MicroG update v0.2.17.204714
• Bug fixes for Exposure Notifications API
• Improve translations. Thanks @ heyarne (de), @ Vavun (be, ru), @ oscfdezdz (es)
https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/releases/tag/v0.2.17.204714
#microg
• Bug fixes for Exposure Notifications API
• Improve translations. Thanks @ heyarne (de), @ Vavun (be, ru), @ oscfdezdz (es)
https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/releases/tag/v0.2.17.204714
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GitHub
Release v0.2.17.204714 · microg/GmsCore
Bug fixes for Exposure Notifications API
Improve translations. Thanks @heyarne (de), @Vavun (be, ru), @oscfdezdz (es)
Improve translations. Thanks @heyarne (de), @Vavun (be, ru), @oscfdezdz (es)
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Face Surveillance and the Capitol Attack
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/face-surveillance-and-capitol-attack
https://redd.it/kw41ip
@r_privacy
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/face-surveillance-and-capitol-attack
https://redd.it/kw41ip
@r_privacy
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Face Surveillance and the Capitol Attack
After last week’s violent attack on the Capitol, law enforcement is working overtime to identify the perpetrators. This is critical to accountability for the attempted insurrection. Law enforcement
#Google suspends #Trump's #YouTube account, disables comments
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/12/google-suspends-trumps-youtube-account-disables-comments.html
No one cares
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/12/google-suspends-trumps-youtube-account-disables-comments.html
No one cares
CNBC
YouTube suspends Trump's account, barring uploads and comments
The Google-owned company took down the account following similar actions by Facebook and Twitter.
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Make a Telegram bot for notifying about new RSS feed items
https://ljmocic.medium.com/make-telegram-bot-for-notifying-about-new-rss-feed-items-4cfbcc37f4fd
Replace your #RSS #reader with a simple #Telegram #bot
https://ljmocic.medium.com/make-telegram-bot-for-notifying-about-new-rss-feed-items-4cfbcc37f4fd
Replace your #RSS #reader with a simple #Telegram #bot
Medium
Make Telegram bot for notifying about new RSS feed items
Replace your RSS reader with simple Telegram bot
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How I stole the data in millions of people’s Google accounts
You don’t know me, but there’s a good chance I know you.
That’s because I have complete and total access to the private information in millions of peoples’ Google accounts. Emailed bank statements, medical records in Google Drive, Facebook chat records sent via Gmail, Google Voice voicemails, private pictures in Google Photos. The list goes on. None of them have any idea, and none of them ever will. Perhaps one of them is you.
So how did I do it? It all starts with an app I made.
For obvious reasons I won’t give away the name. It’s a pretty straightforward app, designed for fitness enthusiasts, with features like logging your pace during a run and guiding you through strength-building exercises. Like many apps, it requires the user to create an account before they can start using it. According to analytics, about 60% of users opt for the enticing ‘Sign up with Google’ button instead.
https://blog.usejournal.com/how-i-stole-the-data-in-millions-of-peoples-google-accounts-aa1b72dcc075?gi=379e212a2b46
#DeleteGoogle #google #data #accounts
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You don’t know me, but there’s a good chance I know you.
That’s because I have complete and total access to the private information in millions of peoples’ Google accounts. Emailed bank statements, medical records in Google Drive, Facebook chat records sent via Gmail, Google Voice voicemails, private pictures in Google Photos. The list goes on. None of them have any idea, and none of them ever will. Perhaps one of them is you.
So how did I do it? It all starts with an app I made.
For obvious reasons I won’t give away the name. It’s a pretty straightforward app, designed for fitness enthusiasts, with features like logging your pace during a run and guiding you through strength-building exercises. Like many apps, it requires the user to create an account before they can start using it. According to analytics, about 60% of users opt for the enticing ‘Sign up with Google’ button instead.
https://blog.usejournal.com/how-i-stole-the-data-in-millions-of-peoples-google-accounts-aa1b72dcc075?gi=379e212a2b46
#DeleteGoogle #google #data #accounts
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📡@NoGoolag
Medium
How I stole the data in millions of people’s Google accounts
You don’t know me, but there’s a good chance I know you.
