EU to Slap Google With Fresh Fine: Sources

The EU's anti-trust regulator is to slap tech giant Google with a new fine over unfair competition practices, sources told AFP on Friday.

Brussels has targeted the Silicon Valley firm's AdSense advertising service, saying it restricts some client websites from displaying ads from third parties.
https://www.securityweek.com/eu-slap-google-fresh-fine-sources

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#Changelog :

1. Cleared last reported bugs (till morning)
2. Implemented doable suggestions

#Send me more bugs, beta builds -> clean install

Ad Tech Surveillance on the Public Sector Web

EU citizens being tracked on sensitive government sites
Even on government sites one is not safe from tracking by the advertising industry. According to a report by the Danish company Cookiebot with European Digital Rights (EDRi), 89 percent of all government sites in EU member states use cookies and other advertising trackers. Governments thus help the advertising industry to collect sensitive data about their citizens. According to the report, the website of the authorities with the most tracking cookies in Europe is a website of the Hamburg city government on parental leave and maternity protection.

https://www.ft.com/content/6dbacf74-471b-11e9-b168-96a37d002cd3

https://www.cookiebot.com/media/1121/cookiebot-report-2019-medium-size.pdf

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One year in, Facebook’s big algorithm change has spurred an angry, Fox News-dominated — and very engaged! — News Feed

One year after Facbook's algorithm change, a report by NiemanLab shows that the change has led to the spread of split and emotionally charged content even faster. The key to this is a change that rewards "commitment", i.e. likes, shares and comments. The big beneficiary of the changes is the conservative channel Fox News, whose content on Facebook is more "engaging" than any other English-language news site. However, other factors can also play a role here, such as the fact that more older people are active on Facebook.
....(....)
In a farewell note after his departure from Facebook was announced yesterday, chief product officer Chris Cox said that “social media’s history is not yet written, and its effects are not neutral.” These lists would seem to back the idea Facebook’s effects are indeed not neutral.

http://www.niemanlab.org/2019/03/one-year-in-facebooks-big-algorithm-change-has-spurred-an-angry-fox-news-dominated-and-very-engaged-news-feed

The full report (Publishing on Facebook in 2019) is available for download here:
http://go.newswhip.com/rs/647-QQK-704/images/Facebook%20Publishing%202019_Final.pdf

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📺 🇬🇧 The Dirty TRUTH About Amazon's Empire
If you needed more proof Amazon is trying to take over the world, then their acquisition of the popular supermarket chain Whole Foods is a good sign.

It's also a sign that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' will extend his one-click tentacles into even more parts of our lives, a gut punch to your conscience when you realize that Amazon doesn't exactly have a great track record when it comes to valuing its employees. Remember that your ability to get your favorite face wash shipped to your house in 24 hours as you sit in your underwear comes at the price of an underpaid, overworked employee competing for a private space in a huge warehouse to cry during the workday.

📺 The #dirty #truth About #Amazon #Empire #why #video #podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2fxTISrJnU

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A way to programmatically disable the "Find my device" in gapps from being a device administrator

The trick is to disable gms - which clears device admin status, and then enable it again:

pm disable-user com.google.android.gms
pm enable com.google.android.gms

I know most of you don't have GApps at all on board, but still it might be useful to know.
Best is, to run the noscript at boot, with a delay - in order to kick in only after "Find my device" was reactivated and kill it for good.

#!/system/bin/sh

(
sleep 60
pm disable-user com.google.android.gms
pm enable com.google.android.gms
) &

Commands are in a backgrounded subshell in order not to delay boot.
Best way would be, to put it in your init.d, or execute it from Kernel Adiutor, or with Magisk boot hooks and put it in /data/adb/post-fs-data.d/.

Source, last (unvoted!) comment here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13911444/disable-deviceadmin-from-shell


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#find #findmydevice #disable #device #administrator #google #gms #noscript #shell #gapps

Most antivirus apps do absolutely nothing
Some of the Android apps in the Google Play store were so ineffective that they detected themselves as malware

Two thirds of Android antivirus apps that appear in the Google Play store provide no protection for devices, tests have revealed.

