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[Book] Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy (direct.mit.edu)

Companies line up to undercut key data privacy law (www.politico.com)

Worldcoin hit with another ban order in Europe citing risks to kids (feddit.cl)

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WordPress and Tumblr are selling user content to train AI from Midjourney and OpenAI (alternativeto.net)

Unveiling the Surveillance Potential of Targeted Advertising Data (www.wired.com)

The article discusses the use of targeted advertising data by government agencies, particularly focusing on how a technology consultant demonstrated the security risks posed by Grindr’s data to national security agencies. It highlights the widespread availability and potential surveillance applications of advertising data, as...

Google court filing reveals new business details of DuckDuckGo and Neeva | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Vietnam to collect biometrics - even DNA - for new ID cards (www.theregister.com)

My government, ladies and gentlemen!

Signal Finally Rolls Out Usernames, So You Can Keep Your Phone Number Private (www.wired.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/12200311...

How Android Wallpaper Images Can Threaten Your Privacy (fingerprint.com)

Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content (www.theverge.com)

Update: I made a spreadsheet that ranks messaging apps for privacy (privacyspreadsheet.com)

I’ve been working hard on the privacy spreadsheet, which has been in development for over 150 hours now. Its been updated, and now includes more messaging apps and more data, with a better format. I’m still working on the sidebar issue, if anyone knows how to fix it, here’s the GitHub repo:...

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How to Quickly Get to the Important Truth Inside Any Privacy Policy – The Markup (themarkup.org)

The Great Privacy Awakening (piped.video)

Apple is bringing sideloading and alternate app stores to the iPhone (www.theverge.com)

Brave to end 'Strict' fingerprinting protection as it breaks websites (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

How to Stop Your X Account From Getting Hacked Like the SEC’s (www.wired.com)

X’s move to make people pay for a basic form of two-factor is problematic. It also created confusion because the company prompted free users to switch away from SMS two-factor, but then seemingly simply turned off the protection altogether for those who didn’t. This likely left a group of users in a situation where they...

UK porn watchers could have faces scanned (www.bbc.co.uk)

Looks like UK is going the same way as a few states. Spare a thought for us. So messed up this increasing surveillance state.

Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users (www.macrumors.com)

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....

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