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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...

Any EU based users of reddit should immediately file a complaint under GDPR with their supervisory authority (kbin.social)

FTC bans antivirus giant Avast from selling its users' browsing data to advertisers (techcrunch.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/12277165...

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

My government, ladies and gentlemen!

Retriever (retriever.corgea.io)

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

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

Signal introduces usernames and phone number privacy. (signal.org)

When Eyes in the Sky Start Looking Right at You (www.nytimes.com)

New satellites that orbit the Earth at very low altitudes may result in a world where nothing is really off limits....

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:...

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