Killed by Mozilla - A list of discontinued Mozilla products and services.

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https://killedbygoogle.com/

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A new release of UntrackMe is available!

💡 Added:

✅ Use Bibliogram instances API
✅ Latency measurement for custom instances

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seccomp — Your Next Layer of Defense

Why should you allow all possible system calls from your application when you know that you only need some? If you have ever wondered the same then this is the right talk for you.

👉🏼 We are covering:

* What is seccomp in a nutshell and where could you use it.
* Practical example with Docker, Elasticsearch, and Beats.
* How to collect seccomp violations with Auditd.

Because your security approach can always use an additional layer of protection.

📺 👉🏼 https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2020-2614-seccomp_your_next_layer_of_defense

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UK firm to power face verification in Singapore's digital identity system

British firm iProov inks deal to provide face verification technology used in Singapore's national digital identity system, enabling four million users to access e-government services with a biometric scan.

Singapore has inked a deal with British vendor iProov to provide face verification technology used in the Asian country's national digital identity system. Already launched as a pilot earlier this year, the feature allows SingPass users to access e-government services via a biometric, bypassing the need for passwords.

The agreement also sees Singapore-based digital government services specialist, Toppan, involved in the deployment of the facial verification technology.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/uk-firm-to-power-face-verification-in-singapores-digital-identity-system/

#Asia #Singapore #face #verification #biometrics

This Deal Helped Turn Google Into an Ad Powerhouse. Is That a Problem?

The $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick in 2007 was a “game changer.” A growing number of antitrust experts say it’s the sort of deal that should no longer be possible.

Google owns the world’s leading search engine, it operates the largest video-hosting service in YouTube, and its popular web browser, email, map and meeting software is used by billions of people.

But its financial heft — the source of nearly all its enormous profits — is advertising. And perhaps no day was more pivotal in transforming Google into a powerhouse across the entire digital advertising industry than April 13, 2007, when the company clinched a deal to buy DoubleClick for $3.1 billion.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/technology/google-doubleclick-antitrust-ads.html

#US #Google #Doubleclick #acquisition

Facebook took down a Chinese disinformation network that spread propaganda across Southeast Asia and the US

Facebook announced Tuesday that it had removed two disinformation networks, one originating in China and the other in the Philippines, for violating its "coordinated inauthentic behavior" policy.

"In each case, the people behind this activity coordinated with one another and used fake accounts as a central part of their operations to mislead people about who they are and what they are doing," Facebook head of security Nathaniel Gleicher wrote in a blog post.

The Chinese network "focused primarily on the Philippines and Southeast Asia more broadly, and also on the United States," using fake accounts to pose as locals, posting mostly about "naval activity in the South China Sea, including US Navy ships," according to the company.

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-removes-chinese-disinformation-campaign-operating-in-asia-us-2020-9

#Facebook #disinformation #campaign

This Company Wants to Help Your Boss Monitor Your Brainwaves at Work

Critics doubt that Emotiv's earphone-style sensors can reliably track things like stress and attention—and some worry the technology will become yet another form of workplace surveillance.

The MN8 electroencephalography device looks like any set of sleek wireless earphones. Its buds can rest unobtrusively in the ear's concha for a whole workday and that, its makers at San Francisco-based Emotiv say, is the point. You and everyone around you forgets you’re wearing a device that is monitoring your brainwaves for signs of stress, focus, and attention.

The purpose of the headset, after all, is for companies to collect brain data from their employees.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qj4qd7/this-company-wants-to-help-your-boss-monitor-your-brainwaves-at-work

#US #Emotiv #earphone #workplace #surveillance #privacy

Bill Gates thinks AI taking everyone's jobs could be a good thing

Bill Gates, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, thinks that artificial intelligence will take over a lot of jobs and ultimately will be a good thing.

In an interview with Fox Business, Gates said that robots taking over our jobs will make us more efficient, and lead to more free time.

“Well, certainly we can look forward to the idea that vacations will be longer at some point," Gates told Fox Business. "If we can actually produce twice as much as we make today with less labor, the purpose of humanity is not just to sit behind a counter and sell things, you know?"

