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★English Group:
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★Indonesian Group:
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★Off-Topic Group:
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★Guide: t.me/NoGoolag/63
★Installers: t.me/NoGoolag/182

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📡 @AuroraOfficial Aurora sw channel

💬 @AuroraSupport Aurora Store group (Foss playstore alternative)

💬 @AuroraDroid Aurora Droid group (F-Droid client)

💬 @AuroraOSS
Group to discuss upcoming Aurora projects (Contacts & Dialer, Aurora Services, Aurora Sync, Aurora Maps)

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Fifth Fired Google Worker Files Federal Labor Complaint

A fifth former Google worker has filed a complaint with federal regulators accusing the company of improperly firing employees for labor organizing activity.

Kathryn Spiers, a security engineer, said Google fired her after she created a pop-up notification for employees to inform them of their labor rights.

In late November, Google fired four other workers for what the company said were violations of its data security policy. Those workers say they don’t believe they violated company policies and that Google was really firing them because they were all involved in various organizing activities at the company. Google disputes that.

https://www.securityweek.com/fifth-fired-google-worker-files-federal-labor-complaint

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Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy

Every minute of every day, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are #logging the #movements of tens of millions of #people with #mobile #phones and storing the information in gigantic #data #files. The Times #Privacy #Project obtained one such file, by far the largest and most sensitive ever to be reviewed by journalists. It holds more than 50 billion location pings from the phones of more than 12 million Americans as they moved through several major cities, including Washington, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Each piece of #information in this file represents the precise location of a single #smartphone over a period of several months in 2016 and 2017. The data was provided to Times Opinion by sources who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to share it and could face severe penalties for doing so. The sources of the information said they had grown alarmed about how it might be abused and urgently wanted to inform the public and lawmakers.

After spending months sifting through the data, tracking the movements of people across the country and speaking with dozens of data companies, technologists, lawyers and academics who study this field, we feel the same sense of alarm. In the cities that the data file covers, it tracks people from nearly every neighborhood and block, whether they live in mobile homes in Alexandria, Va., or luxury towers in Manhattan.

One search turned up more than a dozen people visiting the Playboy Mansion, some overnight. Without much effort we spotted visitors to the estates of Johnny Depp, Tiger Woods and Arnold Schwarzenegger, connecting the devices’ owners to the residences indefinitely.

If you lived in one of the cities the #dataset covers and use #apps that share your# location — anything from weather apps to local news apps to coupon savers — you could be in there, too.

If you could see the full trove, you might never use your phone the same way again.

Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html

#surveillance #privacy #why #thinkabout
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Satire
Area man constantly mentioning he doesn't use Facebook

PALO ALTO, CA -- Area resident John Grey does not maintain a Facebook account, a fact he repeatedly points out to real-world friends, family, and co-workers -- as well as coffee shop baristas, Wal-Mart door greeters, and panhandlers he passes on the street.

"I, personally, would rather spend my time doing something useful than login to Facebook," he told a random woman Monday at Moondollars Coffee House after noticing she was glued to her mobile phone posting status updates.

According to Alice Perkins, a co-worker at Bob's Bargain Basement, a thrift store, Grey steers the conversation toward Facebook whenever possible, just so he can mention that he has never set up an account.

"A few days ago, [store owner] Bob "Bargain" Bottenfield was saying his wrists were bothering him," Perkins said. "The second he said that, I knew John would pounce. He was like, 'It sounds like you might suffer from carpal tunnel. I'm really lucky to have avoided that problem. I'm guessing it's because I don't post constant updates to Facebook. In fact, I don't even have an account."

She added, "He always makes sure to read Slashdot, just so he can point out all the terrible upgrades and privacy-invading features that Facebook unveiled in the last hour."

"I'm not an elitist," Grey said. "It's just that I'd much rather watch a TED talk or chuckle at something from The Onion than sit there posting mindless updates to the whole world complaining about climate change or speculating on the progress my stomach is making digesting lunch."

"If I feel the need to share my opinions with peers, I'll craft a carefully worded Letter to the Editor of the local newspaper," he droned. "I certainly wouldn't waste my time wading through status updates about virtual cabbage fields or make-believe mobster battles."

He concluded, "I'm free from the tyranny of Mark Zuckerberg and his Big Brother overlords. I can't begin to tell you how happy I am to be without Facebook."

