Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

EFF's new "Atlas of Surveillance" shows, city by city, how police departments across America use a variety of new surveillance tech to spy on their residents. What do your local police use? https://atlasofsurveillance.org

Real-time crime centers in coastal cities. Drones in rural towns. The pervasiveness of law enforcement surveillance must not be ignored. https://www.wired.com/story/atlas-of-surveillance-eff-law-enforcement-map/

#Pandemic shows #climate has never been treated as #crisis, say scientists | #ClimateChange | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/16/pandemic-shows-climate-has-never-been-treated-as-crisis-say-scientists

#Environment #GlobalWarming

Don't militarize public health by sending the National Guard to hospitals to process COVID-19 data. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/07/13/trump-administration-recommend-national-guard-an-option-help-hospitals-report-covid-19-data/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-high_virus-nationalguard-330pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans.

Four States Are Sharing Driver's License Info to Help Find Out Who's a Citizen
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/14/890798378/south-dakota-is-sharing-drivers-license-info-to-help-find-out-who-s-a-citizen

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A coalition of labor unions with racial and social justice organisations will stage a mass walkout to highlight racism July 20. Groups include Service Workers (SEIU), Teamsters, Teachers, Farmworkers, Domestic Workers and the Movement for Black Lives.

https://portside.org/2020-07-09/strike-black-lives-highlight-racism-monday-july-20

RT @bini_adamczak@twitter.com

Eine neue Studie (DIW) zeigt, dass #Reichtum in Deutschland noch ungleicher verteilt ist als angenommen. Das reichste Prozent der Bevölkerung besitzt 35 %, den oberen zehn Prozent gehören 67 % und die ärmere Hälfte der Bevölkerung teilt sich 1,4 % des Gesamtvermögens. #Enteignung

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/bini_adamczak/status/1283283654920138755

Well, this is a positive development - Slack loses out to a Matrix (open messaging standard) EU-based privacy-focused competitor.https://sifted.eu/articles/element-germany-deal/ Let's see a whole lot more of this privacy and anti-Silicon Valley sensibility. This "adjustment" is long overdue.

Ok, now this is totally fascinating: http://www.foodtimeline.org/ (here's an intro: https://www.eater.com/2020/7/8/21271246/food-timeline-lynne-olver )

Guys, am I the only one who didn't know about #Twitter lending all of users' data to #Google?

https://cloud.google.com/twitter

One of the most damaging philosophies #infosec copied from IT is a belief in user inferiority. Too many security decisions are rooted in a patronizing notion that users are children and that trust and agency must be taken from them and given to infosec staff/vendors.

It blew his mind that a single deck of cards you can buy for $1 could mean a hundred different single and multiplayer games. I immediately taught him solitaire, and cribbage is next. Society would never invent such a thing today.

I'm a free software nerd because explaining what a deck of cards is to my son became an object lesson in open standards and vendor lock in.

For hundreds of years a new card game meant new rules but the same deck. Now everyone has to monetize w/ custom cards and expansion packs.

Police use face recognition, drones, automated license plate readers, and an arsenal of other invasive tech. Atlas of Surveillance is a searchable map containing thousands of datapoints that allows you to see what is deployed in your area.

https://atlasofsurveillance.org/

State and Police Violence Against Protesters Escalates As Demonstrator Shot in Head with Impact Munition https://itsgoingdown.org/portland-police-violence-escalates/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Whenever you think or someone says to you that your good idea can't be good because if it was, someone else would've already done it remember this.

The Dutch ministry of justice paid for a #privacy test of Office 365, finding a series of issues. Just one of these: 6 different companies receive user data including file names, without even a privacy policy.
https://www.privacycompany.eu/blogpost-nl/onderzoek-naar-microsoft-office-365-for-the-web-en-apps-microsoft-belooft-nieuwe-maatregelen-om-hoge-privacyrisicos-te-verlagen

California's Attorney General began enforcing the California Consumer Privacy Act on July 1. Here are answers to 10 common questions about the CCPA and what it means for you: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/ten-questions-and-answers-about-california-consumer-privacy-act

They also took the streets to remind people of the ongoing targeted and systematic state violence that is carried out by the police against Black, Indigenous and People of Color.
#BlackLivesMatter #Fuck12 #fuckthepolice