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@torproject

@torproject
17 posts
2024-03-13
We're using #WorldDayAgainstCyberCensorship to officially introduce you to Webtunnel-a new bridge type designed to mimic encrypted web traffic (HTTPS) and evade #cybercensorship. Available now in the stable version of Tor Browser. Learn more: https://blog.torproject.org/ ...
2024-03-13 View on X
BleepingComputer

The Tor Project releases WebTunnel, a Tor bridge that mimics HTTPS traffic to help users bypass censorship targeting Tor by hiding connections in plain sight

The Tor Project officially introduced WebTunnel, a new bridge type specifically designed to help bypass censorship targeting …

THANK YOU to all volunteer testers who shared their feedback so we could make stability improvements ahead of launch. Right now, there are 60 WebTunnel bridges hosted all over the world, and more than 700 daily active users using it on different platforms. https://metrics.torproject.org/ ...
2024-03-13 View on X
BleepingComputer

The Tor Project releases WebTunnel, a Tor bridge that mimics HTTPS traffic to help users bypass censorship targeting Tor by hiding connections in plain sight

The Tor Project officially introduced WebTunnel, a new bridge type specifically designed to help bypass censorship targeting …

2023-04-04
Today we announced the Mullvad Browser - built by the Tor Project. A browser allowing anyone to take advantage of the privacy protections of Tor Browser without Tor. 👀 Learn more here: https://blog.torproject.org/ ...
2023-04-04 View on X
The Verge

The Tor Project partners with VPN maker Mullvad to launch the Mullvad browser, for Windows, macOS, and Linux, to reduce a user's “fingerprint” used for tracking

The Mullvad Browser is a privacy-focused web browser developed … Andrew Heinzman / Review Geek : The Tor Project Launches a New Browser Adam Rowe / Tech.co : Mullvad VPN's New Brow...

2022-06-30
A great article from Tor board member @KendraSerra, @maggied, & @eiweil about the digital evidence used to prosecute people in states where abortion is illegal. It's not your period tracking data, it's your texts, emails, and web history. https://medium.com/...
2022-06-30 View on X
Kendra Albert

Experts say using period tracker apps does not necessarily put women at additional risk of prosecutions in the wake of SCOTUS overturning Roe v. Wade

2022-03-09
We're very happy to see that Twitter is now offering an .onion address. 🐦🧅 https://twitter3e4tixl4xyajtrzo62zg5vzt mjuricljdp2c5kshju4avyoid.onion/ For many years Tor users have been looking for such a feature. Thank you Twitter! Now is a vital time to help people stay connected and .onion services help to do this. https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-09 View on X
VICE

Twitter launches a Tor onion service using a modified version of the Enterprise Onion Toolkit, letting users access Twitter via any Tor-compatible browser

The site may become the most significant onion service created if it allows people to access Twitter from censored countries.  —  Joseph Cox Source: @alecmuffett .

2021-10-02
A shadowy web of invasive, location-harvesting companies are buying and selling our data with very little oversight. Taking back our privacy is an active process. One step is to use Tor Browser, with built-in protections against trackers & fingerprinting. https://themarkup.org/...
2021-10-02 View on X
The Markup

A look at the $12B location data industry, including how collectors, aggregators, and marketplaces monetize user data

Companies collect and aggregate location data from millions of people's phones. Tweets: Dani Homados / @homados : Most people I talk to don't realize they live in a surveillance ec...

2021-10-01
A shadowy web of invasive, location-harvesting companies are buying and selling our data with very little oversight. Taking back our privacy is an active process. One step is to use Tor Browser, with built-in protections against trackers & fingerprinting. https://themarkup.org/...
2021-10-01 View on X
The Markup

A look at the $12B location data industry, including how collectors, aggregators, and marketplaces monetize user data

A huge but little-known industry has cropped up around monetizing people's movements  —  Companies that you likely have never heard of are hawking access to the location history on...

