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GrapheneOS releases Official releases of GrapheneOS, a security and privacy focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.

GrapheneOS based on Android 14 is now available in the Alpha channel. In theory, this release could reach the Beta channel and then Stable. However, we expect more minor regressions will be reported and we'll make another release replacing it before Beta.

grapheneos.org/releases#202...

GrapheneOS releases Official releases of GrapheneOS, a security and privacy focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.

GrapheneOS version 2023090200 released:

grapheneos.org/releases#202...

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release.

Nebraska Mom Pleads Guilty to Giving Abortion Pills to Her Teen Daughter Jessica Burgess faced eight years in prison for helping her then 17-year-old get abortion pills. A plea deal brought it down to two.

Meta turned over their DMs, used as evidence to convict them on felony charges for accessing criminalized healthcare. Meta had the data so had to hand it over.

End to end encryption keeps people safe.

https://jezebel.com/nebraska-mom-pleads-guilty-to-giving-abortion-pills-to-1850621217

Just created a custom feed for GrapheneOS related content.

Link is:

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hto6fpfzyt3zrxvj6lpidqrt/feed/aaapkv4xcy4fc

See https://bsky.app/profile/grapheneos.org/post/3jynyvzahk62u for our previous post about launching support for the Pixel Tablet. We had it supported within around 12 hours of the official launch.

"1984 was not supposed to be an user manual" 🤦‍♂️

(in short, the French senate just approved a bill that will allow to monitor the activities of "suspected individuals" through their smartphone's microphone, GPS and camera, without the individuals being informed of the surveillance)

Try a tweeter usually the neighbours prefer them

Front cover commission job for a client!

@grapheneos.org has a feature called Contact Scopes for granular control over which contacts an app has access to in order to solve problems caused by invasive apps like LinkedIn.

Read more: https://grapheneos.org/features#contact-scopes

Good idea!

Would be nice.

Signal adds an extra layer of camouflage with alternate icons
https://www.androidpolice.com/signal-update-hide-app-icon-name/

Maybe he will be regretting that after his most recent spaces, which kept crashing and not allowing users to join

It is quiet at this time of day

Using a ROM such as GrapheneOS with strict permission control, or alternatively running IOS.

Vanadium version 114.0.5735.53.0 released: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium/releases/tag/114.0.5735.53.0.

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release and a link to the full changelog.

Don't know if or how often I'll be posting on here, but figured I'd better grab this name before somebody else does! Howdy, BlueSky-ers!

Tldr :
An app that had more than 50,000 downloads from Google Play surreptitiously recorded nearby audio every 15 minutes and sent it to the app developer.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/app-with-50000-google-play-installs-sent-attackers-mic-recordings-every-15-minutes/

Britain is writing the playbook for dictators The Online Safety Bill is a model for stripping citizens of their privacy. We won’t go along with it

great piece by @meredithmeredith.bsky.social on why the “online safety bill” is so problematic.

can’t get more clear than “britain is writing the playbook for dictators”.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/21/britain-is-writing-the-playbook-for-dictators/

China Military’s Use of AI Raises Alarm for Congress, Ex-Google CEO China’s embrace of artificial intelligence for warfare has touched off alarm bells everywhere from Silicon Valley to the Pentagon.

Let's be clear: $1.8b for "AI" = ~$1.8b handed to Big Tech companies to license infra, data, & APIs.

This is a subsidy to surveillance cos, justified via rewarmed cold war imaginaries.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-17/china-military-ai-use-raises-alarm-for-congress-ex-google-ceo

https://www.removepaywall.com/

Good for soft paywalls where the article is hidden behind a popup

Community curated block lists will help.

Interesting, I would say its mostly an issue with the invite delegation as I see a lot of individuals in other communities looking for invite codes, so the interest is defiantly there.

GmsCompatConfig (sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer configuration) version 53 released: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/platform_packages_apps_GmsCompat/releases/tag/config-53.

Thanks for the reply and consideration!

Oh hey. @signal.bsky.social is here. :)