Bio metric mass surveillance
More mass surveillance appears to be on the cards, so we need to sign a petition against this, however if you are in the UK, which has left the EU, then the UK isn't listed so I have added a link so you can find you local MP and write to them about this.
We need to make sure a similar law does not end up on our statute books.
We aren‘t walking barcodes! Sign the brand new European Citizens‘ Initiative for banning biometric mass surveillance now!
REFERENCES
TAGS
#Privacy,#Biometric,#EU,#surveillance,#ReclaimYourFace
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Safer Internet Day 2021
Tuesday 9th Feb 2021
Safer Internet Day 2021
A few resources that have been shared on the Fediverse recently
The Digital Detox website [1] gives some useful information on how to protect your digital security, privacy and well being online.
Email self defense [2] covers encryption and how you can use techniques to both sign and encrypt email.
The Free Software Foundation : India [4] have produced a nice guide on different messaging apps. I made a post on this a while back.
Of course a good way to stay safe and private is to also use the privacy respecting search engines such as duckduckgo [5] and perhaps install browser extensions such as libreJS [6]
Supporting and following what people such the Electronic Frontier Foundation [7] as the Small Technology Foundation [8] and the Solid Project [9] also a good idea, see what is happening and how these project can give the end user, true control of their data.
Choose better software and hardware, that supports user freedom. Devices such as the PineBook / Phone [10] could really put power back in your hands.
REFERENCES
1 Data Detox Kit
* Five steps to reduce your digital footprint
* SmartPhone Data
* Privacy Search
2 Email Self Defense
3 Free Software Foundation
4 Free Software Foundation : India
5 Duckduckgo
6 LibreJS
7 Electronic Frontier Foundation
* EFF – Mastodon
8 Small Technology Foundation
* Aral Balkan
* Laura Kalbag
9 Solid Project
10 Pinebook / Phone
TAGS
#YearOfTheFediverse,#Data,#Privacy,#Security,#Detox
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CryptPad 4
A look at some of the features of the Rich Text Editor that comes with the recently released, version 4 of CryptPad.
This is a really nice package, and service, Cryptpad also comes as part of Disroot, which is also linked below. The best feature of course is the privacy.
REFERENCES
TAGS
#YearOfTheFediverse,#CryptPad,#RichText,#Editor,#Text,
Cloud,#Privacy
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CryptPad 4 – Rich Text
CryptPad is a privacy friendly, cloud based collaborative platform giving access to tools such as richtext editor, spreadsheet, Code Editor, whiteboard, presentation module and KanBan board for task management.
The video below (no sound) hopefully demonstrates some of the features of the Rich Text editor.
REFERENCES
TAGS
#YearOfTheFediverse,#CryptPad,#Privacy,#RichText
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Solid Project
Solid (Social Linked Data) is a project by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. It aims to put data back in to the hands of end users, so they are in more control.
REFERENCES
TAGS
#YearOfTheFediverse,#SolidProject,#Freedom,#Privacy,
#Web,#Internet,WikiPedia,#Decentralised.
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Web Analytics
MATOMO
Take back control with Matomo – a powerful web analytics platform that gives you 100% data ownership.
Matomo is a privacy friendly alternative to Google analytics. Offering what looks like a good range of features with both free and paid for usage plans.
GOATCOUNTER
Easy web analytics. No tracking of personal data.
GoatCounter is an open source web analytics platform available as a hosted service (free for non-commercial use) or self-hosted app. It aims to offer easy to use and meaningful privacy-friendly web analytics as an alternative to Google Analytics
WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?
With more and more websites tracking users, collecting vast amounts of data, more and more people are becoming aware of this, not liking what is happening and starting to make a stand.
With the GDPR in the UK/EU, failing to protect user data and privacy now carries huge financial penalties, as well as, of course, reputational damage.
Time to take back control. Time for business to respect user privacy and data protection.
Interesting series
- Do Not Track is a personalized documentary series about privacy and the web economy.
A FEW OTHERS
CONCLUSION
With a good choice of alternatives, there is now
NO EXCUSES.
REFERENCES
TAGS
#YearOfTheFediverse,#Matomo,#Analytics,#user,#privacy,#NoTracking,#UserControl,#GoatCounter
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Mastodon Privacy and safety
So today I am presenting 3 more videos on Mastodon.
Firstly a video on how to hide sentitive content, which is more of a safety feature.
It is probably a good idea to hide all media, as different people have different views on what is sensitive.
The second video allows you to do two things
- Not be indexed by search engines
- Hides who you follow, and who follows you.
While the third video looks at how to ensure your timeline,feed etc remain private and away from public view. This also means people would have to sign up to the Fediverse to see and commuicate with you.
This is also an important safety feature as it reduces the risk of stalking, you also need to keep activity private from perhaps employers, potential employers or other parties.
My Mastodon sign up blog post is here
#Mastodon,#safety,#privacy,#settings,#YearOfTheFediverse
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Remote education
With the current Covd19 crisis in the UK, getting worse (again), Areas entering tier 4, (highest lockdown), Schools are closing and in some cases using remote education.
This brings up the prospect of them using non free tools, that when it comes to privacy may not be as private as first thought.
There is a really good article here on the GNU website, that explains the problem.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation have an event coming up on privacy on campus
It would be great if there could now be a big push to promote free and open source tools, to help level up education, and actually safeguard children, young people and adults from data harvesting etc.
So what, free, open source and privacy / rights respecting remote tools can we use for teaching?
I am now involved in an effort to take the digital skills framework (UK) and look at how we can achieve this using free and open source software. This project can be found on Codeberg
#education,#privacy,#safeguarding,#data,#children,
#youngpeople,#adults,#skills,#freesoftware,#dataprotection,#safeguarding,#freedom.
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At Home (and On Campus) with EFF
January 7, 2021 – 12:00pm to 1:30pm PST
Twitch
Join the EFF for a talk on Privacy
Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, colleges have rushed to adopt new practices and new technologies —sometimes creating a serious threat to the civil liberties of students and workers on campus. Join EFF for a live streamed video discussion about how mandated COVID apps can compromise our security and privacy, while undermining trust in the efforts of public health workers.
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#eff,#privacy,#college,#campus,#talk,#event