🎙️ Cox Media Group's Active Listening Technology is being used to collect to your conversations and use them to push ads. 😱

CMG boasted, "This is a world where no pre-purchase murmurs go unanalyzed, and the whispers of consumers become a tool for you to target, retarget, and conquer your local market." 🎯

Don't make yourself an easy target for predatory advertising agencies, choose #privacy respecting solutions instead!🔒💪

👉 tuta.com/big-tech-alternative
#encryption #surveillance #creepy

Big Brother is watching you - now also via Google's & Apple's push. 🤬

That's why we don't use Google Push. When using Tuta, Google sees nothing! 💪

✅ Zero tracking
✅ Fully encrypted
✅ Maximum privacy

The data they don't get, they can't hand out to authorities! Go secure now: tuta.com/create-email-account?…

Here's more info on why we don't use Google Push and do not send any info via Apple notifications: tuta.com/blog/open-source-emai…
#security #privacy #google #apple #notifications #surveillance #tracking

🚨Warnings from Sen. Ron Wyden reveal that governments around the world are #spying on #Google and #Apple push notifications. 🕵

Tuta introduced our own custom push notification system for #Android devices which are fully encrypted and #surveillance resistant. We include minimal information in #iOS push notifications to counter this threat.🔒

Surveillance requests should be transparently disclosed by Apple and Google, not silenced by a gag-order! 🤐

👉 tuta.com/blog/open-source-emai…

Interessanter Beitrag von netzpolitik.org. So etwas in der Richtung hatte ich bereits geahnt - und ist einer der Gründe, weshalb mein Gerät googlefrei ist. Aber lest selbst. 👇

"Push-Dienste: Behörden fragen Apple und Google nach Nutzern von Messenger-Apps"

netzpolitik.org/2023/push-dien…

#google #apple #surveillance #tracking

Push-Dienste: Behörden fragen Apple und Google nach Nutzern von Messenger-Apps – netzpolitik.org

Smartphone-Apps verschicken Benachrichtigungen über Apple und Google, auch vermeintlich sichere Messenger. Damit können Behörden Nutzer-Daten bei Smartphone-Firmen abfragen. Bis jetzt verweigern alle Beteiligten Auskunft darüber.

^{netzpolitik.org}

⚡Breaking News⚡
The #surveillance program known as Data Analytical Services (previously known as Hemisphere) has been actively collecting trillions of domestic call records from Americans including those of individuals not suspected of any crimes.🕵️ 📱

Telecom provider AT&T has been collecting and saving call data on behalf of law enforcement agencies without any legal requirement to do so. 👨‍⚖️

More here: wired.com/story/hemisphere-das…

#privacy #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism #att #telecom

🚨 Another EU mass surveillance attempt. Will kill privacy on web. Must not pass. 🚨

“[A]ll web browsers distributed in Europe will be required to trust the certificate authorities and cryptographic keys selected by EU governments.

These changes radically expand the capability of EU governments to surveil their citizens by ensuring cryptographic keys under government control can be used to intercept encrypted web traffic across the EU.”

last-chance-for-eidas.org

#eu #privacy #surveillance #eidas

France passes bill allowing police to remotely activate cameras on citizen's phones:

gizmodo.com/france-bill-allows…

Tags: #Surveillance #france #cops #smartphones

France Passes New Bill Allowing Police to Remotely Activate Cameras on Citizens' Phones

The bill will reportedly apply to suspects in crimes that are punishable by a minimum of five years in jail.

^{Kevin Hurler (Gizmodo)}

Mozilla: "In a well-intentioned yet dangerous move to fight online fraud, France is on the verge of forcing browsers to create a dystopian technical capability. It would force browser providers to create the means to mandatorily block websites present on a government provided list. Such a move will overturn decades of established content moderation norms and provide a playbook for authoritarian governments"

blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/202…
#france #browser #cybersecurity #mozilla #security #surveillance

France’s browser-based website blocking proposal will set a disastrous precedent for the open internet - Open Policy & Advocacy

Article 3 (para II and III) of the SREN Bill would force providers to create the means to mandatorily block websites on a government provided list encoded into the browser.

