Censorship may be a cat-and-mouse game, but our teams are staying ahead. If you want to hear more about our ongoing fight for online freedom, join us for our State of the Onion event on November 12 at 17:00 UTC. 📺

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTDtUoauU74

#Meta #Facebook and #Yandex are always looking for new ways to spy on you and track you. #LocalMess is the latest in a long line of abusive methods to gather your private data. Having their mobile app installed gives them super powers. Uninstall it. If you must use these services, do not use their app, keep it in the browser, or even better, use a wrapper app, like

* https://f-droid.org/packages/it.rignanese.leo.slimfacebook/
* https://f-droid.org/packages/us.spotco.maps/

Here is a nice technical write up:
https://localmess.github.io/

#tracking #privacy

#Xiaomi is shipping a built-in blocklist to block the installation of apps by Application ID, no matter how they are installed, e.g. also blocks when using Unknown Sources. That list includes a number of #VPN providers #Lantern #FreeBrowser

* https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/566440174

* https://web.archive.org/web/20241202062247/https://ggame.gledos.science/company/%E5%B0%8F%E7%B1%B3/MIUI.html#%E5%86%85%E7%BD%AE%E8%BD%AF%E4%BB%B6%E9%BB%91%E5%90%8D%E5%8D%95

Inspecting com.miui.packageinstaller.apk shows: no_block, white, on_shelf, off_shelf, risk, illegal_distribution, high_risk, competitive_product, forbidden, risk_anti_spoofing, risk_vpn, virus_engine

Applications for the 2025 Global Gathering are Now Open! #teamcommunity

📅 Date: September 8–10, 2025
📍 Location: Estoril, Portugal
🔗 Apply: https://gathering.digitalrights.community
⏳ Deadline to Apply: May 31, 2025.

Law enforcement agencies from the EU, North America and Australia continue their work to gain future lawful access to private communications within the EU initiative Going Dark.

We also note that VPNs are mentioned under “key challenges”.

https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-15941-2024-REV-2/en/pdf

The Swedish and French governments are following in the footsteps of the FBI and want to demand backdoors in end-to-end encrypted messaging services like @signalapp as @Mer__edith said in the Swedish news:

"There is no such thing as a backdoor that only the good guys can access.”