Claude Desktop installs undocumented browser extensions for Chrome and other browsers https://lobste.rs/s/pfqxak #privacy #vibecoding
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/
privacy
I've published a new essay on my website.
“Into the Dark Wood: The Right to Be Unknown.”
Oblivion, autonomy, surveillance, and resisting a world that refuses to let us disappear.
🥰 Everybody loves the Murena Fairphone (Gen. 6)!
That’s why we’re making access even easier: Its price is now permanently reduced to $749 in the USA and to €599 in Europe.
Ethical hardware goes hand in hand with ethical software.
👉 https://murena.com/products/smartphones/
🇺🇲 https://murena.com/america/products/smartphones/
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We’re reading “the Sirens’ Call” by MSNBC commentator Chris Hayes. The book brings together several themes that interest me: the evils of #surveillancecapitalism; disinformation on #socialmedia; #privacy rights; and how our personal freedom is harmed by abuses in these areas.
He quotes Phaedrus, a book I’ve always meant to read since encountering it in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance decades ago. Maybe now I will.
Hello #Fediverse! 👋
I’m currently working on a new project: cupertino.social - a future home for the Apple community here on the decentralized web.
I’m building this because I believe we need a space that combines the elegance of the Apple ecosystem with the ethical soul of the Fediverse. A place for those who love the "Unix heart" of their devices and value privacy as a fundamental right.
We are currently "under construction," fine-tuning the infrastructure (strictly European-hosted and independent!) to ensure a smooth, clean, and respectful experience.
Stay tuned for the official launch post soon. I can’t wait to share this journey with you all.
#Introduction #Apple #Privacy #Tech #Mastodon #NewInstance #Unix #EthicalTech
#PeterThiel #Palantir #SurveillanceState #USPolitics #Accountability #TechBillionaires #PoliticalMeme #CurrentEvents #SocialCritique #Hypocrisy #GenerativeAI #Privacy #NoBillionaires #TaxTheRich #EatTheRich #MAGA #FBI #CIA #FuckICE #Project2025 #TrumpEpsteinCoverup #NoKings #AI #FuckAI #AIisTheft #Oligarchy
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Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/
#claude #ai #llm #privacy #cybersecurity #spyware #fuckai #stopai #dataprivacy #anthropic
There is a growing sentiment that the US shouldn't be relied upon for the technologies that many people and businesses use every day.
While we prefer to focus on technical guarantees like strong end-to-end encryption over matters like jurisdiction, these issues still matter, and the United States certainly does not have a monopoly on the best technologies.
We've compiled a list of some of our favorite and highly recommended European privacy tools, to highlight how easy it can be to take your data back from American Big Tech companies: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/03/19/private-european-alternatives/
#EUTech #EuropeanTech #Privacy #USElection2024 #EUCloud #EuropeanAlternatives #PrivacyGuides #Article
💡 Encryption IS online safety 💡
Keeping data secure is key when hackers are skilled at unpicking accounts.
So why does the UK government want to make us unsafe by ordering a backdoor to Apple encrypted services?
✍️ Sign to save encryption this #SaferInternetDay.
#encryption #privacy #Apple #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #digitalrights #e2ee
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/keep-our-apple-data-encrypted
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨
The UK is rogue in trying to order a backdoor to Apple encryption.
US lawmakers slam the UK's secretive order, calling it what it is:
🔥 'Dangerous' for global cybersecurity
🔥 'Effectively a foreign cyberattack'
The Home Office must back off ✋
#encryption #surveillance #e2ee #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #Apple #privacy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/13/apple-uk-security-back-door-adp/
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If you click on a link in a Bluesky post, it is now automatically redirected via the domain go.bsky.app before it actually goes to the link in the post. There is no way to stop this or know that it is happening as the redirect only flickers on the screen for a fraction of a second.
Presumably this means Bluesky can now track all link clicking on their platform, including IP addresses, destinations etc?
Or have I misunderstood?
Bluesky is spinning it as a tool for publishers to track referrals, but going beyond the spin it seems to be giving Bluesky access to people's online activity?
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🚨Best News of the Year: We've stopped a backdoor law in France
Encryption backdoors must never be allowed. We at Tuta will continue to fight against mass surveillance! ✊
DavidV spills the Background Beans here. 🛰️ 📡
But we are still left with 📡 #WAYMO INTERFERING with our ✝️ #GOD GIVEN #PRIVACY RIGHTS by 👹 #Jew_Terrorists & #Nazi_gov out of 🇸🇬 #Singapore?
