The Instagram ads Facebook won't show you

Companies like Facebook aren’t building technology for you, they’re building technology for your data. They collect everything they can from FB, Instagram, and WhatsApp in order to sell visibility into people and their lives.

This isn’t exactly a secret, but the full picture is hazy to most – dimly concealed within complex, opaquely-rendered systems and fine print designed to be scrolled past. The way most of the internet works today would be considered intolerable if translated into comprehensible real world analogs, but it endures because it is invisible.

https://signal.org/blog/the-instagram-ads-you-will-never-see/

#signal #instagram #facebook #DeleteFacebook #ads #data #thinkabout
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Signal is experiencing technical difficulties.

We are working hard to restore service as quickly as possible.

https://status.signal.org/

#signal #down
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Facebook shut down Signal’s ads because they exposed too much

Facebook has barred privacy-focused messaging app Signal from running a series of Instagram ads, which would have exposed just how much personal information the photo-sharing network – and its social media behemoth owner – has on individuals as they browse their timeline. Signal had intended to use Instagram’s own third-party advert tools to reveal some of the precise targeting that advertisers can buy access to.

There’s a general acknowledgement these days that advertisers can filter who, exactly, sees their commercials. That makes good business sense, after all: there’s no point in showing ads to people who are unlikely to be interested in your product.

However it’s likely that few mainstream consumers are aware of quite how much targeted information ad network providers like Facebook hold on them. Collated across multiple interactions online – with websites, apps, services, and more – they help build unexpectedly precise profiles about each user. Those profiles can then in turn be sold as visibility filters to more advertisers, so that they can further narrow down their campaigns to whoever they believe will be the most receptive audience.

https://www.slashgear.com/facebook-shut-down-signals-ads-because-they-exposed-too-much-04671574/

💡 read as well:
https://t.me/BlackBox_Archiv/2138

#signal #instagram #facebook #DeleteFacebook #ads #data #thinkabout
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I Have a Lot to Say About Signal’s Cellebrite Hack | Center for Internet and Society
https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2021/05/i-have-lot-say-about-signal%E2%80%99s-cellebrite-hack

#Signal #Cellebrite #MobileForensics

According to an internal report of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, the easiest way for intelligence agencies to read the correspondence of messaging services.
#intelligence #fbi #signal #telegram #wickr #le #im

Feds Accessed Encrypted Signal Messages To Charge Oath Keepers' Leader Over Jan 6

Federal Investigators have admitted to accessing encrypted messages sent on Signal before the Capitol riots, to help charge the Oath Keepers' leader and other defendants for 'seditious plots'.

Investigators did not confirm how they accessed them, as the encryption allows only the sender and recipients to read them - even #Signal can't. One possibility is someone with access to the group messages cooperated with the authorities and handed them over.

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Belgium wants to ban Signal

Last week, the Belgian government launched a proposal that would ban Signal.

Just over seven years ago, a Dutch court threw out the Dutch Telecommunications Data Retention Act. Under that law, telecommunication providers were obliged to retain metadata about our communications for up to two years. This did not concern the content of a message or conversation, but information about who has contact with whom. And when. And the location of the participants. It was almost inevitable that the court would invalidate this law: European judges previously declared the European Data Retention Directive invalid, and the Dutch law was its national implementation.

https://edri.org/our-work/belgium-wants-to-ban-signal-a-harbinger-of-european-policy-to-come/
#belgium #signal

#Signal Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)

https://signal.org/blog/sms-removal-android/

#Signal would 'walk' from UK if Online Safety Bill undermined encryption - BBC News
https://web.archive.org/web/20230224103103/https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64584001


The encrypted-messaging app Signal has said it would stop providing services in the UK if a new law undermined encryption.
If forced to weaken the privacy of its messaging system under the Online Safety Bill, the organisation "would absolutely, 100% walk" Signal president Meredith Whittaker told the BBC.


