The number of Opsec mistakes this admin made is absolutely insane. I think the average person in this community has better Opsec. (odysee.com)
Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, preventing data broker sales to government agencies, moves forward (cyberscoop.com)
The House Judiciary Committee advanced the bill 30-0....
When privacy expires: how I got access to tons of sensitive citizen data after buying cheap domains (inti.io)
Chat Apps, Government Ties, and Transparency – Threema (threema.ch)
Dutch court convicts engineer to 5 years for maintaining crypto mixer Tornado Cash (www.patrick-breyer.de)
Ars Technica reports Microsoft will add AI to Windows, to steal your corporate secrets (www.reddit.com)
Microsoft has started rolling out a.i. to its Windows Operating System for PCs. This “feature” pretends to make it easier to find documents on a computer....
Anyone familiar with "No Trace Project"? (www.notrace.how)
Title says it all–a fellow bricoleur just turned me on to the No Trace Project and I’m curious to know if anyone else here has looked into it and the quality of the information therein. Thanks in advance!
Android's new anti-theft features (blog.google)
cross-posted from: lemy.lol/post/25062075
Visa Adds New Way To Share Customer Shopping Data With Retailers (www.businesswire.com)
Visa is rolling out new technology that will allow the payments giant to share more information about customers’ preferences [non-paywalled source] based on their shopping history with retailers as it seeks to remain a top player in the competitive e-commerce space. From a report:...
Is Privacy Worth It? (blog.thenewoil.org)
When I announced I would be closing my communities earlier this year, a curious thing happened: a surprising number of regulars replied with some variation of “I think this is my exit.” While some were specifically talking about Matrix, claiming that mine was the only room they were really active in and therefore they saw no...
OpenAI and Reddit Partnership (t.co)
It has finally happened…not surprised though.
FTC Warns Car Makers Regarding Privacy (arstechnica.com)
It’s not quite enough for me, personally, but this is a small step in the right direction....
Telegram CEO calls out rival Signal, claiming it has ties to US government (www.theregister.com)
Thoughts on LMO Droid? (lmo.framer.website)
I discovered this recently, I think it’s a fork of Lineage? Some stuff they list is already part of Lineage but some seems extra...
Randomly getting Notion email, after having deleted my account years ago... (slrpnk.net)
Welp I guess this is the perfect example of companies not deleting your credentials and account info when asking for it… I deleted my Notion account several years ago. And completely randomly today got an email from them about data retention, assuming this is one of those “important” emails they have to send out. Sadly,...
Reddit: 'We Are in the Early Stages of Monetizing Our User Base' (www.404media.co)
Reddit said in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission that its users’ posts are “a valuable source of conversation data and knowledge” that has been and will continue to be an important mechanism for training AI and large language models. The filing also states that the company believes “we are in the early...
Are right wingers creating FUD around Signal? (hachyderm.io)
Telegram apparently censor queer groups (mastodon.social)
cross-posted from: leminal.space/post/6433881
Fake WhatsApp and Instagram apps that can steal personal data (www.infoterkiniviral.com)
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/13793778...
Happy Net Box by Ben Brown (happynetbox.com)
Happy Net Box is an experimental internet social experience based on the arcane and near-forgotten retro internet protocol known as FINGER....
Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain (restoreprivacy.com)
Why the state monopoly on identity is worse than Big Tech (medium.com)
Mozilla to protect Firefox users from bounce trackers - Stack Diary (stackdiary.com)
US Senate to Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Call ‘Stasi-Like’ (www.wired.com)
If you’re in the US, now’s a great time to contact your Senators. You can either call the Congressional switchboard at (202) 224-3121 or use the Senate directory to look up your legislators’ contact info....