Leetaur @leetaur@librem.one

Technology as it Should Be

"The power of control by Big-Tech in the app store is but a small example of exploitation of our digital lives. If you don’t control the software, the companies who wrote that software control you. You become a digital prisoner."

https://puri.sm/posts/technology-as-it-should-be/

#freedom #privacy #security

usb stick (and other volume) #automounting soon coming to a #phosh near you:

@purism #librem5

RT Anna Slatz is a Hater
In Canada:

71% of people who have died of COVID have been over 80.

89% have been over 70.

96% have been over 60.

.03% have been under 39 — the people most impacted by the lockdowns.
https://twitter.com/YesThatAnna/status/1329925289430949889 #Rebel #Canada

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In a scenario that many saw coming over a year ago, Jackson, Mississippi police are asking residents to allow live-stream access to their doorbell cameras, writes EFF's @mguariglia on @mozilla's blog. https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/police-mississippi-pilot-program-live-stream-amazon-ring-cameras/

We've got a new podcast! Across six episodes, we dive deep into six problems plaguing the modern Internet, and ways that we can dig ourselves out. You can find episodes of How to Fix the Internet here, and everywhere you get podcasts. https://www.eff.org/how-to-fix-the-internet-podcast https://t.co/kAxN4VpLu2

The Free Software Foundation has published an "Ethical Tech Giving Guide" and suggest our #librem5 for their smartphone category!

https://www.fsf.org/givingguide/v11/

Learn more about the Librem 5: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

#freedom #privacy #security

Librem 5 Visual Walkthrough

"With the Mass-produced Evergreen phone now starting to ship, we put together a video walkthrough of the launch software as well as an overview of the final hardware."

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-visual-walkthrough/

#librem5 #privacy #freedom

If you've watched our video on the takedown of youtube-dl, you know how important it is that Github has reversed course and reinstated the repository. This is a strong commitment to the rights of the developer community, and we hope it sets an example. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/github-reinstates-youtube-dl-after-riaas-abuse-dmca https://twitter.com/EFF/status/1324833472553209856

New lawsuit: Why do Android phones mysteriously exchange 260MB a month with Google via cellular data when they're not even in use?

Google on Thursday was sued for allegedly stealing Android users' cellular data allowances though unapproved, undisclosed transmissions to the web giant's servers.

The lawsuit, Taylor et al v. Google [PDF], was filed in a US federal district court in San Jose.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/14/google_android_data_allowance/

#DeleteGoogle #surveillancecapitalism

Surveillance isn’t normal–it’s spying. Schools that use surveillance technologies to track and monitor students are violating their privacy. https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/privacy-students

Illinois residents (and the rest of us) have a fundamental human right to the privacy of our personal biometric information. So Clearview should not collect our faceprints without our consent, as required by Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/clearviews-faceprinting-not-sheltered-biometric-privacy-litigation-first-amendment

The RIAA used the DMCA to take down youtube-dl even though youtube-dl doesn’t infringe on any RIAA copyrights. That's not how it's supposed to work. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/riaa-abuses-dmca-take-down-popular-tool-downloading-online-video

You can still pre-order the Librem 5 and save $50 - but this early bird pricing ends November 15th!

"The Librem 5 represents the opportunity for you to take back control and protect your private information, your digital life through free and open source software, open governance, and transparency."

https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/

#privacy #freedom #security #librem5

Relax, folks. Take a deep breath. Whatever happens over the next few days or weeks, happens. Rest up. This circus begins again in about 36 months.

I just keep imagining the epic sword battle between Google Reader and Orkut... In the end the life force of all Google products end up feeding Search, the only immortal.

A key promise of the internet as an innovation was it would enable people to disseminate information & build platforms without needing corporations who can buy printing presses or satellites.

Ever since, corporate media has been trying to attack, now silence, this empowerment.

Glenn Greenwald

Announcing the Librem Mini V2

"The Librem Mini v2 in just about all respects matches the Mini v1 including the same base price. The big difference is that we can now offer a new, 10th gen i7-10510U Intel processor. "

https://puri.sm/posts/announcing-the-librem-mini-v2/

#privacy #security #freedom #LibremMini