Torsten Grote Profile picture
#FreeSoftware activist interested in topics of technology-enabled social and political change. Also on Mastodon at @grote@chaos.social
Jul 22, 2020 10 tweets 3 min read
A research paper was published looking into the privacy of the Google & Apple #covid19 exposure notification framework and Contact Tracing Apps scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pub… #GAEN 'We find that the apps are generally well behaved. In contrast, the Google Play Services component of these apps is extremely troubling from a privacy viewpoint.'
Sep 17, 2019 12 tweets 5 min read
More than 7 years ago, I started the #FreeYourAndroid campaign for @fsfe: FreeYourAndroid.org
Today, it is easier than ever to run a system with only free (libre) apps... However, 7 years later, there are still some gaps. One of these is backup. Google users get a convenient one click cloud backup while users of a free system need insecure root or debug bridge hacks.