Mozilla Caves to Criticism, Unblocks Firefox Extensions in Russia
Two days after blocking anti-Censorship, pro-Privacy Firefox Extensions in Russia, Mozilla has reversed course. ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Top 5 Tips to Ensure IoT Security for Your Business
In an increasingly tech-driven world, the implementation of IoT for business is a given. According to the latest data, there are currently 17.08 billion connected IoT devices– and counting. A growing number of devices requires robust IoT security to maintain privacy, protect sensitive data and prevent unauthorised access to connected devices.
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Even though I wonder how they finance it (reading their post suggests, there will be a paid option later), DuckDuckGo’s AI Chat is probably a good privacy-friendly way to try out the different LLM models for chats. You don’t have to register, you don’t have to pay, you don’t have to change settings that your chats aren’t saved or used for training. ⌘ Read more
How to Opt Out of ChatGPT Using Your Training Data While Keeping Chat History
ChatGPT defaults to using your chat history and chat interactions as training data for the ChatGPT service and AI model. One of the most obvious reasons for this is that prior interactions with ChatGPT can be used to refine the Large Language Model and to improve the service, but there are obviously some privacy and … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024/04/12/how-opt-out-chatgpt-training … ⌘ Read more
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Cool news from: https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/
How to Stop iPhone Apps Snooping via Push Notifications
Apple is well known for being a privacy centric company and building tons of security and privacy features into the iPhone and iPad to control things like location tracking and app tracking, but some big name app developers are coming up with creative ways to pry details about your device. One such crafty method of … Read More ⌘ Read more
Profanity: Profanity 0.14.0
Apologies for the late blog post.
We have good news though! Two weeks ago we released Profanity 0.14.0!
13 people contributed to this release: Daniel Santos, @DebXWoody, @H3rnand3zzz, @ike08, @MarcoPolo-PasTonMolo, @mdosch, @pasis, @paulfertser, @shahab-vahedi, @sjaeckel, @techmetx11, @thexhr and @jubalh.
Also a big thanks to our sponsors: @mdosch, @LeSpocky, @jamesponddotco and one anonymous sponsor!
We introduced a new /privacy command which should make it easier to find all pri … ⌘ Read more
GitHub achieves ISO/IEC 27701:2019, 27018:2019, and CSA STAR certifications
GitHub’s Information Security and Privacy Management System (ISPMS) has been certified against ISO/IEC 27701:2019 (PII Processor) and 27018:2019 standards, as well as the Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM). These standards and frameworks are internationally recognized for security and privacy program best practices. ⌘ Read more
Google Says It’ll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI
Google updated its privacy policy over the weekend, explicitly saying the company reserves the right to scrape just about everything you post online to build its AI tools.
Google can eat shit.
Metadata from a single picture can destroy your privacy
What someone can learn from your Image EXIF Metadata, and how to secure your photos ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net I get the worry of privacy. But I think there is some value in the data being collected. Do I think that Russ is up there scheming new ways to discover what packages you use in internal projects for targeting ads?? Probably not.
Go has always been driven by usage data. Look at modules. There was need for having repeatable builds so various package tool chains were made and evolved into what we have today. Generics took time and seeing pain points where they would provide value. They weren’t done just so it could be checked off on a box of features. Some languages seem to do that to the extreme.
Whenever changes are made to the language there are extensive searches across public modules for where the change might cause issues or could be improved with the change. The fs embed and strings.Cut come to mind.
I think its good that the language maintainers are using what metrics they have to guide where to focus time and energy. Some of the other languages could use it. So time and effort isn’t wasted in maintaining something that has little impact.
The economics of the “spying” are to improve the product and ecosystem. Is it “spying” when a municipality uses water usage metrics in neighborhoods to forecast need of new water projects? Or is it to discover your shower habits for nefarious reasons?
GitHub Copilot is generally available for businesses
GitHub Copilot for Business is officially here with simple license management, organization-wide policy controls, and industry-leading privacy—all for $19 USD per user per month. ⌘ Read more
Although there are definitely reasons to hate Windows, there are also reasons to like Windows 11: Linux GUI apps, Android apps, winget package manager and improved window tiling. It would be even better, when one wouldn’t need to toogle all the privacy and telemety settings first… ⌘ Read more
**RT by @mind_booster: Who’d a thought. Golly gosh. Apple “privacy is a fundamental human right” .. but ….
“Apple Is Tracking You Even When Its Own Privacy Settings Say It’s Not, New Research Says”
https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-analytics-tracking-even-when-off-app-store-1849757558**
Who’d a thought. Golly gosh. Apple “privacy is a fundamental human right” .. but ….
“Apple Is Tracking You Even When Its Own Privacy Settings Say It’s Not, New Research Says”
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While I’m all for people moving away from platforms like Twitter and embracing more freedom- and privacy-centric systems such as Mastodon, I do worry that many of them might be doing it purely for ideological reasons and may have no interest in maintaining the respectful atmosphere Mastodon is well-known for.
RT @joinmastodon@joinmastodon
Monetization usually means ads, changing the website to have people see more ads, invading people’s privacy to make sure they’ve seen ads… A single website also means one organization is in complete control. If they do what you don’t want them to do, you’re out of luck.
