TheGnuMaster 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 @TheGnuMaster@qoto.org

… Google+ Circles, Google+ Communities, Google+ Stream, Groups, Handsfree, Hangouts, Hangouts on Air, Home App, Input Tools, Keep, Location History, Mail, Maps, Maps (your places), My Activity, My Maps, News, Posts on Google, Profile, Purchases & Reservations, Reminders, Saved, Search Contributions, Street View, Tasks, Textcube, Voice, and YouTube data.”

And that’s just Google. Not what Alphabet, Inc. has on me. No data they bought from brokers. No derived data.

#SurveillanceCapitalism

Goodbye, Google.

#DeleteGoogle #DeleteSurveillanceCapitalists

https://myaccount.google.com/purchases

If you didn't yet know, Google is datamining GMail etc for purchase confirmation emails amongst other things and aggregating it for their own purposes in an extremely detailed way.

(Everything you purchased with order ids, detailed billing details, VAT, including subscriptions etc)

Do not believe a single word about how this information is kept private. There is zero reason to build a system to aggregate this and then not use it to make money out of.

@albin From Stallman's artical:

"There are so many ways to use data to hurt people that the only safe database is the one that was never collected. Thus, instead of the EU’s approach of mainly regulating how personal data may be used (in its General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR), I propose a law to stop systems from collecting personal data."

Give yourself the gift of #privacy this #NewYear 🎁🎉 Start with an email account that respects your private data. 😉 Then set your #NewYearsResolution to #DeleteGoogle and #DeleteFacebook. Own your data in 2019! #CyberSecurity #InternetPrivacy 🙌
Learn here how this can be achieved easily: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/how-to-leave-google-gmail/

@TheGnuMaster The site is hosted through donations. At currant usage and pricing we have something like a decade worth of funds available to pay for hosting and system administration.

We do not and never will exploit data to make money, any private data will forever remain private.

@absolutus @arteteco @Surasanji @hashtaggrammar

Google shut down a data analysis system it was using to develop a censored search engine for China.

"Leaks about the plan and the extraordinary backlash that ensued both internally and externally appear to have forced company executives to shelve it at least in the short term."

Keep standing up to the giants. https://theintercept.com/2018/12/17/google-china-censored-search-engine-2/

To improve user experience, most of the tech industry relies on analyzing their users’ behavioral data to drive decision making. Mechanisms for collecting this data are often invasive and performed without consent from users, who may never be told their behavior is being analyzed for this purpose. The same means used to collect behavioral data is also responsible for aiding the surveillance economy.

Tor does things differently.
https://blog.torproject.org/strength-numbers-usable-tools-dont-need-be-invasive

If you are into #FreeSoftware don't miss to check out the @fsfe@twitter.com track during #35C3: #Fundraising, #HumanRights, #Hacking ... talks about and/or with #FOSS https://events.ccc.de/congress/2018/wiki/index.php/Assembly:Free_Software_Foundation_Europe#Our_Sessions

or simply pass by our #assembly & help put the hacking back into politics! #CCC

why is the "Proprietary" license-badge in the #ubuntu softwarecenter green?

To shed light on our diverse community, our volunteers and what they have achieved together with the association behind the @fsfe@twitter.com community, we have just published our annual report: https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20181105-01