Notices by Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab@mastodon.social), page 8

Thanks to @exodus (sorry folks for having put a bit load on your site during the past few days; I'm back to normal now), coverage on what apps on my app listings are tainted by what trackers now is close to 95%

Thanks for offering that great service 🙇

What app listings? These:
https://android.izzysoft.de/applists

Watch out for those monitor icons (really offensive trackers) – but also for those yellow stars (no trackers found) next to the apps 😃

#privacy #android #apps

On parle de nous dans un article de @Motherboard sur l'art divinatoire du café.

https://motherboard.vice.com/fr/article/mby978/les-applications-de-divination-voient-clair-dans-vos-donnees

"It’s not about price. It’s libre, not gratis. With any program, there are two possibilities: either the users control the program, or the program controls the users." #DemandFreedom https://newleftreview.org/II/113/richard-stallman-talking-to-the-mailman

“Microchipping would give bosses even more power and control over their workers." 😱
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/11/alarm-over-talks-to-implant-uk-employees-with-microchips #surveillance #uk source: https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1062048817464442882

Thank you all—and a huge thanks to the organizers of @aaronswartzday, and the folks at the @internetarchive for hosting the event. source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1062049784310054912

FRI NOV 16 NOON - 2PM ET: Digital Self-Defense Workshop 🤓 We'll use tricks from Snowden's toolkit to stay private. Come learn about @torproject #Signal #Wire @Purism @matrix @freedomboxfndn @fdroidorg @exodus @better #gnupg and more!

""… We included Exodus Privacy in our latest post about companies making a difference in online privacy and security! …"

https://choosetoencrypt.com/privacy/companies-making-a-difference-in-online-privacy-and-security/?fbclid=IwAR0q5SreZDcIW6dvzLi74fLDXxQNXVxz5WqE9_yTJGzKreFYfdf4a_KQ8io

(from Twitter, @SearchEncrypt)

Third Party Tracking in the Mobile Ecosystem: "This paper presents an empirical study of the prevalence of third-party trackers on 959,000 apps from the US and UK Google Play stores. We find that most apps contain third party tracking, and the distribution of track- ers is long-tailed with several highly dominant trackers accounting for a large portion of the coverage."
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.03603.pdf
My favourite site is still by @exodus
https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/
Comprehensive. Digestable. Linked.

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Some News for εxodus. We improved the visibility of the trackers and permissions of the analysed applications.The readability of the permissions on εxodus's reports has been improved by better naming, icons, descriptions and severity of each one, in tooltips.

If you are interested in examining the privacy implications of Android apps, there is google chrome extensions Exodus Privacy is a great tool. For example, it reveals these 19 trackers in Deezer and 9 trackers in Spotify (it seems you are tracked even if you pay €€€)

@diggity @privacylab @mozilla @mozfestprivsec Looks like a good talk, Sean; shame about the venue. I didn’t see mention in the slides of Google’s own apps (or even Google Play Services itself) being a tracker. Was this mentioned?

Also, did you happen to get a chance to also mention that Google itself is one of the largest trackers in the world and that Mozilla gets over a billion dollars from them for exposing people to their tracking by default?

‘The quest to design an ethical social media platform’

https://theweek.com/articles/799415/quest-design-ethical-social-media-platform

“Ads are the traditional funding source for social platforms; they take users' personal data and serve it to advertisers who want their ads to reach a specific audience. This virtually ensures a fundamentally exploitative business model based on surveillance, says Laura Kalbag, a designer and the co-founder of digital justice not-for-profit Ind.ie.”

Also on our forum: https://forum.ind.ie/t/the-quest-to-design-an-ethical-social-media-platform/2464

Thanks everyone for attending @privacylab "Tracking Mobile Trackers" session @mozilla festival, esp. the people who had to stand in the hall! Don't hesitate to contact me if you'd like to know more. Shout-out to Floor 9 @mozfestprivsec

Presentation: https://frama.link/ypl-mozfest

Graphic and Presentation CC BY-SA Sean O'Brien

Q: "What makes Mastodon the new Twitter so incredibly immersive and addictive?"

A: the lack of social media managers thinking its the new hot place to dump their spam

https://www.quora.com/What-makes-Mastodon-the-new-Twitter-so-incredibly-immersive-and-addictive

Excited to be presenting "Tracking Mobile Trackers" today @mozfestprivsec in London :D 11:30 New York / 4:30 London / 5:30 Paris @exodus #Mozfest #mozilla

Wow, @njal_la automatically detecting your PGP key to encrypt emails is the sweetest thing I've seen this week! More providers should do this, especially for sensitive emails. https://t.co/mUbuJssxga