Just discovered InviZible Pro - an Android application for online privacy and security.
It can route all your Internet traffic through Tor, encrypt all your DNS queries through DNSCrypt and provide access to the I2P network.
For me the the DNSCrypt function was vital because it can prevent DNS logging of my provider but the other two are a welcome bonus :)
#internet #security #privacy #surveillance #capitalism #bigdata #bigtech
● NEWS ● #NBC ☞ #BigTech is pushing a 'national cloud.' Critics say Big Tech would profit from it. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/big-tech-pushing-national-cloud-critics-say-big-tech-profit-rcna2971 when you say "big tech" you help #microsoft http://techrights.org/2021/06/29/microsoft-behind-big-tech-narrative/
#competition #freespeech #security #socialnetworks #bigtech #europeanunion #digitalservicesact #electronicfrontierfoundation #eff #digitalrights #digitalprivacy
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● NEWS ● #IndiaTimes #Monopolies ☞ U.S. bill would stop #BigTech favoring its own products https://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/government-policy/u-s-bill-would-stop-big-tech-favoring-its-own-products/87127100 see why the term "big tech" should be avoided: http://techrights.org/2021/06/29/microsoft-behind-big-tech-narrative/
Pour que des marchés réellement concurrentiels, innovants et dynamiques se mettent en place, l’interopérabilité ne suffit pas. Il est nécessaire de pouvoir mettre en place une interopérabilité contradictoire, c’est-à-dire une interopérabilité qui se « branche » sur des services ou produits existants « sans autorisation » des entreprises qui les fabriquent. À l’heure où l’interopérabilité s’est considérablement refermée avec le développement des brevets logiciels ou des outils de gestion des droits numériques, il faut souvent montrer patte blanche pour interconnecter ses systèmes à d’autres. Favoriser l’interopérabilité contradictoire est une partie de la solution à la concentration, estime Doctorow. Le problème est que le numérique rend l’interopérabilité contradictoire toujours plus difficile, notamment parce que l’une de ses caractéristiques est justement de pouvoir créer et démultiplier des fonctions et modalités de contrôle aux accès. Les règles se démultiplient et si vous ne les respectez pas, vos accès sont fermés. L’interopérabilité est d’autant plus mise à mal que l’incompatibilité s’étend. La fermeture favorise la domination de quelques-uns sur tous les autres.
Pour Doctorow, l’interopérabilité n’est pas le seul levier. L’Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff), l’association de protection des libertés numérique – dont Doctorow est l’un des piliers – défend ainsi un Access Act, un projet de loi antitrust en plusieurs mesures qui vise à promulguer des lois pour : interdire l’autoréférencement (et faire passer ses produits avant ceux de ses rivaux) ; bloquer les acquisitions anticoncurrentielles ; bloquer les « jardins clos » ; à imposer l’interopérabilité en forçant les grandes entreprises à proposer des API pour permettre aux utilisateurs d’aller sur un service concurrent tout en continuant à pouvoir discuter avec ceux qui ne font pas le même choix ; et à mieux financer l’organisme régulateur américain pour s’assurer d’un meilleur contrôle. Comme l’explique l’article, il manque encore un « droit d’action privé », permettant au public de poursuivre une entreprise qui ne respecte pas ces mesures (équivalent à l’article 82.1 du RGPD, qui permet aux utilisateurs qui subissent un dommage matériel ou moral d’obtenir réparation). Le cartel des Big Tech doit avoir plus de limites légales sur l’utilisation et le traitement des données des utilisateurs, et ce en renforçant la protection de la vie privée et les droits des utilisateurs.
