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.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/joinmastodon/status/1586886723858042880 ⌘ 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
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
new blog post: PSA about data privacy, please read
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.
Profile photos, privacy, and social media
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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
Yarn.social is a decentralised self-hosted social media that has a privacy-first focus
📣 NEW: Releases - yarn - v0.13.0 - Aluminium Amarok
1 points posted by James Mills ⌘ 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.
How does Mail Privacy cloak my location? Does it proxy my e-mail through Apple?
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…
Monero and Other Privacy Coins
As I said in other writings and videos, no serious cryptocurrency can function in real life which is not also a truly private cryptocurrency.
By far, the most popular of all these is Monero, which has already become the de facto currency of the dark web, but also of all cryptocurrency users _who actually use cryptocurrency … ⌘ Read more
Monero Maximalism: Or, How Bitcoin Is a 💩coin
Most normal people hear the word “cryptocurrency” and assume that means that they are “cryptic” or “private,“but that’s actually a huge, perhaps the hugest misunderstanding of our time and it has some big consequences.The “crypto” in cryptocurrency merely comes from its cryptographic nature.
When it comes to actual privacy, cryptocurrencies are an unmitigated … ⌘ 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…
@felixp7@twtxt.net “Yo, crypto-heads. Encrypted communication doesn’t protect your privacy. Laws …” I guess crypto-heads are often happy with acknowledging this, but also arguing that e.g. deniable crypto is a useful way out here (and, of course, just doing illegal stuff if it gets really rough).
Updates to our Terms of Service and Privacy Statement now merged ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-11-16-updates-to-our-terms-of-service-and-privacy-statement-now-merged/
Updates to our Terms of Service and Privacy Statement ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-10-15-updates-to-our-terms-of-service-and-our-privacy-statement/
ANN: Twt.social is now live! Join the new self-hosted, decentralised privacy focused social media network! ⌘ https://www.prologic.blog/2020/08/15/ann-twtsocial-is.html
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net @kas@enotty.dk I’m not seeing how this is worse for privacy than the current mess that is the User-Agent string, though. What am I missing?
Closing LinkedIn
Not long ago—not even a year now—I re-created a LinkedIn account, mostly following an invitation to join from one of my friends. I did it against my will, because for whatever reason I have hated LinkedIn even since before it was acquired by Microsoft. Yet, I joined, filled very little information, set privacy settings to fully closed—or so I thought—and moved on.
Soon after I started receiving UCE from medical, or pharmaceutical related companies. As many as ten emails per day. I calle … ⌘ Read more
Forget privacy: you’re terrible at targeting anyway - apenwarr https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190201
I regret to inform everybody that Data Privacy Day was actually last Monday. We all missed it. Sorry. Honorary Data Privacy Day every Monday for the next 2 years to make up for it, kay?
Monday is Data Privacy Day. Celebrate by replacing your wardrobe with loose jumpsuits printed with hundreds of GAN-generated faces.
Monday is Data Privacy Day. Celebrate by getting a new, asymmetrical haircut and some temporary face tattoos of eyes.
Monday is Data Privacy Day. Celebrate by proving all those stock photos right about hackers wearing black ski masks when typing.
Monday is Data Privacy Day. Celebrate by legally changing your name to “;drop table users;
Monday is Data Privacy Day. Celebrate by clicking on a thai death metal video & letting autoplay follow that connection in the background for a week.
Monday is Data Privacy Day. Celebrate by only appearing in public wearing a photorealistic 3d printed mask of Richard D. James’ face over your own face.
Monday is Data Privacy Day. Celebrate by putting electrical tape over everybody else’s webcams too.