James Mullarkey @jamesmullarkey@w3c.social

A provocative read from Low-Tech Magazine, "Why We Need a Speed Limit for the Internet," on the unsustainable energy consumption of today's internet: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/10/can-the-internet-run-on-renewable-energy.html

Some US colleges are mandating location tracking on student phones, using it for attendance, engagement, & even giving students "risk scores." As Erin Rose Glass, a digital scholarship librarian @ UC-San Diego says, "We’re reinforcing this sense of powerlessness … when we could be asking harder questions, like: Why are we creating institutions where students don’t want to show up?"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/24/colleges-are-turning-students-phones-into-surveillance-machines-tracking-locations-hundreds-thousands/

Human Rights are increasingly being violated: https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2019
If you are a journalist reporting about #HumanRights get in touch. We're donating Secure Connect to journalists so that whistleblowers can easily contact you securely: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/secure-connect-encrypted-contact-form-testimonial/

For those who can only afford cheap phones as their sole way to access the internet, we're now also seeing that privacy is becoming a luxury that few can afford

Tell @google that is unacceptable: http://privacyinternational.org/petition

#LowCostTech

#Fennec F-Droid (our build of #Firefox) has been updated to v68.4.1 fixing a critical security vulnerability.

If you can not yet see the update, you might have to refresh the repository index first, as this was published only minutes ago.

Find out more about how mass surveillance works and what's happening around the world to fight it:
https://privacyinternational.org/topics/mass-surveillance https://nitter.net/privacyint/status/1217499907122180096/photo/1

Google plans to block third-party cookies in Chrome within two years. "By default, a website will not be able to ID you or track you across multiple visits".

This is big news but gives a long time for all the tracking companies to perfect other methods.

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-chromes-privacy-changes-will-hit-the-web-later-this-year/

It's only 10 apps, but the amount of personal information they share about you is gigantic. And it's just the tip of the iceberg.

Read the Norwegian Consumer Council study on how these apps breach your privacy and put your security at risk 👇

https://www.forbrukerradet.no/side/new-study-the-advertising-industry-is-systematically-breaking-the-law/ https://twitter.com/privacyint/status/1217114148246392832/photo/1

Tell Google Privacy shouldn’t be a luxury! Sign our petition: https://privacyinternational.org/petition

#LowCostTech

NEW: Presentation shows Google has known about the problems with pre-installed apps for some time but has yet to act

#LowCostTech

https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/3330/former-senior-google-engineer-reveals-privacy-bombshell-androids-preinstalled

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In 2020, the first large-scale study of pre-installed software on Android devices found harmful behaviours and backdoored access to sensitive data and services without user consent or awareness.

Tell @google to do better

#LowCostTech

http://privacyinternational.org/petition