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/bill-gates-artificial-intellegence-doesnt-think-ai-taking-everyones-jobs-is-a-bad-thing-2018-1-1014021350#

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Despite Denials, LAPD Reportedly Used Facial Recognition Nearly 30,000 Times Since 2009

Recent denials that the Police Department used facial recognition were mistakes, Assistant Chief Horace Frank told the paper. Frank said he told the city’s Police Commission about its use two years ago.

The Los Angeles Police Department has used facial-recognition software nearly 30,000 times since 2009 even while denying at times that it used the controversial technology at all, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday.

The LAPD doesn't have its own face-scanning platform but uses the face-comparison software provided through the Los Angeles County Regional Identification System, a database of about 9 million mugshots, the Times said.

Recent denials that the Police Department used facial recognition were mistakes, Assistant Chief Horace Frank told the paper. Frank said he told the city’s Police Commission about its use two years ago.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/despite-denials-lapd-reportedly-used-facial-recognition-nearly-30000-times-since-2009/2431926/

#US #LAPD #face #recognition #surveillance #privacy

A tip from a kid helps detect iOS and Android scam apps’ 2.4 million downloads

Smartphone apps raked in ~$500,000, in part thanks to shilling on TikTok and Instagram

Researchers said that a tip from a child led them to discover aggressive adware and exorbitant prices lurking in iOS and Android smartphone apps with a combined 2.4 million downloads from the App Store and Google Play.

Posing as apps for entertainment, wallpaper images, or music downloads, some of the titles served intrusive ads even when an app wasn’t active. To prevent users from uninstalling them, the apps hid their icon, making it hard to identify where the ads were coming from. Other apps charged from $2 to $10 and generated revenue of more than $500,000, according to estimates from SensorTower, a smartphone-app intelligence service

The apps came to light after a girl found a profile on TikTok that was promoting what appeared to be an abusive app and reported it to Be Safe Online, a project in the Czech Republic that educates children about online safety. Acting on the tip, researchers from security firm Avast found 11 apps, for devices running both iOS and Android, that were engaged in similar scams.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/09/scam-apps-with-2-4-million-downloads-found-on-apple-and-google-shelves/

#scam #kids #adware #Playstore #android #AppStore #iOS #tiktok #instagram

Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up 400%

Mozilla is in an absolute state: high overheads, falling usage of Firefox, questionable sources of revenue and now making big cuts to engineering as their income falls.

Mozilla recently announced that they would be dismissing 250 people. That's a quarter of their workforce so there are some deep cuts to their work too. The victims include: the MDN docs (those are the web standards docs everyone likes better than w3schools), the Rust compiler and even some cuts to Firefox development. Like most people I want to see Mozilla do well but those three projects comprise pretty much what I think of as the whole point of Mozilla, so this news is a a big let down.

The stated reason for the cuts is falling income. Mozilla largely relies on "royalties" for funding. In return for payment, Mozilla allows big technology companies to choose the default search engine in Firefox - the technology companies are ultimately paying to increase the number of searches Firefox users make with them. Mozilla haven't been particularly transparent about why these royalties are being reduced, except to blame the corona-virus.

I'm sure the coronavirus is not a great help but I suspect the bigger problem is that Firefox's market share is now a tiny fraction of its previous size and so the royalties will be smaller too - fewer users, so fewer searches and therefore less money for Mozilla.

👀 👉🏼 http://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html

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Bill Gates thinks AI taking everyone's jobs could be a good thing

Bill Gates, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, thinks that artificial intelligence will take over a lot of jobs and ultimately will be a good thing.

In an interview with Fox Business, Gates said that robots taking over our jobs will make us more efficient, and lead to more free time.

“Well, certainly we can look forward to the idea that vacations will be longer at some point," Gates told Fox Business. "If we can actually produce twice as much as we make today with less labor, the purpose of humanity is not just to sit behind a counter and sell things, you know?"

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/bill-gates-artificial-intellegence-doesnt-think-ai-taking-everyones-jobs-is-a-bad-thing-2018-1-1014021350#

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The EU is set to declare war on encryption

The EU is set to declare war on encryption with plans to allow law enforcement officials “targeted lawful access” to protected communications, according to a European Commission internal note seen by the Financial Times.