^{Udbhav Tiwari (Open Policy & Advocacy)}

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

The #EarnItAct is one of the worst #surveillance bills out there. We've killed it twice, let's do so again! 💀

We've joined 130+ orgs to stop EARN IT from being passed as law.

You can help by signing the petition. Do so now!!! 👉 tutanota.com/blog/posts/earn-i…

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Der #EarnItAct ist eines der schlimmsten #Überwachungsgesetze.

Wir haben uns 130+ Orgs angeschlossen, um zu verhindern, dass EARN IT verabschiedet wird.

Hilf uns & unterzeichne die Petition! 👉 tutanota.com/blog/posts/earn-i….

#StopEarnItAct

The EARN IT bill is back. We've killed it twice, let's do it again! 💀💀💀

EARN IT bill is aiming at scanning our messages and photos, but opposition is HUGE.

^Tutanota

Black man wrongfully jailed for a week after face recognition error, report says

Lawyer says #police didn't check man's height, weight—or the mole on his face.

#privacy #surveillance #acab #FTP #AI
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

Black man wrongfully jailed for a week after face recognition error, report says

Lawyer says police didn't check man's height, weight—or the mole on his face.

^{Ars Technica}

Oh. my. god.

Madison Square Garden used facial recognition to identify and stop a mom from attending a Christmas show with her kid because she's an attorney at a firm who is engaged in litigation with them.

This is why it's not enough to just ban government and law enforcement use of #facialrecognition. There are so many ways private companies and even individuals can abuse #biometric #surveillance tech.

#BanFacialRecognition entirely. Yesterday.

nbcnewyork.com/news/msgs-facia…

MSG's Facial Recognition Stops Mom From Attending Christmas Show With Child

An attorney whose firm is in litigation with MSG Entertainment was barred from attending a Radio City Rockettes’ show with her daughter and other Girl…

^{NBC New York}

Raspberry Pi is really proud of hiring "a policeman & it's going really great" who "was a surveillance officer for 15 years" and built covert surveillance equipment. RPi dismisses the very thing they're so proud of as "he built lightsabers [as toys]. Chill."). Dear reader, it must be remarked that the concern is not his rad lightsaber toys (which, to be clear, are rad). The concern is that he's got experience in surveillance equipment, and the company is proud to have hired him for it, and proudly blocking everyone who expresses the slightest concern about it instead of being even remotely willing to listen and understand why people are skeeved out, even people who aren't on the ACAB train and are gently voicing concerns with a surveillance cop potentially having the keys to their hardware/software.

This is not the behavior of a company that's concerned about privacy, security, trust, or autonomy, and I don't think this company can or should be trusted to remain federated with instances that want to be welcoming to marginalized people or anti-authoritarians.

Really hate to say it, because I've used and loved RPis for several years now, but if nothing else, please use a different SBC from now on. There are many options out there that aren't so eager to insult you for having concerns about security.

raspberrypi.social/@Raspberry_…

archive in case they delete
archive.ph/8YQqH

#raspberrypi #rpi #surveillance #infosec #sysadmin #fediblock #acab #devops #police #sbc #singleboardcomputer

Sometimes the internet is really funny - or scary.

The Chrome browser is one example.

While you believe you are browsing the web, Google is browsing you instead.

Check out Leah Elliott's comic on how Google's tracking works: contrachrome.com/comic/page01/

#google #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism #privacy #Fight4Privacy #tutanota

You’ve got nothing to hide so you’ve got nothing to fear, right?

“A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal.”

inkl.com/a/EbYLJlcYkxY

(Remember Apple was/is(?) going to implement this sort of scanning by default on all your devices.)

#BigTech #privacy #surveillance

A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal.

Mark noticed something amiss with his toddler. His son’s penis looked swollen and was hurting him.

