How Android Wallpaper Images Can Threaten Your Privacy (fingerprint.com)
Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content (www.theverge.com)
Data Broker Sold Location Data of Visitors to 600 Planned Parenthood Facilities to Anti-Abortion Group for Targeted Advertising (www.theregister.com)
Indian Government to block ProtonMail after bomb threats were sent using a ProtonMail account (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/11998237...
Sustaining Proton’s mission over time | Proton (proton.me)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/10063199...
Mozilla's *Privacy Not Included team digs into privacy issues in "Romantic AI Chatbots". Spooky stuff (foundation.mozilla.org)
The whole article’s a great read, but here’s a fun excerpt=...
The Openboard fork reached its first release 1.0 and changed its name to HeliBoard (github.com)
Privacy Isn't Dead. Far From It. (www.eff.org)
Skiff sold out to Notion (skiff.com)
It seems like all it took was the right amount of cash for privacy not to matter anymore.
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:...
I made a spreadsheet that ranks messengers for privacy (privacyspreadsheet.com)
I’ve been working really hard to research and rank messaging apps by their privacy. The more green boxes the better....
Are you you looking for a private office suite? Try Libreoffice (www.libreoffice.org)
750m Indian mobile subscribers’ info for sale on dark web (www.theregister.com)
How to Quickly Get to the Important Truth Inside Any Privacy Policy – The Markup (themarkup.org)
The Great Privacy Awakening (piped.video)
Nitter is shutting down (github.com)
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Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are “as painful as possible” for Firefox (www.theverge.com)
Mozilla is unhappy because the use of browser engines other than WebKit will be restricted to the EU, forcing them to develop two different apps....
iPhone Apps Secretly Harvest Data When They Send You Notifications, Researchers Find (gizmodo.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/11219865...
NSA Buys Americans’ Internet Data Without Warrants, Letter Says (www.reuters.com) Portuguese
NSA Director Paul Nakasone confirmed such purchases in his letter to Wyden, saying the data collected “may include information associated with electronic devices being used outside - and, in certain cases, inside - the United States.”
Apple is bringing sideloading and alternate app stores to the iPhone (www.theverge.com)
Cryptographers Just Got Closer to Enabling Fully Private Internet Searches (www.wired.com)
" three researchers have crafted a long-sought version of private information retrieval and extended it to build a more general privacy strategy. The work, which received a Best Paper Award in June 2023 at the annual Symposium on Theory of Computing, topples a major theoretical barrier on the way to a truly private search."
Brave to end 'Strict' fingerprinting protection as it breaks websites (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Fossify Phone (Fossify is a fork of Simple Mobile Tools) is now available, adding to Fossify's existing Gallery, File Manager, and Calendar apps (f-droid.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/11117839...
Facebook Messenger's Rollout of End-to-End Encryption Leaves Metadata Questions Unanswered (spectrum.ieee.org)
Excerpts from the article and another article by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) :...
Riot Games Now Requires Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Software for League of Legends, Following Valorant's Implementation (tuta.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/10958052...