The video of my talk on #Libervia at #OW2Con 23 is now available at youtube.com/watch?v=EkkiKn0TON…

Huge thanks to the organizers! If you have questions or just want to chat about it, don't hesitate to reach out.

#XMPP #Conference #FreeSoftware #FOSS #OpenSource #Decentralized #Privacy #Paris #OW2

Jérôme Poisson, Software Developer

Libervia: the Universal Communication EcosystemAre you looking for a communication solution that prioritizes privacy, security, and ethics? Introducing Liber...

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10 years ago, Edward Snowden changed the world. The 'Snowden leaks' were a wake-up call: The conspiracy theory that Secret Services were monitoring our private conversations has proven to be true.

Public backlash after this revelation might have bought us years in our fight for privacy. However, today governments around the world are again pushing for more surveillance. This must be stopped! 🔒

tutanota.com/blog/snowden-leak…

#privacy #surveillance #snowden #nsa #fbi #secretservice

The Snowden Leaks May Have Bought Us Years in Our Fight for Privacy.

Ten years after Edward Snowden revealed extreme surveillance mechanisms of the NSA, push for more surveillance continues.

^Tutanota

Interesting: ProtonMail finally admits that Germany "is a good choice given Germany’s strong privacy laws and culture that make it almost as strong as Switzerland."

For once, we couldn't agree more. 😀

We'd even argue Germany is much better as we do not have data retention laws (which would be against the German constitution) - while in Switzerland large tech companies are forced by law to retain data: tutanota.com/blog/posts/data-r…

#germany #privacy #security

It's possible to build an app with zero tracking. 😎 #Tutanota #Gmail

Sign up now: mail.tutanota.com/signup

And make use of our current 50% discount. 🥳

Your emails deserve #privacy. 🔒

Google wants to track you - no matter what. Now it is threatening to take down Invidious, a popular platform on which you can watch YouTube videos without being tracked!

tutanota.com/blog/google-youtu…

#google #business #data #legal #privacy #opensource #foss

Google threatens to Kill Open Source YouTube Front-end Invidious for Letting You Watch Videos without Tracking or Ads

Invidious is well known as a privacy-first platform to watch YouTube videos without ads or tracking. Now Google wants it to shut down.

^Tutanota

✅ Staff able to watch customers in the bathroom?
✅ Obviously shabby infosec?
✅ Training AI as an excuse for data retention?

🕵🏽 No surprise here: "#Amazon Ring, Alexa accused of every nightmare #IoT #security fail you can imagine" #privacy

theregister.com/2023/06/01/ftc…

Amazon Ring, Alexa accused of every nightmare IoT security fail you can imagine

Staff able to watch customers in the bathroom? Tick! Obviously shabby infosec? Tick! Training AI as an excuse for data retention? Tick!

^{Simon Sharwood (The Register)}

#GPT4All
"A free-to-use, locally running, #privacy-aware chatbot. No GPU or internet required."
gpt4all.io/index.html

#AI #FOSS

New design #update brings nice improvements - not just in looks, also in functionality!

@Tutanota refreshes its look and optimizes toolbars.

(Tutanota is a highly recommended private and encrypted email provider in the privacy community)

#privacy #privacymatters

tutanota.com/blog/design-updat…

New design update brings nice improvements - not just in looks, also in functionality!

Quick actions have become much easier with our lighter design and its new toolbar.

^Tutanota

We on the W3CTAG have been thinking about the web without 3rd-party cookies. And how to get there.

Our finding: w3.org/2001/tag/doc/web-withou…

"We consider privacy a core design principle and differentiator for the web platform…"

#web #tracking #privacy

Huge win for privacy: Record fine against #Facebook thanks to Max Schrems & @noybeu! 🥳

#Meta must pay 1.2 billion euros for violating the EU #privacy regulation #GDPR. 👌

Read more: 👇tutanota.com/blog/facebook-tra…

#Fight4Privacy

Huge win for privacy: Record fine against Facebook thanks to Max Schrems.

Meta must pay 1.2 billion euros for violating the EU regulation GDPR.

^Tutanota

Nice & good video about app stores, #privacy & #Android which is worth looking:

yewtu.be/watch?v=PdxooS4g5tM&l…

Also highlights some aspects you might not have considered (or not consciously).

Most PRIVATE App Stores!

App stores are central to how we use our smartphones. If you’re on Android you probably get all your apps from the Google Play Store, and if you’re on iOS you get your apps from the Apple App store.

^{Naomi Brockwell: NBTV | Invidious}

Journalists, whistleblowers, activists - they all risk their lives to make the truth public.

Let's fight for the right to #privacy and #pressfreedom.

Together with #Threema, #Tor #FightfortheFuture and others we call on policymakers to not undermine #encryption.

We ALL depend on encryption for #security and #privacy! 💪🔒

Read more: tutanota.com/blog/posts/press-…

BREAKING: #Google to start deleting unused #email accounts so other people can use them.

🤔 What could possibly go wrong?

🤦‍♂️ Techbros are (still) idiots.