Pour Doctorow, finalement, la tentation aujourd’hui est forte de punir les grandes entreprises en leur accordant une position encore plus dominante et permanente qu’elle n’est ! À l’heure où les problèmes qu’elles génèrent se multiplient, la tendance est forte de leur demander d’être plus répressives encore et donc d’accélérer leurs incompatibilités entre elles ! Pire : de refermer des marchés. Le filtre de YouTube, Content ID, dont le coût de développement est estimé à 100 millions de dollars est inaccessible à tout nouvel acteur qui voudrait se lancer dans la vidéo en ligne et qui serait contraint d’avoir des outils de modération équivalents. Pour Doctorow, ce filtrage coûteux devrait être une responsabilité d’État, mais comme il est le fait d’entreprises privées, il rend bien plus difficile l’émergence d’une quelconque concurrence.
Alors qu’ils doivent tous leur existence à l’interopérabilité, ironise Doctorow, le cartel des Big Tech est désormais déterminé à empêcher tous nouveaux venus de leur faire ce qu’ils ont eux-mêmes fait aux autres ! Le problème, c’est qu’elles ont truqué le système pour qu’il soit douloureux pour vous d’aller ailleurs. Alors que l’interopérabilité réduit le coût à changer, l’absence d’interopérabilité tient durablement l’usager en otage ! Pour Doctorow, l’interopérabilité est assurément l’outil dont nous avons besoin. Mais nous ne devons pas seulement ouvrir aux utilisateurs leurs possibilités, il faut aussi permettre aux plateformes de se connecter entre elles au profit des utilisateurs et pas seulement au profit de leurs seuls modèles d’affaires.
https://www.internetactu.net/2021/10/11/de-monopoliser-linternet-par-linteroperabilite
#monopole
#internet
#décentralisation
#intéropérabilité
#web
#gafam
#bigtech
#plateforme
I have long since used Pocket Casts on both my Android and iOS phones - because it syncs across my phones and the web, and does fast playback well. Google's own podcast app still does not do everything, but its one claim to fame is being able to search through all the audio discussion (as a text search).
It is rather sad when a Big Tech company comes along and uses it's cash to smother those who have been creative enough to give us such good apps. I know competition is needed, and that is also why we need these smaller apps to keep flourishing. Big Tech often just does not have their heart in areas which are not theirt core business, and ultimately we all lose out when they lose interest later on.
See These Apps Are a Way Better Choice Than Apple Podcasts
#technology #podcasts #bigtech #innovation
Show us on your device where Apple Podcasts hurt you.
● NEWS ● #MichaelWest #ProprietarySoftware ☞ #PlannedObsolescence – how #BigTech manipulates consumers to spend again and again https://www.michaelwest.com.au/planned-obsolescence-how-big-tech-manipulates-consumers-to-spend-again-and-again/ "big tech" is Microsoft propaganda: http://techrights.org/2021/06/29/microsoft-behind-big-tech-narrative/
https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1445112777832423424
#edsnowden #snowden #facebook #whatsap #instagram #elizabethwarren #bigtech #monopoly
#bigtech or #gafam companies are NOT leftists! http://techrights.org/2020/06/13/bill-gates-not-a-liberal/ http://techrights.org/2021/04/04/microsoft-nationalism/
● NEWS ● #EFF #Monopolies ☞ SHOP SAFE Is Another Attempt to Fix #BigTech That Will Mostly Harm Small Players and Consumers https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/shop-safe-another-attempt-fix-big-tech-will-mostly-harm-small-players-and
● NEWS ● #IndiaTimes #Monopolies ☞ US states rally around proposed laws to rein in #BigTech https://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/corporate-news/us-states-rally-around-proposed-laws-to-rein-in-big-tech/86387429 don't use that term: http://techrights.org/2021/06/29/microsoft-behind-big-tech-narrative/
Digital independence, autonomy or technological sovereignty: the concept has taken on many names, but always refers to a long-standing goal of EU leaders. It consists of developing technology in line with standards defined by European institutions themselves – and often comes with imperatives such as transparency, trustworthiness or the protection of privacy.
"Open source has the potential to change the balance of power," says Muto. "It's not necessarily saying that the big companies are bad, but it's about taking back control. The user should have control regardless of where the company comes from."
