#Signal#Cybersecurity#Privacy#Messaging: "Signal is a nonprofit, but we’re playing in a lane dominated by multi-billion-dollar corporations that have defined the norms and established the tech ecosystem, and whose business models directly contravene our privacy mission. So in order to provide a genuinely useful alternative, Signal spends tens of millions of dollars every year. We estimate that by 2025, Signal will require approximately $50 million dollars a year to operate—and this is very lean compared to other popular messaging apps that don’t respect your privacy.
Here we review some of these costs and where this money goes, in the name of providing more transparency into Signal. But we hope to do more than that. Where money goes and how it’s made is a bit of a taboo in tech, something that most tech companies avoid talking about. The actual costs of consumer tech are generally hidden behind stories of innovation and the word “free,” and the connection between the product marketing of a highly profitable tech industry and the ingress and egress of profit and revenue is usually unclear. We believe a material map of these dynamics can help clarify just what is required to fulfill the dream of privacy-preserving alternative technology, and contribute to establishing a solid foundation from which we can grow alternatives that contest tech surveillance and the incentives behind it."
“While MAGA Republicans are focused on taking away abortion access and cutting Social Security and Medicare, Democrats in Congress are focused on bringing down the cost of your insulin – which is why they passed legislation that allows Medicare to negotiate the cost of prescription drugs.”
Freitag: KI-Assistent Copilot auch in Windows 10, Amazon verkauft Autos online
KI für Windows 10 + Amazon mit Hyundai-Verkäufen + Signal kritisiert Wettbewerber + Peugeot e-308 im Fahrbericht + KI in MS Teams + Datenschutz-Podcast über EU
#EU#EC#Cybersecurity#Messaging#Encryption: "Today, noyb filed a complaint against the EU Commission’s Directorate General for Migration and Home Affairs. In September 2023, the Commission used unlawful micro-targeting on Twitter (X) to promote its heavily criticized chat control regulation. It seems that the Commission was desperate to garner public support, which could be used to pressure national governments into accepting the controversial legislative proposal. This move both undermined the established democratic procedures between EU institutions and violated the EU GDPR."
#EU#Cybersecurity#Privacy#Encryption#HumanRights#Messaging: "On 14th November, Members of the European Parliament’s ‘Civil Liberties’ committee voted against attempts from EU Home Affairs officials to roll out mass scanning of private and encrypted messages across Europe. It was a clear-cut vote, with a significant majority of MEPs supporting the proposed position.
A political deal struck by the Parliament’s seven political groups at the end of October meant that this outcome was expected. Nevertheless, this is an important and welcome milestone, as Parliamentarians demand that EU laws are based in objective evidence, scientific reality and with respect for human rights law.
This vote signals major improvements compared to the Commission’s original draft law (coined ‘Chat Control’), which has courted controversy."
I was already highly considering switching to #Nothing, but this might lock me in.
"Nothing Chats is a first-of-its-kind app developed in partnership with #Sunbird, which allows you to message other #iMessage users via blue bubbles on your Nothing Phone."
Ayoba is an all-in-one chat, call, and social media app that has over 30 million active monthly users mostly in Africa
This is probably the app that Elon Musk wants X to be… Ayoba has chats, voice calling, channels, music, games, money transfers (MoMo – only available currently in Ghana, Uganda, Congo B and Cameroon), and various 3rd party services. It runs on Android and iOS ...continues
Our findings suggest that young people already employ several strategies for dealing with unwanted content. Indeed, they also had several ideas for how social media and other platforms can provide better tools to support their efforts at addressing unwanted content, which we outline in the report. We argue that as part of broader efforts to keep young people safe online, companies should invest more in supporting the ability of these users to protect themselves.
Element has a new home and will be adopting AGPL license for Synapse, Dendrite and associated server side projects.
"Future code contributors to Synapse will need to sign a contributor license agreement (CLA) based on the Apache Software Foundation’s CLA, giving Element ownership of their contribution so we can use it to help fund Matrix core development in future."
Back in May last year, the European Commission proposed what security maven Matthew Green described as “the most terrifying thing I’ve ever seen”—a law that would force everyone from Facebook to Signal to scan everyone’s messages not only for known child sexual abuse material (CSAM), but also for previously-unknown CSAM images, and also signs of someone apparently “grooming” a child for abuse. Other potentially privacy-threatening things were in there, like widespread mandatory age verification." https://fortune.com/2023/10/26/eu-chat-control-csam-encryption-privacy-european-commission-parliament-johansson-breyer-zarzalejos-ernst/
@GottaLaff
Me too. My response is to suggest the "Yes, and" method, which I learned at Bay Area Theatre Sports.
I want show people how we can move the story forward.
(BTW, I studied under Keith Johnstone at the Loose Moose Theatre in Calgary Canada.
He wrote the book Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre) #messaging#TheatreSports#Improv
Nach viel Widerstand: Telegram blockiert Kanäle der Hamas nun doch international
Nachdem sich der Messenger dem lange verweigert hat, wurde der Druck nun offenbar zu groß: Kanäle der Hamas werden jetzt unter iOS und Android blockiert.
WordPress.com owner buys all-in-one messaging app Texts.com for $50M
The app brings all your messaging apps together in a single dashboard, including iMessage, Slack, WhatsApp, Instagram, Telegram, Messenger, LinkedIn, Signal, Discord and X, with plans for more in the future, a company blog post announced.
Announcement: One Inbox to Rule Them All - Texts.com. All your messages in a single place—truly the one inbox to rule them all. And today, we’re thrilled to announce that Texts.com is joining the @Automattic family.
The best #messaging app on the market
Texts.com brings all your chats into a single dashboard: iMessage, Slack, WhatsApp, Instagram, Telegram, #Messenger, LinkedIn, Signal, Discord, and X
Where is the Money? #Texts https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/10/24/texts-joins-automattic/