Europol uses Palantir

Since 2016, the European Police Agency has been using the "Gotham" software to evaluate mass data. Europol has signed a contract for 7.5 million euros with the company Capgemini in 2012, just over half of the money has already been spent. Palantir promoted the software at the "European Police Congress".

The police agency Europol in The Hague has been running the "Gotham" software of the US concern Palantir for several years. This is what the European Commission writes in its answer to a parliamentary question. The application was tested in 2016 within the framework of the "Fraternité" task force, which Europol set up after the attacks in France at the time. Palantir is also criticised for his close cooperation with the military and secret services in the USA.

Since mid-2017, "Gotham" has been in continuous operation, Europol uses it for "operational analysis". This enables investigators to calculate and visualize relationships between people, objects or the course of events. "Structured data", such as contact lists, tables from radio cell queries and travel histories, are linked with "unstructured data" such as photos or location data. This so-called mass data evaluation is intended to generate new investigative approaches.

👉🏼 Parliamentary request:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2020-000173-ASW_EN.html

👉🏼📺 Audit-Protokoll-Analysis with Palantir Gotham
https://t.me/BlackBox_Archiv/403

👉🏼 🇩🇪 Indications on the use of Facebook data by Palantir:
https://t.me/cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_DE/3147

👉🏼 Read more 🇩🇪:
https://netzpolitik.org/2020/europol-nutzt-palantir/

#eu #palantir #europol #Capgemini #surveillance
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No, I'm not installing your app to order food.

https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/apps-track-you

Tracking is the new gold. Shops are following Google's example with their own tracking apps.

The outcry was loud when politicians started talking about corona tracing apps: Where is the privacy protection? How do we make sure that our personal data does not get into the wrong hands? Now, that we are sensitized against app tracking, do you know which apps track your every move, your browsing behavior, your shopping activities?

While everyone is talking about corona tracking apps and Google's extensive tracking, it is worrisome that no one talks about the tracking methods of every other app.


#tutanota #tracking #apps

Apple removes two podcast apps from China store after censorship demands

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jun/12/apple-removes-two-podcast-apps-from-china-store-after-censorship-demands

Apple has removed two podcast apps from its Chinese app store, following government pressure to censor content.

Pocket Casts and Castro were both pulled from distribution in China after the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) demanded that the apps stop allowing content that breached the country’s restrictive speech laws.


#Apple #China #gov #why #censorship

#ExposeBillGates Global Day of Action on June 13, 2020

A non-partisan coalition of alternative media organizations and activist groups are calling for a Global Day of Action to #ExposeBillGates and his control agenda.

In the first few months of 2020, billionaire Bill Gates has been promoted as the savior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although he is lauded as a hero Gates has been a force of disruption and shaky science. The truth is Bill Gates hides a darker agenda.

Gates has made numerous media appearances calling for extended lock downs, contact tracing surveillance, digital certificates to travel and work, and announced his intention to vaccinate 7 billion people. Gates’ family also has ties to discredited eugenics science and believes billionaires like him should help reduce the world’s population. (For those who might be new to this information we recommend watching The Bill Gates documentary series from The Corbett Report and/or reading The Bill Gates investigation from The Last American Vagabond Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)

It’s time to #ExposeBillGates and expose his agenda. Together we can shine the light on Gates’ true intentions and change the course of humanity.

WHEN: Join us on Saturday June 13, 2020 as we spread the word about Bill Gates’ agenda. We encourage everyone interested to organize and host documentary screenings, share articles, pass out flyers, drop banners, and share on social media using the hashtag #ExposeBillGates. We encourage everyone to share accurate and credible information about Gates’ goals. This is a non-partisan event and activists from all sides of the political spectrum are welcome.

To help spread the word about #ExposeBillGates Day please make this image your profile pic on all social media accounts. You can also download these flyers for sharing, editing, etc (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)


#ExposeBillGates #bill #gates

Whatsapp blamed own users for failure to keep phone number repo off Google searches

An infosec researcher reckons Whatsapp was a bit too quick off the mark to blame its users when hundreds of thousands of phone numbers, names and profile pictures were found to be easily accessible via Google.

Athul Jayaram, a self-described “full time bug bounty hunter”, published a blog post earlier this week highlighting that a large number of Whatsapp users’ mobile numbers could easily be found by searching Google for the domain “wa.me”.

That domain formed part of Whatsapp’s Click to Chat function. If you, the owner of a Whatsapp account, fancied letting world+dog add you as a new chat contact rather than going through the tedious process of tapping their phone number into yours, digit by digit, you could generate a QR code (yes, one of those things 🤦‍♂️…) for them to do so.

