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Happy #InternetDay! Celebrate by taking back your privacy online and using Tor Browser: https://torproject.org/download

Use a mask, use Tor. And now, use your Tor mask! Make a gift of $50 before Dec. 31 and get your very own 😷
https://torproject.org/donate/donate-usetor-md

Zoom is deleting events that criticize Zoom censorship... 🤨
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/zoom-deleted-events-censorship

Use a mask, use Tor.

Today we’re launching our year-end campaign centered on the ways we can care for ourselves and our community: by masking up and using Tor. Anonymity loves company, after all.

Help resist the surveillance pandemic. #UseAMaskUseTor

https://blog.torproject.org/use-a-mask-use-tor

"Anonymity loves Diversity: The Case of Tor"

Save the date: Nov 1, 16:00 - 17:00 (CET).

Our core contributors, @ahf and Georg (GeKo), will speak about how diversity is an essential ingredient for the Tor during the Foss-North event.

https://blog.torproject.org/foss-north-2020

Students shouldn't have to sacrifice their privacy to get an education online.

https://www.axios.com/childrens-privacy-suffers-as-school-goes-online-321b010a-1319-4028-b456-46a0a47f8920.html

Between November 6 & 9, @torproject and LocalizationLab will host the first edition of the Tor L10n Hackaton. In this localization hackathon, we'll work exclusively on the localization of our latest resource, the Tor Community portal. Join us! #TorL10nHackathon
https://blog.torproject.org/tor-l10n-hackathon

"Persistent location monitoring of schoolchildren risks becoming yet another facet of the school-to-prison pipeline... providing law enforcement with unprecedented tracking capabilities for monitoring children of color."

https://themarkup.org/coronavirus/2020/09/08/school-reopening-surveillance-contact-tracing

Over the last 2 years, onion service usability has become a primary feature of Tor Browser. The security and improved usability of onion services are the reason we can run an onion adoption campaign like #MoreOnionsPorfavor.

Read our latest blog post:
https://blog.torproject.org/tor-brower-onion-services-challenges-opportunities

How can you use Tor to circumvent internet censorship? Our Anti-Censorship Team Lead Philipp Winter explains:
https://youtu.be/g6xEfNHkFKY

A recent study found that 67% of the apps played by 3- to 4-year-old children collect data and share it with third-party marketers.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/08/health/privacy-violations-kids-apps-wellness-trnd/index.html

Last month our new Board Director Chelsea Komlo talked about the Walking Onions project during the USENIX Security conference. The video is now available, and you can learn more about this ongoing research on the Tor network scalability and performance here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3wiFC0wncE

"We must do better than subjecting our students to surveillance and violations of their privacy."

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7wxvd/students-are-rebelling-against-eye-tracking-exam-surveillance-tools

"That begs the question: Why should you trust a VPN that promises to protect your privacy more than your internet provider? The answer is that you can't, and you shouldn't."

https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/24/free-vpn-bad-for-privacy/

📺 If you're using Tor Browser on Windows and having issues watching YouTube videos after the last update, we're working on a fix. You can wait for a new Tor Browser update, or you can change one line configuration to fix. Check the update on the blog post:

https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-100

🔵 Time to update: Tor Browser 10.0 is out now. Tor Browser 10 ships with Firefox 78.3.0esr, updates NoScript to 11.0.44, and Tor to 0.4.4.5. This release includes important security updates to Firefox.
https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-100

And Rabbi Rob, the founder and CEO of Team Cymru.
Join us in giving them both a warm welcome!
https://blog.torproject.org/welcome-new-tor-board-members

Two new Directors have joined the Tor Project's Board!
Chelsea Komlo, cryptography and privacy researcher and engineer.