"Wolf culture" - How Huawei controls its employees in Europe
Former employees accuse Huawei of discrimination. How massively the company interferes in their private lives and how it keeps its staff in line is revealed by internal documents and covert audio recordings that netzpolitik.org and the media partners of The Signals Network have analysed.
The journalist with the camera causes nervousness. Minutes after he appears in front of Huawei’s European headquarters in Düsseldorf in mid-November, a stocky security guard and a female employee rush over. The street in front of the building is public space, but the company seems to feel its turf has been violated. „What do you want here?“, the woman asks. „Delete the photos.“
Insights into the inner workings of the controversial Chinese mobile phone company are rare. Huawei has about 200,000 employees worldwide, and about 2,400 in Germany, according to the company. The European headquarters are in Düsseldorf. „We Are A Top Employer!“, a sign in the entrance area reads, beneath it orchids decorate the reception table. In the corridor hangs a photo of a hiking group posing and waving on a mountain peak.
What voices tell us from inside, on the other hand, belies the impression of a friendly atmosphere. They tell of a technology company that seems to see its employees first and foremost as raw materials from which it wants to forge its own success. About a company that moves Chinese employees around like chess pieces, that fires employees at will and where a quasi-military esprit de corps prevails. In Germany, the company sometimes violates the spirit, perhaps even the letter, of labour law.
https://netzpolitik.org/2021/wolf-culture-how-huawei-controls-its-employees-in-europe/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/13/huawei-expat-employees-marry-westerners-faced-forced-leave-europe/
(Paywall)
https://www.elmundo.es/economia/2021/01/13/5ffe1f39fc6c83b1588b463e.html
https://www.republik.ch/2021/01/13/inside-huawei
#huawei #discrimination #expat #employees #europe #eu #thinkabout #why
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_DE
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📡@BlackBox_Archiv
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Former employees accuse Huawei of discrimination. How massively the company interferes in their private lives and how it keeps its staff in line is revealed by internal documents and covert audio recordings that netzpolitik.org and the media partners of The Signals Network have analysed.
The journalist with the camera causes nervousness. Minutes after he appears in front of Huawei’s European headquarters in Düsseldorf in mid-November, a stocky security guard and a female employee rush over. The street in front of the building is public space, but the company seems to feel its turf has been violated. „What do you want here?“, the woman asks. „Delete the photos.“
Insights into the inner workings of the controversial Chinese mobile phone company are rare. Huawei has about 200,000 employees worldwide, and about 2,400 in Germany, according to the company. The European headquarters are in Düsseldorf. „We Are A Top Employer!“, a sign in the entrance area reads, beneath it orchids decorate the reception table. In the corridor hangs a photo of a hiking group posing and waving on a mountain peak.
What voices tell us from inside, on the other hand, belies the impression of a friendly atmosphere. They tell of a technology company that seems to see its employees first and foremost as raw materials from which it wants to forge its own success. About a company that moves Chinese employees around like chess pieces, that fires employees at will and where a quasi-military esprit de corps prevails. In Germany, the company sometimes violates the spirit, perhaps even the letter, of labour law.
https://netzpolitik.org/2021/wolf-culture-how-huawei-controls-its-employees-in-europe/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/13/huawei-expat-employees-marry-westerners-faced-forced-leave-europe/
(Paywall)
https://www.elmundo.es/economia/2021/01/13/5ffe1f39fc6c83b1588b463e.html
https://www.republik.ch/2021/01/13/inside-huawei
#huawei #discrimination #expat #employees #europe #eu #thinkabout #why
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_DE
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netzpolitik.org
How Huawei controls its employees in Europe
Former employees accuse Huawei of discrimination. How massively the company interferes in their private lives and how it keeps its staff in line is revealed by internal documents and covert audio recordings that netzpolitik.org and the media partners of The…
Salaat First: Another Popular Muslim Prayer App Sells Location Data to FBI, ICE
Salaat First shared location data with a French firm Predicio which had customers including Venntel, a US government contractor.
