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

Mastodon deplatformed me, but they don't want me using Gab either https://blog.alexgleason.me/gab-block/

#fediverse #gab #censorship #gendercritical

Oakland has become the 3rd US city to ban facial recognition technology. 👏

Who's next? https://www.salon.com/2019/07/21/oakland-becomes-third-us-city-to-ban-police-use-of-facial-recognition_partner/

I saw this on the streets of #HongKong

How do you find people on mastodon? Hashtags?

#Google being grilled over #privacy 👏👏👏

https://youtu.be/PwyuCtbK3qw

"There is no amount of regulation, transparency, or oversight that will fix the dangers inherent in widespread face surveillance. Only a full ban — a federal ban, covering the use of facial recognition by government agencies, in public places, and in public contracts with private entities — can prevent our nightmares from becoming reality." https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/evangreer/dont-regulate-facial-recognition-ban-it
.onion: https://bfnews3u2ox4m4ty.onion/article/evangreer/dont-regulate-facial-recognition-ban-it

Following raids on #abcnews and a journalist's home in Canberra, we continue to be alarmed by the surveillance that the Australian Assistance & Access Act allows. https://reclaimthenet.org/australia-anti-encryption-spy-journalists/ Click here to read more about why the AAA is bad for #privacy: https://protonmail.com/blog/australia-anti-encryption-law/

"The business model is to gather and process data, full stop. There is nothing else." Andreas Mundt, head of the German data protection agency, explains why he is trying to take control of data away from Google and Facebook and give it back to individuals. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/07/business/facebook-google-antitrust-germany.html

German schools can't use Office 365 due to privacy violations: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/07/germany-threatens-to-break-up-with-microsoft-office-again/
Make them switch to Tutanota now: Secure, private, and all data is hosted encrypted on German servers. 😃💪 https://tutanota.com

Besides the #TAZ app there is now also the #FreeSoftware app to read the german edition of Le Monde diplomatique. Thanks to @Monde_diplo@twitter.com !

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.thecode.lmd/ #AGPLv3

Ask your newspaper to follow this example.

Can't wait until phones have flexible displays so I can get one that unfolds like a full-size ancient scroll

Why the so-called ‘Linux Foundation’, a nonprofit that acts more like a PAC controlled by proprietary software companies and people who don’t even use #Linux , is increasingly becoming a Linux-hostile front group http://techrights.org/2019/07/14/the-linux-destroying-foundation/

In spite of all the lies Microsoft and its Web sites spew out on a daily basis, nothing has really changed and #Microsoft is still attacking #SoftwareFreedom http://techrights.org/2019/07/14/microsoft-inherently-a-misfit/

If I was a whole bunch of people on the Internet bent on some half-baked scheme involving storming a government facility, I would storm Area 52. You know it's better than 51 because it's 1 more.

#NYC #blackout leaves #Manhattan in the dark

STORY: https://on.rt.com/9y44 https://quitter.im/attachment/2734188