Privacy, censorship, & security in the news.

Here are a collection of links to articles I have found about privacy, censorship, and securty that are worth a read! I can't possibly write articles covering all the news on these topics, but I can share some good articles from other websites with you here instead. Note that I occasionally find a decent article from a source I can't stand. In this case, I will run the link through "archive.today" so I don't send the site in question any traffic.

Facebook announces new censorship for Groups

October 21, 2021
"Another suppression tactic."
#censorship
#facebook
#groups
Read full article onReclaim The Net

Nonprofit Websites Are Riddled With Ad Trackers – The Markup

October 21, 2021
"Such organizations often deal in sensitive issues, like mental health, addiction, and reproductive rights—and many are feeding data about website visitors to corporations"
#privacy
#trackers
#ads
#non-profits
Read full article onthemarkup.org

Global Encryption Day: Any backdoor would do more harm than good.

October 21, 2021
"By demanding encryption backdoors, politicians are not asking us to choose between security and privacy. They are asking us to choose no security."
#privacy
#security
#encryption
#backdoor
Read full article onTutanota

Study Shows How Android Phones Still Track Users, Even When 'Opted Out'

October 18, 2021
"We've frequently noted that what's often presented as "improved privacy" is usually privacy theater. For example researchers just got done showing how Apple's heavily hyped "do not track" button doesn't actually..."
#privacy
#android
#tracking
Read full article onTechdirt.

How Coinbase Phishers Steal One-Time Passwords – Krebs on Security

October 13, 2021
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#security
#coinbase
#phishing
#otp
Read full article onkrebsonsecurity.com

Next Purge For Google, YouTube: Climate Change Denial Content

October 12, 2021
"It appears that if you are a denier of any sort, you will be purged by the Technocrat machine. The only content left will be that which agrees one-hundred percent with the global narrative of the Great Reset, aka Technocracy. Meanwhile, Google continues to claim that it is not an editorial organization."
#censorship
#youtube
#climate
Read full article onTechnocracy News

Personal Tracking Devices Moving Toward A "Dangerous" New Era - Activist Post

September 26, 2021
"With everything from shoes to cars in the future moving toward being trackable, you may not even know when or how you're being watched."
#privacy
#surveillance
#tracking
#tile
#uwb
Read full article onActivist Post

TikTok deletes video of student documenting myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccine

September 25, 2021
""I never said not to get vaccinated or to get vaccinated. I’m only trying to share my story.""
#censorship
#tiktok
#covid
#vaccine
#myocarditis
Read full article onReclaim The Net

Social platform Gab rejects Germany's demands for censorship

September 21, 2021
"“Why should we block an entire country from accessing Gab because their government is sending us fines we won’t pay?""
#censorship
#gab
#germany
Read full article onReclaim The Net

FBI Director: Ban Encryption to Counter Domestic Extremism

September 21, 2021
"FBI Director Christopher Wray said Sept. 21 that restrictions on encrypted chat services are needed to combat domestic ..."
#privacy
#FBI
#encryption
#Christopher A. Wray
#Biden’s campaign against “domestic terrorism
Read full article onwww.theepochtimes.com