Google wants to connect everything you own to the internet

Surveilling older adults, connected helmets, wearables talking to doctors and other patents from Big Tech.

Hello and welcome back to the world of zany patents from Big Tech! While 2020 is still dragging on (I know it's 2021, but you can't tell me 2020 is over until I can go anywhere other than the grocery store), at least there are still great new patents to uncover. And there's some fascinating ones this week, including Facebook wanting to make clothes like real in games, Microsoft trying to make sports more inclusive and Google wanting to make it easier to spy on your parents. If that's something you want to do.

And remember: The big tech companies file all kinds of crazy patents for things, and though most never amount to anything, some end up defining the future.

⚠️ Alphabet - Surveilling older adults

⚠️ Making analog products digital

⚠️ Keeping your doctor in the loop

⚠️ Amazon - Autonomous avoiding

⚠️ Apple - Detecting traffic wardens

⚠️ Facebook - Simulating clothing

⚠️ Microsoft - An automatic travel diary

⚠️ Bringing sports to visually-impaired people

⚠️ Icebreakers on social media

https://www.protocol.com/google-patents-internet-everything

#google #DeleteGoogle #microsoft #amazon #DeleteAmazon #patents #bigtech #surveillance #thinkabout

Criminal Indian organization known as government is hiring online propagandists to defend them

The Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Center (I4C) will coordinate all these criminals

https://www.firstpost.com/india/govt-seeks-cyber-crime-volunteers-to-report-on-anti-national-posts-project-launched-in-jammu-and-kashmir-9286071.html

#i4c #India #gov #criminals #why

Digital #forensics #analysis of #Ubuntu #Touch on #Pinephone

LittleSis

https://littlesis.org

Free database of who-knows-who at the heights of business and government.

#litesis #gov

Court Orders Telegram To Block Pirated Movies, TV Shows and Music

A court has ordered Telegram to block access to pirated movies, TV shows and music following a lawsuit filed in Israel. Local anti-piracy group ZIRA complained that the messaging platform does not properly respond to takedown notices, contrary to Telegram's claims that it does. Telegram is now working with rightsholders to implement the injunction.

Last November, the RIAA and MPAA nominated popular messenger app Telegram for inclusion on the USTR’s ‘notorious markets’ list, claiming that the platform doesn’t do enough to combat piracy.

A month later, the EU added the service to its own ‘Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List’, noting that along with other social media platforms, Telegram “lags behind” in respect of efforts to combat piracy.

This opinion is shared by Israel-based anti-piracy group ZIRA. Last year, ZIRA – which represents local media companies – took its complaints to court, hoping to force Telegram to take a more serious approach to infringement mitigation.

https://torrentfreak.com/court-orders-telegram-to-block-pirated-movies-tv-shows-and-music-210210/

#tg #telegram #court #order #block #pirated #movies #music #riaa #mpaa #piracy #watchlist
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Never Google (your symptoms) 😂

#google #DeleteGoogle #video

Lukasz Olejnik (@lukOlejnik): "My analysis of the Council of the EU #ePrivacy Regulation proposal. It contains clauses expanding the right to process metadata, and possibly even restrict end-to-end encryption. Biggest issue: will be obsolete when it enters into force. Tough sell. https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/analysing-the-council-of-the-eu-eprivacy-regulation-is-it-obsolete/" | FDNitter – https://nitter.fdn.fr/lukOlejnik/status/1359907032527175684#m

https://community.signalusers.org/t/help-needed-share-an-android-bug-report-to-help-debug-notifications/27739

P.S. Please do not submit any reports if you’re using a Custom ROM 🤮

#signal

gael@mastodon.social - We have this interesting feature proposal for /e/OS: a second "panic" PIN code that can fully erase the device in case of emergency. It's been rejected by Google for Android.

Do you think we should implement it?

#degoogled #android #privacy #security

https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/backlog/-/issues/2497​

The Great Firewall of...America? WTZ!

