bitchat is a new messenger app that doesn't require an active internet connection.

news.itsfoss.com/bitchat/

#opensource #privacy

Twitter's Original Co-Founder’s New Messaging App Works Without an Internet Connection

Offline, encrypted messaging via Bluetooth.

^{Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)}

releases a new video / blogpost for Nextcloud Talk for #DataControl.

The blog post embeds Google trackers.

The video can *only* be watched on a Google surveillance platform.

The app depends on Google / Apple for notifications.

Does anyone else see the problem here? None of these are necessary.

#Nextcloud #Privacy #Google #Talk #YouTube

This French city has said no to Microsoft.

news.itsfoss.com/french-city-r…

#opensource #privacy #microsoft

French City of Lyon Kicks Out Microsoft

Microsoft faces growing rejection in Europe whereas open source software sees growing adaption.

^{Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)}

#Privacy tip of the day? 🔐 Protect your sensitive conversations in #Nextcloud Talk!

Now you can hide select chat previews in chat lists and notifications — perfect when screensharing or working in an open space. 👁️

What's new in #NextcloudTalk: nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-t…

Nextcloud Talk “Munich”: building resilient communication - Nextcloud

Introducing Nextcloud Talk "Munich" — now even more resilient, powerful and easy to get started with. Read this blog to find out more.

^{Mikhail Korotaev (Nextcloud)}

A recent comic on the US giving international tourists the Big Brother treatment

#comic #cartoon #uspol #travel #firstamendment #privacy

Should Google be worried? 🤔

news.itsfoss.com/murena-find/

#privacy #murena #google

A Search Engine that Respects You! Murena Find is Here

A new privacy-first search engine has arrived!

^{Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)}

We're thrilled to announce our new project:
docs.coop/

Building on the great work of Suite Numerique (docs.numerique.gouv.fr/home/), we are offering an opportunity to be part of a new collaborative Docs platform as a service, that provides an ethical alternative to Google Docs, Office 365, Notion etc.

Docs is the result of a joint effort lead by the French 🥖 (DINUM) and German 🥨 (ZenDiS) governments which represents a paradigm shift in the way open source software is funded.

#workercoops #coops #FLOSS #privacy

Switzerland is heading down a murky path. 😳

news.itsfoss.com/swiss-privacy…

#privacy #switzerland

No More Safe Heaven for Privacy? Switzerland Drifts Toward a Surveillance State Due to New Controversial Laws

Proposed privacy law changes, if passed in parliament, threaten Switzerland's reputation as a privacy haven.

^{Gourav Patnaik (It's FOSS News)}

Ooh! This might be interesting to you guys.

search.waterfox.net

#search #waterfox #privacy

Yes; exactly! So many people who should know better are not just ill-informed, but aggressively incurious about what is available.

I was recently told that there is *no way* to collaborate on a document that is not #privacy invasive, with the added smug fillip "sometimes, you just have to live in the world."

The occasion for this insight was a call for signatures to an open letter to the Trump Administration calling for better privacy protections---using Google docs. 😀

🚨 Tor Browser opsec discovery: The security level slider cannot be relied upon without a full browser restart: privacyguides.org/articles/202…

If you frequently switch between security levels in Tor Browser (or Mullvad Browser!), make sure you are fully restarting the browser every time, otherwise you could still unexpectedly have dangerous JS features enabled!

This requirement is not publicly documented anywhere. Hopefully @torproject will add a prompt to restart after modifying this setting in a future Tor Browser release.

#Opsec #TorBrowser #Security #MullvadBrowser #Privacy #PrivacyGuides #PSA

A Flaw With the Security Level Slider in Tor Browser

PSA: The security level slider in Tor Browser (and Mullvad Browser) does not fully apply until restarting the browser.

^{www.privacyguides.org}

Proton Mail to be banned in India.

news.itsfoss.com/india-proton-…

#privacy

Indian Court Orders a Ban on Proton Mail

Proton Mail to be banned in India due to a court ruling? Unlikely but there is a court order in play.

^{Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)}

Nextcloud finally ending their exclusivity arrangement with Youtube.

That's coming in 2025... right?

#Peertube #Decentralization #Privacy #FOSS #YouTube #Google #Alphabet #GAFAM

Exclusively on Youtube by Google! What open source inspiration! What a monument to privacy and decentralization!
@Karlitschek

#Nextcloud #Privacy #OpenSource #YouTube #Google #Decentralization

Apple Pulls iCloud Encryption Feature Following UK Government Demands

The company said it was "gravely disappointed" to no longer be able to offer Advanced Data Protection to iPhone users in the UK.

And So the Next Round Of Lost Privacy in the UK Begins

#News #Computing #Apple #Iphone #Encryption #Privacy #UK #EU #USA

Apple Pulls iCloud Encryption Feature Following UK Government Demands

^{Katie Collins (CNET)}

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

The UK is rogue in trying to order a backdoor to Apple encryption.

US lawmakers slam the UK's secretive order, calling it what it is:

🔥 'Dangerous' for global cybersecurity
🔥 'Effectively a foreign cyberattack'

The Home Office must back off ✋

#encryption #surveillance #e2ee #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #Apple #privacy

washingtonpost.com/technology/…

Major privacy alert for Android users.

mastodon.sdf.org/@jack/1139522…

@jack #Privacy #Android #cybersecurity

I look forward to seeing the new feature video on Peertube! What's the official Nextcloud Peertube channel?

#Nextcloud #Peertube #Privacy #Decentralization

We partner with open source browser extension Mailvelope to provide end-to-end email encryption.

Through this partnership, enterprise customers can rely on PGP encrypted and signed, secure data and communications.

