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February, 2021

Sheryl Sandberg and Top Facebook Execs Silenced an Enemy of Turkey to Prevent a Hit to the Company’s Business — ProPublica
Firefox 86 Introduces Total Cookie Protection - Mozilla Security Blog
Google finally reveals the terrifying amount of data Gmail collects on iPhone – BGR
WhatsApp to move ahead with privacy update despite backlash | Reuters
OpenStreetMap Charts a Controversial New Direction - Bloomberg
Facebook news ban: Users in Australia not allowed to share news in response to proposed law on news publishers - CNN
Signal adds message requests to stop spam and protect user privacy | ZDNet

New feature lets Signal users control who can text or voice call, add them to groups.

«Qui fact-checkera les fact-checkeurs ?» : le Decodex du Monde suscite des critiques
Meta-Press.es – Adoptez cette extension pour 🦊 Firefox (fr)
What Do You Actually Agree To When You Accept All Cookies | Conrad Akunga, Esquire. Code
Facebook sued for 'losing control' of users’ data - BBC News
2020 Chrome Extension Performance Report | DebugBear
Open-source LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off our Community version, you are hurting development | ZDNet
Twitter permanently bans serial Senate candidate | Universal Hub
The Genome You Sent to 23andMe Now Belongs to Richard Branson, Too
Element sur Twitter : "Google have suspended Element in the Play Store without notifying us; we're reaching out to find out what's going on. Apologies for the inconvenience; in the interim there's https://t.co/aaZ9qXz69W but it's a few versions behind. We'll post updates here." / Twitter
Facebook Just Admitted It Has Lost the Battle With Apple Over Privacy | Inc.com
Framework | In Defense of Dumb TVs
Is Google Locking Down Chrome to Resist the Rise of Chromium Based Browsers? - It's FOSS News
Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast | Caspar von Wrede
New browser-tracking hack works even when you flush caches or go incognito | Ars Technica
The Fantasy of Opting Out | The MIT Press Reader
Facebook knew for years ad reach estimates were based on ‘wrong data’ but blocked fixes over revenue impact, per court filing | TechCrunch
Malware in open-source web extensions [LWN.net]
Facebook will ban Australian users from sharing or viewing news
Fake Amazon reviews 'being sold in bulk' online - BBC News
TikTok hit with consumer law breaches complaints across Europe | Reuters
Apple redirects Google Safe Browsing traffic through its own proxy servers to prevent disclosing users' IP addresses to Google in iOS 14.5
Barcode Scanner app on Google Play infects 10 million users with one update - Malwarebytes Labs | Malwarebytes Labs
Disqus, the dark commenting system
Modifying Telegram's "People Nearby" feature to pinpoint people's homes // owlspace
Why Google's approach to replacing the cookie is drawing antitrust scrutiny
On the security of WhatsApp and Telegram - germano.dev
About the Accellion data security breach - Office of the Washington State Auditor
WhatsApp and the domestication of users - Seirdy
GitHub - BillDietrich/fake_contacts: Create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning.
WhatsApp and most alternatives share the same problem – Jürg Stuker

Shall I migrate to Signal, Threema or Telegram? No, because they all have — WhatsApp included — the same problem: They are walled gardens. Imagine a world where for each mail recipient using a separate domain, I would need separate mail client? Or in other words: Gmail users can only communicate with Gmail users. Let’s […]

Unsealed court document claims Facebook 'knew for years' that a metric was inflated and ignored an employee warning to avoid a revenue hit
Phishing : sur la messagerie Signal, un faux Amazon fait « gagner » des iPhone 12
New Orleans City Council bans facial recognition, predictive policing and other surveillance tech | The Lens
'Spy pixels in emails have become endemic' - BBC News
Supermicro Hack: How China Exploited a U.S. Tech Supplier Over Years
7 WhatsApp alternatives that won’t share your data with Facebook
Snikket Blog | Products vs Protocols: What Signal got right
Can The FBI Hack Into Private Signal Messages On A Locked iPhone? Evidence Indicates Yes
GitHub - jonasstrehle/supercookie: ⚠️ Browser fingerprinting via favicon!
Signal ignores proxy censorship vulnerability, bans researchers
Oops: Google admits failing to wipe all Android apps with location-tracking X-Mode SDKs from its Play Store • The Register
joplin/packages/server at dev · laurent22/joplin · GitHub
Facebook testing notification to users about Apple privacy changes - Axios
The Hidden Drawbacks of P2P (And a Defense of Signal) | The Changelog