privacy
This simple doesn't go away, does it.
The EU is still at it to kill e2e encryption and read all your messages.
https://www.euronews.com/2023/03/28/the-eus-home-affairs-chief-wants-to-read-your-private-messages
Let them know you don't want any of that.
@edri @chatcontrol
I’m now focusing with Mangotek on helping people + small orgs move away from Big Tech — learning Linux, exploring ethical FOSS tools, and making the shift step-by-step.
If you’re starting your own #BigTechDetox or work in ethical tech, let’s connect, share ideas, and support each other.
Together we can reclaim tech for people, not profit.
💡 Boosts appreciated & welcome! 🙏
#OpenSource #FOSS #Privacy #EthicalTech #Linux #Endof10 #SelfHost #Mangotek
24/7 GPS monitoring of migrants enabled the UK Home Office to collect vast amounts of personal data, invading people’s privacy and inflicting psychological burdens.
It’s a punitive and offensive measure that has rightly been found unlawful by the Information Commissioner’s Office.
#migrants #ukpolitics #surveillance #privacy #GPS #GDPR
https://www.wired.com/story/gps-ankle-tags-uk-privacy-illegal/
This report showing car insurance quotes are more expensive in areas of greater mixed ethnicity is further evidence of how algorithms can embed discrimination and carry real-life harms.
The UK #DPDIBill will make this worse:
🔴 Changes to subject access requests will make it harder to find out what data insurance companies hold on you to challenge a decision or incorrect data.
🔴 Protections from solely automated decisions are weakened.
Google Authenticator still syncs two-factor authentication secrets without E2EE. If you enable cloud syncing, this means:
1️⃣ Google can read the secrets and generate one-time passwords for your accounts
2️⃣ Google knows the services you use
3️⃣ #Google knows your usernames
4️⃣ Given a court order, Google is obliged to hand over this data to law enforcement
#Privacy #privacymatters #CyberSecurity #infosec
https://defcon.social/@mysk/110262313275622023
#introduction Bonjour, I'm Marc (a.k.a. "T0K_"), a #phd student working on #privacy -preserving technologies. Outside the lab, I spend my time playing #videogames and losing #ctf challenges.
With this account, I'll promote some of my academic work . I might also engage in stupid and vibrant debates about random geeky stuffs .
I'm not entirely sure yet what I'll do with this Mastodon account, so I don't exclude the possibility of some cat pics or even some shitposting
If you got a tip & need anonymity you can message me here. (i don’t respond to corporate flacks on signal)
Privacy tip: When you sell or trade-in a vehicle, remember to erase all of your data from the in-car electronics. The car dealerships will NOT do this, although they should be required to.
This wasn’t done for the last few vehicles I’ve purchased. I know one previous owners name, where she lives, what her taste in music is, where her dad lives (and how often she visited him), and what restaurants she often went to. In the wrong hands, this is dangerous as hell.
⚡ BREAKING: Huge win for #Privacy ⚡
German government publishes law to guarantee 'right to encryption' 🔒 💪
We at Tuta Mail applaud the #German government for this move in the right direction. 👏 👏 👏
Here's our comment: https://tuta.com/blog/german-government-publishes-encryption-law
All of a sudden it starts raining handmaids in handcuffs:
http://www.erosblog.com/2024/04/06/its-raining-handmaids-in-handcuffs/
#Facism #Handmaids #HandmaidsTale #Privacy #ReproductiveRights #BurnThePatriarchy #Technology #Patriarchy #Christofacism #Christianity #Ovulation #OvulationTracker #Ovia #Tech #Danger #ReproductiveFreedom
Yesterday I started receiving targeted ads based on ebook borrows from my library (San Francisco Public Library). The content of those ads suggested that the targeters were aware of which books I chose to read.
Forcing a Chinese company to sell TikTok won’t solve the biggest problem with #TikTok: the fact that so people get their “#news” from platforms that are designed to hijack attention for commercial gain, not to deliver reliable information.
If China wants information on Americans, it can buy data from companies since there are no effective #privacy laws.
And American-owned Facebook and X have shown themselves to be as bad or worse as TikTok at spreading #misinformation.