Billed as a feature for businesses wanting to make customer communication easier, Click to Chat QR shortcodes resolved to https://wa.me along with a unique URL string. The unique string just happened to be the full phone number of the user.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/12/whatsapp_google_search_results_blunder/

Earlier Post - HERE

#WhatsApp #deletewhatsapp

Chinese users saw Zoom as a window through the 'Great Firewall'

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-zoom-video-commn-privacy-china/chinese-users-saw-zoom-as-a-window-through-the-great-firewall-idUSKBN23J1TE

Zoom Video Communications (ZM.O) has gained a following in China in recent months from users ranging from underground churches to feminists who saw it as a rare way to connect with the world beyond the reach of state censors.
...
While most Chinese users turn to Zoom for conference calls and casual chats, some have seized the chance to discuss potentially sensitive topics, from patriotism to feminism.

Some state-approved and underground churches use Zoom to hold services.

“Zoom is not the only software, but we feel it’s rather more accessible,” said Xiao Meili, a feminist activist who held a Zoom talk in April on the #MeToo movement.

“Before, some friends recommended Tencent conference ... but everyone would feel like you shouldn’t say anything that’s slightly sensitive,” she said, referring to a tool offered by the Chinese tech giant behind WeChat.


#zoom #china #gov #censorship #why

Here's the thing: if it was a "window through the GFW" it would be blocked by now.

Since that's common knowledge amongst Chinese internet users, I can only assume this is the media overreacting as usual.

All services that are not blocked in China collaborate with the Chinese government in some way.

Who Is Bill Gates?

Transcript, Download and Sources:
corbettreport.com/gates

youtu.be/TY-vLrz9XCc
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invidious.snopyta.org/TY-vLrz9XCc

bitchute.com/video/TY-vLrz9XCc

lbry.tv/@corbettreport:0/whoisbillgates:3

minds.com/newsfeed/1118464696709025792

#ExposeBillGates #bill #gates

Real-Time Passive Sound Recovery from Light Bulb Vibrations

Spies Can Listen to Your Conversations by Watching a Light Bulb in the Room

You might not believe it, but it's possible to spy on secret conversations happening in a room from a nearby remote location just by observing a light bulb hanging in there—visible from a window—and measuring the amount of light it emits.

A team of cybersecurity researchers has developed and demonstrated a novel side-channel attacking technique that can be applied by eavesdroppers to recover full sound from a victim's room that contains an overhead hanging bulb.

The findings were published in a new paper by a team of academics—Ben Nassi, Yaron Pirutin, Adi Shamir, Yuval Elovici and Boris Zadov—from the Israeli's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Weizmann Institute of Science, which will also be presented at the Black Hat USA 2020 conference later this August.

The technique for long-distance eavesdropping, called "Lamphone," works by capturing minuscule sound waves optically through an electro-optical sensor directed at the bulb and using it to recover speech and recognize music.

https://www.nassiben.com/lamphone

PDF:
https://ad447342-c927-414a-bbae-d287bde39ced.filesusr.com/ugd/a53494_443addc922e048d89a664c2423bf43fd.pdf

👉🏼 Read more:
https://thehackernews.com/2020/06/lamphone-light-bulb-spy.html

#spy #cybersecurity #lightbulb #blackhat #sidechannel #attack
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I made an Open Source Google Drive Alternative - MyDrive (Node.js, React, Docker, Amazon S3)
https://github.com/subnub/myDrive

https://redd.it/h8sr7r
@r_privacy

Cut google out of your life! A huge list of alternatives to Google products. Privacy tips, tricks, and links!

Readme: reddit.com/r/privacy/wiki/de-google or archive.today/smSuC#1.5%

original up-to-date wiki page: github.com/tycrek/degoogle#cutting-google-out-of-your-life

#degoogle #alternatives #google #wiki #index

You can bypass youtube ads by adding a dot after the domain

💡On desktop browsers.

To follow up: I had initially assumed that it didn't work on mobile because the browsers normalized the URL, however this isn't the case. The redirection happens on the server side. So, if you want this to work on mobile browsers, use the "Request Desktop Site" feature.

For example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuB8VUICGqc // will occasionally show ads

https://www.youtube.com./watch?v=DuB8VUICGqc // will not show ads

It's a commonly forgotten edge case, websites forget to normalize the hostname, the content is still served, but there's no hostname match on the browser so no cookies and broken CORS - and lots of bigger sites use a different domain to serve ads/media with a whitelist that doesn't contain the extra dot

💡 This works for many news websites as well serving paywalls, e.g.

https://www.nytimes.com./2020/06/09/us/george-floyd-who-is.html

👉🏼 Read more:
https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/gzr3cq/fyi_you_can_bypass_youtube_ads_by_adding_a_dot/

https://www.ghacks.net/2020/06/13/bypass-ads-on-youtube-and-some-paywalls-without-third-party-tools/

👉🏼 Read more 🇩🇪:
https://www.golem.de/news/url-trick-ein-zeichen-mehr-und-youtube-ist-werbefrei-2006-149095.html

#youtube #yt #ads #paywalls
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