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Does the news about Cambridge Analytica make you want to protect your data and privacy more than ever before?

This weekend is a great time to take these ten steps to be safer and more secure online. 1/
First, if you haven’t yet, here’s what setting to update to keep your data from going through Facebook's platform API. eff.org/deeplinks/2018…
Facebook also offers a one-click privacy setting to retroactively change all your past posts to be visible to your friends only. Watch this video for a step-by-step tutorial to change this setting and make your posts more private. eff.org/deeplinks/2017…
.@verge has a few more steps to increase your privacy on Facebook.
- Turn off Facebook’s location services
- Unlink questionable apps
- Update ad preferences
theverge.com/2018/3/20/1714…
But don’t just stop at Facebook. Turn off your phone’s location services for ANY app that doesn’t seem like it should need them. consumerreports.org/privacy/how-to…
Things you do on the web are tracked by third-party trackers and cookies, often without you realizing it. Privacy Badger is a browser extension that blocks these spying cookies and invisible trackers. eff.org/pb
Install HTTPS Everywhere, another web browser extension, to make sure you are browsing with encrypted HTTPS (and not unencrypted HTTP) whenever it is available. eff.org/https-everywhe…
If a bad actor gets ahold of a password that you've reused across multiple services, they can gain access to many of your accounts—a massive privacy invasion. Protect yourself by using multiple, unique passwords across services ssd.eff.org/en/module/crea…
And to keep track of all those passwords, start using a password manager—a much better option than writing down your passwords or using the same one.
ssd.eff.org/en/module/anim…
For more tips to protect your privacy and defend against surveillance, visit our Surveillance Self-Defense guide. ssd.eff.org
Join us on the bleeding edge of digital rights issues by subscribing to EFFector, our nearly-weekly email newsletter. eff.org/effector
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Once again, Facebook has put its profits over our privacy. nytimes.com/2018/12/18/tec…
Facebook should not be sharing users' private data with its business partners without users' knowledge and freely-given, specific, unambiguous consent.
This latest revelation underscores the need to strengthen data privacy laws in California and elsewhere to ensure users can hold companies accountable, and to resist efforts in Congress to preempt state data privacy protections.
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The @SFChronicle's Editorial Board agrees: California's blanket collection and retention of genetic profiles from people arrested but never convicted of any crime is enormously overbroad sfchronicle.com/opinion/editor…
"[I]n a system where people are still innocent until proved guilty, there is just no legitimate reason for the state to collect and store the DNA profiles of people whose only infraction was being arrested and booked into jail." sfchronicle.com/opinion/editor…
The state's failure to automatically expunge DNA samples and profiles from the hundreds of thousands of Californians who were not ultimately convicted of a crime is unconstitutional, and we're suing to end it. eff.org/press/releases…
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Shipping & Transit filed 107 patent lawsuits, earning more than $700,000 in one year—a campaign a federal judge called "predatory." Today it's bankrupt. wsj.com/articles/pushb…
1A Auto Inc., an online auto-parts retailer, beat Shipping & Transit and was awarded $120,000 in attorneys’ fees and costs, but never got paid. "I believe they pocketed all the money," said 1A's lawyer.
We wrote about Shipping & Transit's bankruptcy here: eff.org/deeplinks/2018…
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Plan in place in S Africa and UK by a CANADIAN company. John Hancock is not US-owned.

Welcome to global rule by capitalists.

Example of news-release-“reporting” or zero curiosity on the part of the writer.
#privacy #elitism #dataBreachRisk reuters.com/article/us-man…
Do you want ANY corporation monitoring your whereabouts and behavior 24x7? Hell no.

And a reminder that “insurance” wasn’t created to help the most secure/fit. Franklin’s vision: to spread risk throughout a community.

h/t @MrAlanCooper
Insurance as envisioned by Benjamin Franklin was the opposite of individualism (an American myth with long legs).
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Morning campers! I’ll be live-tweeting from the European Court of Justice today about @Google’s “Right to be Forgotten” hearing.

What’s the main point? Should Europe (or France’s #privacy regulator) be able to apply its rules over the internet worldwide.

A recap:
La Vanguardia, a Spanish newspaper, published records in the late 1990s detailing the debt delinquencies of Mario Costeja.

About a decade later, Costeja sued, saying that the publication breached his right to privacy.
After a lengthy legal dispute, the case was referred to the ECJ which, in 2014, ruled that individuals had the right to ask that search engines like @Google remove links (but not the underlying webpages) from search results
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Of course. I’ve slacked off on late Friday night checks to see what kind of turf Facebook has dropped. Digging in shortly to read.
OK, here we go. First the premise the Like button tracking users in passive state is a basic function of the internet is misdirection garbage from Facebook. They should ask FB what their KIDS attribute does differently then and why it's necessary? developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/r…
FB tried to kill the tracking protection for minors in 2012 (bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/01/fac…) for a reason. they knew showing they can protect <13 years old privacy means they could do it for everyone.
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Over the past few months I have collected 500+ Trump, Pence and RNC tracking URLs dating back to June 2016. I've shared bits & pieces of this (⏬) as I've been looking under the hood, in search of the truth behind Project Alamo/Trump marketing ops.

THREAD will be ongoing...
The 500+ links are tracking links. They contain custom variables team Trump/Pence/RNC attached to links so they could measure & analyze performance via Google Analytics.

These are UTM parameters: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTM_param…

I'll share full URL list once I'm done cleaning it up!
You can learn a lot about a marketing program by examining their tracking links. So here's the 1st nugget:

#1: Trump campaign used Facebook Messenger bots to communicate w/voters 1-on-1.

I haven't seen this reported anywhere. If you have, pls send a link!
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We recently learned that among the first American candidates for national office to make use of Cambridge Analytica's services was Art Robinson, running for US Representative in Oregon's 4th district. But who is Art Robinson? Let's dig into this. 1/
oregonlive.com/today/index.ss…
Art Robinson has a PhD in biochemistry from the University of California. In 1980 he moved to Oregon and founded the nonprofit Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine in Cave Junction. Don't be fooled, though. This is not a prestigious organization. 2/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_B.…
Cave Junction is a small, rural town in southern Oregon with fewer than 2000 residents. It is not a center of biochemical and health research. However, Robinson's OISM claims to research a wide variety of topics, including aging, elementary science education & the environment. 3/
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