The methods of surveillance have changed over time. Nowadays, government agencies do not need to follow someone to track their activities. Mobile phone users, unknowingly, hand over their privacy rights to the tech companies that in turn sell it to government contractors. A popular Muslim prayer app, named Salaat First, found selling users' location data to its partner that has customers with the US government agencies including the FBI and the ICE.
Salaat First, which reminds its users about Muslim prayer timings, has been downloaded over 10 million times on Android. To accurately tell users prayer times, Salaat First asks for permission to read precise location, has access to device ID, phone, media storage, USB storage and full network access. However, the app developer was selling the same user data to its partner, a French firm named Predicio.
https://www.ibtimes.sg/salaat-first-another-popular-muslim-prayer-app-sells-location-data-fbi-ice-54843
#US #France #FBI #ICE #surveillance #location #data
Salaat First shared location data with a French firm Predicio which had customers including Venntel, a US government contractor.
The methods of surveillance have changed over time. Nowadays, government agencies do not need to follow someone to track their activities. Mobile phone users, unknowingly, hand over their privacy rights to the tech companies that in turn sell it to government contractors. A popular Muslim prayer app, named Salaat First, found selling users' location data to its partner that has customers with the US government agencies including the FBI and the ICE.
Salaat First, which reminds its users about Muslim prayer timings, has been downloaded over 10 million times on Android. To accurately tell users prayer times, Salaat First asks for permission to read precise location, has access to device ID, phone, media storage, USB storage and full network access. However, the app developer was selling the same user data to its partner, a French firm named Predicio.
https://www.ibtimes.sg/salaat-first-another-popular-muslim-prayer-app-sells-location-data-fbi-ice-54843
#US #France #FBI #ICE #surveillance #location #data
International Business Times
Salaat First: Another Popular Muslim Prayer App Sells Location Data to FBI, ICE
Salaat First shared location data with a French firm Predicio which had customers including Venntel, a US government contractor.
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Google admits to running 'experiments' which remove some media sites from its search results
The tech giant says it is ‘running a few experiments that will each reach about 1% of Google Search users in Australia’
Google has been hiding some Australian news sites from search results, in a move media outlets say is a show of “extraordinary power” as the tech company bargains with the Australian government over financial payment for content.
The Australian government is attempting to impose a new code on Google and Facebook that would force them to negotiate a fair price for displaying local news content.
Google has criticised the proposed code – which would be a world first – in messages to the search engine’s users while Facebook has warned it could block Australians from sharing local news as a consequence.
The Australian Financial Review on Wednesday reported that Google had tweaked its search and news algorithm to bury links to some commercial Australian media outlets for some users.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jan/13/google-admits-to-running-experiments-which-remove-some-media-sites-from-its-search-results
#google #DeleteGoogle #australia #media #experiments #thinkabout
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The tech giant says it is ‘running a few experiments that will each reach about 1% of Google Search users in Australia’
Google has been hiding some Australian news sites from search results, in a move media outlets say is a show of “extraordinary power” as the tech company bargains with the Australian government over financial payment for content.
The Australian government is attempting to impose a new code on Google and Facebook that would force them to negotiate a fair price for displaying local news content.
Google has criticised the proposed code – which would be a world first – in messages to the search engine’s users while Facebook has warned it could block Australians from sharing local news as a consequence.