#Gmail #privacy #infosec

blog.google/technology/safety-…

Updating our inactive account policies

Starting later this year, we are updating our inactivity policy for Google Accounts to 2 years across our products.

^{Ruth Kricheli (Google)}

Pünktlich zum Start von @tagesschau auf Mastodon, ist auch unser Artikel hier zu finden

tagesschau.de/inland/regional/…

#privacy #datenschutz #degoogle #smartphone

Wie Berliner Aktivisten Smartphones "entgoogeln"

Konzerne wie Google, Meta oder Apple tracken unser Leben mit – jeden Tag und fast überall. Dagegen wehren sich Aktivisten, indem sie Handys auf Wunsch mit neuen Betriebssystemen ausstatten. Von Robert Ackermann

^{tagesschau.de}

By default, #Thunderbird automatically blocks images in your emails from being displayed -- because many of those images may contain tracking code.

(Sometimes these images are tiny "tracking pixels" you may not even see).

Take your protection one step further by installing #uBlock Origin to block all kinds of unwanted content in your RSS feeds -- it's now an official Thunderbird Add-on: addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/t…

#Privacy #Email

(EDITED FOR CLARITY)

uBlock Origin

Finally, an efficient blocker. Easy on CPU and memory. uBlock Origin (uBO) is a CPU and memory-efficient wide-spectrum content blocker that blocks ads, trackers, coin miners, popups, annoying anti-blockers, etc.

^{addons.thunderbird.net}

Are AI tools really as smart as creative writers? 🧐 It looks like we will soon know for sure. In any case, AI and its influence on our societies must be watched closely: After all the tools were trained with human writers content who they are now supposed to replace.
vice.com/en/article/pkap3m/gpt…

Read more on this issue and why ChatGPT is a privacy nightmare: 👉 tutanota.com/blog/posts/chatgp…

#ai #creative #content #writers #privacy #chatgpt #bard #ernie

GPT-4 Can’t Replace Striking TV Writers, But Studios Are Going to Try

The desire to replace writers with AI is a symptom of the larger problem that the guild is fighting for—which is that companies do not value writers and their work. 

^{Chloe Xiang (VICE)}

Today is #worldpressfreedomday
📻📺🗞️

Together with 45+ pro-privacy organizations such as @threemaapp @mozilla @nextcloud and others we are calling on democratic world leaders to uphold encryption, privacy & press freedom: tutanota.com/blog/posts/press-…

Our asks are simple:

▪️ Do NOT undermine encryption via overreaching legislative initiatives 🔒

▪️ Do NOT block or throttle technologies providing secure, encrypted services 🔒

#privacy #encryption #pressfreedom #pressfreedomday #worldpressfreedomday

Press Freedom Day: 40+ organizations call on world leaders to uphold encryption & privacy

On Press Freedom Day a coalition of 40+ ogrs have united to defend strong encryption.

^Tutanota

Is #Gmail killing independent email?

"Is it okay that Gmail has the power to decide whether a business is sending spam or not?"

Gmail has rigged the email game imo. It makes running a self-hosted email server hard, even after properly configuring DKIM, DMARC, and SPF.

#cybersecurity #privacy #technology

tutanota.com/blog/posts/gmail-…

Is Gmail killing independent email?

People report that self-hosted emails always end up in Gmail spam. Is there anything Google can do about it?

^Tutanota

Stay strong: Desperate governments worldwide want to downright criminalize #privacy and #encryption now, using laughable pretexts like #cybersecurity causing #childabuse to literally put everyone on the planet under a permanent wiretapping mandate like we're common criminals by default.

Smartphones are especially susceptible to surveillance, and among those devices we have the least control over instead of corporations merely renting them to us: It's time for that to change!

Google has just updated its 2FA Authenticator app and added a much-needed feature: the ability to sync secrets across devices.

TL;DR: Don't turn it on.

The new update allows users to sign in with their Google Account and sync 2FA secrets across their iOS and Android devices.

We analyzed the network traffic when the app syncs the secrets, and it turns out the traffic is not end-to-end encrypted. As shown in the screenshots, this means that Google can see the secrets, likely even while they’re stored on their servers. There is no option to add a passphrase to protect the secrets, to make them accessible only by the user.

Why is this bad?

Every 2FA QR code contains a secret, or a seed, that’s used to generate the one-time codes. If someone else knows the secret, they can generate the same one-time codes and defeat 2FA protections. So, if there’s ever a data breach or if someone obtains access .... 🧵

#Privacy #Cybersecurity #InfoSec #2FA #Google #Security

Passt ja zu meiner Custom-ROM-Serie: "Smartphones mit verbreitetem Qualcomm-Chip senden heimlich private Informationen an US-Chiphersteller" 👇🤦

#android #security #qualcomm #backdoor #tracking #privacy #sicherheit #datenschutz

nitrokey.com/de/news/2023/smar…

Smartphones mit verbreitetem Qualcomm-Chip senden heimlich private Informationen an US-Chiphersteller

^{www.nitrokey.com}

#privacy

skeletonclaw.com/image/7107340…

#ChatControl #OnlineSafetyBill #EarnIt - Lots of politicians want to undermine encryption once again. When will they ever learn that a "backdoor for the good guys only" is simply not possible?

