How DuckDuckGo’s New #Privacy Apps Keep You Safe Online
Privacy-based search engine #DuckDuckGo has released new mobile apps and browser extensions. Here's how they can keep you secure online.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/duckduckgo-privacy-apps/#veille
To Invade Homes, Tech Is Trying to Get in Your Kitchen
"tech companies and appliance makers, aiming to deepen their relationships with customers, are increasingly targeting the room that is synonymous with togetherness."
Where did I heard this call for giving away privacy before... this "zucks"
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/25/technology/smart-homes-tech-kitchen.html
Chatwatch uses WhatsApp’s public online/offline status feature to tell users how often their friends check the app, and estimate when they go to bed each day; it can even correlate data on two contacts you choose to guess if they’ve been talking to each other.
So Facebook employees are mad for the leak of an internal memo calling for growth-at-all-costs, no by the corporate behavior and their choice of being part of that. They call for people with "integrity" and "moral compass and loyalty" angry with the leaker.
It's just me or they have it all backwards? Facebook is reaching higher levels of cynicism.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/30/17179100/facebook-memo-leaks-boz-andrew-bosworth
Be a pioneer – #deleteFacebook
"Each Facebook deleter must invent new ways to live without Facebook; the deleters are the pioneers, the vanguard of a new kind of literate, informed, proud digital citizenry. They are inventing on behalf of all of us."
#JaronLanier
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/27/pioneer-delete-facebook-addiction-social-life
"A group of Silicon Valley technologists who were early employees at Facebook and Google, alarmed over the ill effects of social networks and smartphones, are banding together to challenge the companies they helped build.
The cohort is creating a union of concerned experts called the Center for Humane Technology"
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/04/technology/early-facebook-google-employees-fight-tech.html