Apple apps on Big Sur bypass firewalls and VPNs — this is terrible

Don't worry though, Apple really, really, really cares about your privacy

For all of Apple’s talk of being privacy-first, often its marketing speak doesn’t match up with what it’s actually doing. And the latest example? Well, it’s Apple apps on Big Sur bypassing firewalls and VPNs.

I don’t need to tell you just how worrying this is.

👀 👉🏼 https://thenextweb.com/plugged/2020/11/16/apple-apps-on-big-sur-bypass-firewalls-vpns-analysis-macos/

#apple #apps #privacy #bypass #firewall #vpn #thinkabout
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Youtube-dl is back again - repository has been restored on GitHub

👀 👉🏼 https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

#youtubedl #copyright #RIAA #takedown #github
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How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps

A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain that sends ordinary people's personal data to brokers, contractors, and the military.

The U.S. military is buying the granular movement data of people around the world, harvested from innocuous-seeming apps, Motherboard has learned. The most popular app among a group Motherboard analyzed connected to this sort of data sale is a Muslim prayer and Quran app that has more than 98 million downloads worldwide. Others include a Muslim dating app, a popular Craigslist app, an app for following storms, and a "level" app that can be used to help, for example, install shelves in a bedroom.

Through public records, interviews with developers, and technical analysis, Motherboard uncovered two separate, parallel data streams that the U.S. military uses, or has used, to obtain location data. One relies on a company called Babel Street, which creates a product called Locate X. U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), a branch of the military tasked with counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, and special reconnaissance, bought access to Locate X to assist on overseas special forces operations. The other stream is through a company called X-Mode, which obtains location data directly from apps, then sells that data to contractors, and by extension, the military.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqm5x/us-military-location-data-xmode-locate-x


#US #military #intelligence #privacy #location #why

Popular Pirate Sites ‘Disappear’ From DuckDuckGo’s Top Search Results

https://torrentfreak.com/popular-pirate-sites-disappear-from-duckduckgos-top-search-results-201112


#torrent #ddg #duckduckgo #piracy

What If Cambridge Analytica Owned Its Own Social Network? CA Backer Rebekah Mercer Admits She's A Co-Founder Of Parler

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201116/01141545710/what-if-cambridge-analytica-owned-own-social-network-ca-backer-rebekah-mercer-admits-shes-co-founder-parler.shtml


#parler #fb #alternatives #ca #Cambridge #analytica

Chinese Capitalist Party bails out Huawei Honor brand

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/huawei-sells-honor-brand-to-state-backed-group/ar-BB1b5ds9


#huawei #honor #china #gov

Etebase - An open-source and end-to-end encrypted SDK and backend

Hey everyone, I'm Tom, the lead developer of [Etebase](https://www.etebase.com) and [EteSync](https://www.etesync.com).

The idea behind Etebase is to make it easy for developers to build encrypted applications, and enable more privacy-first and encrypted applications to be built.

It's fully open-source and it's what powers EteSync 2.0, and its integrations with GNOME, KDE and the likes. There are libraries available for Rust, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, Python and C/C++ with more languages coming.

My hope is to never use non-encrypted applications ever again, and I believe Etebase can help us get there. Let's end-to-end encrypt everything!

If you know of projects that could benefit from Etebase, please let us (and them) know! If you have any thoughts, feedback or suggestions? Please join the discussion below. I'll be here answering questions.


Website: https://www.etebase.com

Docs: https://docs.etebase.com

Source code: https://www.etebase.com/#open-source

https://redd.it/jvtudc
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#etebase #encryption #build #dev

What Happens When A Freerunner Loses His Phone?

Free runner Jason Paul chases ‘lost’ phone through Germany’s Hamburg

The video show how Paul, manoeuvres through the port city’s land, waterways and architecture using parkour, a training discipline developed from military obstacle course training.

📺 👉🏼 https://youtu.be/cdCdtfjm3g8

👀 👉🏼 https://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-globally/free-runner-jason-paul-phone-chase-germany-hamburg-7054570/

#justforfun #freerunner #hamburg #germany #video
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Facebook touts free speech. In Vietnam, it’s aiding in censorship

For months, Bui Van Thuan, a chemistry teacher turned crusading blogger in Vietnam, published one scathing Facebook post after another on a land dispute between villagers and the communist government.

In a country with no independent media, Facebook provides the only platform where Vietnamese can read about contentious topics such as Dong Tam, a village outside Hanoi where residents were fighting authorities’ plans to seize farmland to build a factory.

Believing a confrontation was inevitable, the 40-year-old Thuan condemned the country’s leaders in a Jan. 7 post. “Your crimes will be engraved on my mind,” he wrote. “I know you — the land robbers — will do everything, however cruel it is, to grab the people’s land.”

Facebook blocked his account the next day at the government’s insistence, preventing 60 million Vietnamese users from seeing his posts.

