📢 The EU Parliament will not be moving forward with chat control! The indiscriminate mass surveillance measures have been removed and secure end-to-end encryption will not be compromised! 🥳

💪Let's keep pushing for strong privacy rights!👇
tutanota.com/blog/chat-control
#chatcontrol #eu #privacy #datenschutz #encryption #politics #goodnews

Free and Open Source Software is the backbone of the internet. 💪 That's why we are offering 100% free premium subscriptions to open source projects. 🎉

It's our gift from one open source project to another. 🎁
tutanota.com/blog/tutanota-for…

#FOSS #opensource #privacy #security #internet

New-ish Asus routers seem to enable "Yandex.DNS" by default. This forwards all of your DNS lookups to Yandex, a large Russian search engine. I discovered this on my dad's router when he had troubles accessing his bank from his broadband but not on his phone. (Presumably, the bank geoblocked Russian IPs as a protest to the invasion of Ukraine.)

I get that you need to trust someone with your DNS lookups (your ISP, Google, Cloudfare, etc), but I didn't expect the non-ISP option to be the default...

Check your router!

#security #privacy

🎃 With the spookiest time of year well underway, why not check out @mozilla 's Halloween Creep-O-Meter for a real fright👻

foundation.mozilla.org/en/priv…

#privacy #horror #halloween #creepy

*privacy not included | Annual Consumer Creep-O-Meter

Welcome to Mozilla’s first-ever Annual Consumer Creep-O-Meter. In 2023, the state of our digital privacy is very creepy.

^{Mozilla Foundation}

One option would be to watch YouTube via Invidious - a pretty good idea to protect your #privacy as well!

This at least works for now, but Google is also trying to kill Invidious:

tutanota.com/blog/google-youtu…

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

#LibreOffice posted an article titled "WE WANT TO USE OUR USERS PERSONAL DATA" at design.blog.documentfoundation…

LibreOffice was promoting a data collaboration with a company called polypoly. That article appears to contradict this post.

In the last entry in the comments section of the article the author states the project is on hold.

@libreoffice, what is the status of this project with polypoly? Is it still on hold or has it been cancelled?

#Privacy #InfoSec #TheDocumentFoundation @tdforg

Community support needed: We want to use our users personal data - LibreOffice Design Team

What comes to your mind, when you ask yourself why people use LibreOffice? A “stunning user experience” is likely not in the top list. And unfortunately we share this problem with a lot of user facing Free Software.

^{Heiko Tietze (LibreOffice Design Team)}

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#Outlook #Thunderbird #Email #Privacy

Reply in FIVE words.

#CyberSecurityAwareness #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth
#Privacy

The #CSAM clusterfuck just became even more shitty:

Dutch researcher Danny Mekić has looked at #advertising data from #Twitter & says that the @EU_Commission's #DGHome has used #SurveillanceAds based on prohibited data categories to target people with #disinformation about the #ChatControl proposal.

#YlvaJohansson's department specifically targeted people in member states that had been critical of her proposal but excluded people who are likely to value #privacy.

dannymekic.com/202310/undermin…

Undermining Democracy: The European Commission's Controversial Push for Digital Surveillance – Danny Mekić

The European Commission wants to turn digital communication apps, such as WhatsApp, iMessage, Instagram, TikTok and X, into mass surveillance tools so that digital communications of all EU citizens, including their live conversations, photos and vide…

^{Danny Mekić}

Keyoxide Mobile 1.6.0 is out!

- ASP profile support,
- Design overhaul,
- Loading flow

and more. For details: berker.substack.com/p/keyoxide…
#keyoxide #online_security #onlineidentity #privacy

Keyoxide Mobile 1.6.0

ASP profiles, design overhaul and more...

^{Berker (Berker’s Scribbles)}

The "New Outlook" demands that when adding your #Gmail account, you also give Microsoft a copy of all your Gmail email, contacts, and calendar data.

The "Learn More" link confirms:

"Syncing your account to the Microsoft Cloud means that a copy of your email, calendar, and contacts will be synchronized between your email provider and Microsoft data centers."

WOW.

Good time to switch to @thunderbird, folks!

#Privacy #Outlook #Email

We all dream of a better future.

#Privacy must be part of it! 🔒

Nein, doch - oh?

#Chatkontrolle: EU-Staaten wollen Verschlüsselung doch nicht schützen
netzpolitik.org/2023/chatkontr…

#privacy

Chatkontrolle: EU-Staaten wollen Verschlüsselung doch nicht schützen

Die EU-Staaten wollen Internet-Dienste verpflichten, auch in verschlüsselten Inhalten nach Straftaten zu suchen. Die Mehrheit lehnt einen Vorschlag zum Schutz von Verschlüsselung ab.