#Privacy #Encryption

Key benefits for users in the press release👇

nextcloud.com/blog/press_relea…

Nextcloud and Mailvelope partner for easy end-to-end encryption for Nextcloud Mail - Nextcloud

Digital collaboration platform provider Nextcloud and Mailvelope partner to provide end-to-end email encryption. Through this partnership, enterprise customers can rely on PGP encrypted and signed, secure data and communications.

^Nextcloud

Nice. How to leave #X / #Twitter and #Instagram? In the edition of tomorrow‘s newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine offers valuable tips and highlights alternatives in the #Fediverse, such as #Mastodon and #Pixelfed.

A must-read especially for @Gargron from @Mastodon and @dansup from @PixelFed and of course @helpers / @admins

📖 Read more here in german language: augsburger-allgemeine.de/geld-…

#SocialMedia #Privacy #Alternatives #Mastodon #Pixelfed #Fediverse

Social-Media-Alternativen: Bluesky, Signal & Co: Neustart ohne X und Meta

Sie hadern mit Elon Musks Kurznachrichtendienst X und sind auch nicht mehr glücklich mit all dem, was Mark Zuckerbergs Meta-Konzern anbietet? Kein Problem. Es gibt Alternativen.

^{Von Dirk Averesch, dpa (Augsburger Allgemeine)}

Nice. How to leave #X / #Twitter and #Instagram? In the edition of tomorrow‘s newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine offers valuable tips and highlights alternatives in the #Fediverse, such as #Mastodon and #Pixelfed. A must-read especially for @Gargron from @Mastodon and @dansup from @PixelFed and of course @helpers / @admins

📖 Read more here in german language: augsburger-allgemeine.de/geld-…

#SocialMedia #Privacy #Alternatives #Mastodon #Pixelfed #Fediverse

Me acabo de leer una publicación, en formato comic, de como chrome nos roba la privacidad.
Aunque son cosas básicas no quitan que podamos aprender algo nuevo y de una forma muy amena.
Está disponible en formato web y pdf.

contrachrome.com/

#privacidad #privacy #derechosdigitales

You do see the irony of posting a video about the importance of digital sovereignty...

...only to YouTube.

You see that, right?

#Nextcloud #Privacy #Peertube #YouTube #Google #Alphabet #GAFAM #FAANG

Hi folks. Please help get the word out! 🙏

lmno.lol, my blogging service, is now generally available. No invite needed!

😡 No #tracking #ads #paywall or #bloat

🥰 #privacy first, read anywhere (even #terminal), #markdown, bring your own #editor

My blog lmno.lol/alvaro

I hope LMNO gets you blogging in 2025!

Please help me get the word out 🙏

#vim #emacs #vscode #indiedev #indieweb #indie #plaintext

Latest comic. A British consumer rights group examined unnecessary data harvesting by “smart” devices, including air fryers connected to phone apps. While these devices may not pose the greatest privacy risk in our everyday lives, they are part of a growing Internet of Things capable of collecting data when and where we least expect it.

#comic #cartoon #technology #tech #privacy #surveillance #consumer #cooking #internet #internetofthings

🎙️ The Nextcloud Podcast with #privacy pioneer Max Schrems!

"If information is the new gold, how do we distribute the rights in a fair and balanced way?"

We explore EU-US data transfers, surveillance law, and anti-competitive behaviors in Big Tech.

nextcloud.com/blog/Nextcloud-p…

Privacy and Surveillance Law with Max Schrems - Nextcloud

Your new host, Brent Gervais, had the opportunity to sit down together with Max Schrems - privacy lawyer and pioneer in the European data privacy movement - to explore some thoughts and ideas that stemmed from Max's keynote given at the Nextcloud Con…

^Nextcloud

So Paypal support is live, but still no support for Peertube.

Good job, Nextcloud.

Showing those FOSS, decentralization, privacy values yet again with your choice of video hosting.

#Nextcloud #Paypal #Peertube #FOSS #Privacy #Decentalization

Mozilla has a new avatar before 2024 ends!

news.itsfoss.com/mozilla-new-b…

#opensource #privacy #mozilla

Mozilla's New Brand Logo is Here: Time For a Trip Down Memory Lane!

With the new brand identify, let's hope for a better future for Mozilla!

^{Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)}

This metaphor in which Neo accepts the cookie "in return" of Oracle's information is simply gorgeous.

#matrix #cookies #privacy

Me checks to see if @nextcloud 's videos are finally being boosted onto an open video network after years of pointing out the hypocrisy... aaaaaand nope.

I'll pass. I don't feel like being extra surveilled today by Google, thanks.

#Nextcloud #Privacy #FOSS #YouTube #Peertube

Video conferencing without limits! 🗨️

Nextcloud Talk is designed to make meetings seamless with screen sharing, federated calls, and inline collaborative document editing.

Your #opensource, #privacy respecting video chat and conferencing solution! 🎯

nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-t…

Nextcloud Talk: Open-source online video conferencing software - Nextcloud

Nextcloud Talk is an open-source, online video conferencing software that supports your chats, calls, webinars, broadcasting and more.

^{Mikaela Schneider (Nextcloud)}

: "Let's champion decentralization & interoperability together! 🦾" and "without compromise!"

Makes all videos in the blogpost only available via a centralized, non-interoperable surveillance platform.

#Nextcloud #Privacy #Youtube

Nextcloud Hub 9 is here! 🚀

Introducing federated video calls, Nextcloud Whiteboard, process automation engine Nextcloud Flow, a more natural Nextcloud AI Assistant, ... and so much more!

Collaboration, #decentralization, #datasovereignty & #privacy! ✨

nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-h…

Be connected with Nextcloud Hub 9 - Nextcloud

Nextcloud Hub 9 lets you stay connected: new federation features, workflow automation, big design overhaul and much much more

^{Mikhail Korotaev (Nextcloud)}