WAYMO exec admits under #oath cars in the US have " #human_operators " based in #Philippines??? 🇸🇬
🛰️ 📡 #SURVEILLANCE ON 💉 STEROIDS was going to Spearhead #Tesla #Robotaxi instead of #Waymo btw.
🥊 #TastingTraffic LLC put a STOP to that #Insanity and sent 🐀 #MUSKRAT PACKING! 🛰️ 📡
#BONUS: 🇺🇸 APP'S & #APP_STORES ARE #MALICOUS #TRACKING_DEVICES. SEE BELOW..
But we are still left with 🛰️💩 📡 #WAYMO INTERFERING with our ✝️ #GOD GIVEN #PRIVACY RIGHTS by 👹 #Jew_Terrorists & 🔥 #Nazi_gov out of 🇸🇬 #Singapore?
#Mask_up first! Grab your #BASEBALL_BAT! Aim at that at that #SPINNING_THINGY (aka #radar w/ 25 mile radius) on top of any #WAYMO and #HIT a #HOMERUN >> #PROBLEM_SOLVED.
Justification in Court?? #Surveillance W/O CITIZEN #CONSENT! And without #PROBABLE_CAUSE #DISCLOSURE is a GROSS VIOLATION of your ✝️ GOD GIVEN PRIVACY RIGHTS by 🛰️ 📡 #illegal_Survaillance.
🚗 #Waymo #robotaxi 💥 #hits a 👶 #child near an 🏫 #elementary_school in #Santa_Monica, Cali??
A Waymo robotaxi #struck a #child near an elementary school in Santa Monica on January 23, according to the company. Waymo told the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that the child — whose age and identity are not currently public — sustained minor injuries.
The NHTSA has opened an investigation into the accident, and Waymo said in a blog post that it “will cooperate fully with them throughout the process.” The National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday afternoon that it has also opened an investigation in coordination with the Santa Monica Police Department.
#BONUS: 🇺🇸 APP'S & #APP_STORES ARE #MALICOUS #TRACKING_DEVICES 🔥 👹 SEE BELOW..
Again, 📞 Mobile technology was already available in its 🍼 infantile stages back in 2000 | But what wasn't available was 🎯 #free_traffic (web site #exposure)
👢 #Bootstrap is a basic MOBILE PHONE menu system that wraps itself around your existing HTML web site, nothing more.. >> lil scaled down versions of web sites until app store realized THEY could #inject their own #malicious #SPYWARE (converts your mobile phone into a tracking device – SCRAPING (ip theft) your #INTELLECTUAL_PROPERTY (IP) #INVENTION?? etc. etc.
🤑 #usd_subsidies up the ying yang = #Forced and #Manipulated #ON-BOARDING.
🚔 Hello anyone home? ILLEGAL SHERMAN ANTITRUST ACT VIOLATIONS NEVER ENFORCED.
Section 2 is a Felony.
🚔 In the same way #Amazon owns #no_hardware OR Software for that matter as #AWS, #FBA, #Amazon All Piggy Backs off of #ORACLES HARDWARE AND ILLEGAL STOLEN SOFTWARE bc #bezos IS ACTUALLY #BRAINDEAD!
🚔 Amazon runs on a SIMPLE #SHOPPING_CART_SCRIPT worth not more than a package of cigarettes (a trusted #centralized company? We think not!) >> #IDENTITY_AND_MEDICAL_RECORD_THEFT on #steriods!
🎯 But what wasn't available was #free_traffic to launch these lil scaled down version of sites and other #malicious_programs (Called #Software_Applications via #Surveillance_APP_STORES?) that did a lot more than just provide basic site functions AND #GRANULAR #WEBSITE_TRAFFIC.
🧲 They are magnets for third-party illegal cookie attacks. Collecting membership info unknowingly for years.. They are #third_party #software_applications (BACK DOORS) running ON TOP of your website application #BEHIND_THE_SCENES collecting YOUR DATA!! (Think Bitcoin lightening network #BYPASS #TUNNEL added after the fact.. aka Patch = #open_backdoor)
🚔 #ILLEGAL_FRAUD UP THE YING YANG; 💩 but still everyone is in the App Store as if it is some sort of #authority??, #credibility?? or #validation?? of online existence. It's neither. Also Think #NSA and/or #CIA and #PRISM Program and you will start seeing the #scope of #theft and USA GOVERNMENT FRAUD!