^inkl

“A protest planned by hundreds of bank depositors in central China seeking access to their frozen funds has been thwarted because the authorities have turned their health code apps red, several depositors told Reuters.”

reuters.com/world/china/china-…

Isn’t “smart tech” just wonderful? :)

#tech #dystopia #surveillance

Via @didek

China bank protest stopped by health codes turning red, depositors say

^Reuters

Know that there are politicians in the West who drool at the thought of being able to do to you what China does to its citizens.

inkl.com/a/oYyoNPiyXxy

#surveillance #control #democracy #freedom

Hacker claims major Chinese citizens' data theft

Beijing (AFP) - A hacker claiming to have stolen personal data from hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens is now…

^inkl

Wow, Microsoft is apparently harvesting links in Outlook emails and indexing them on Bing.

scribe.rip/@ryanbadger/magic-l…

#surveillance #capitalism #microsoft #privacy #gdpr #email #bing

💡 It leaves out the important reminder that many of the #digitalPublicGoods used to create this so-called "public #infrastructure" have their roots in #FreeSoftware, which allows citizens to control of their own "digital lives" without government or quasi-government corporate #surveillance as intermediary.

e.g., I may have a Chinese-made phone sold with Google's #Android spyware, but because it's #OpenSource I am free to install a privacy-protecting OS instead.

3/4

jacobin.com/2022/06/us-tech-co…

Biden’s Campaign for “Digital Democracy” Is Really a Giveaway to Big Tech

The United States claims it benevolently promotes democracy over authoritarianism through its international technology policies. In reality, America forces poor countries to let US-based Big Tech companies steal their data.

^jacobin.com

🚨 NEW: #Facebook is collecting ultrasensitive personal #data about #abortion seekers and enabling anti-abortion organizations to use that data as a tool to target and influence people online, in violation of its own policies and promises.

#privacy #surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #DeleteFacebook

themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/…

Facebook and Anti-Abortion Clinics Are Collecting Highly Sensitive Info on Would-Be Patients – The Markup

The social media giant gathers data from crisis pregnancy centers through a tracking tool that works whether or not a person is logged in to their Facebook account

^{themarkup.org}

Related:

Normalize using end-to-end #encrypted (and ideally, ephemeral) communications.

Normalize not telling #Google everything you think, do, and say.

Do it now.

#privacy #security #surveillance

nbcnews.com/tech/security/abor…

Looming abortion law changes prompt digital privacy worries for clinics

Abortion clinics and providers are rushing to strengthen their digital privacy and protect the data of their patients due to the potential overturn of Roe v. Wade.

^{Kevin Collier (NBC News)}

"Frantic individual efforts to swat away digital intrusions will do too little. What’s needed, for all Americans, is a full legal and political reckoning with the reckless manner in which digital technology has been allowed to invade our lives. The collection, use and manipulation of electronic #data must finally be regulated and severely limited. Only then can we comfortably enjoy all the good that can come from these technologies."

#surveillance #privacy

nytimes.com/2022/05/19/opinion…

Opinion | We Need to Take Back Our Privacy

In a post-Roe America, women will bear the costs of letting data collection undermine our liberty.

^{Zeynep Tufekci (The New York Times)}

We have NO IDEA what type of ppl w/be in power (or incorp this) in the future.

Too many ppl reflect only on today.

Gifting MASSIVE total control tech, over all humans, using combined #AI + #Biometrics + Mass #Surveillance + fusion centers.

Corporate interests. Discreet power struggles.

Anything short of a full ban today is (at best) a hope future leaders will care more about your children's freedom than they do donor profits & digital dictatorship dreams.

#Privacy

Handing control of our biometric identities to a handful of trillion-dollar American gatekeeper corporations isn’t the good news you might think it is.

(Don’t forget, the W3C is the standards body of surveillance capitalism.)

In a non-corporate world, your “password” could be so much more… It could be, for example, a mnemonic for the key to a facet of your self that you (and you alone) own and control.

inkl.com/a/aRxNlETAxrA

#w3c #fido #passwords #identity #access #surveillance #capitalism

Apple, Microsoft, and Google are teaming up to eliminate passwords

Good news for the people still using "Password123!"

^inkl