One day later, as Thuan had warned, police stormed Dong Tam with tear gas and grenades. A village leader and three officers were killed.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-10-22/facebook-censorship-suppress-dissent-vietnam

#Asia #Vietnam #facebook #censorship

iOS uses tracking codes without the users' consent

Third-party providers can track users across different iPhone apps using unique IDs without their consent. noyd has filed two complaints against Apple.

The Austrian NGO noyb ("none of your business") has filed a complaint against Apple for accusations of illegal data collection in Germany and Spain. According to the initiative around data protection activist Max Schrems, the Group uses an identification system comparable to cookies without obtaining the necessary consent from users:inside.

The complaint concerns the so-called Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA) - a unique ID that Apple generates for each iPhone. Third parties can use this ID to track end users through various apps, for example to track purchasing behavior.

The installation or reading of tracking codes should only be possible with the consent of the users, but most of them are unaware of IDFA. The fact that, strictly speaking, these are not cookies is no argument for noyb lawyer Stefano Rossetti: "This very simple rule applies regardless of the tracking technology used. While Apple even plans to block cookies in their browser, they themselves place similar codes in their cell phones without any user consent. This is a clear violation of EU data protection laws".

👀 👉🏼 Translated with DeepL
https://netzpolitik.org/2020/ios-nutzt-tracking-codes-ohne-einwilligung-der-nutzerinnen/

👀 👉🏼 COMPLAINT (PDF)
https://noyb.eu/sites/default/files/2020-11/IDFA_Germany_DEF_Redacted.pdf

#ios #tracking #ngo #noyb #IDFA #thinkabout
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New program reduces App Store commission to 15 percent for small businesses earning up to $1 million per year

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/11/apple-announces-app-store-small-business-program/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25135410

https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/18/21572302/apple-app-store-small-business-program-commission-cut-15-percent-reduction
Comments :https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25135462

Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic
https://www.johnluxford.com/blog/apples-15-percent-deflection-tactic
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25143303


#apple #appstore #store #15% #extortion

Openstreetmap is having a moment – the billion dollar dataset next door

https://joemorrison.medium.com/openstreetmap-is-having-a-moment-dcc7eef1bb01

Comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25137235


#osm #openstreetmaps #maps

Egregor ransomware shoots ransom notes out of victims' printers

The Egregor ransomware uses a novel approach to get a victim's attention after an attack - shoot ransom notes from all available printers. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/egregor-ransomware-bombards-victims-printers-with-ransom-notes/


#egregor #printer #ramsomware

NewPipe 0.20.3 improves YouTube video loading speed and adds a new two-finger swipe gesture

https://www.xda-developers.com/newpipe-0-20-3-improves-youtube-video-loading-speed-adds-two-finger-swipe-gesture/

#np #newpipe

A Court Ruling in Austria Could Censor the Internet Worldwide

A little more than a year ago, I wrote with concern about the risk that a single EU court within single EU member state would become the censor for the world. That fear has now become reality. In a ruling Thursday, the Austrian Supreme Court ordered, pursuant to local defamation rules, that Facebook remove a post insulting a former Green Party leader, keep equivalent posts off its site, and do so on a global scale.

The case started with an April 2016 Facebook post, in which a user shared an article featuring a photo of Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek, then-chair of Austria’s Green Party, along with commentary labeling her a “lousy traitor,” “corrupt oaf,” and member of a “fascist party,” apparently in response to her immigration policies. This is core, protected speech in the United States. But it was deemed defamation under Austrian law. And in a series of rulings, Austrian courts ordered that Facebook take down and keep off any such post, and do so around the world.

Facebook complied, but only in part. Employing what is known as geoblocking, it made the particular post that had been identified inaccessible to users within Austria. But it objected both to the global reach of the order and to the obligation to look for and keep other, equivalent posts off their site. And it argued that the order violated the applicable EU’s e-Commerce Directive, which prohibits EU member states from imposing general monitoring obligations on tech companies like Facebook.

https://outline.com/HhzqhP

original article : https://slate.com/technology/2020/11/austria-facebook-eva-glawischnig-piesczek-censorship.html

#Europe #Austria #facebook #censorship

Europol Innovation Laboratory

While end-to-end encryption is to be generally weakened, Europol is developing new applications for secure communication for the police. Some of the measures are part of the "European Police Partnership" proclaimed by the German EU Council Presidency. These include the "WhatsApp for law enforcement officers" project.

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https://www.statewatch.org/media/1474/eu-council-europol-innovation-lab-update-12859-20.pdf

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Exclusive: Vietnam threatens to shut down Facebook over censorship requests - source

Vietnam has threatened to shut down Facebook in the country if it does not bow to government pressure to censor more local political content on its platform, a senior official at the U.S. social media giant told Reuters.

Facebook complied with a government request in April to significantly increase its censorship of “anti-state” posts for local users, but Vietnam asked the company again in August to step up its restrictions of critical posts, the official said.