This past week on Feb 2 - Feb 7, 2021 a massive attack was conducted on encrypted services, particular VPN's. VPN traffic was throttled to near unusability.

Basically in 2021, the Great Firewall of the USA was turned on. And then abrubtly turned off.

Purpose of the action was unknown. No party stepped up to acknowledge and aside from me, no one has stepped up to call any Internet Provider of their egregious action against privacy minded people.

Why did this attack happen?
Why did the attack stop?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38za1LYj2XQ&t=1

#usa #greatfirewall #firewall #internet #attack #privacy #thinkabout #video
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Australia report says make Google and Facebook pay for news.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Parliament will debate making Google and Facebook pay for news after a Senate committee on Friday recommended no changes to drafts of the world’s first such laws.

The Senate Economics Legislation Committee has been scrutinizing the bill since it was introduced in Parliament in December.

The senators rejected Facebook and Google’s arguments that the so-called media bargaining code, which would force the digital giants to negotiate payment to Australian news media for the news content to which the platforms link, was unworkable.

But the committee also recognized that the legislation carried risks and should be reviewed after a year.

https://apnews.com/article/australia-media-legislation-news-media-bills-9e900361d3a262572627c778fda3b0c1

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‘Windows is sh*t:’ Linux Users and The Technical Superiority Problem

“Windows is shit.” “That’s garbage, don’t use it.” “I don’t understand why anyone uses that crap.” ~Toxic nerds on the internet, since forever.

https://medium.com/linuxforeveryone/windows-is-sh-t-linux-users-and-the-technical-superiority-problem-196a597aa860

#linux #windows #thinkabout
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Your email and password were probably posted online in the mother of all data leaks – BGR – https://bgr.com/2021/02/09/data-breach-tool-check-if-your-email-credentials-compromised-cybernews/

Personal Data Leak Checker: Your Email & Data - Breached? | CyberNews – https://cybernews.com/personal-data-leak-check/

Why do not share https://haveibeenpwned.com/ and https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords instead? It provides really more infos and have this so useful notification service ;)

Telegram privacy feature failed to delete self-destructing video files.

Telegram has fixed a security issue where self-destructing audio and video files were not being deleted from user's macOS devices as expected.

Telegram offers a 'Secret Chat' mode that offers increased privacy than the standard chats.

When in a Secret Chat, the connections are all end-to-end encrypted, you can't forward messages to other users, and all messages and media can be configured to automatically self-destruct and be removed from all devices after a certain amount of time.

Yesterday, security researcher Dhiraj Mishra told BleepingComputer that he discovered a vulnerability in the Secret Chat feature on Telegram 7.3 where self-destructing media is not deleted from recipients' devices.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/telegram-privacy-feature-failed-to-delete-self-destructing-video-files/

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Modified perl script of @ robertoprubio to use the local file

perl disable-trackers-from-recovery.pl --exodus-trackers-pathname <pathname>

where <pathname> refers to pathname of the local exodus file that you've downloaded from https://etip.exodus-privacy.eu.org/trackers/export

#disablebadservices #disable #blocker #watt #mat #block #ifw #intents #services #ads #tracking

Why you should stop reading Durov's blog posts

This article debunks Durov's irrational blog post used as a weapon in online debates. The quoted parts are from the original article:

https://telegra.ph/Why-you-should-stop-reading-Durovs-blog-posts-11-25

#telegram #durov #thinkabout
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Un projet fait par des étudiants espagnol pour récupéré vos données personnelles. .


Tutanota@mastodon.social - A great #OpenSource project by Spanish students helps you to easily check how to take back your data from #BigTech such as #Google, #Twitter, #Facebook and more.
😎 💪 Check it out: https://justgetmydata.com​

#gafam #rpgd #DonnéesPersonnel
#GetYourDataBack
#MyData

Changelog:
1. Added theme manager
2. Added back installers
3. Added basic settings (more incoming)
4. Fixed reported bugs
5. Improved UI are per community suggestions

#PS It requires Aurora Services 1.0.7

Source code is now public, find here.