The Australian Financial Review on Wednesday reported that Google had tweaked its search and news algorithm to bury links to some commercial Australian media outlets for some users.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jan/13/google-admits-to-running-experiments-which-remove-some-media-sites-from-its-search-results
#google #DeleteGoogle #australia #media #experiments #thinkabout
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the Guardian
Google admits to running 'experiments' which remove some media sites from its search results
The tech giant says it is ‘running a few experiments that will each reach about 1% of Google Search users in Australia’
Venice is watching tourists' every move
They're watching you, wherever you walk. They know exactly where you pause, when you slow down and speed up, and they count you in and out of the city.
What's more, they're tracking your phone, so they can tell exactly how many people from your country or region are in which area, at which time.
And they're doing it in a bid to change tourism for the better.
Welcome to Venice in a post-Covid world. The canal city may have been known as La Serenissima, or The Most Serene, during its centuries ruling the waves as the powerful Republic of Venice.
In the past few years, however, things have become rather less serene, thanks to the almost 30 million visitors who descend each year on the city of just 50,000 inhabitants.
Before Covid-19 struck, tourists were arriving in often unmanageable numbers, choking the main streets and filling up the waterbuses. Authorities had tried various measures, from introducing separate residents' lines at major vaporetto (waterbus) stops to bringing in turnstiles that would filter locals from tourists on busy days. A planned "entrance tax," due to debut in 2020, has been postponed to January 2022, due to the pandemic.
But as well as controlling footfall, the authorities wanted to track tourism itself -- not just by registering overnight guests but, in a city where the vast majority of visitors are daytrippers, by counting exactly who is in the city -- and where they go.
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/venice-control-room-tourism/index.html
#Europe #EU #Italy #tourist #surveillance #privacy
They're watching you, wherever you walk. They know exactly where you pause, when you slow down and speed up, and they count you in and out of the city.
What's more, they're tracking your phone, so they can tell exactly how many people from your country or region are in which area, at which time.
And they're doing it in a bid to change tourism for the better.
Welcome to Venice in a post-Covid world. The canal city may have been known as La Serenissima, or The Most Serene, during its centuries ruling the waves as the powerful Republic of Venice.
In the past few years, however, things have become rather less serene, thanks to the almost 30 million visitors who descend each year on the city of just 50,000 inhabitants.
Before Covid-19 struck, tourists were arriving in often unmanageable numbers, choking the main streets and filling up the waterbuses. Authorities had tried various measures, from introducing separate residents' lines at major vaporetto (waterbus) stops to bringing in turnstiles that would filter locals from tourists on busy days. A planned "entrance tax," due to debut in 2020, has been postponed to January 2022, due to the pandemic.
But as well as controlling footfall, the authorities wanted to track tourism itself -- not just by registering overnight guests but, in a city where the vast majority of visitors are daytrippers, by counting exactly who is in the city -- and where they go.
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/venice-control-room-tourism/index.html
#Europe #EU #Italy #tourist #surveillance #privacy
CNN
Venice is watching tourists’ every move
The Venice authorities have opened a “Control Room” which uses CCTV and phone data to track who’s in the city - and where they’re from. The aim? Not just to regulate footfall, but to change tourism for the better.
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The pirate bay, the most censored website in the world, started by kids, run by people with problems with alcohol, drugs and money, still is up after almost 2 decades. Parlor and gab etc have all the money around but no skills or mindset. Embarrassing.
https://nitter.net/brokep/status/1348194329005875203
#piratebay #parler
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https://nitter.net/brokep/status/1348194329005875203
#piratebay #parler
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Nitter
Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi (@brokep)
The pirate bay, the most censored website in the world, started by kids, run by people with problems with alcohol, drugs and money, still is up after almost 2 decades. Parlor and gab etc have all the money around but no skills or mindset. Embarrassing.
Mozilla VPN
Available in 6 countries now. More regions coming soon.
We currently offer Mozilla VPN in the US, the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia.
The Mozilla VPN clients are compatible with Windows 10 (64-bit only), Mac (10.15 and up), Android (version 6 and up), iOS (13.0 and up), and Linux (Ubuntu-only).
https://vpn.mozilla.org/
#mozilla #VPN
Available in 6 countries now. More regions coming soon.
