Oakland has become the 3rd US city to ban facial recognition technology. 👏
Notices by The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social), page 22
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The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2019 14:59:30 UTC The Tor Project -
The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2019 14:16:06 UTC The Tor Project We've launched a giving program for monthly donors who help us make privacy a priority.
If you pledge a modest amount each month, we will send you exclusive gifts to show our appreciation.
Become a Defender of Privacy today: https://donate.torproject.org/monthly-giving
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The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jul-2019 18:47:34 UTC The Tor Project 🚨 Foreigners crossing certain Chinese borders are being forced to install malware on their Android phones.
"The malware downloads a tourist’s text messages, calendar entries, and phone logs, as well as scans the device for over 70,000 different files." https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7xgame/at-chinese-border-tourists-forced-to-install-a-text-stealing-piece-of-malware
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The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2019 20:21:11 UTC The Tor Project Time to update: There's a new version of Tor Browser available.
Tor Browser 8.5.2 fixes a critical security issue in Firefox and updates NoScript to 10.6.3. Full changelog: https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-852
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The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2019 13:31:58 UTC The Tor Project If you have basic command line experience, you can become one of the thousands of relay operators powering the Tor network, the backbone of all Tor software. https://torproject.org/relay-guide
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The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-May-2019 17:56:45 UTC The Tor Project You can download Tor Browser for Android from our website or Google Play. It should be available from F-Droid within the next day. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.torproject.torbrowser
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The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-May-2019 17:56:03 UTC The Tor Project We've got big news.
After months of work, Tor Browser is now stable on Android.
Tor Browser 8.5 brings the highest degree of privacy and censorship-circumvention available to Android users. https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-85
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The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-May-2019 13:50:32 UTC The Tor Project Through Sunday: You can get a limited edition "Tor: At the Heart of Internet Freedom" t-shirt featuring a quote from Snowden on the back for a $39 donation. Enter '39' into the 'other' box, and we will contact you about sizing. https://donate.torproject.org
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The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2019 22:05:51 UTC The Tor Project We have another special offer for you.
For one week only, the Tor sticker pack, including multiple reusable camera covers and our favorite logos, can be yours for a $17 donation.
Just write in $17 into the "other" box on the donate page, and you're set. https://donate.torproject.org
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The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2019 14:59:26 UTC The Tor Project A vulnerability in WhatsApp allowed attackers to inject commercial spyware, developed by NSO Group, on to phones.
The spyware could be transmitted through a call, even if the call was unanswered.
It is unclear how many phones were targeted.
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The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2019 13:43:15 UTC The Tor Project Very exciting call for research:
Mozilla has an interest in potentially integrating more of Tor into Firefox 🔥
Tor has never been deployed at this scale, so there are a lot of considerations to research before giving this a try.
Learn more & apply for Mozilla's Research Grant: https://blog.torproject.org/mozilla-research-call-tune-tor-integration-and-scale
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The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2019 13:33:26 UTC The Tor Project Facebook expects to be fined up to $5 billion by the FTC for privacy violations.
Facebook's annual revenue is $56 billion.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/technology/facebook-ftc-fine-privacy.html
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The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2019 15:20:27 UTC The Tor Project Ola Bini is a long-time privacy activist and should be released immediately. We are very concerned about the implications of his arrest and his safety. https://blog.torproject.org/ecuador-free-ola-bini
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The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2019 17:46:53 UTC The Tor Project Reminder: Privacy is your right. You shouldn't be exploited for using the internet. #privacy #humanrights
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The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2019 19:16:50 UTC The Tor Project "If governments and regulators want to explore new rules for the Internet, Mark Zuckerberg is the last person they should ask for advice." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/04/mark-zuckerberg-does-not-speak-internet
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The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2019 13:13:59 UTC The Tor Project This has been a long time coming.
Check out our website's fresh new look: https://torproject.org
There are many changes still to come. Find out what's next: https://blog.torproject.org/meet-new-torprojectorg
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The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Mar-2019 13:49:31 UTC The Tor Project Lawmakers are voting tomorrow.
Tell Congress to #SaveTheNet and restore #NetNeutrality: https://www.battleforthenet.com/#bftn-action-form
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The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2019 20:16:40 UTC The Tor Project Time to update Tor Browser.
Tor Browser 8.0.7 updates Firefox to 60.6.0esr and Tor to the latest stable version, 0.3.5.8. This release also makes Tor Browser more interoperable with NoScript.
Full changelog: https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-807
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The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2019 13:37:28 UTC The Tor Project If you are in a photo that has been uploaded to Flickr, IBM may have used your face to train facial recognition technology that could eventually be used to surveil you.
Nearly a million photos were scraped from Flickr to do so.
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The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2019 15:14:00 UTC The Tor Project Join us next weekend at #Libreplanet for our State of the Onion address and find out what multiple teams at Tor have been up to in our fight for privacy and freedom online. https://libreplanet.org/2019/program/grid-schedule.html