One example is cloud services, which are dominated by Amazon's AWS, Microsoft's Azure and Google Cloud. The EU's near-total reliance on the trio has been problematic for a number of years: for example, an EU privacy watchdog recently launched an investigation to examine whether the bloc's top institutions and agencies were able to effectively protect citizens' personal information when using AWS and Azure.
See Open source matters, and it's about more than just free software | ZDNet
#technology #opensource #digitalsovereignty #transparency #BigTech
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● NEWS ● #CommonDreams ☞ #BigTech #War Profiteers Raked in $44 Billion During 'Global War on Terror' https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/09/10/big-tech-war-profiteers-raked-44-billion-during-global-war-terror
It's no secret that a small handful of enormous companies dominate the internet as we know it. But the internet didn't always have services with a billion users and quasi-monopolistic control over search or shopping. It was once a loose collection of individuals, research labs, and small companies, each making their own home on the burgeoning world wide web.
“Self-hosting” is a practice that pretty much describes itself: running your own internet services, typically on hardware you own and have at home. This contrasts with relying on products from large tech companies, which the user has no direct involvement in. A self-hoster controls it all, from the hardware used to the configuration of the software.
It's not just for file sharing or backup, or hosting photo services, but many are now self-hosting decentralised instances of social networks too. The reasons are also not just about Big Tech surveillance and data mining, but often also for economic reasons (costs a lot to host large amounts of data), and the freedom to DIY and experiment with the source code.
See Meet the Self-Hosters, Taking Back the Internet One Server at a Time
#technology #selfhosting #decentralisation #privacy #BigTech
Tired of Big Tech monopolies, a community of hobbyists is taking their digital lives off the cloud and onto DIY hardware that they control.
The lobby network: Big Tech's web of influence in the EU
https://corporateeurope.org/en/2021/08/lobby-network-big-techs-web-influence-eu
Top 10 digital industry lobbyists
Tech firms ranked by how much they spend lobbying the EU Institutions.
-> https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/BiwJk/1/
#GAFAM #Google #Apple #Facebook #Amazon #Microsoft #UE #EU #Lobby #Lobbying #Network #Bigtech
BRING BACK HANGING
KhushitaVasant · Sep 2
US Dem. Senators Elizabeth Warren, Richard Blumenthal, Pramila Jayapal and Mondair Jones are asking DOJ to investigate @Google and @Facebook for potentially violating criminal #antitrust law through their "Jedi Blue" agreement. #BigTech @JusticeATR
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The term #BigTech (and GAFA) creates by #microsoft to distract from Microsoft's very sheer criminality http://techrights.org/2021/06/29/microsoft-behind-big-tech-narrative/
#BigTech does NOT need to listen to you https://stop.zona-m.net/2021/05/big-tech-does-not-need-to-listen-to-you/ don't use this term: http://techrights.org/2021/06/29/microsoft-behind-big-tech-narrative/
In a recent investigation, the New Statesman showed that Facebook, Google and Microsoft paid millions to research institutes linked to reputable universities, ostensibly to help further science.
Facebook, on the other hand tried to hide their involvement. They announced a $7.5 million grant to the Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence at the Technical University of Munich and claimed that no strings were attached to the money. But an investigation by Süddeutsche Zeitung revealed that Facebook reserved itself the right to withhold funding from year to year if the institute’s personnel was not to their liking.
Together, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Bytedance (TikTok), Snap and Microsoft declared close to €25 million in lobbying spending in 2020, according to the official transparency register of the European Union. This does not include Big Pharma or Big Oil, nor what Big Tech spends across other countries or research foundations.
See How Big Tech Charms and Bullies European Politicians, Journalists and Academics - AlgorithmWatch
#technology #BigTech #lobbying #EU
Google, Facebook and other very large tech companies built a lobbying system that, under the guise of furthering research or journalism, binds intellectuals in a complex network of patronage. Transparency is long overdue.
