jim @jim@campaign.openworlds.info
I work at Open Rights Group
It's 2018, and Google just proposed an instant messaging tool with no encryption https://boingboing.net/2018/04/24/chat-vs-spooks.html #cleartextsconsideredharmful #cryptowars #endtoend #android #crypto #google #mobile #Post
Google or UK police: who is fibbing about terror takedowns? asks @jim as Google release their first Youtube transparency report https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2018/google-or-ctiru-who-is-fibbing-about-terror-takedowns … #censorship #CTIRU
I’m sure others got here first—but was this ban really necessary? https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xk78x/switter-down-cloudflare-banned-sex-workers-sesta-fosta #switter #mastodon
Hello fediverse! https://lib.reviews/ is a free/open/nonprofit alternative to proprietary review sites like #Goodreads, #Yelp, #IMDB.
It plugs into #opendata sources: #Wikidata, #OpenLibrary and #OpenStreetMap (OSM integration is very basic at this point). Still a long way to go but we have a small community and lots of reviews already. On GitHub at: https://github.com/eloquence/lib.reviews - IRC: #lib.reviews on irc.freenode.net - Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#lib.reviews:matrix.org
Some picture from #EDRi's 15th anniversary. (really import association fighting for netzpolitik at the EU level that is not well known enough :/)
Listening to a discussion on #dataretention strategy at the EU Parliament with the Green/EFA group
GOOGLE, FACEBOOK and AMAZON. NOT WORRIED? I KNOW I AM https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-orwellian-danger-of-facebook
RT @SoManyHs@twitter.com: I'M SO GLAD WE COULD ESTABLISH RELIABLE COMMUNICATION
At least we're not in the timeline where the vote was exactly tied and we left the EU on the basis of a coin-toss.
#USA #Mexico #Cartoons
'Trump’s Border Wall Doesn’t Make Any Goddamn Sense
– It would be an expensive, environmental mess and won't keep people out'
• by Matt Bors
Full cartoon: https://thenib.com/trump-s-border-wall-doesn-t-make-any-goddamn-sense
#Hungary #Elections today 18.4.8
This is my 2nd national election as a new citizen of Hungary. 23 parties to vote for, most of them fake or got on the ballot in a suspicious way. It appears there was a massive turn out today – Hopefully this is a good sign for the future. I'll write about my choices later.
when I voted 4 years ago there were 19 parties on the ballet – sadly, more parties does not equal more democracy.
As I mentioned before, I vote and that pretty much makes me a fake anarchist 🤥😆
/jd
Brief survey of #encryption chat apps I've looked into:
Signal: gold standard, heavily reviewed, metadata quite private, but requires your phone number.
Wire: equivalent to Signal on messaging, less private around metadata, but can use a username. I prefer Wire.
WhatsApp: equivalent to Signal on messaging, but Facebook has and uses metadata.
Telegram: rolled their own crypto, not at all hard to find trustworthy cryptographers calling their work out. Not sure what their state is in 2018 but 2015 was bad.
Why tech people get riled up about about surveillance https://www.privacyinternational.org/feature/84/why-we-are-so-concerned-about-government-hacking-surveillance
“Don’t Fix Facebook. Replace It.”—says Professor Tim Wu: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/opinion/facebook-fix-replace.html #deletefacebook
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