If you've followed my work for a long time, you've watched me transition from a "#linkblogger" who posts 5-15 short hits every day to an "essay-#blogger" who posts 5-7 long articles/week. I'm loving the new mode of working, but returning to linkblogging is also intensely, unexpectedly gratifying:
Not only is E2EE necessary to protect us from griefers, stalkers, corporate snoops, mafiosi, etc, but E2EE is the only thing standing between the world's dictators and total surveillance of every digital communication. Even tiny flaws in E2EE can have grave human rights concerns. For example, a subtle bug in #Whatsapp was used by #NSOGroup to create a cyberweapon called #Pegasus that the #Saudi royals used to lure #JamalKhashoggi to his grisly murder:
Aktuell empört man sich (vornehmlich auf Twitter) über den Messenger WhatsApp. Angeblich soll WhatsApp nachts das Mikrofon mehrmals allein aktiviert haben. Offen gesagt verstehe ich die Aufregung nicht wirklich. WhatsApp war nie, ist nie und wird nie ein vertrauenswürdiger Messenger sein. Es gibt aber genug Alternativen. 👇
@glynmoody I'm certainly no fan of #brexit (quite the opposite), but if #WhatsApp were to disappear it would be no loss. Faecesbook – sorry, 'meta' – already has too large a share of big tech intrusion into our private lives. #Signal (https://signal.org/) is a superior product in any case; in my opinion we should all be switching to that in droves anyway.
#Twitter is a proprietary platform. #Facebook is a proprietary platform. #WhatsApp is a proprietary platform. #Instagram is a proprietary platform. #Telegram is a proprietary platform. #Signal is a proprietary platform. #Mastodon is a proprietary platform.
Hat vielleicht jemand eine belastbare (und idealerweise verständliche) Quelle zur Hand zum Thema "#DSGVO und die Nutzung von #whatsapp durch den Verein"? Der @bfdi vielleicht?
In meinem Sportverein wurden die Mitglieder nun per Whatsapp aufgefordert, ihre Daten irgendwo einzugeben und (ausgerechnet) die Bestimmungen zum #Datenschutz zu bestätigen. 🙄 Davon erfuhr ich nur zufällig, denn ich habe kein Whatsapp und werde das auch nie haben.
Finally, the #FTC intends to impose real #privacy rules on #Meta: New services or service changes only after an independent privacy evaluation shows that they are compliant. No commercial use of data harvested from #underage users.
US-Behörde: Facebook immer noch "substanzielles öffentliches Risiko"
Trotz Rekordstrafe soll Meta weiter Datenschutzauflagen verletzt haben. Die FTC will jetzt speziell Kinder schützen. Ob das Manöver gelingt, ist offen.
It's interesting to me that so many of us are regular smartphone users now, and we all use them in such different ways.
Figured I'd look at my phone's most used apps as I've never paid much attention to it before. Out of the 55 apps I've used in the last 6 days, yeah, my top 6 aren't a surprise to me at all. 🤣
Hopefully by next summer I can finally leave this unhappy 3/8ths of humanity (once the #DMA makes #WhatsApp interoperable)
RT @Swiftstories
Zuckerberg as @Meta earnings call gets underway: "We reached the milestone that now more than 3 billion people use one of our apps each day." Actually, 3.02 billion daily active users, on average in March. https://twitter.com/Swiftstories/status/1651331456302555137