Learn here why we must keep fighting for strong #encryption: tutanota.com/blog/posts/why-a-…

#OSB #CSAM #ClientSideScanning #Privacy

Politiker wollen wieder einmal die Verschlüsselung untergraben. Wann werden sie jemals lernen, dass eine "Hintertür nur für die Guten" einfach nicht möglich ist?

Did you ever wonder how Tutanota's encryption is able to protect all your data? Check out our new encryption page with lots of interesting facts! 🔒😍

We ♥️ #encryption!

👉 tutanota.com/encryption

#security #privacy #email #data

Everything you need to know about Tutanota's encryption.

Details on how the encrypted email & calendar service Tutanota encrypts all data.

^Tutanota

The encrypted Tutanota mailbox makes sure your data belongs to you, and to you alone! 😎🔒

Make sure your friends enjoy the same level of privacy. Invite them to Tutanota! 🤩

👉 tutanota.com/blog/posts/refer-…

#privacy #security #Encryption

Tesla-Mitarbeiter ergötzen sich an Videoaufnahmen aus fremden Autos
heise.de/news/Tesla-Mitarbeite…

"Die Kunden hätte eh jede Erwartung von Privatsphäre aufgegeben."

Selbst Tesla Mitarbeiter würden keinen Tesla kaufen, seit sie von diesen Praktiken wissen...

#privacy

Tesla-Mitarbeiter ergötzen sich an Videoaufnahmen aus fremden Autos

Kameras in Tesla-Autos beobachten nicht nur die Umgebung, sondern auch die Insassen. Der Belegschaft dienten die Aufnahmen zur Erheiterung, berichtet Reuters.

^{Daniel AJ Sokolov (heise online)}

EU-Gesundheitsdatenraum: Ärzte befürchten sinkendes Vertrauen der Patienten
heise.de/news/EU-Gesundheitsda…

"Google, Facebook & Co würden ja auch sammeln" ist halt kein Argument.

#privacy

EU-Gesundheitsdatenraum: Ärzte befürchten sinkendes Vertrauen der Patienten

Der EHDS soll die EU-weite Gesundheitsversorgung verbessern. Offen sind jedoch einige Fragen, etwa wer den Datenschatz hütet und wer die hohen Kosten trägt.

^{Marie-Claire Koch (heise online)}

Everyone deserves #privacy! 😎 That's why Tutanota is now launching a refer-a-friend program. As a Tutanota user, you can now recommend Tutanota to your friends and family, even to your doctor or lawyer, and you both benefit. 🤩

Check it out! 👇
tutanota.com/blog/posts/refer-…

Security for all: Recommend Tutanota to your friends! 🎉

Tutanota has launched a refer-a-friend program so that you can both benefit.

^Tutanota

ChatGPT has leaked conversations and payment info of some users. While #OpenAI feels "awful" about this, experts say users "should have had zero expectation of privacy when using the #ChatGPT web demo."

theregister.com/2023/03/23/ope…

Read also our blog post on ChatGPT: A #privacy nightmare or a helpful tool? tutanota.com/blog/posts/chatgp…

OpenAI CEO 'feels awful' after ChatGPT leaks conversations, payment info

Delayed mea culpa isn't a good look for a biz with 'open' in the name

^{Jessica Lyons Hardcastle (The Register)}

Missing Link: Ausverkauf der Gesundheitsdaten im Namen der Forschung
heise.de/hintergrund/Missing-L…

#privacy

Missing Link: Ausverkauf der Gesundheitsdaten im Namen der Forschung

Hierzulande steht die Massenspeicherung von Gesundheitsdaten noch vor Gericht, da kommt die EU mit einer XXL-Variante um die Ecke. Droht der gläserne Patient?

^{heise online}

You also say "We encourage all partners to be objective and accurate in their reviews." - Requiring your partners to agree to a code of conduct would be even better. 😉

We hope we can continue to fight for #privacy together and keep up healthy & fair competition!

5/5 🧵

To je průser. Co to vnitro dělá za pi*oviny? Digitalizace jak nemá vypadat...

#czech #privacy

novinky.cz/clanek/domaci-vnitr…

ChatGPT kennt übrigens auch den Kuketz-Blog! 😁

#chatgpt #KI #blog #security #privacy

The EU Commission is planning what Apple stopped after a huge backslash: Turning your own device into a surveillance machine via client-side scanning.

Stop #ChatControl now! 💪

Check here how you can join the fight for #privacy: tutanota.com/blog/posts/csam-a…

And don't forget: Use #encryption. 🔒

Jahresbericht: Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragter watscht Chatkontrolle ab
netzpolitik.org/2023/jahresber…

Nachbessern - oder in die Tonne kloppen...

#privacy

Jahresbericht: Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragter watscht Chatkontrolle ab

Der Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz hat seinen Jahresbericht vorgelegt. Drin stehen Hausaufgaben für die Bundesregierung, etwa zur geplanten Chatkontrolle. Hier empfiehlt Ulrich Kelber: deutlich nachbessern – oder in die Tonne kloppen.

^{netzpolitik.org}