The note outlines the commission’s aim to “stimulate a discussion” among EU member states “on the issues posed by end-to-end encryption” for the purpose of tackling child abuse and other organised crime networks.

👀 👉🏼 https://tech.newstatesman.com/security/the-eu-is-set-to-declare-war-on-encryption

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Shopify discloses security incident caused by two rogue employees

Shopify said two rogue support staffers accessed customer transaction details for less than 200 stores.

Online e-commerce giant Shopify is working with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to investigate a security breach caused by two rogue employees.

The company said two members of its support team accessed and tried to obtain customer transaction details from Shopify shop owners (merchants).

Shopify estimated the number of stores that might be affected by the employees' actions at less than 200. The company boasted more than one million registered merchants in its latest quarterly filings.

The e-commerce giant said the incident is not the result of a vulnerability in its platform but the actions of rogue employees.

"We immediately terminated these individuals' access to our Shopify network and referred the incident to law enforcement," the company said in a prepared statement. "We are currently working with the FBI and other international agencies in their investigation of these criminal acts."

An investigation into the security breach is still in its early phases. Shopify promised to notify impacted merchants and customers as relevant.

👀 👉🏼 https://community.shopify.com/c/Shopify-Discussion/Incident-Update/m-p/888971

👀 👉🏼 https://www.zdnet.com/article/shopify-discloses-security-incident-caused-by-two-rogue-employees

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Web sites shared over 100 trillion pieces of our personal data last year: time to stop real-time bidding’s blatant disregard of privacy

Last week Privacy News Online wrote about developments in the long-running battle between the privacy campaigner Max Schrems and Facebook. One of the key issues there is the failure by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) to act on the initial complaint made by Schrems seven years ago.

That matters, because under EU law, Ireland is effectively the data protection agency for the whole of the European Union. Like Facebook, Google too has its European headquarters in Dublin. That means complaints against the company must also be dealt with by Ireland’s DPC. As this blog reported two years ago, just such a complaint was submitted to both the UK and Irish data protection authorities, regarding the use of real-time bidding systems (RTB) by Google. The problem of RTB, and how it goes against core requirements of the EU’s GDPR legislation, was first discussed here three years ago, with updates noting the serious implication for privacy.

The UK’s Information Commission Office published the preliminary results of its investigation into RTB (since paused because of Covid-19) last year, and they didn’t look good for Google. The Irish DPC has been very slow to take action. As a result, one of the people involved in the initial complaint, Johnny Ryan, has released new evidence of how serious the problem is:

👀 👉🏼 https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/web-sites-shared-over-100-trillion-pieces-of-our-personal-data-last-year-time-to-stop-real-time-biddings-blatant-disregard-of-privacy/

👀 👉🏼 https://www.iccl.ie/news/dr-johnny-ryan-takes-up-new-privacy-role-at-iccl/

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Exposing Your Face Isn't a More Hygienic Way to Pay

A company called PopID has created an identity-management system that uses face recognition. Their first use case is as a system for in-store, point of sale payments using face recognition as authorization for payment.

They are promoting it as a tool for restaurants, claiming that it is pandemic-friendly because it is contactless.

Nonetheless, the PopID payment system is less secure than alternatives, unfriendly to privacy, and is likely riskier than other payment alternatives for anyone concerned about catching COVID-19. On top of these issues, PopID is pitching it as a screening tool for COVID-19 infection, another task that it's completely unsuited for.

👉🏼 Equities issues

It's important that payment systems not disadvantage cash payments, which have the best social equity. Many people are under-banked and in hard times such as these, many people use cash as a way to help them manage their budgets and spending. Cash is also the most privacy-friendly way to pay. As convenient as other systems are, and despite cash not being contactless, we need to protect people's ability to use cash1.