And btw since we are founders of #SEO (Search Engine Optimization) why would we need an app store?? We build all our own traffic inhouse to the tune of $180,000.00 USD #NET per #MONTH!??
Stay Tuned for #TASTINGTRAFFIC' upcoming Launch!
* No App Download needed or *required.
* Best of All Zero (0) Third-Party Data Collection!
* We can adapt to ANY mobile device -out the box (any phone). And best of all DATA is In-House PROTECTED without any Third Party Connections.
("App STORES" Deadly lil bugs..)
Driverless taxis from Waymo will be on London’s roads next year, US firm announces
2. https://www.wired.com/story/phantomlance-google-play-malware-apt32/
BONUS! #Fonoptikon - #They_Live
4. https://youtu.be/BSulACythMk
🍷 🍾 #TASTINGTRAFFIC_LLC | The Largest (WWW) #DIGITAL_TRAFFIC PROVIDER in the WORLD since 1999.
🌐 https://tastingtraffic.net/sitemap.xml
TASTINGTRAFFIC_LLC are NOT affiliates of this provider or referenced images used. This is NOT an endorsement OR Sponsored (Paid) Promotion/Reshare.
Can someone recommend a good #freesoftware E2EE IM app that will run on my laptop without me needing a smartphone? The family otherwise uses WhatsApp and they want to keep in touch.
We would like to endorse what @kuketzblog writes about the inclusion of an “AI assistant” into an instant messenger that is still widely used:
It is unfortunate that many journalists do not realise how dangerous the new AI in WhatsApp really is. Der Spiegel, for example, writes in a recent article: “Meta AI does not have access to users' private chats, however, thanks to end-to-end encryption.” As a matter of fact, the AI does have access as it is used in the context of private chats or group chats. Sadly, this misinformation lulls users into a false sense of security. 🤦
Source (in German): https://social.tchncs.de/@kuketzblog/114267998218207258
The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden https://lobste.rs/s/xckxda #privacy
https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-renovation-at-bitwarden
Do not collect the data that you do not need.
Do not collect the data
that you do not need.
Do not collect
the data
that you
do not
need
.
THIS is how Google Maps wants to "calibrate"??
Oh HELL NO!
I'm giving you GPS and I can do the figure 8 sillyness if I need to but give you access to my *camera* to take pics and send them to Google???
Are people really doing this shit?!
AMERICAN PANOPTICON
The #Trump admin is pooling #data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next.
by Ian Bogost & Charlie Warzel
If you were tasked with building a #panopticon, your design might look a lot like the #information stores of the US federal govt—a collection of large, complex agencies, each making use of enormous volumes of data provided by or collected from #citizens.
#law #privacy #InfoSec #AmericanAutocracy #tech #DOGE #Musk #surveillance
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/04/american-panopticon/682616/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxc3WqSyzCi3gasJ-au_BC9g&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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I send thanks to the buyer from California who purchased a canvas print of
Before the Bath -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/before-the-bath-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print
May the artwork take you to a place of peace, calmness, and quiet joy.
#bath #bathroom #woman #beauty #home #art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #sale #sensual #privacy #peace
This week's net.wars, "Dangerous corner", goes to CPDP and finds that privacy issues have expanded to include the electrical grid and farming. "Simplify!" says the EU. For whose benefit? https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/05/23/dangerous-corner/ #NetWars #privacy #HumanRights #CPDP
Hello! It has been a while since I posted an intro, so here goes:
My online name is Dolphin 👋
I am not important. I am not here to sell anything. I hate nazis. I am an #LGBTQIA+ / trans #ally and mom.
I will write nerdy posts that I carefully analyze and source & then post silly things.
My deep dive 🤿, serious posts are generally about 1) #business / #finance / #economics, 2) #HumanRights and 3) #privacy. I often post article screenshots.
/1 of 2 🧵
#Introduction #intro #hello #greetings
Is #LinuxMint burning out? Developers consider longer release cycle
https://nerds.xyz/2026/02/linux-mint-longer-development-cycle/
So many moments in the day, and they don't, really, have to all be efficient.
Of course, if we were machines, that would be different, because the very purpose of a machine is to perform a task efficiently.
But we're not machines, and we're not computers. And more importantly, we are not inferior to machines and computers.
We created them.
After the Bath Grayscale art print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/after-the-bath-grayscale-steve-henderson.html?product=art-print
#bath #home #privacy #quote #art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #peace
