National Court orders blocking of Telegram in Spain (www.lavanguardia.com)
u mad, state? (lemmy.world)
PayPal Is Planning an Ad Business Using Data on Its Millions of Shoppers (www.wsj.com)
Wall Street Journal (paywalled) The digital payments company plans to build an ad sales business around the reams of data it generates from tracking the purchases as well as the broader spending behaviors of millions of consumers who use its services, which include the more socially-enabled Venmo app....
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...
Microsoft plans to lock down Windows DNS like never before. Here’s how. (arstechnica.com)
What are your thoughts on Invizible pro ? (f-droid.org)
The app seems fairly small in size compared to orbot which is really old and also invizible pro seems to do a ton of things that including firewall vpn etc . So does it connect to tor network properly and pass all your traffic through it as good as orbot and completely block internet acces to not whitelisted services as good as...
New Windows driver blocks software from changing default web browser (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Signal's Meredith Whittaker scorns anti-encryption efforts as 'parochial, magical thinking' | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Google is Working on a Recall Feature for ChromeOS - Thurrott.com (www.thurrott.com)
Telegram apparently censor queer groups (mastodon.social)
cross-posted from: leminal.space/post/6433881
A Federal TikTok Ban is a 'Misguided Detour' from Doing What’s Needed to Protect People’s Privacy and Safeguard National Security (www.commondreams.org)
Are right wingers creating FUD around Signal? (hachyderm.io)
European Law Enforcement Officials Declare Encryption Must Be Broken To Ensure Public Safety (www.techdirt.com)
from the less-safety-equals-more-safety,-say-EuroCops dept
Google agrees to destroy browsing data collected in Incognito mode (www.theverge.com)
Not sure which news website I should be using for the link, sorry! I’m happy to change it if anyone has a better one....
A Rising Enforcement of Censorship (blog.thenewoil.org)
In recent weeks, I’ve noticed a rise in censorship regarding SMS communication that’s not being discussed. At all. I’m concerned that it may become a slippery slope that eventually effects us all. I don’t have any dramatic, prose-ridden introduction this week. Just some news, facts, and observations I wanted to share. So...
Israel using Meta's WhatsApp to kill Palestinians in Gaza through AI system (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
According to software engineer and blogger, Paul Biggar, however, one key detail on the methods employed by the Lavender system that is often overlooked is the involvement of the messaging platform, WhatsApp. A major determining factor of the system’s identification is simply if an individual is in a WhatsApp group containing...
The Next Generation of Cell-Site Simulators is Here. Here’s What We Know. (www.eff.org)
HeliBoard, a privacy-conscious open-source Android keyboard based on AOSP/now-unmaintained OpenBoard, is now available on F-Droid (f-droid.org)
HeliBoard keyboard is an improved fork of the now-unmaintained OpenBoard keyboard. It does not require internet permission, allowing it to be used 100% offline....
Stop playing games with online security, Signal president warns EU lawmakers (techcrunch.com)
Follow-up to last week’s story:...
Venmo/ Paypal Alternatives (kbin.run)
I've long been annoyed that everyone, including myself uses Paypal/ Venmo for moving money around. What alternatives do you find useful? Here's a list (https://alternativeto.net/software/venmo/). GNU Taler looks viable (https://taler.net/en/index.html). I would love to have your thoughts!...
EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy (www.theregister.com)
The EU’s Data Protection Board (EDPB) has told large online platforms they should not offer users a binary choice between paying for a service and consenting to their personal data being used to provide targeted advertising....
Mozilla Stands Against Google's New Advertising Tech (news.itsfoss.com)
Signal’s New Usernames Help Keep the Cops Out of Your Data (theintercept.com)
The Bitcoiners were wrong: a blog post about privacy and bitcoin, and how they failed to design a cash alternative (unfathom.ing)
EFF Dice-Generated Passphrases | Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org)
This is really good for encrypted content such as a hard drive, password vault or gpg key