“We made an agreement in April. Facebook has upheld our end of the agreement, and we expected the government of Vietnam to do the same,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity citing the sensitivity of the subject.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vietnam-facebook-shutdown-exclusive-idUSKBN27Z1MP

related post : https://t.me/NoGoolag/4247

#Asia #Vietnam #facebook #censorship

Six Reasons Why Google Maps Is the Creepiest App On Your Phone

Google knows where you are, and so do advertisers.

Google Maps knows everything. Not just about every street, and every cafe, bar and shop on that street, but the people who go to them. With 1 billion monthly active users, the app is embedded in people’s lives – directing them on their commute, to their friends’ and families’ homes, to doctor’s appointments and on their travels abroad.

The fact that Google Maps has the power to follow your every step doesn't automatically mean it’s misusing that power. But they could, which is an issue in and of itself, especially since Google’s headquarters are in the US, where privacy legislation is looser than in Europe and intelligence agencies have a history of surveilling private citizens (I see you, NSA).

Yes, Google Maps is incredibly useful. But here are just a few reasons to double check your privacy settings and ask yourself how much personal data you’re willing to sacrifice in the name of convenience.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/3an84b/six-reasons-why-google-maps-is-the-creepiest-app-on-your-phone

#google #maps #privacy

reCAPTCHA: The Genius Who's Tricking the World Into Doing His Work

Turns out reCAPTCHAs are doing more than ‘proving you’re a human’ and being annoying. Introducing human-based computation.

CAPTCHAs – those weird, distorted words that prove you’re human before you buy overpriced tickets to Adele’s upcoming tour. You know ’em, I know ’em, some people call themreCAPTCHA, but none of us like ’em.

They’ve been around a while now and until a couple weeks ago I dismissed them as a neat, annoying idea to prevent bots and scammers from running wild on the interwebs.

But here’s the surprise kicker: a lot of times the CAPTCHAs are actual words from actual text. My five seconds of attention combined with the five seconds of attention of everyone else unwittingly adds up to a boatload of computing power.

This is old news for some but I sure as sh*t didn’t know about it.

Here’s the story of how it all got started and the certified genius who made it happen.

https://thehustle.co/the-genius-whos-tricking-the-world-into-doing-his-work-recaptcha

#recaptcha

Introducing Cover Your Tracks!

Today, we’re pleased to announce Cover Your Tracks, the newest edition and rebranding of our historic browser fingerprinting and tracker awareness tool Panopticlick. Cover Your Tracks picks up where Panopticlick left off. Panopticlick was about letting users know that browser fingerprinting was possible; Cover Your Tracks is about giving users the tools to fight back against the trackers, and improve the web ecosystem to provide privacy for everyone.

Over a decade ago, we launched Panopticlick as an experiment to see whether the different characteristics that a browser communicates to a website, when viewed in combination, could be used as a unique identifier that tracks a user as they browse the web. We asked users to participate in an experiment to test their browsers, and found that overwhelmingly the answer was yes—browsers were leaking information that allowed web trackers to follow their movements.

n this new iteration, Cover Your Tracks aims to make browser fingerprinting and tracking more understandable to the average user. With helpful explainers accompanying each browser characteristic and how it contributes to their fingerprint, users get an in-depth look into just how trackers can use their browser against them.

👀 👉🏼 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/introducing-cover-your-tracks

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Thousands protest against French bill to curb identification of police

https://www.malaymail.com/news/world/2020/11/21/thousands-protest-against-french-bill-to-curb-identification-of-police/1924930

Several thousand people protested in Paris today against a bill that would make it a crime to circulate an image of a police officer’s face with the intention that they should be harmed.

Supporters say police officers and their families need protection from harassment, both online and in person when off duty.

Opponents say the law would infringe journalists’ freedom to report and make it harder to hold police accountable for abuses such as excessive use of force - a growing public concern. The offence would carry a maximum penalty of one year in jail and a €45,000 (RM218,355) fine.

On the Trocadero Square in western Paris, rights activists, trade unionists and journalists chanted: “Everybody wants to film the police!”
Many demonstrators wore the high-visibility jackets of the “Yellow Vest” movement that started a wave of anti-government protests two years ago.

Some held signs that read “We’ll put down our (smart)phones when you put down your weapons”.
Similar demonstrations were planned in Marseille, Lille, Montpellier, Rennes and Saint-Etienne.

Last Tuesday, two journalists were detained in a protest that led to clashes with police as lawmakers in the National Assembly began debating the bill, which is backed by President Emmanuel Macron’s party and its parliamentary allies.

The bill passed its first reading on Friday and there will be a second reading on Tuesday. It then goes to the Senate for further debate before it can become law.

An amendment drafted by the government and approved on Friday modified the article in question, 24, to add the phrase “without prejudice to the right to inform”.

Prime Minister Jean Castex said this would “remove any ambiguity on the intention to guarantee respect for public freedoms while better protecting those, police and gendarmes, who ensure the protection of the population”.
— Reuters


#france #cops #police #identification #protest