Despite Grey's absense from the social-networking universe, Facebook has already amassed a dossier on him. After several classmates and ex-girlfriends searched for his name, one of Facebook's privacy-invading features automatically deduced his name, education level, age, and carbonated soda preference (Diet Pepsi).

"We know all about him," boasted Eric Wellorian, who lives in a nearby apartment and has suffered from one of Grey's lectures about the evils of Facebook when they briefly crossed paths near the mailboxes. "I just started working at Facebook, a fact that I've been careful to avoid mentioning in case he goes supernova. It doesn't matter, though. He can run from Facebook, but he can't hide."

Source: http://humorix.org/10926
#satire #facebook #deletefacebook

Tor Browser

Private browsing without tracking, surveillance, or censorship

https://www.torproject.org

If the link above is censored in your country try:

https://tor.eff.org/
https://tor.stalkr.net/
https://sela.io/mirrors/torproject.org/
https://mirror.freedif.org/TorProject/

if these links are all blocked too:
Step 1: Send a request to GetTor (gettor@torproject.org) specifying your operating system (and your locale). Ex: "windows es"

Step 2: GetTor will send you back a reply with links to download Tor Browser from our supported providers.

FAQ:
https://support.torproject.org

Documentation:
https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/documentation.html.en

An attempt to document commonly believed misconceptions about Tor
https://github.com/epidemics-scepticism/writing/blob/master/misconception.md

Download

https://www.torproject.org/download

📱 Android

https://www.torproject.org/download/#android

Google Playstore
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.torproject.torbrowser_alpha

Fdroid status:
•https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/merge_requests/4676
•https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27539

On Guardian Project F-Droid repo
https://f-droid.org/app/org.torproject.torbrowser_alpha

💻 PC (*nix):

Don't use the packaged version of your distro, it may be old and it installs as any other binary, meaning there could be a greater data leak if someone has physical access to your pc.

If the executable file doesn't work, open a terminal in the same directory as the .desktop file and type chmod +x start-tor-browser.desktop

-> use obfs4 bridges if your country throttles/blocks Tor
-> if your country has DPI try the meek-azure bridge
-> if meek-azure is broken (you're in xinjiang etc) meek-amazon sometimes works
-> otherwise if you're in xinjiang you're doomed


📡 @NoGoolag 📡 @Libreware
#tor #browser

Facebook SpywareOS
Facebook is working on its own OS that could reduce its reliance on Android

https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/19/21030043/facebook-os-custom-operating-system-android-reliance-self-sufficiency-ar-glasses


#fb #fbos #facebook #facebookos #android

In a rare move, Apple, Amazon, and Google just announced a major partnership

businessinsider.com/apple-amazon-google-partner-on-smart-home-tech-2019-12

#wiretap #assistant #speakers #apple #amazon #google

Report: 267 million Facebook users IDs and phone numbers exposed online

A database containing more than 267 million Facebook user IDs, phone numbers, and names was left exposed on the web for anyone to access without a password or any other authentication.

Comparitech partnered with security researcher Bob Diachenko to uncover the Elasticsearch cluster. Diachenko believes the trove of data is most likely the result of an illegal scraping operation or Facebook API abuse by criminals in Vietnam, according to the evidence.

https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/267-million-phone-numbers-exposed-online/

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267 million Facebook users' data has reportedly been leaked
https://thenextweb.com/facebook/2019/12/20/267-million-facebook-users-data-has-reportedly-been-leaked/

https://redd.it/ed63sr
@r_privacy

Your annual reminder that Facebook tracks your location after you opt out
https://thenextweb.com/facebook/2019/12/18/your-annual-reminder-that-facebook-tracks-you-even-with-location-settings-turned-off/

https://redd.it/ec9y1i
@r_privacy

France fines Google 150 million euros for opaque advertising rules

https://in.reuters.com/article/us-france-google/france-fines-google-150-million-euros-for-opaque-advertising-rules-idINKBN1YO102

#google #ads #fine

microG: Android without Google - Interview with the developer, please submit questions!

microG is a term that many of us have probably heard at some point. At least, if you have ever considered using your mobile phone without setting up Google, you will certainly stumble upon the term „microG“ sooner or later. What exactly microG is, how it works and why it was created, we want to find out together with you in this article and in the upcoming interview with its „creator“.
....(.....)
We look forward to your questions. Deadline ends on 31th of December!
We are happy to have the opportunity to get to know this ambitious project and its developer together with our readers. Most of the microG manuals are still in English and there are always questions from users who are stuck or don’t really understand what it’s all about or what possibilities microG offers.

