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  1. Aral Balkan (aral)'s status on Monday, 18-Feb-2019 13:02:29 UTC Aral Balkan Aral Balkan
    • snowdusk

    @snowdusk_ Apple vs Google on privacy: a tale of absolute competitive advantage

    https://2018.ar.al/notes/apple-vs-google-on-privacy-a-tale-of-absolute-competitive-advantage/

    TL;DR Apple willingly giving up its absolute competitive advantage in privacy over Google would be as daft as Samson shaving his head every morning.

    That said, the long term alternatives are p2p, e2e-encrypted, and free stack (software, hardware, and services).

    #privacy #apple #google #SurveillanceCapitalism

    about 2 hours ago from mastodon.ar.al permalink
  2. Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab)'s status on Friday, 15-Feb-2019 00:50:29 UTC Yale Privacy Lab Yale Privacy Lab
    • FSFE

    💕 a poignant message of love on V Day: "And that’s why I love free software! It gives you back the control over your machine. It’s something that you can trust, as there are no secrets kept from you..." 💘 https://blog.jabberhead.tk/2019/02/14/i-love-free-software-day-2019/ … #ilovefs #privacy #security @fsfe

    about 4 days ago from mastodon.social permalink
  3. Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 (bjoern)'s status on Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 07:33:54 UTC Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺

    "Every tap, button push and keyboard entry is recorded — effectively screenshotted — and sent back to the app developers", including credit card numbers, passwords, etc. When will people stop pretending that the #Apple system of a proprietary walled garden lead to more #security and #privacy? https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/06/iphone-session-replay-screenshots

    about 9 days ago from mastodon.social permalink
  4. Purism Computers (purism)'s status on Friday, 01-Feb-2019 12:59:24 UTC Purism Computers Purism Computers

    🎁 Buy Now & Save: Librem 5 Early Bird pricing ($599 USD) *extended to February 3*. Preorder pricing ($649 USD) begins Feb 4 and ends when general availability and shipping begins. https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/ #DemandFreedom #privacy #security

    about 17 days ago from mastodon.social permalink
  5. Purism Computers (purism)'s status on Monday, 28-Jan-2019 19:33:28 UTC Purism Computers Purism Computers

    Listen to our CEO Todd Weaver talk about Purism, the background, and the history on how we got started - https://www.tastytrade.com/tt/shows/bootstrapping-in-america/episodes/bootstrapping-in-america-01-28-2019 Bonus: Know Todd's thoughts on Apple's #privacy marketing #DemandFreedom

    about 21 days ago from mastodon.social permalink
  6. Aral Balkan (aral)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Jan-2019 09:01:41 UTC Aral Balkan Aral Balkan

    Q. What should I use to protect myself from surveillance on a Chromebook?

    A. A hammer.

    #Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism

    about a month ago from mastodon.ar.al permalink
  7. Zorak (zorak)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Jan-2019 12:36:28 UTC Zorak Zorak
    I do believe it when #Apple says they're respecting their users' #privacy, just like I believe it when #DDG says that. But I am disappointed when I see how these companies neglect #freedom and how so few of their users care about it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18917409
    about a month ago from social.ilikefreedom.ro permalink
  8. Purism Computers (purism)'s status on Monday, 14-Jan-2019 20:38:01 UTC Purism Computers Purism Computers

    Hardware Updates for 2019! 🎉

    Today we introduce Version 4 of the Librem laptop line — now with an updated CPU and graphics for all models and a 4k/HiDPI screen for the 15″ model.

    https://puri.sm/posts/librem-laptops-now-at-version-4/

    Protect your digital life with strong #security and #privacy *and* do so on one of our beautiful, high-end laptops.

    about a month ago from mastodon.social permalink
  9. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jan-2019 02:59:25 UTC Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    Reuters: "Move aside, backseat driver! New tech at CES monitors you inside car"

    https://social.mikegerwitz.com/url/70686

    (Internet Archive link because the article now 404's.)

    This type of tracking of a driver and car occupants can indeed provide useful features---both safety and convenience. But I would only be in favor of this sort of thing if it were free software and the car were under complete control of the user, and the system could be wholly disabled with clearly visible and unambiguous hardware switch, which is also visible to passengers.

    But proprietary systems doing this will be incentivized to sell data to third parties. The article gives some examples of some terrible uses of this type of tracking.

    As we move further and further into the future where these types of things are going to become more commonplace, the goal IMO shouldn't be to resist technological progress---it should be to ensure that it _empowers_ users, rather than making them servants or products.

    #privacy #surveillance #ethics
    about a month ago from web permalink
  10. Purism Computers (purism)'s status on Friday, 11-Jan-2019 20:29:14 UTC Purism Computers Purism Computers

    🎁 Buy Now & Save: Librem 5 Early Bird pricing ($599 USD) ends January 31. Preorder pricing ($649 USD) begins Feb 1 and ends when general availability and shipping begins. https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/ #DemandFreedom #privacy #security

    about a month ago from mastodon.social permalink
  11. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Friday, 11-Jan-2019 04:27:25 UTC Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    The Intercept reports that Amazon Ring gave employees and its Ukrainian-based R&D team access to private cameras:

    https://theintercept.com/2019/01/10/amazon-ring-security-camera/

    This practice is wrong, but any system that makes this type of thing possible is broken by design.

