trying to give new users a better start and selected a couple of profiles for #privacy related topics:

@BurungHantu
@opennic
@jonah
@Mastodon
@torproject
@privacyint
@protonmail
@protonvpn
@Tutanota
@nextcloud
@Qwant
@libreoffice
@Purism
@matrix
@pixelfed
@prismo
@funkwhale
@cryptpad
@disroot
@yunohost
@switchingsocial
@danarel
@infosechandbook
@CCC
@freedomboxfndn
@freedombone
@eff
@Tusky
@tom79
@keybase
@debian
@Matomo
@Nitrokey
@privacylab

Got privacy questions? Experts @SenHannahBeth, @EFFFalcon, @fightfortheftr, and @ACLU_NorCal have answers. Join our Reddit AMA 12p PT to talk privacy and the only bill in CA to strengthen privacy enforcement, SB 561. See you there, 12pm-2pm PT: http://reddit.com/r/iama

Sundar Pichai trying to paint himself as the champion of the poor man’s privacy isn’t even the main problem here: a Big Tobacco CEO would love to be seen as the champion of your health and ditto a Big Oil CEO as defender of the environment.

Northrop Grumman is helping DHS build a massive biometric database to track citizens and foreigners with face recognition, DNA samples, and more.

Investors are demanding transparency. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/05/shareholders-northrop-grumman-demand-know-how-company-will-protect-human-rights

"Monahan made an announcement saying that if Riot management doesn’t make any sort of commitment on forced arbitration by May 16—the date of the next Riot Unplugged meeting—she and others involved with the walkout will take further action. "

https://kotaku.com/over-150-riot-employees-walk-out-to-protest-forced-arbi-1834566198

YES! Keep the momentum going! Unionize, organize with your fellow workers! 😂 Demand dignity and respect and withold labor till you get it!

(Image from Sorry To Bother You)

A. Privacy is not a good, it is a human right

B. Google is a surveillance capitalist; its business model is diametrically opposed to respecting privacy

C. Google protects *their* information, not yours, because that’s what your information becomes once they have it: their asset

RT @eff: The NSA has collected information about millions of Americans' phone calls. The program does nothing for national security. Let's…

Hey, California: Call on these members of the Senate Appropriations Committee to support SB 561 and your right to take companies that violate your privacy rights to court.
Sen. Jerry Hill (916) 651-4013
Sen. @steve Bradford (916) 651-4035
Sen. @BobWieckowskiCA (916) 651-4010

94 percent of Californians think we should be able to take companies that violate their privacy to court. SB 561 would let us do that. Call @Portantino at (916) 651-4025 to speak up for your privacy rights and tell him to do the same. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/05/california-tell-your-legislators-stand-your-privacy