Ryan Womack

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writings and thoughts at https://womack.mn
Websitehttps://womack.mn/about
At #CESS2024 drinking the Garfield water, talking up camgdp.org #CAMGDP

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The internet has turned into a surveillance machine. 👀

🕵️ TikTok = China can track you
🕵️ Telegram = Russia can track you
🕵️ Google = USA can track you

Only with encryption, we can make sure that our data stays safe. 🤫

Get a secure mailbox now: https://tutanota.com/big-tech-alternative 🔒

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Das Internet hat sich in eine Überwachungsmaschine verwandelt. 👀

🕵️ TikTok = China kann dich verfolgen
🕵️ Telegram = Russland kann dich verfolgen
🕵️ Google = Die USA können dich verfolgen

Nur mit Verschlüsselung können wir dafür sorgen, dass unsere Daten sicher bleiben. 🤫

While some are already getting excited for the festive season, we’re getting excited for Threema’s birthday on December 12. #10YearsOfThreema 🎉

Have a read of what happened in the last decade: https://threema.ch/about#story

The Threema Story

Learn more about Threema’s origin. It all began at the kitchen table of a small two-bedroom apartment in Zurich…

For some reason, Mastodon is experiencing a great influx of new users. 🤔

Within one month our following grew from 15k to 16k.

Happy to have been here since years already. 🥰🤩🥳

Thanks to the reporting of TechCrunch and others, we can now announce that Microsoft is no longer blocking Tutanota users from registering a Teams account! 😀 🙌

This story is a very good example of why we need better #antitrust legislation! #AntitrustVoteNow

https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/04/tutanota-cries-antitrust-foul-over-microsoft-teams-blocking-sign-ups-for-its-email-users/

Check out the full story: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/microsoft-blocks-tutanota-users-from-own-service/

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The right to privacy is gaining momentum, and now even politicians understand the importance of privacy online! 💪💪💪 US Senator Elizabeth Warren proposes sweeping ban on location and health data sales:
https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/15/23169718/roe-wade-elizabeth-warren-location-data-tracking-ban-sale-brokers
Warren proposes sweeping ban on location and health data sales

As the Supreme Court’s poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, Sen. Elizabeth Warren announced sweeping legislation to ban the sale of location and health data that could harm privacy in abortion access.

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Privacy news in Germany are getting better and better by the day! 😀 🎉
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/data-retention-germany/
Germany: Data retention to be abolished once and for all.

According to the German Minister of Justice data retention or "the storage of telecommunications data without any reason" could soon come to an end.

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Celebrate ten years of Tutanota: In 2011, Arne (left) and Matthias (right) started working on Tutanota. Today we can offer not just the most secure mailbox, but also a fully encrypted address book and a zero-knowledge calendar. Stay tuned for lots of amazing new features! 😀🥳