PopID is a charge-up-and-spend system. To lower their costs, PopID has its users charge up an account wn ith them using a credit card or debit card, and payments are deducted from that. Charge-and-spend systems are good for the store, and less good for the person using them; they amount to an interest-free loan that the consumer gives the merchant. This is no small thing: Starbucks, PayPal, and Walmart all have billions in interest-free loans from their customers. This further disadvantages people with budgets, as it requires them to give PopID money before it is spent and keep a balance in their system in anticipation of spending it.

👀 👉🏼 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/exposing-your-face-isnt-more-hygienic-way-pay

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They're Deleting My Channel - But They Don't Even Know Why!!?!

I need your help! This may be my last ever YouTube video... Please share it to raise awareness. Thank you!

https://www.invidiou.site/watch?v=hAEdFRoOYs0


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Surveillance Company Explains How to Keep Facebook From Detecting Fake Accounts in Leaked Manual

A leaked manual from Blackdot Solutions, a British company that offers social media monitoring services, included a step-by-step guide on how to create fake profiles on Facebook and LinkedIn.

A company that markets an online investigations platform for government agencies, banks, and other businesses says publicly that it's based on open source intelligence. But a leaked user manual obtained by Motherboard shows that, in reality, the company teaches customers how to create fake Facebook and LinkedIn accounts to gather information about people that is normally protected by their privacy settings on those platforms.

The guide also explains how to avoid detection by Facebook.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgxzvg/surveillance-company-explains-how-to-keep-facebook-from-detecting-fake-accounts-in-leaked-manual

#Facebook #fake #accounts #surveillance #firm

Gig Economy Company Launches Uber, But for Evicting People

A company called Civvl says evicting people is the "FASTEST GROWING MONEY MAKING GIG DUE TO COVID-19."

"SINCE COVID-19 MANY AMERICANS FELL BEHIND IN ALL ASPECTS," reads the website copy. The button below this statement is not for a GoFundMe, or a petition for calling for rent relief. Instead, it is the following call to action, from a company called Civvl: "Be hired as eviction crew."

During a time of great economic and general hardship, Civvl aims to be, essentially, Uber, but for evicting people. Seizing on a pandemic-driven nosedive in employment and huge uptick in number-of-people-who-can't-pay-their-rent, Civvl aims to make it easy for landlords to hire process servers and eviction agents as gig workers.

Helena Duncan, a Chicago-based paralegal who also participates in housing activism, saw a Craigslist post from Civvl while searching for jobs. The ad alarmed her.

"It's fucked up that there will be struggling working-class people who will be drawn to gigs like furniture-hauling or process-serving for a company like Civvl, evicting fellow working-class people from their homes so they themselves can make rent," she told Motherboard.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ep435n/gig-economy-company-launches-uber-but-for-evicting-people

#US #Gig #economy #firm #civvl

Former YouTube content moderator describes horrors of the job in new lawsuit

A former YouTube moderator is suing YouTube, accusing it of failing to protect workers who have to catch and remove violent videos posted to the site.

The suit filed Monday in California Superior Court in San Mateo says the plaintiff was required to watch murders, abortions, child rape, animal mutilation and suicides. As a part of moderator training, the company allegedly presented a video of a “smashed open skull with people eating from it,” a woman who was kidnapped and beheaded by a cartel and a person’s head being run over by a tank.

YouTube parent company Google faces increasing pressure to control content spanning violence and misinformation — particularly as it approaches the 2020 U.S. election and antitrust investigations from state attorneys general, the Department of Justice and Congress.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/22/former-youtube-content-moderator-describes-horrors-of-the-job-in-lawsuit.html

#US #California #Google #Youtube #lawsuit

The Supply of Disinformation Will Soon Be Infinite

Disinformation campaigns used to require a lot of human effort, but artificial intelligence will take them to a whole new level.

Someday soon, the reading public will miss the days when a bit of detective work could identify completely fictitious authors. Consider the case of “Alice Donovan.” In 2016, a freelance writer by that name emailed the editors of CounterPunch, a left-leaning independent media site, to pitch a story. Her Twitter profile identified her as a journalist. Over a period of 18 months, Donovan pitched CounterPunch regularly; the publication accepted a handful of her pieces, and a collection of left-leaning sites accepted others.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/future-propaganda-will-be-computer-generated/616400/