James Mullarkey @jamesmullarkey@w3c.social

Hello Fediworld 👋

most of the #switchingsocial website is restored - have a look:

https://switching.software
(or https://swiso.org for short)

I want to thank @gemlog for preparing the web-archive version and @LuKaRo for extracting the missing pages from the Google Cache. Would have taken so much longer without you two 🙂

What is browser fingerprinting? How is it used? What is Tor Browser doing against it? Find out in this guest post by Pierre Laperdrix

"Any script running in your browser can silently build a fingerprint of your device without you even knowing about it."
https://blog.torproject.org/browser-fingerprinting-introduction-and-challenges-ahead

Both Purism Librem 5 and PinePhone are shipping in September!

Librem 5 shipping announcement
https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-shipping-announcement/

PinePhone shipping announcement
https://www.pine64.org/2019/09/05/september-update-the-pinephone-is-real-shipping-soon/

Both are somewhat unpolished early-adopter versions though. But it is good to see that they're real and coming soon! 🎉

#Librem5 #PinePhone

Very exciting call for research:

Mozilla has an interest in potentially integrating more of Tor into Firefox 🔥

Tor has never been deployed at this scale, so there are a lot of considerations to research before giving this a try.

Learn more & apply for Mozilla's Research Grant: https://blog.torproject.org/mozilla-research-call-tune-tor-integration-and-scale

It's simply unacceptable that face recognition is being rolled out across London without any form of public debate
https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/facescanning-cctv-approved-for-london-hotspots-despite-privacy-storm-a4226661.html

This rebuttal of all the points in Google's privacy gaslighting post yesterday is a really excellent read.
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2019/08/23/deconstructing-googles-excuses-on-tracking-protection/

Introducing Small Technology Foundation, Site.js, and Tincan

https://ar.al/2019/08/26/introducing-small-technology-foundation/

Folks, I’m running out of bandwidth on the plane again. Will be landing in Sydney in a few hours and demonstrating Site.js at the IxDA meetup (if I manage to make sense right after a 24-hour trip – will be dropping my bags off at the hotel and heading straight over) :)

Amazon has unsafe products on its digital shelves. That needs to change.

One place to start? Mandate privacy policies for *all* internet-connected devices for sale on the platform.

Sound smart? Sign Mozilla's petition to Amazon: https://t.co/SGlQEjZHvc tweeted by @mozilla

Yikes. "The fingerprints of over 1 million people, as well as facial recognition information... was discovered on a publicly accessible database for a company used by the likes of the UK Metropolitan police, defence contractors and banks." https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/14/major-breach-found-in-biometrics-system-used-by-banks-uk-police-and-defence-firms

📢🎁 Hi /e/ supporters and users!
Today, we announce the first release of /e/OS "Pie" on two smartphones!
- OnePlus 6 "enchilada"
- Google Pixel "sailfish"
Download, test and report your experience!
https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/wiki/en/wikis/devices-list

"These startups aim to smash Apple and Google’s smartphone duopoly"
With /e/OS and Librem ^^
#Android
#ungoogled
#OpenSource
#privacy
https://www.fastcompany.com/90385283/these-startups-aim-to-smash-apple-and-googles-smartphone-duopoly

All of these are worse than useless because they're glorified #surveillance devices https://www.iottechtrends.com/useless-smart-home-devices/ #surveillancecapitalism preying on gullibility

Data brokers like @Acxiom need to be investigated! That's why we've written to @DamianCollins & the DCMS committee

#TheGreatHack
https://privacyinternational.org/advocacy/3107/letter-dcms-sub-committee-disinformation-data-brokers-need-be-investigated https://twitter.com/privacyint/status/1157358093405171718

Another day, another time that Facebook admits to stealing all your data, even supposed encryption in WhatsApp is worth nothing if they download your chats in an unencrypted fashion back to their servers. Stop using their shit. Please! There are alternatives. Get rid of it. Everything. They'll never learn if people don't make them. Please don't use Instagram, don't use WhatsApp, don't use Facebook. It's much worse for you than you might want to imagine.

@switchingsocial
I would recommand you this, alternatives are mentioned too!
https://kevv.net/you-probably-dont-need-recaptcha/