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Kyle Rankin  

The Butterball turkey hotline, but for Facebook employees. (h/t @Viss ) nytimes.com/2019/12/02/technol

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Purism  

We promised to publish the hardware schematics when the shipped and we delivered: Hardware Schematics and X-ray Scans for Librem 5 Birch puri.sm/posts/a-different-kind

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Kyle Rankin  

A German beer Advent calendar for him. A French wine Advent calendar for her. A good start to the season for everyone.

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Kyle Rankin  

I don't play many board games but I bought Wingspan recently. It's not just a fun family strategy game w/o war or battle, it's deep enough that it's more fun each time I play. Recommended.

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Todd Weaver  

@fsf Lists the Librem 5 in its Giving Guide fsf.org/blogs/community/ethica The Purism Librem 5 cell phone is another exciting addition to the Giving Guide this year: we're giving it a tentative recommendation because the company has publicly committed to doing the right things for prioritizing user freedom and privacy. We also have evaluated and endorsed the operating system that the Librem 5 will run, the fully free PureOS, and the phone is designed for maximum privacy, security, and user freedom.

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Kyle Rankin  

I love this post:

"When we first approached hardware manufacturers almost two years ago with this project most of them instantly said “No, sorry, impossible, we can not help you.”. Others warned us, that it could never work, that it was too complicated, “the industry does not do that” and so forth.

And yet here we are, later than we wanted, but we are actually shipping first hardware! It is possible but it comes at a price."

puri.sm/posts/breaking-ground/

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Kyle Rankin  

I shared some of my thoughts on this mentality and how it harms people in this post for @purism puri.sm/posts/consent-matters-

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Kyle Rankin  

Many tech companies tout and security features that coincidentally also increase their own control and your dependence on them.

In this case, the feature protects user location data from competitors but not from Apple:

washingtonpost.com/technology/

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Kyle Rankin  

This opt-in clause is the critical reform we need. As in California, tech companies will lobby to remove it.

"Companies further would have to obtain a person’s permission to collect and share their sensitive data."

washingtonpost.com/technology/

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Kyle Rankin  

Et tu, DMV?

"The California Department of Motor Vehicles is generating revenue of $50,000,000 a year through selling drivers’ personal information, according to a DMV document obtained by Motherboard."

vice.com/en_us/article/evjekz/

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Kyle Rankin  

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."

amnesty.org/en/latest/news/201

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Kyle Rankin  

I wonder how many people reprogrammed their Google Assistant trigger phrase to "OK Boomer"

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Electronic Frontier Foundation  

The history of USENET and the alt. hierarchy shows what we lost when the Internet stopped being about protocols and started being about products—a catastrophe adversarial interoperability staved off for decades, until we blocked it with terrible tech laws. eff.org/deeplinks/2019/11/alti

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Kyle Rankin  

I mentioned the other day that health care data is one area where people who "have nothing to hide" still care about .

Personal finances is the other area and it looks like Google's going there too.

washingtonpost.com/technology/

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Kyle Rankin  

We've gotten some questions as to whether @purism laptops are vulnerable to TPM-Fail. We use a different chipset for our TPM so our laptops don't appear to be vulnerable.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation  

BREAKING: a federal judge has ruled that suspicionless searches of travelers’ cell phones, laptops, and other electronic devices when we cross the U.S. border are unconstitutional.

This is an enormous victory for privacy. eff.org/press/releases/federal

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Kyle Rankin  

This article about Google's project to store and analyze millions of Americans' health care data confirms my suspicions about the Fitbit acquisition.

Many people who don't care about mass data collection because "I've got nothing to hide" change their tune when it's health care data.

wsj.com/articles/google-s-secr

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Kyle Rankin  

It's not every day you get to expense a big box of glitter nail polish to your company. puri.sm/posts/anti-interdictio

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Kyle Rankin  

Even though the magazine folded months ago, something about the Linux Journal website going offline makes everything seem so much more final.

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Kyle Rankin  

On one hand, tech companies violate our , capture massive amounts of data without consent, and process and categorize it w/ ruthless efficiency to ever-more-precisely target us with ads.

On the other hand, AARP keeps trying to sell my deceased dad life insurance.

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