marc0s
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Cassidy James :rr: :gg: :fh:
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I just submitted talk proposals for @fosdem and @FOSSBackstage. It goes beyond my usual ramblings on what privacy #foss tools we must use and it covers the "how" to convince people to start using them.
If you have encouraged someone to switch to say Signal, or Sessions, or #XMPP or some other tool/protocol, please reach out to me via *direct message* I need as much success stories as possible. Anonymity is guaranteed if requested.
"Here you'll find reviews and research about services and how they affect your #privacy both in person and online backed by real world findings and data collected from testing"
Some apps analysed include: 
🏆 @simplex ( @threemaapp seems to be an undisputed winner on other lists)
🥈 @briar
🥉 @cwtch
https://privacyspreadsheet.com/messaging-apps
EDIT: this info is controversial (see comments)
#matrix #telegram #xmpp #signal #whatsapp #threema #wire #zoom #CWTCH
Em :official_verified:
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"Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out"
And that means if you don't use Gmail but you write to a Gmail address your email will be used if the person didn't opt out.
happyborg
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Based on research by my colleague Gunes Acar:
‘The President of the Government of Spain announces an investigation against META over the possible violation of the privacy of millions of users’.
https://www.lamoncloa.gob.es/lang/en/presidente/news/Paginas/2025/20251119-metafuture-4th-edition.aspx
#tech #law #privacy #surveillance #spain
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"Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out"
And that means if you don't use Gmail but you write to a Gmail address your email will be used if the person didn't opt out.
Based on research by my colleague Gunes Acar:
‘The President of the Government of Spain announces an investigation against META over the possible violation of the privacy of millions of users’.
https://www.lamoncloa.gob.es/lang/en/presidente/news/Paginas/2025/20251119-metafuture-4th-edition.aspx
#tech #law #privacy #surveillance #spain
Em :official_verified:
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WhatsApp Vulnerability Exposes 3.5 Billion Users' Phone Numbers
https://cybersecuritynews.com/whatsapp-vulnerability-exposes-3-5-billion-users/
#GAFAM #WhatsApp #Security #Privacy
WhatsApp Vulnerability Exposes 3.5 Billion Users' Phone Numbers
https://cybersecuritynews.com/whatsapp-vulnerability-exposes-3-5-billion-users/
#GAFAM #WhatsApp #Security #Privacy
1/4 🚨 The Digital Omnibus proposals are here - and our rights and protections online are officially under threat 🚨
The proposals published today endanger the very core of EU's digital protections for people - the #GDPR, #ePrivacy and the #AIAct.
Weakening these safeguards would entrench #surveillance, profiling and algorithmic #discrimination in every aspect of society 🙅🏾
Read our press release for more details: https://edri.org/our-work/commissions-digital-omnibus-is-a-major-rollback-of-eu-digital-protections/
2/4 What do the #DigitalOmnibus proposals mean for our #DataProtection and #privacy?
🚩weaken ePrivacy rules, opening the door to constant tracking of phones, cars, and smart devices
🚩 reopen and hollow out the GDPR, allowing corporations to mark their own homework
🚩create a digital environment where state actors and corporate powers – especially Big Tech - gain more freedom to collect and exploit personal information
I know it's more about case law and deference between European and national courts than about legal standards embodied in Directives and Regulations, but would not the Solange II decision require in some way that when the EU dissolves the protections of GDPR and AIA, national rights protections would be under some obligation to kick in again? At least in Germany?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solange_II
#Privacy #EU #EC #SolangeII #ArtificialIntelligence #BVerfGE
What the actual f...k? How does a multibillion dollar company like #Meta not mitigate against this kind of historic data leak???
"3.5 Billion Accounts: Complete #WhatsApp Directory Retrieved and Evaluated"
https://www.heise.de/en/news/3-5-Billion-Accounts-Complete-WhatsApp-Directory-Retrieved-and-Evaluated-11083244.html?seite=all
happyborg
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🛑 TACD - The Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue, a coalition of 70+ leading consumer and digital rights groups from the United States and Europe, is deeply concerned about the European Commission’s upcoming “Digital Omnibus Package.” What is billed as a technical effort to “simplify” digital rules risks dismantling the very protections that make Europe’s digital framework a global model, with repercussions at a global scale. https://tacd.org/streamlining-or-deregulation-tacd-sounds-alarm-on-eu-digital-omnibus/
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#GDPR #privacy #AI #competition
🛑 TACD - The Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue, a coalition of 70+ leading consumer and digital rights groups from the United States and Europe, is deeply concerned about the European Commission’s upcoming “Digital Omnibus Package.” What is billed as a technical effort to “simplify” digital rules risks dismantling the very protections that make Europe’s digital framework a global model, with repercussions at a global scale. https://tacd.org/streamlining-or-deregulation-tacd-sounds-alarm-on-eu-digital-omnibus/
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#GDPR #privacy #AI #competition
Vesna Manojlović
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