Researchers at the Austrian antivirus testing firm AV-Comparatives analysed 250 apps claiming to offer security for Android smartphones and tablets.

Their results found that less than a third of them managed to detect even 30 per cent of the malicious apps released in 2018, while 80 of the apps tested failed to meet the firm's most basic requirements for cyber security.

"Some of the Android security products in our test blocked so few of the malware samples – in some cases literally none – that they cannot reasonably be described as anti-malware apps," stated a report of the findings.

The tests found that some apps in the Google Play store were so ineffective that they detected themselves as malware.

https://www.av-comparatives.org/tests/android-test-2019-250-apps/

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/android-antivirus-app-fake-google-play-a8827816.html

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#google #playstore #antivirus #ineffective #fake #malware

New billion euro fine against Google in the EU
Google has again violated European competition law. This time 1.49 billion euros must be paid.

The EU Commission has imposed a fine of 1.49 billion euros on Google. In the case of Sitesearch Adsense for Search, other providers were obstructed, the competition authority announced on 20 March 2019. This is the third time the EU has imposed a billion euro fine on Google.

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-fined-17-billion-for-breaking-eu-antitrust-rules-over-adsense-2019-3

https://www.xda-developers.com/google-fined-1-5-billion-eu-adsense

https://www.securityweek.com/eu-fines-google-anti-trust-breach

https://www.golem.de/news/adsense-for-search-neue-milliardenstrafe-gegen-google-in-der-eu-1903-140136.html

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#google #fine #EU #comission #competition #law #why

This happens in one minute on the Internet
Facebook logins, app downloads, whatsapp messages or sent emails

https://twitter.com/lorilewis/status/1103687442727616523

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LineageOS - Take back control! Part2

1. release from the embrace

With the article series "Take back control!" you as a user should regain control over your Android device or your data step by step. A first step towards independence is the change of the manufacturer's own Android system. This will not only get rid of the manufacturer's bloatware, like pre-installed apps and services, but will also free us from Google's close embrace.

We manage this liberation with the free Android operating system LineageOS - a modification of Google's Android and the direct successor of the successful CyanogenMod. With such a custom ROM or alternative system we disconnect ourselves from the manufacturer's own Android systems. The use of LineageOS should bring us one step closer to our goal of regaining data dominance on the Android.

Read the full article (part1) in english:
https://news.1rj.ru/str/BlackBox_Archiv/156

Read the full article (part2) in english:
https://news.1rj.ru/str/BlackBox_Archiv/273

Source and more infos / read in german:
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/android-ohne-google-take-back-control-teil1/
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/lineageos-take-back-control-teil2/

#android #NoGoogle #LineageOS #guide #part1 #part2 #kuketz
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Google takes a page from Microsoft of old and revives browser ballot on Android
There's no place like Chrome, but... here are the other guys

Google has offered to remind Android users in Europe that Chrome isn't the only game in town – similar to the "Web Browser Ballot" measure imposed on Microsoft a decade ago as part of a competition remedy.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/20/google_revives_browser_choice_ballot_as_eu_remedy/

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Changelog : Added 24 Locales

*Arabic
*Bulgarian
*Chinese
*Croatian
*French
*Galician
*German
*Hebrew
*Hindi
*Hungarian
*Indonasian
*Italian
*Lithuanian
*Polish
*Portugese
*Romanian
*Russian
*Serbian
*Slovak
*Spanish
*Swedish
*Turkish
*Ukrainian
*Vietnamese

Facebook admits to store the passwords of millions of users unencrypted on its internal servers. Allegedly, however, unauthorized persons had no access to the information.