#UK #Privacy #Encryption

#Tucker #Carlson on How the #NSA Hacked His #Signal Account to Stop Him From Interviewing Putin

"Everyone's in on it. Republicans and Democrats are all in on it."

https://rumble.com/v2ck8m0-tucker-carlson-on-how-the-nsa-hacked-his-signal-account-to-stop-him-from-in.html

https://twitter.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1634322345509756930

@ChiefNerd

KryptEY - Secure E2EE communication


An Android keyboard for secure end-to-end-encrypted messages through the Signal protocol in any messenger. Communicate securely and independent, regardless of the legal situation or whether messengers use E2EE. No server needed.
https://github.com/amnesica/KryptEY

F-Droid
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.amnesica.kryptey/
IzzyOnDroid
https://android.izzysoft.de/repo/apk/com.amnesica.kryptey

Reminder : new apps available in F-Droid app may not emmediatly show on the F-Droid web site ( ie when you share the link app it returns a 404 error ) some extra time is needed for both to be available
https://gitlab.com/fdroid/wiki/-/wikis/FAQ#how-long-does-it-take-for-my-app-to-show-up-on-website-and-client

#encryption #keyboard #E2EE
#messenger #security #Signal

Paragon Graphite is a Pegasus spyware clone used in the US –

The US government banned the use of NSO’s Pegasus spyware 18 months ago, but a new report today says that at least one government agency is using very similar malware from a rival company: Paragon Graphite.

According to four [industry figures], the US Drug Enforcement and Administration Agency is among the top customers for Paragon’s signature product nicknamed Graphite.

The #malware surreptitiously pierces the protections of modern smartphones and evades the encryption of messaging apps like #Signal or #WhatsApp, sometimes harvesting the data from cloud backups – much like Pegasus does.

#spyware #US #Clone #Pegasus #NSO #DEA #ParagonGraphite #Paragon

#Signal spokesperson vs government mercenary on their latest #UK #bill intended to force backdoors and destroy #privacy

Quantum Resistance and the #Signal Protocol

https://signal.org/blog/pqxdh/

The #CIA Pulled Their Funding from #Signal??!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA89g8nLXMI

Quiet

Encrypted p2p team chat with no servers, just Tor.

https://tryquiet.org/index.html

https://github.com/TryQuiet/quiet

Currently in developpement stage so be cautious of your data

Quiet is an alternative to team chat apps like Slack, Discord, and Element that does not require trusting a central server or running one's own. In Quiet, all data syncs directly between a team's devices over Tor with no server required.

No email or phone number required, Unlike #Slack, #Discord, #WhatsApp, #Telegram, and #Signal, no email or phone number is required to create or join a #community.

End-to-end encryption, All data is #encrypted end-to-end between member devices, using Tor.

Channels, Organize chats in Slack-like channels, so conversations don't get messy.

Images, Send and receive images, with copy/paste, drag & drop, and image previews.

Files, Send and receive files of unlimited size!

Notifications, Invite links, Keyboard controls, Desktop apps

Android, Quiet works on Android, and F-Droid support is on the way.

#E2E #Chat #Quiet #Tor

#WhatsApp, #Signal and #Telegram among apps cut from #iPhone app store to comply with censorship demand

#China ordered #Apple to remove some of the world’s most popular chat messaging apps from its app store in the country, the latest example of censorship demands on the iPhone seller in the company’s second-biggest market.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-removes-whatsapp-threads-from-china-app-store-on-government-orders-a0c02100

The encrypted-messaging service #Signal is the application of choice for dissenters around the world. The app has been downloaded by more than 100 million users and boasts high-profile endorsements from NSA leaker Edward Snowden and serial entrepreneur Elon Musk. Signal has created the perception that its users, including political dissidents, can communicate with one another without fear of government interception or persecution.

But the insider history of Signal raises questions about the app’s origins and its relationship with government—in particular, with the American intelligence apparatus. Such a relationship would be troubling, given how much we have learned, in recent years, about extensive efforts to control and censor information undertaken by technology companies, sometimes in tandem with American government officials...

So what does all this mean for American users—including conservative dissidents—who believe that Signal is a secure application for communication? It means that they should be cautious. “Maher’s presence on the board of Signal is alarming,” says national security analyst J. Michael Waller. “It makes sense that a Color Revolutionary like Maher would have interest in Signal as a secure means of communicating,” he says, but her past support for censorship and apparent intelligence connections raise doubts about Signal’s trustworthiness. https://www.city-journal.org/article/signals-katherine-maher-problem