If you are the tech-savvy person within your family or friends group 
:
Never ever shame someone for coming to you for advice after being the victim of a scam, malware, or for using an unsecure product.
If you do this,
they might never come back to you later. They might just feel so ashamed they will just stay alone with their tech problems.
Instead, always tell them:
1. It was a good idea to come to you with this. Be empathetic with them 💚
2. Give them advice on how to minimize the damage now. Actionable advice 🚑
3. Help them harden their security for now and for the future. Recommend better products to them. But be careful not to overwhelm them with advice. One step at the time 🔒
4. Talk to them with respect and empathy. Tell them how the people who abused their trust are horrible and anyone can fall for the right scam. Remind them there are things to do to reduce the risks of being victimized again in the future, and help them slowly implementing these 💪
5. Be thankful they trusted you with this. It means they think highly of you 🥰
Just got doxxed to within 15 miles by a vision model, from only a single photo
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- 19 minutes ago | 10 points | 4 comments
- URL: https://twitter.com/arithmoquine/status/1785834410312454389
- Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40233248
- Summary: A user was located within 15 miles accuracy by a vision model using only a photo of trees, raising privacy concerns. The user expressed surprise at the advancements leading to this outcome. (#Privacy #Technology)
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
ORG has complained to the Information Commissioner's Office (UK) about Meta's changes to their privacy policy.
Meta's plans to take users’ information to 'develop and improve AI' appear to violate GDPR in a number of ways.
We say privacy over profits!
Find out more ⬇️
"Internet Privacy Is Now A Defense And The Other Side Has The Ball"
There's a whole group of privacy advocates who debate the best ways to keep themselves 'protected' on the Internet. Here's my warning.
You can lock down your private interactions with the internet and reduce your exposure to bad actors, but you have zero control over companies who have collected your most personal information.
My take here:
https://me.nead.us/internet-privacy-is-now-a-defense/
SCOOP from Reporting Fellow Francesca D'Annunzio: Texas Department of Public Safety is committing to a five year, $5.3 million contract for Tangles, an AI #surveillance tool that can track cell phones without a court order. (🧵 1/2) https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-tangle-cobwebs/
#Texas #politics #USpol #news #police #tech #privacy #HumanRights #activism #AI
Great interview with @Mer__edith in @WIRED from @agreenberg talking @signalapp, #surveillance, #privacy and #sustainability
"Signal is a nonprofit because a for-profit structure leads to a scenario where one of my board members goes to Davos, talks to some guy, comes back excitedly telling me we need an AI strategy for profit. Or another one of my board members comes in, gets really nervous that our revenue model, whatever it is, isn’t bringing in something that meets our goals and says, “Well, maybe we can start collecting metadata. Maybe we can reduce the focus on privacy, because of course our primary objective function, as a traditional for-profit, is revenue and growth.” And privacy in an economy powered by surveillance will necessarily hamper those."
NEW: Details of people's therapy sessions—including reports, video and audio recordings—have been exposed by a healthcare company.
These included people mentioning sexual abuse and highly sensitive subjects. The exposed database has now been closed down
https://www.wired.com/story/confidant-health-therapy-records-database-exposure/ #cybersecurity #privacy #news #technology
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The rise of Mastodon has made me so much more aware of government services requiring us to use private companies’ systems to communicate with them and access services.
Sitting on a Dutch train just now I was shown on a screen “feeling unsafe in the train? Contact us via WhatsApp”.
What if I don’t use WhatsApp? (I do, but I wish I didn’t have to) I’m forced to share my data with Meta to use it.
Public systems should not require use of private services.
Governments worldwide are training AI models to use them - on US. Cameras are found wherever we go, with growing amounts of footage evaluated not by humans, but #AI!
Under the cover of "fighting crime" this prepares the ground for widespread, automated mass #surveillance.
They are:
✔ Preparing the legal framework
✔ Expanding surveillance infrastructure
✔ Exploring new use cases
More & Sources:
🇬🇧 https://madeindex.org/blog/ai-mass-surveillance-human-rights-violations-made-in-germany
🇩🇪 https://madeindex.org/de/ki-massenueberwachung-menschenrechtsverletzungen-made-in-germany
