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Services from Google and Facebook may appear to be "free", but there's a greater cost: your personal data and privacy. Thanks to BBC News for recommending ProtonMail as an Gmail alternative which protects your personal information & respects your privacy. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50460712

This is just awesomeness!!

Watch the video..

https://hackaday.com/2019/08/29/hands-on-cccamp2019-badge-is-a-sensor-playground-not-to-be-mistaken-for-a-watch/

When you send an encrypted email with ProtonMail, your message is automatically protected with PGP encryption.
Here’s everything you need to know about the tech behind our security promise. https://protonmail.com/blog/what-is-pgp-encryption/

Amazon revealed how easy censorship will be in the digital age!

"Amazon secretely removes '1984' from the #Kindle"
(Note: 11 y old news)

https://io9.gizmodo.com/amazon-secretly-removes-1984-from-the-kindle-5317703

#privacy #surveillancecapitalism
#mydataismydata

Woo! We're mentioned in this article by FastCompany 😁

https://www.fastcompany.com/90442674/20-alternatives-that-make-it-easy-to-ditch-facebook-in-2020

I think it's kinda weird that the president of the US gets to stay on Twitter after threatening war crimes and cyberbullying children because his tweets are "of public interest" but the president of Syria gets banned...

Not that I'm sympathetic, but it does seem hypocritical and highlights the issues with social media that's controlled by a single US company. Why do they get to enforce their own interests worldwide?

Want to know what President Trump is up to? Even his daily whereabouts leak...
Don't expect to have #privacy!
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/20/opinion/location-data-national-security.html

In 2020 and beyond, the battle to save personhood and democracy requires a radical overhaul of mainstream technology

https://ar.al/2020/01/01/in-2020-and-beyond-the-battle-to-save-personhood-and-democracy-requires-a-radical-overhaul-of-mainstream-technology

🍾 🎊 💕 2020 💕 🎊 🍾

Happy New Year everyone (except the folks actively working to fuck things up and the ones passively enabling them).

And here’s a special shout-out to those of you trying to unfuck the world. Here’s to continuing to work to change things for the better in the arbitrary span of time that we call the new year 🤓👍

"Yet Another #Librem5 and #PinePhone Comparison" is an in-depth technical comparison of the two devices by #postmarketOS developer @martijnbraam

You can read it here: https://tuxphones.com/yet-another-librem-5-and-pinephone-linux-smartphone-comparison/ #linux

I have put my article "Fed up with Big Tech" on my Small Tech blog: https://ghost.sndm.me/fed-up-with-big-tech/

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"A distinction must be made between advertising and "adtech" - digital analysis and advertising software. Traditional advertising was about building a brand. It used to be like this: if you read a newspaper, the newspaper didn't read you either. If you watched TV, the TV didn't see you either. The Internet has changed that. If you watch a video on Youtube today, Youtube will be watching you. Surveillance is at the heart of the business model. I call it "people farming"." - @aral

I mean, seriously, how many places out there have engineers who develop an M.2 breakout board to debug their phone and then release the schematics so you can make one for your own phone? It's basically Hogwarts over here @purism -- I'm surrounded by wizards.

https://source.puri.sm/eric.kuzmenko/librem5-m2-breakout

For those who had missed it: remember that #Facebook lobbies *against* privacy laws, despite what they say in public!
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/02/facebook-global-lobbying-campaign-against-data-privacy-laws-investment

Many modern enterprises are looking to migrate from obsolete windows network drives to an #EFSS solution. What is EFSS and what to look for? We explain it on our site!
https://nextcloud.com/enterprise-file-sync-and-sharing-efss/