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The environmentally conscious, deGoogled Fairphone 4 smartphone is now available in the U.S.

The user repairable Fairphone 4 has been a hit in Europe for the past two years.

It’s now available in the U.S. from Murena, starting at around US$630. No word yet when or if Murena will ship the Fairphone 4 to Canada, but their other models already do, so …

The Verge »

Fairphone is partnering with Murena, a company best known for de-Googling Android phones, to launch the US pilot of the Murena Fairphone 4 — a variant of the handset that runs on a privacy-oriented Android-based operating system: /e/OS.

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Does privacy still exist? » Proton CEO Andy Yen speaking at Viva Tech 2023


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Proton was created in 2014 as Proton Mail by a small group of former CERN and MIT scientists with the goal to make privacy accessible to everyone. It has grown to become the world’s largest secure email service provider. Proton has also become a leading voice in the global privacy movement.

Proton provides easy-to-use encrypted email, calendar, file storage, VPN, password manager, and much more, to millions of people worldwide.

Tesla workers shared invasive and sensitive images recorded by customer cars


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Steve Stecklow, Waylon Cunningham, and Hyunjoo Jin writing for Reuters »

Between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees, opens new tab privately shared via an internal messaging system sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded by customers’ car cameras, according to interviews by Reuters with nine former employees.

Some of the recordings caught Tesla customers in embarrassing situations. One ex-employee described a video of a man approaching a vehicle completely naked.

Also shared: crashes and road-rage incidents. One crash video in 2021 showed a Tesla driving at high speed in a residential area hitting a child riding a bike, according to another ex-employee. The child flew in one direction, the bike in another. The video spread around a Tesla office in San Mateo, California, via private one-on-one chats, “like wildfire,” the ex-employee said.

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