Privacy First: A Better Way to Address Online Harms (www.eff.org)
Simple Mobile Tools to be bought by ZipoApps (github.com)
Confirmation in linked github discussion.
A secret phone surveillance program is spying on millions of Americans (www.foxnews.com)
Imagine that every time you make a phone call, someone is keeping an extraordinarily detailed record of the call.
EP rejects mass scanning of private messages - European Digital Rights (EDRi) (edri.org)
Some Google Drive for Desktop users are missing months of files - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Be careful of trusting google
New laws allowing the Department for Work and Pensions to monitor the bank accounts of benefit claimants are predicted to lead to 7,400 extra prosecutions for fraud each year – resulting in 250 custodial sentences. (www.publictechnology.net)
Impact assessment forecasts that prosecutions will rocket, but claims staff will take ‘account of circumstances and vulnerabilities’ of benefit recipients and ‘no automatic decisions will be made on data alone’...
Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data (www.404media.co)
ChatGPT is full of sensitive private information and spits out verbatim text from CNN, Goodreads, WordPress blogs, fandom wikis, Terms of Service agreements, Stack Overflow source code, Wikipedia pages, news blogs, random internet comments, and much more....
Plex starts narcing on its own users' anime and X-rated habits with an opt-out service, and it's going terribly (www.pcgamer.com)
Section 702 Surveillance Reauthorization May Get Slipped Into ‘Must-Pass’ NDAA | WIRED (www.wired.com)
In Africa’s first ‘safe city,’ surveillance reigns (www.codastory.com)
Nairobi boasts nearly 2,000 Huawei surveillance cameras citywide. But in the nine years since they were installed, it is hard to see their benefits.
Police across Britain equipped with live facial recognition bodycams (inews.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.nz/post/3829409
noyb files GDPR complaint against Meta over “Pay or Okay” (noyb.eu)
Meta charges up to €251.88 per year to respect the fundamental right to privacy of EU users. This is a violation of the GDPR.
An article about how a priest was discovered using gay apps (telefoncek.si)
The priest’s data has been obtained from commercially available databases...
Largest Study of its Kind Shows Outdated Password Practices are Widespread (www.cc.gatech.edu)
“More than half of the websites in the study accepted passwords with six characters or less, with 75% failing to require the recommended eight-character minimum. Around 12% of had no length requirements, and 30% did not support spaces or special characters.”
Kroger Sued for Sharing Sensitive Health Data With Meta (themarkup.org)
Two proposed federal class action lawsuits, filed in the wake of a Markup investigation, accuse the grocer of disclosing private data through its online store and pharmacy...
Google is the master of fake Privacy features - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)
US govt pays AT&T to let cops search Americans' phone records – 'usually' without a warrant (www.theregister.com)
A senator has complained that American law enforcement agencies snoop on US citizens and residents, seemingly without regard for the privacy provisions of the Fourth Amendment, under a secret program called the Hemisphere Project that allows police to conduct searches of trillions of phone records.
SimpleX Chat v5.4 is released (github.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/8465136...
Facebook Watches Teens Online As They Prep for College – The Markup (themarkup.org)
“After signing into their ACT account, if a student accepted cookies on the following page, Facebook received details on almost everything they clicked on—including scrambled but identifiable data like their first and last name, and whether they’re registering for the ACT. The site even registered clicks about a...
Privacy wars will be with us always. Let's set some rules (www.theregister.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.cafe/post/1482289...
Safeguard your privacy: Global Encryption Coalition (www.globalencryption.org)
If you care about data privacy: You may be interested in this organization dedicated to protecting digital human rights and promoting encryption: the Global Encryption Coalition. www.globalencryption.org...
Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records (www.wired.com)
Nick from The Linux Experiment will soon be interviewing Proton CEO Andy Yen And Wants Your Questions For him (mastodon.social)
“I’ll be interviewing Andy Yen, the CEO of #Proton in early December, and I’d like to ask them the questions YOU have about Proton Mail, Drive, Calendar or VPN, or security and privacy in general.”...
filen.io - one time payment plans - encrypted cloud storage (filen.io)
Sorry if this reads like an ad; the link is a non-referral one. (I am broke though if anyone wants me to DM my referral link (10%) lol) I heard about it here and wanted to share for others that were interested by that original post but waiting for a sale....
Is it better to use a non-FOSS email and phone number forwarder or to use one of each for everything? (www.cloaked.app)
I like to try websites out before tying my identity to them. How do you do it? Simplelogin? I honestly won’t manually make a new gmail for every new website I try and I to want the option to see what emails I get.