Here is your opportunity to ask the developer of microG questions. Well, I have one question on my tongue: Who is behind microG?

Please send us your questions to the developer until December 31st. As always, we can’t accept any questions after that date.

👉🏽 Read the full story:
https://tarnkappe.info/microg-android-without-google-an-interview-with-the-developer/

👉🏽 Read the full story in german:
https://tarnkappe.info/microg-android-ohne-google-ein-interview-mit-dem-entwickler/

#microG #interview
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Is It Too Late to Stop Amazon?

The brain-splitting moment happened about a week ago. A video (watermarked with the logo of a camera from Ring, an Amazon company) showing a man delivering an Amazon package, finding a box of snacks on a porch, then dancing went viral. My mind failed to find joy in the moment.

Think of the moving parts. There’s a hungry and dehydrated Amazon employee—or, more likely, an Amazon contractor—finding a slight reprieve from his grueling job only to see that moment turned into some weird viral ad. There’s a Ring security camera, made by Amazon, watching what this Amazon employee or anyone else in the neighborhood is doing and potentially sharing that video feed with the local police department. There’s the knowledge that Amazon and Ring have used police partnerships to bait potential package thieves in what could be described as a marketing campaign for a privately run state-sponsored surveillance effort.

👉🏽 Video (Facebook):
https://www.facebook.com/kathy.slater.330/posts/10157619021525967

👉🏽 Read more:
https://gizmodo.com/is-it-too-late-to-stop-amazon-1840393075

#DeleteAmazon #DeleteRing #ring #surveillance #thinkabout #why
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'Couldn't Sign You In' — Google Denies Access to Several Linux Browsers
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/12/couldnt-sign-you-in-google-browser-error-linux

https://redd.it/edxauz
@r_privacy

Bringing Starchild Down to Earth: Soraka SDK

The White Ops Threat Intelligence team recently identified 100+ malicious apps, with more than 4.6 million downloads, performing ad fraud. All of the apps use a common code package White Ops has dubbed “Soraka” (com.android.sorakalibrary.*):

In addition to the Soraka code package, we also discovered, in some of the apps, a variant with similar functionality which we dubbed “Sogo” (com.android.sogolibrary.*):

https://www.whiteops.com/blog/bringing-starchild-down-to-earth-soraka-sdk

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The story of how surveillance capitalism is killing web.

👁 New York Times was able to track President Trump's movements by combining leaked location data with public information, showing the ease which which cell phone location data can be turned into a spying tool ❗️

➖Times Privacy Project got the data from anonymous whistleblowers concerned about this vulnerability and a lack of regulations ❗️Dataset of >50 billion location pings from the phones of >12 million people in this country. It was a random sample from 2016 and 2017, but it took only minutes, with assistance from publicly available information to deanonymize location data and track the whereabouts of President
➖NYT said result being tracking and identifying people as easy. And there is no regulation to stop the exchange of sych data between different parties and companies for profit❗️
➖“Tech companies are profiting by spying on Americans.. report is another alarming case for why we need to break up big tech, adopt serious privacy regulations and hold top executives of these companies personally responsible.” Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat running for president, told NYT
➖“Location tracking data of individuals can be used to facilitate reconnaissance, recruitment, social engineering, extortion and in worst-case scenarios, things like kidnapping and assassination,” warned a cybersecurity expert

💡The sources who provided the trove of location information to Times Opinion did so to press for regulation and increased scrutiny of the location data market. So far, Washington has done virtually nothing to address the threats, and location data companies have every reason to keep refining their tracking, sucking up more data and selling it to the highest bidders.

🌐 Read - a #GoodRead with good infographics
#Tracking #Location #Datamining

🌐Stop using Google/Other location data malware. Go NoGapps

💡Edward Snowden: How Your Cell Phone Spies on You

Timestamps:
1. Network data collection
2. App data collection
3. Importance of Firewall & Permissions on per app bases
4. Buying device & still not owning it
5. Third party doctrine, loophole to prove your data is no yours👌

💡"The scandal isn't how they're breaking the law, the scandal is that they don't have to break the law"

🎥 WATCH -YT
🎥 WATCH - Invidio
🎥 Watch Source
#GoodShare #DataMining #Surveillance

🚀 Adopt Android Privacy > Go NoGapps