We currently offer Mozilla VPN in the US, the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia.
The Mozilla VPN clients are compatible with Windows 10 (64-bit only), Mac (10.15 and up), Android (version 6 and up), iOS (13.0 and up), and Linux (Ubuntu-only).
https://vpn.mozilla.org/
#mozilla #VPN
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Apple reportedly scrapped plans to fully secure iCloud backups after FBI intervention
Apple can’t read your device data, but it can read your backups
Apple reportedly dropped plans to fully secure users’ iPhone and iPad backups after the FBI complained about the initiative, reports Reuters.
Apple devices have a well-deserved reputation for protecting on-device data, but backups made using iCloud are a different matter. This information is encrypted to stop attackers, but Apple holds the keys to decrypt it and shares it with police and governments when legally required.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusive/exclusive-apple-dropped-plan-for-encrypting-backups-after-fbi-complained-sources-idUSKBN1ZK1CT
https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/21/21075033/apple-icloud-end-to-end-encryption-scrapped-fbi-reuters-report
#apple #icloud #encryption #fbi #thinkabout
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Apple can’t read your device data, but it can read your backups
Apple reportedly dropped plans to fully secure users’ iPhone and iPad backups after the FBI complained about the initiative, reports Reuters.
Apple devices have a well-deserved reputation for protecting on-device data, but backups made using iCloud are a different matter. This information is encrypted to stop attackers, but Apple holds the keys to decrypt it and shares it with police and governments when legally required.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusive/exclusive-apple-dropped-plan-for-encrypting-backups-after-fbi-complained-sources-idUSKBN1ZK1CT
https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/21/21075033/apple-icloud-end-to-end-encryption-scrapped-fbi-reuters-report
#apple #icloud #encryption #fbi #thinkabout
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Reuters
Exclusive: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained - sources
Apple Inc dropped plans to let iPhone users fully encrypt backups of their devices in the company's iCloud service after the FBI complained that the move would harm investigations, six sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Tech coalition working to create digital COVID-19 vaccination passport
A coalition of health and technology organizations are working to develop a digital COVID-19 vaccination passport to allow businesses, airlines and countries to check if people have received the vaccine.
The Vaccination Credential Initiative, announced on Thursday, is formulating technology to confirm vaccinations in the likelihood that some governments will mandate people provide proof of their shots in order to enter the nation.
The organization hopes the technology will allow people to "demonstrate their health status to safely return to travel, work, school and life while protecting their data privacy."
The initiative, which includes members like Microsoft, Oracle and U.S. nonprofit Mayo Clinic, is using the work from member Commons Project’s international digital document that verifies a person has tested negative for COVID-19, the Financial Times reported.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/534228-tech-coalition-working-to-create-digital-covid-19-vaccination-passport
#US #BigTech #digital #covid #vaccine #passport #privacy
A coalition of health and technology organizations are working to develop a digital COVID-19 vaccination passport to allow businesses, airlines and countries to check if people have received the vaccine.
The Vaccination Credential Initiative, announced on Thursday, is formulating technology to confirm vaccinations in the likelihood that some governments will mandate people provide proof of their shots in order to enter the nation.
The organization hopes the technology will allow people to "demonstrate their health status to safely return to travel, work, school and life while protecting their data privacy."
The initiative, which includes members like Microsoft, Oracle and U.S. nonprofit Mayo Clinic, is using the work from member Commons Project’s international digital document that verifies a person has tested negative for COVID-19, the Financial Times reported.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/534228-tech-coalition-working-to-create-digital-covid-19-vaccination-passport
#US #BigTech #digital #covid #vaccine #passport #privacy
TheHill
Tech coalition working to create digital COVID-19 vaccination passport
A coalition of health and technology organizations are working to develop a digital COVID-19 vaccination passport to allow businesses, airlines and countries to check if people have received the