    You can imagine that I love the fact that one of my neighbors down the street at my child's bus stop has one of these devices.

    #privacy #surveillance
    about a month ago from web permalink
  12. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jan-2019 03:59:12 UTC Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    An article detailing some of the ways that cell phone location data (cell tower connections) is made available to third parties:

    https://social.mikegerwitz.com/url/70592

    #privacy #surveillance
    about a month ago from web permalink
  13. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jan-2019 03:49:41 UTC Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    A blend of #student #privacy violations with a lack of human decency:

    "My Child Has to Show Her Entire School That She’s Failing With a ‘Scarlet Badge’"

    https://social.mikegerwitz.com/url/70591
    about a month ago from web permalink
  14. Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab)'s status on Monday, 17-Dec-2018 20:30:12 UTC Yale Privacy Lab Yale Privacy Lab
    • Sean O'Brien
    • yaelwrites

    our @diggity on https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com podcast: "Using video cameras and signals from our smart devices, marketers are tailoring their billboards and digital signage based on our appearance and even our identity." #privacy #security cc @yaelwrites

    http://podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com/2018/12/17/ads-tracking-you-in-real-world/

    about 2 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
  15. Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 (bjoern)'s status on Monday, 17-Dec-2018 08:01:02 UTC Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺

    I'm excited. My #FOSDEM talk at the #Decentralized #Internet and #Privacy #DevRoom was accepted. I'm looking forward to talk about the rich #federation and #communication capabilities of #Nextcloud, of course I will also introduce our brand new #ActivityPub implementation https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/nextcloud/

    about 2 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
  16. Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 (bjoern)'s status on Thursday, 13-Dec-2018 09:46:47 UTC Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺

    public authorities "can secretly compel tech companies and individual technologists, including network administrators, sysadmins, and open source developers – to re-engineer software and hardware under their control, so that it can be used to spy on their users. Engineers can be penalized for refusing to comply with fines and prison"... sounds like a nightmare but it is reality in the #UK and #Australia https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/new-fight-online-privacy-and-security-australia-falls-what-happens-next #eff #spy #privacy #security

    about 2 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
  17. doctorow (doctorow)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Dec-2018 16:31:18 UTC doctorow doctorow

    RT @OrchidProtocol@twitter.com: The End of Trust (@mcsweeneys@twitter.com) is an interesting collection of essays and interviews about #tech, #privacy, and #surveillance. It features several @EFF@twitter.com authors like Cory Doctorow (@doctorow@twitter.com), and Bruce Schneier (@schneierblog@twitter.com). Download it for FREE! https://bit.ly/2SmWv6u

    🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/OrchidProtocol/status/1069990881208483840

    about 3 months ago from mamot.fr permalink
  18. doctorow (doctorow)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Nov-2018 14:41:13 UTC doctorow doctorow

    RT @andreasmoellen@twitter.com: "The End of Trust", an investigation of #surveillance and #privacy in the digital age: @mcsweeneys@twitter.com issue in collaboration with @EFF@twitter.com including essays by @BiellaColeman@twitter.com, @doctorow@twitter.com, @rushkoff@twitter.com, @maassive@twitter.com, @schneierblog@twitter.com and others is free online: https://www.eff.org/the-end-of-trust

    🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/andreasmoellen/status/1067789147539152896

    about 3 months ago from mamot.fr permalink
  19. doctorow (doctorow)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Nov-2018 17:45:01 UTC doctorow doctorow

    RT @spellboundblog@twitter.com: The End of Trust (the first all-nonfiction @mcsweeneys@twitter.com issue, created w/@EFF, focuses on tech, #privacy, & #surveillance & features Cindy Cohn, Soraya Okuda, @doctorow@twitter.com, @maassive@twitter.com, @schneierblog@twitter.com, & other digital rights thinkers) is free online: https://www.eff.org/the-end-of-trust

    🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/spellboundblog/status/1067473950551261185

    about 3 months ago from mamot.fr permalink
  20. doctorow (doctorow)'s status on Thursday, 22-Nov-2018 17:38:40 UTC doctorow doctorow

    RT @Sendinthewolf@twitter.com: @jessehirsh@twitter.com is 100% right. It doesn't get much clearer than this. Data #privacy and transparency are prerequisites of #Democracy. But when Facebook controls public speech, democracy is just a cost to be avoided. #cdnpoli https://www.cigionline.org/articles/canadian-elections-cant-side-step-social-media-influence

    🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Sendinthewolf/status/1065229990579630081

    about 3 months ago from mamot.fr permalink
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