Notices by The Tor Project (torproject@mastodon.social), page 25

"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

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

Lawmakers are voting tomorrow.

Tell Congress to #SaveTheNet and restore #NetNeutrality: https://www.battleforthenet.com/#bftn-action-form

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

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.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/facial-recognition-s-dirty-little-secret-millions-online-photos-scraped-n981921

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

We're very happy to know our work provides women around the world the security and anonymity they need to organize and express themselves safely.

Help us keep Tor strong for women and all who need it: https://donate.torproject.org/ #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2019

To all the women of the world:

Stay strong in the struggle for equality and justice. Keep resisting and organizing.

Tor is here for you. https://blog.torproject.org/international-womens-day #IWD2019 #InternationalWomensDay

NY Governor Cuomo has called on state agencies and federal regulators to investigate Facebook for accessing far more personal information than previously known from smartphone users, including health and other sensitive data. https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2019-02-22/cuomo-requests-facebook-probe-after-report-on-privacy-invasion

Police are using an expanding array of surveillance tools without transparency. Find out more about these tools and how they're putting rights at risk https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/stand-police-spying

"An unsecured database exposed millions of records of Chinese Muslims being tracked via facial recognition — an ugly trifecta of prejudice, bureaucracy and incompetence." https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/19/when-surveillance-meets-incompetence/

OnionShare is an open source tool by Micah Lee for securely and anonymously sending and receiving files using Tor onion services.

The newest version adds anonymous dropboxes, supports new Tor addresses, and is translated into a dozen new languages.
https://micahflee.com/2019/02/onionshare-2/

Keep resisting.

Russia is planning to disconnect from the internet as part of an experiment https://www.zdnet.com/article/russia-to-disconnect-from-the-internet-as-part-of-a-planned-test/

If you'd like to help us look for bugs and improve Tor Browser, there's a new alpha release available to download.
https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-85a7

We're looking for a Browser Developer to join our team!

You'll work on C++ patches to our Firefox-based browser, writing new APIs, altering functionality for privacy & security, and making improvements to our collection of add-ons
https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs-browserdeveloper.html.en
#hiring #jobs #devjobs

There's no end in sight to Facebook's atrocities.

Facebook paid kids to install its VPN which granted "near limitless access" to their phone activity. https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas

Time to update! Tor Browser 8.0.5 is out.

This release updates Firefox to 60.5.0esr and Tor to 0.3.5.7, contains a number of backports from the alpha series, and includes the latest versions of NoScript and HTTPS Everywhere.
https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-805

The revamped OONI Probe mobile app is now available on F-Droid
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.openobservatory.ooniprobe/

Zuckerberg initially promised independence, but plans are now underway to unify the underlying messaging infrastructure of WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/technology/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-messenger.html
.onion: https://www.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion/2019/01/25/technology/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-messenger.html