Passwords of many millions of Facebook users have been accessible to employees of the online network in plain text. "We expect to notify hundreds of millions of Facebook Lite users, tens of millions more Facebook users, and tens of thousands of Instagram users," the company said. Facebook has no evidence that anyone has abused it internally, it said. The passwords were also not visible to anyone outside the company.

The affected users are still to be notified "as a precaution", although there is no evidence of misuse of the data. The passwords should also have been unrecognizable internally. The error was noticed during a routine check in January. It has since been corrected - Facebook did not specify exactly when.

❗️More than 20,000 employees had access

Facebook Lite is a slimmed-down version for users of the online network in regions with slow Internet lines. Just before the Facebook release, IT security expert Brian Krebs reported on the case in his blog. He wrote, citing an unnamed Facebook insider, that more than 20,000 employees of the online network could have had access to the passwords stored in plain text.

A total of 200 to 600 million Facebook users could be affected. The archive files with unveiled passwords were back to 2012, according to Krebs. According to log data, about 2000 developers had made about nine million internal queries for data elements that contained unprotected passwords, the security expert wrote, citing the company insider. Facebook initially did not provide any information.

https://www.n-tv.de/20921959

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Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years

Hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees — in some cases going back to 2012, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Facebook says an ongoing investigation has so far found no indication that employees have abused access to this data.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/03/facebook-stored-hundreds-of-millions-of-user-passwords-in-plain-text-for-years/

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📺 Ransomware to provide PewDiePie 100 million followers

The more recent ransomware, called PewCrypt, which has been in widespread use since January, allows AES-256-encrypted data to be decrypted. The programmer does not, however, demand an amount of money to release the key for decryption, but PewCrypt only decrypts the data when PewDiePie has 100 million followers on YouTube. At the same time the Ransomware tries to get the attacked to follow PewDiePie on YouTube.

📺 https://mobile.twitter.com/demonslay335/status/1098975600700780545
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzOM31dhrbU

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This Giant Ad Fraud Scheme Drained Users' Batteries And Data By Running Hidden Video Ads In Android Apps

A scheme to stealthily run video ads behind banner images drained users' batteries and data while they used popular Android apps.

Julien's app is one of several, including many using Twitter's MoPub ad platform, that saw its in-app ads hijacked in an ad fraud scheme uncovered by fraud detection firm Protected Media. The company’s findings, along with additional reporting and interviews by BuzzFeed News, and independent verification from an outside ad fraud lab, show that one of the players implicated in this scheme is Aniview, an Israeli company with offices in New York that runs a video ad technology platform.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/in-banner-video-ad-fraud

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#banner #video #ad #fraud #playstore #android #apps

#Changelog :
1. Updated Translations
2. Added option for custom languages
3. Fixed Reviews related bugs
4. Minor UI changes

Our last chance, today on 23.03. are Europe-wide demos in over 100 cities.

Protest highlight and last chance - demonstrations in more than 100 European cities
Barcelona, Paris, Warsaw, Zurich, Berlin, Frankfurt, Vienna, Stockholm, Helsinki, Prague, Luxembourg, Athens and Lisbon and many more.

Find out here:
https://savetheinternet.info/demos
where the closest demo is and participate, demonstrate against the upload filters, for a free internet and free expression of opinion.
Talk again with your friends, your family, bring it up in your groups here on TG, the more we are tomorrow the better it will be.

https://savetheinternet.info/demos

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#Changelog :

1. Fixed BulkUpdates
2. Fixed Notification issues
3. Added About App segment
4. Minor UI changes
5. Added support for multi threaded downloads
6. Added option to choose between notification providers

#Installtion bug on MIUI & H2OS is due to shameless modification of packagemanager by Mi & OP, I need to have a device running MIUI to fix it.
7. Improve Google App filter logic

Comprehensive list of apps for privacy oriented people.
Taken from (r/privacytoolsio)

Windows/Linux:
https://enchiridion.red/2019/1/18/desktop-apps/

Android:
https://enchiridion.red/2019/1/18/mobile-apps/