BREAKING NEWS: California's Senate has passed S.B. 822, a gold standard in #NetNeutrality protection bills. Thanks to your hard work, the bill now heads to Assembly. Let’s keep up the momentum—Call your Assemblymember and tell them to pass S.B. 822!

“Our Internet, My Rights: We Don’t Care about Our Data, but We Should” by Pollicy medium.com/pollicy/our-in…

An important step in taking control of your data is understanding what information has been collected and stored. We recommend checking out My Data Request, a central repository of links for requesting your data from major online services: mydatarequest.com

Our mission is to raise the standard of trust online. We do this partly through educating people about online privacy through our blog: spreadprivacy.com What other blogs and sites do you seek out for online #privacy info?

Let's Encrypt Root Trusted By All Major Root Programs letsencrypt.org/2018/08/06/tru… #security

Sci-Hub Opens Up a World of Knowledge nutritionfacts.org/video/sci-hub-… via Michael Greger, M.D.

Sci-Hub: removing barriers in the way of #science sci-hub.tw

I was a big Uber fan until local restaurants started relying on them for their livelihood and they just started gouging everyone. The #1 economic stimulus a government could make right now would be an open source order and delivery app for local commerce.

Drone use during the pandemic opens the opportunity for future police surveillance of protests or other large public gatherings, particularly if the drones are equipped with face recognition systems, says EFF's Matthew Guariglia newscientist.com/article/224305…

How to Turn Off Location Services on Your Smartphone - Consumer Reports consumerreports.org/privacy/how-to…

Did you know that Facebook owns Instagram? Nearly 57% of Americans we surveyed didn't. And that's a big #privacy problem. (Similarly, 45% don't know Google owns YouTube.) Details here: spreadprivacy.com/facebook-insta…

"We're uncomfortable with the way that technology companies are treating people. Like, fundamentally. “ - jascha kaykas-wolff cbsnews.com/news/facebook-…

Terms of Service Didn't Read is fundraising for Terms of Service; Didn't Read: crowdrise.com/o/en/campaign/…

Increasing Rust’s Reach 2018 ~ blog.rust-lang.org/2018/04/02/Inc… #rustlang

Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over censorship circumvention: signal.org/blog/looking-b…

An open-source air quality monitor. An investigative tool for journalists in Hungary. A community-owned social network. These are just 3 of 100+ projects being built at next week's #mozsprint. Want to lend your code + ideas? mzl.la/2oq4jXO

Please join us in congratulating our new 2018 #OpenSource Initiative Board officers, Simon Phipps (President), VM (Vicky) Brasseur has decamped to Mastodon (Vice President), Jos5ua (Treasurer) and Carol Smith (Secretary).

The Big Open: How do we make the open internet revolution irresistible? | re:publica 2018 18.re-publica.com/de/session/big…

Did you know it's possible to safely install Android apps without using Google Play? F-Droid (by F-Droid (@[email protected])) is a repository of open source apps, protecting your privacy by telling you if they track or monitor your activity. f-droid.org

Creative exhaust, the power of being open by default: Brad Frost at TEDx... youtu.be/7rW9vTrN6OU via YouTube