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JMP: Privacy and Threat Modelling
One often hears people ask if a product or service is “good for privacy” or if some practice they intend to incorporate is “good enough” for their privacy needs. The problem with most such questions is that they often lack the necessary context, called a threat model, in order to even begin to understand how to answer them. Understanding your own threat model (and making any implicit model you carry more explicit to yourself) is one of the most important steps you can take to im … ⌘ Read more
JMP: Privacy and Threat Modelling
One often hears people ask if a product or service is “good for privacy” or if some practice they intend to incorporate is “good enough” for their privacy needs. The problem with most such questions is that they often lack the necessary context, called a threat model, in order to even begin to understand how to answer them. Understanding your own threat model (and making any implicit model you carry more explicit to yourself) is one of the most important steps you can take to im … ⌘ Read more
The Circle
Some years ago, I started reading the novel “The Circle” by Dave Eggers. I never finished reading it, but today I watched the movie. It has an important message about privacy, transparency and surveillance and shows that there’s a thin line in-between those. I can definitely recommend watching it, although I sometimes wasn’t impressed by the acting. ⌘ Read more
TeamViewer installs a suspicious font, apparently only for browser fingerprinting: https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/teamviewer-font-privacy.html
US ‘smart city’ tech highlights contrasts with China over privacy and control
American communities try to balance the benefits of new technology with the threats of a surveillance state. ⌘ Read more
With Roe vs Wade overturned, fears grow online data could be weaponised against abortion seekers in US
Privacy groups worried that social media posts or information on apps could be used by authorities to build cases. ⌘ Read more
Great blog post. I’ve been thinking about this, just couldn’t put it into words. https://seirdy.one/posts/2022/06/25/two-types-of-privacy/
Instagram to protect young users with new AI tool to verify age
Global lawmakers have been vocal in demanding the social media service safeguard young people from adult content and invasions of their privacy. ⌘ Read more
I am a Bunny.net fan as they offer a CDN at a good price, are based in Europe and really care about privacy. The latest tool they offer: Bunny Fonts as a replacement for Google Fonts, because its use is illegal in Germany. 👍 ⌘ Read more
Western outcry over Hong Kong’s anti-doxxing laws smacks of hypocrisy
Data privacy is a global concern, with many countries developing legislation to protect individuals’ personal details. Yet, in Hong Kong, such laws are suspected of masking a hidden agenda. ⌘ Read more
RT by @mind_booster: 1/10 @EU_Commission needs to understand that playing with online privacy & security affects EVERYONE. @edri alongside 70+ civil society & professional organisations urge the withdrawal of the CSA Regulation & call for an alternative that is compatible with EU href=”https://we.loveprivacy.club/search?q=%23FundamentalRights👇🏿”>#FundamentalRights👇🏿**
1/10 @EU_Commission needs to understand that playing with online privacy & security affects EVERYONE. @edri alongside 70+ … ⌘ Read more
**RT by @mind_booster: EU Commissioner @YlvaJohansson is preparing to launch a new law to force the mass surveillance of private online communications but has refused to meet with privacy experts like @EDRi.
The Commissioner has met with Facebook but https://Has-Commissioner-Johansson-met-with-Digital-Rights-Groups.eu?
#KeepItSecure #DoBetter**
EU Commissioner @YlvaJohansson is preparing to launch a new law to force the mass surveillance of private onli … ⌘ Read more
Big day for privacy. Tails has been updated to 5.0, now based on Debian 11. https://tails.boum.org/news/version_5.0/index.en.html
I don’t use social media anymore, mostly for privacy reasons, but one of the things I miss about it is being able to interact directly with creators I enjoy.
Dino: Dino 0.3 Release
Dino is a secure and privacy-friendly messaging application. It uses the XMPP (Jabber) protocol for decentralized communication. We aim to provide an intuitive, clean and modern user interface.
The 0.3 release is all about calls. Dino now supports calls between two or more people!
Calls are end-to-end encrypted and use a direct connection between … ⌘ Read more
Telegram Ads
So Telegram now has ads. But unlike the ads from Google, Facebook or Apple, the ads are not personalized and much more privacy friendly. The ads simply consist of a maximum 160-character message with no external links and are displayed only in large public channels. ⌘ Read more
Revised enterprise DPA with new standard contractual clauses
As part of GitHub’s strong commitment to developer privacy, we are excited to announce updates to our privacy agreements in line with new legal requirements and our own robust data protection practices. ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Public Records and Privacy https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/08/01/records.html #privacy
Switching search engines today from DuckDuckGo to Ecosia as ClimateChange has a higher prio than our privacy.
GCHQ’s mass data-sharing violated right to privacy, court rules
https://www.blog-libre.org/2017/09/21/messagerie-email-ethique-comment-preserver-sa-vie-privee-et-celle-de-son-entourage/ email privacy
Monero and Other Privacy Coins ⌘ Read more…
@prologic@twtxt.net Twtxt.net’s privacy policy says you store emails, /register disagrees. Which is true?
“Charting a course towards a more privacy-first web.” Yeah, okay Google. https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/a-more-privacy-first-web/
Calls to “own your data” and focus on “privacy” fall on deaf ears if you’re sponsored by Google and Mozilla, recommending the use of Tumblr.
Erlang Solutions: How to ensure your Instant Messaging solution offers users privacy and security. ⌘ Read more…
Erlang Solutions: How to ensure your Instant Messaging solution offers users privacy and security. ⌘ Read more…
Moxie Marlinspike Has a Plan to Reclaim Our Privacy ⌘ Read more…