Emanuele @emanuele@m.divita.eu

«Xinjiang really shows how #privacy is a gateway right, where if you have no privacy, that’s where you see that you have no freedoms as a human being at all».

https://theintercept.com/2021/01/29/china-uyghur-muslim-surveillance-police/

You’re being policed on a micro level, both by human policing and by the application of the technology to you and your life.

#privacyMatters #China #Uyghur #surveillance

The critique from #Apple also applied to #Google, #Snapchat and players in the adtech industry. Mr Cook noted the average smartphone app contains «an average of six trackers» to «surveil and identify users across apps, watching and recording their behaviour».

#PrivacyMatter #iOS #advertising #tracking

Apple chief Tim Cook attacks social platforms in escalating war of words

https://www.ft.com/content/4bbb8c7d-9135-4a9a-a755-9189c53ea58b

The recent tensions between #Apple and #Facebook began last year when the iPhone maker announced it was introducing a new feature called App Tracking Transparency, which compels app developers to ask users for permission to track them across apps to create personalised #ads.

#privacyMatters #advertising #tracking

#Firefox 85 Cracks Down on Supercookies

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/01/26/supercookie-protections/

#privacyMatters #cookie #browser

Tech companies are profiling us from before birth.

Children today are the very first generation of citizens to be datafied from before birth. The social and political consequences of this historical transformation have yet to be seen.

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/tech-companies-are-profiling-us-from-before-birth/

#privacyMatters #DataProtectionMatters

Brave becomes first browser to add native support for the #IPFS protocol

#Brave users will now be able to seamlessly access ipfs:// links.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/brave-becomes-first-browser-to-add-native-support-for-the-ipfs-protocol/

#decentralization #p2p

The European Commission is running two new investigations into #Google:

- One on how the company is collecting, accessing, processing, using or monetising data,
- Another on its practices in regards to advertising technology.

https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-zeroes-in-on-googles-data/

#privacyMatters #Europe

UK deploys #DoH service for remote government workers

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/protective-dns-away-from-office

#privacyMatters #DNS

NEW: DuckDuckGo surpasses 100 million daily search queries for the first time

#DuckDuckGo reached this historic milestone in a week when both Signal and Telegram saw a huge influx of new users.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/duckduckgo-surpasses-100-million-daily-search-queries-for-the-first-time/

#privacyMatters #searchEngine

On newsletters

https://www.bicyclemind.com/2021/01/on-newsletters/

#RSS #mail #web #newsletter

Deutsche Telekom and #Nextcloud offer Collaboration Platform for European Data Sovereignty and #GDPR compliance

https://nextcloud.com/blog/telekom-and-nextcloud-offer-collaboration-platform-for-european-data-sovereignty-and-gdpr-compliance/

#privacyMatters #privacy #Europe

Stealing Your Private #YouTube Videos, One Frame at a Time

https://bugs.xdavidhu.me/google/2021/01/11/stealing-your-private-videos-one-frame-at-a-time/

What if we try to #decentralize the entire monetary system? 🙂

#privacyMatters

The point of all this isn't accessible privacy it's inaccessible surveillance.

#privacyMatters #surveillance

They will say that this delivers on the dream of secure usable communication that balances privacy, #security and law enforcement.

I believe that your social connections, friendship groups and patterns of life should not be monetized or sold for profit. I believe that actual #privacy and security must protect metadata as well as content.

When we celebrate Facebook bringing end to end encryption to millions more people we miss the forest for the trees.

#privacyMatters

Facebook are going to monetize encrypted messaging by consolidating metadata analysis of 3 key platforms (Messenger, #Whatsapp & Instagram). They will make money by tracking your relationships and social groups. They will make that information easily accessible to law enforcement.

They will build the largest #surveillance system ever conceived and will sell it under the banner of consumer encryption.

#privacyMatters

If you ever tought you had succesfully left Facebook, now you are back in again by just using #Whatsapp. The same tracking (if not more intrusive) will apply and be shared within the company.

«WhatsApp will share your data with #Facebook whether you like it or not».

https://9to5mac.com/2021/01/06/whatsapp-share-your-data-with-facebook/

#privacyMatters

Yes, you can use the Telegram "People Nearby" feature to triangulate the location of other users who have the same feature enabled

Other apps had this same feature and they've removed it. Wonder what's taking so long for the #Telegram team to do the same.

https://blog.ahmed.nyc/2021/01/if-you-use-this-feature-on-telegram.html

#privacyMatters