privacy

“Verizon royally fucked up,” Poppy told me in a phone call. “There’s no way around it.” Verizon, she added, was “100% at fault.”...

Initially saw this article from Brian Krebs mastodon account....

Comcast has confirmed that hackers exploiting a critical-rated security vulnerability accessed the sensitive information of almost 36 million Xfinity customers....

As an Indian, I know protesting against this bill is the best we can do but it seems like most of the people in country arent aware about this or simply dont care, this is disastorous!!

We’ve heard our users loud and clear - interoperable end to end encryption (E2EE) across email providers is critical for privacy and security online. We have taken this feedback to heart. We are proud to announce support for PGP encryption inside Skiff mail starting today for all users across all tiers, including Free.

The highlight of the research is that Apple users were less likely to be victims of financial fraud after Apple implemented the App Tracking Transparency policy. The results showed a 10% increase in the share of Apple users in a particular ZIP code leads to roughly 3% reduction in financial fraud complaints....

Hey all...

I don’t like so called smartphones (flashy devices to mine your data and other reasons) but my regular no touchscreen phone’s microphone is no longer working as it should, making conversations difficult....

Cross posted from: midwest.social/post/6593381

I dont understand why threat actors / hackers use telegram which obtains your phone number and not simplex or even signal for that matter

What to say to people who say this kinda of thing? Usually I just say “ok then”

From a privacy standpoint, i guess. I want to support open scrobbling with listenbrainz and the account isn’t directly linked to a real acc. Why shouldn’t I/ why don’t you?

Things like privacy statements and permission to use cookies are little more than sophisticated propaganda. If you think for a moment the Overlords cannot prepare a dossier on you within minutes that would make your mother faint and your father die of shame, you’re living in fantasy land. You have no idea how much data they...

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The link is german, so here’s the important bit translated:...

Heyha !...

They are collecting our medical records. I know this personally because an exgirlfriend of mine is a lawyer at Google and told me the same.

I’m running Graphene on a Pixel 6. I lost it and someone opened it somehow and called two of my contacts to give it back....

“nothing to hide, nothing to fear”

Question for the group on a problem I’m trying to solve: How can I block internet access for some apps on standard, OOTB Android?...