MaadiX @MaadiX@mastodon.social

More than half a million GPS trackers expose location data of children and allow access to the microphone. This is the config:
Default password: "123456".
Web application: HTTP
JSON requests: plain text
How could it go wrong?
https://thehackernews.com/2019/09/gps-tracking-device-for-kids.html

89% of official government websites of EU member states contain 3rd party ad tracking
112 ad tracking companies are monitoring EU citizens across EU public sector websites
82% of official EU government websites are harbouring Google marketing trackers
https://www.cookiebot.com/media/1121/cookiebot-report-2019-medium-size.pdf

130 companies signed an open letter initiated by @nextcloud urging MEPs to vote against #Article11 & #Article13: https://nextcloud.com/blog/130-eu-businesses-sign-open-letter-against-copyright-directive-art-11-13/

STOP #Uploadfilters imperfect technologies based on exceptions. A threat against small businesses and human rights
https://maadix.net/en/contentid-intentional-flaws

You can never trust a third party #VPN provider. That's why MaadiX allows you to run your own VPN on your own server
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190228/10082141693/vpns-are-no-privacy-panacea-finding-ethical-operator-is-comical-shitshow.shtml

#ICANN warns about possible attacks on the Domain Name System. Use full DNSSEC deployment to protect the internet

https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2019-02-22-en

Mobile and TV: the gold mine of data brokers. They sell information to politicians for their campaigns and to other agents.
Anti-abortion groups bought data about women attending clinics and pushed ads promoting alternatives to abortion #PrivacyMatters
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-campaign-tech-privacy-20190220-story.html

Code.org has support from Amazon, Google, Microsoft... ask the community to reveal contacts of their teachers friends to include them in the AmazonFutureEngineer program, blackmail of opportunities to train young students by keeping them locked in their own technology.
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/19/02/25/0055255/bill-gates-amazon-and-google-urge-followers-to-share-data-on-teacher-friends?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

The International Federation of Journalists, along with the European Federations of Journalists put out a statement noting that #Article11 "makes a mockery" of their rights and will only serve to help publishers strip the journalists of their own rights
#copyright
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190216/00102741608/european-journalists-point-out-that-article-11-will-enrich-publishers-expense-journalists.shtml

We need more Silicon Valley #whistleblowers. Let's collaborate to the #crowdfunding for the campaign calling on employees of Silicon Valley companies to blow the whistle on unethical uses of technology

https://donate.fightforthefuture.org/campaigns/whistleblowers/

This is very much like dictatorships. #Facebook adds you to its blacklist if you express criticism of the company or it could warn the police if a bot detects that you are sad and you could commit suicide.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190216/10394141613/facebook-ups-surveillance-users-to-keep-tabs-people-who-dont-like-facebook.shtml

Lool..#Cpytight Autotroll: Sony Using Copyright To Take Down Its Own Anti-Piracy Propaganda

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190208/15395941560/sony-using-copyright-to-take-down-own-anti-piracy-propaganda.shtml

A clear example of how security is used as an excuse to spy on you. #Facebook maintains a list of users who've made threatening statements against the company. Facebook security employees are questioning the ethics of these practices

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/14/facebooks-security-team-tracks-posts-location-for-bolo-threat-list.html

Happy "I love Free Software" Day to everybody and thanks to all those working behind each Free Software project. #ilovefs

EU Moves Forward With Art.13 even though no one supports it: The internet companies and even the legacy copyright companies insist it's too lenient on the internet #Copyrightdirective
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190208/17292241562/article-13-was-purposefully-designed-to-be-awful-internet-eu-moves-forward-with-it-anyway.shtml

The fear and uncertainty generated by surveillance inhibit activity more than any action by the police
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa5d9g/what-constant-surveillance-does-to-your-brain

Gmail Bugs Allow Changing From: Field and Spoofing Recipient's Address.
After been warned about that, the issue still persists

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/gmail-bugs-allow-changing-from-field-and-spoofing-recipients-address/

We need to stop judging the fediverse as though it’s a Valley startup competing with Twitter and Facebook. Not everyone is aiming for the Silicon Valley model.
by @peter

https://medium.com/@poshaughnessy/why-mastodon-is-defying-the-critical-mass-de3454109099