2021-03-18
Your car is broadcasting data about where you go and what you do. And now a surveillance contractor wants to sell this data to the U.S. military, including “real-time locations of specific cars in nearly any country on Earth.” https://www.vice.com/...
2021-03-18 View on X
VICE

Document: surveillance contractor Ulysses Group marketed a tool that tracks 15B car locations using data from automakers and third parties to the US military

2021-03-12
“For the last two years, police and internet companies across the UK have been quietly building and testing surveillance technology that could log and store the web browsing of every single person in the country.” It's time to switch to Tor Browser. https://www.wired.co.uk/...
2021-03-12 View on X
WIRED UK

UK Home Office confirms trial of web surveillance tool that can track users' browsing history in partnership with two unnamed ISPs and National Crime Agency

The Investigatory Powers Act, or Snooper's Charter, was introduced in 2016.  Now one of its most contentious surveillance tools is being secretly trialled by internet firms

2021-02-06
“We're rarely not in the crosshairs of some spying device... The fact that intelligence can be difficult and tedious to correlate was perhaps the last natural rampart standing between us & total surveillance... Fusion technology eviscerates those spaces.” https://www.wired.com/...
2021-02-06 View on X
Wired

A look at surveillance data fusion, which happens when thousands of disparate devices and tools become one all-seeing surveillance platform

Arthur Holland Michel / Wired : Tweets: @torproject , @wired , @gadgetlab , @wired , and @hypervisible Tweets: @torproject : “We're rarely not in the crosshairs of some spying dev...

2020-06-28
“An enormous number of Americans - probably without even knowing it - are handing over their full location history to shady location data brokers with zero restrictions on what companies can do with it.” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
2020-06-28 View on X
VICE

Data broker Mobilewalla touts tracking BLM protesters' cell data and the locations of evangelicals before 2016 election, and says it has data on 1.6B devices

A data broker that tracked Black Lives Matter protesters also tracked the locations of Evangelical Christians on election …

2020-03-24
“ratcheting up surveillance to combat the pandemic now could permanently open the doors to more invasive forms of snooping later. It is a lesson Americans learned after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001...” https://www.nytimes.com/... .onion: https://www.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion/ ...
2020-03-24 View on X
New York Times

Civil liberties experts argue that governments turning to electronic surveillance to track COVID-19 opens the door to future abuses, as happened after 9/11

it's not just our peace of mind at risk, it's physical safety, protections for fairness & due process, & protections against discrimination & exploitation. injured dignity shouldn'...

“ratcheting up surveillance to combat the pandemic now could permanently open the doors to more invasive forms of snooping later. It is a lesson Americans learned after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001...” https://www.nytimes.com/... .onion: https://www.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion/ ...
2020-03-24 View on X
Reuters

Mobile operators in Italy, Germany, and Austria are now sharing anonymized aggregated data with health authorities, to map people's concentrations and movements

MILAN/BERLIN (Reuters) - Mobile carriers are sharing data with the health authorities in Italy, Germany and Austria …

2020-03-01
Utter madness. Clearview scraped billions of photos for its facial recognition app. New docs reveal it's been used by more than 2,200 law enforcement departments, government agencies, and companies across 27 countries. https://buzzfeednews.com/... .onion: https://bfnews3u2ox4m4ty.onion/ ...
2020-03-01 View on X
BuzzFeed News

Apple disables the iOS developer account of Clearview AI for using the Developer Enterprise Program to distribute its app among its reported 2,200+ customers

BuzzFeed News :

2020-02-29
Utter madness. Clearview scraped billions of photos for its facial recognition app. New docs reveal it's been used by more than 2,200 law enforcement departments, government agencies, and companies across 27 countries. https://buzzfeednews.com/... .onion: https://bfnews3u2ox4m4ty.onion/ ...
2020-02-29 View on X
BuzzFeed News

Apple disables the iOS developer account of Clearview AI for using the Developer Enterprise Program to distribute its app among its reported 2,200+ customers

Apple has disabled the iOS application of Clearview AI — the facial recognition company that claims to have amassed a database …

2019-10-09
More than 400 police departments across the U.S. have entered into surveillance partnerships with Amazon's camera enabled doorbell company, Ring. These partnerships should end. https://www.fightforthefuture.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2019-10-09 View on X
CNET

More than 30 civil rights groups sign an open letter asking mayors and city councils to cancel 500+ existing local police partnerships with Amazon's Ring

Ring has more than 500 police partnerships across the US, and a coalition of civil rights groups are calling for local governments to cancel them all.

2019-09-17
This is a historic win for privacy. Today, the High Court of South Africa in Pretoria declared that bulk interception by the South African National Communications Centre is unlawful and invalid. #surveillance https://privacyinternational.org/ ... .onion: https://privacyintyqcroe.onion/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2019-09-17 View on X
Privacy International

The High Court of South Africa rules that bulk surveillance is unlawful, in case brought after a reporter found his phone communications were recorded in 2008

Privacy International :