^{netzpolitik.org}

We're happy that #Apple has now joined the fight for encryption! 🔒

There is no magic key that allows the police to scan all chat messages, emails, and more for harmful content while not risking the security and privacy of everyone. This is technically not possible.

The more agree to this fact, the higher the chances that legislation is altered to protect everybody's privacy.

bbc.com/news/technology-660287…

#privacy #security #onlinesafetybill #chatkontrolle

Apple joins opposition to encrypted message app scanning

WhatsApp and iMessage could be forced to scan for child abuse images under the Online Safety Bill.

^{By Chris Vallance (BBC News)}

Today, two open letters from academics on the scientific arguments against the current #CSS (client side scanning) initiatives have been released:

* The first (in English, internationally coordinated) one is online at tinyurl.com/CSAScientistsLette… and still open for additional signatures.

* The second (in German, by #Austrian academics) one is online at ins.jku.at/chatcontrol/ and explicitly includes law experts in addition to the arguments from a security, privacy, and AI perspective.

This debate is expected to gain new steam with #Spain taking over the EU council presidency, given recently leaked statements like "Ideally, in our view, it would be desirable to legislatively prevent EU-based service providers from implementing end-to-end encryption" (wired.co.uk/article/europe-bre…).

Please boost on any channels you deem adequate. The discussion is still open, and we have little time to bring it to a more rational level.

#csam #law #eu #privacy #dataprotection #privacy #humanrights #messenger #chat #chatcontrol #signal #whatsapp #telegram #threema #e2ee

Leaked Government Document Shows Spain Wants to Ban End-to-End Encryption

In response to an EU proposal to scan private messages for illegal material, the country's officials said it is “imperative that we have access to the data.”

^{Lily Hay Newman (WIRED UK)}

The combination of rapidly-improving technologies like GNOME, Flatpak, Wayland, and Portals also means our active privacy protections are also better than ever before.

I went on to write:

>If and when we are able to develop an open, peer reviewed, industry-respected method of responsible and privacy-first telemetry, we may consider doing so.

While that post was in the context of elementary OS, I believe every word I wrote.

#Privacy #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS #GNOME #Flatpak

I’ve spent a long, long time thinking about ethical software, the challenges we *necessarily* give ourselves compared to closed competitors, and crucially, how to overcome those challenges.

Four and a half years ago, I wrote:

>respecting your privacy is the ethical thing to do; users have a fundamental right to the utmost privacy, even from companies and products they trust.

That’s as true as ever.

cassidyjames.com/blog/privacy-…

#Privacy #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS

Privacy and elementary OS ⋅ Cassidy James Blaede

How we protect your data from ourselves and others

^{cassidyjames.com}

Taken from #Google's updated "privacy" policy.
I mean, I find it ironic because there doesn't seem to be any #privacy to speak of here 😆

I know this is no laughing matter, but I am at the "oh what the hell can I do so might as well laugh about it" stage 🤣

#WritingCommunity #Data #AI

#Chatcontrol must be stopped! The draft law is facing huge opposition. We applaud 👏 300 scientists for urging EU policymakers so stop chat control. Let's fight for our right to #privacy! 💪🔒

Check why we must stop #Chatkontrolle 👇

tutanota.com/blog/chat-control

Stop Chat Control: 300 Scientists Warn of Law Against Child Abuse

Chat control would be one of the worst surveillance laws and must be stopped: that's what scientists, even the EU Parliament's Scientific Service say.

^Tutanota

DSGVO-Strafe: Tele2 muss eine Million Euro zahlen wegen Google Analytics
heise.de/news/DSGVO-Strafe-Tel…

#privacy

DSGVO-Strafe: Tele2 muss eine Million Euro zahlen wegen Google Analytics

Die schwedische Datenschutzbehörde bittet erstmals zwei Firmen für den Einsatz von Google Analytics zur Kasse. Getroffene Schutzmaßnahmen reichten nicht.

^{Stefan Krempl (heise online)}

Po 3/4 roce jsem aktualizoval přehled množství trackerů a oprávnění v bankovních android aplikacích.

Nejlépe si opět vede Fio, nejhůře na tom je mBank (obrovské množství oprávnění) a Raifka (FB trackery, profilování).

martinkroul.cz/bloguje/spyhunt…

#spyhunter #privacy @exodus

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...

^YouTube

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)}