The EU Digital Markets Act is here. (element.io)
Spain orders Sam Altman's Worldcoin to shut down eyeball-scanning orbs due to privacy concerns (arstechnica.com)
Spain has moved to block Sam Altman’s cryptocurrency project Worldcoin, the latest blow to a venture that has raised controversy in multiple countries by collecting customers’ personal data using an eyeball-scanning “orb.”...
Advice on cleaning bloatware off of a new PC (www.bestbuy.com)
I helped my 77 year old mother purchase a new laptop, and I want to be sure to get all the bloatware off of it, and set her up with with some better privacy options. I am aMac guy at home so I haven’t done this kind of thing for many years. (I use Windows at work, so I’m quite familiar and capable, but obviously I have to...
How every tech ‘gatekeeper’ is responding to the DMA - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
European Court of Human Rights Confirms: Weakening Encryption Violates Fundamental Rights (www.eff.org)
Signal's Meredith Whittaker scorns anti-encryption efforts as 'parochial, magical thinking' | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
About GNUnet (www.gnunet.org)
PSA: you can't delete photos uploaded to Lemmy. So don't (accidentally) upload a nude. That would be bad 😱 (tech.michaelaltfield.net)
This article will describe how lemmy instance admins can purge images from pict-rs....
uOTP : simple TOTP extension for firefox (addons.mozilla.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/12744832...
Investigators seek push notification metadata in 130 cases (go.theregister.com)
“App developers can encrypt these messages when they’re stored (in transit they’re protected by TLS) but the associated metadata – the app receiving the notification, the time stamp, and network details – is not encrypted.”
"listening in on the neighborhood" - blog post about urban audio surveillance by "SoundThinking" (formerly known as ShotSpotter) in Albuquerque and elsewhere (computer.rip)
U.S. Department of Commerce Publishes Proposed Rule Imposing “Know Your Customer” and Reporting Requirements on U.S. Infrastructure as a Service Providers (www.natlawreview.com)
The Best Password Managers in 2024 (blog.thenewoil.org)
2023 was a record-breaking year for cybersecurity in a bad way. Ransomware payments hit a record high of $1.1 billion, which is likely to…
"I Solved the Phone Number Privacy Problem!" - Braxman (odysee.com)
What do you think of this solution?
Act now to stop WordPress and Tumblr selling your content to AI firms (grahamcluley.com)
u mad, state? (lemmy.world)
WordPress and Tumblr are selling user content to train AI from Midjourney and OpenAI (alternativeto.net)
Bad-At-Privacy Car Companies Now Have to Answer to the FTC (foundation.mozilla.org)
This is good news, hopefully the FTC actually does something.
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...
Meta will start collecting “anonymized” data about Quest headset usage (arstechnica.com)
Police shut more than 14,000 accounts on Mega, Tutanota and Protonmail (therecord.media)
How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (openrss.org)
Google court filing reveals new business details of DuckDuckGo and Neeva | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
'Facial recognition' error message on vending machine sparks concern at University of Waterloo (kitchener.ctvnews.ca)
A set of smart vending machines at the University of Waterloo is expected to be removed from campus after students raised privacy concerns about their software....
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...
