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New Zealand introduces new law to search travelers devices

New Zealand introduced a new law which can lead to travelers having to pay a fine if they do not accept access to their phones when crossing the country’s border. Although the search of digital devices is common at many country borders, this is the first case of a fine introduced for travelers who refuse […]
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Google and Facebook attempt to defeat privacy initiative

The tech giants Google and Facebook attempted to stall and stop an initiative which strengthens the privacy rights of internet users in the USA. Showing these companies put every effort into making sure user data is always as exposed and available to their core business model. source: https://www.techdirt.com/2018/04/13/public-attention-forces-facebook-to-retreat-anti-privacy-alliance-with-isps-california/ archived source: https://wellthissucks.xyz/2018/04/13/google-and-facebook-attempt-to-defeat-privacy-initiative-archived-source/
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Google and Facebook attempt to defeat privacy initiative – archived source

Public Attention Forces Facebook To Retreat From Anti-Privacy Alliance With ISPs In California Fri, Apr 13th 2018 01:51pm – Karl Bode Silicon Valley companies have historically not seen eye to eye with giant ISPs, as we saw during the early years of the net neutrality debate. But Google and Facebook recently put aside their differences and joined forces with […]
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Google and Facebook collect excessive amounts of user data

An analysis of the amount of data tech giants like Google and Facebook store from tracking user data, showing how the processing of personal user data is their core business model. source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/28/all-the-data-facebook-google-has-on-you-privacy archived source: https://wellthissucks.xyz/2018/03/30/google-and-facebook-collect-excessive-amount-of-user-data-archived-source/
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Google and Facebook collect excessive amounts of user data – archived source

Are you ready? Here is all the data Facebook and Google have on you Dylan Curran – Fri 30 Mar – 2018 08.17 BST First published on Wed 28 Mar 2018 11.00 BST The harvesting of our personal details goes far beyond what many of us could imagine. So I braced myself and had a […]
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Intel forces non-free hardware implementation on consumers via their Management Engine

Intel’s Management Engine (ME) aims to ease the administration of computers especially in corporate environments but is forced upon private end users in a way that the implementation in the hardware cannot be disabled or removed and in it’s closed source form displays a violation of the end user’s security and freedom of choice. source: […]
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Intel forces non-free hardware implementation on consumers via their Management Engine – archived source

The Intel Management Engine: an attack on computer users’ freedom by Denis GNUtoo Carikli Contributions — Published on Jan 10, 2018 03:46 PM Contributors: Denis GNUtoo Carikli, Molly de Blanc With security issues like the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities discovered in Intel chips in early 2018, it became more important than ever to talk about the necessity of software freedom […]
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Chinese Army killed 10,000 at Tiananmen Square

In 1989 the Chinese regime had 10,000 people killed at Tiananmen Square as they were protesting for a democratic change in the country. For decades the Chinese regime attempts to alter the course of history by censoring every mention of the event and it is important to remind the world what happened. source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/remains-were-hosed-down-drains-11747013 archived […]
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Chinese Army killed 10,000 at Tiananmen Square – archived source

‘Remains were hosed down drains’: Chinese Army ‘killed 10,000 in Tiananmen Square crackdown fearing civil war was imminent’ The true scale of the 1989 horror was described by British ambassador Alan Donald in newly-released cables By Keith PerryReporter – 23:03, 23 Dec 2017 The Chinese army crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests killed at […]
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Discord is spyware

Discord is a closed source centralized messenger software which practices excessive user data collection. source: https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/discord.html archived source: https://wellthissucks.xyz/2017/11/23/discord-is-spyware-archived-source/
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