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.
Monday is Data Privacy Day. Celebrate by convincing Facebook that you are at least 120 years old & drive a pink car.
Monday is Data Privacy Day. Celebrate by posting under an assumed identity.
Monday is Data Privacy Day. Celebrate by removing all the yellow ink from your printer’s cartridge with a syringe.
Monday is Data Privacy Day. Celebrate by putting your phone in a martini shaker and leaving the internet forever.
Timothy May, early advocate of internet privacy, dies - SFChronicle.com https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Timothy-May-early-advocate-of-internet-privacy-13485790.php
Facebook workers are the only people who can hold the company accountable. https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/facebook-workers-privacy-violation.html
Smart Speakers and Thermostats Will Monetize Life at Home - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/12/smart-home-devices-data-privacy/578425/
Proposed data privacy law could send company execs to prison for 20 years | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/proposed-data-privacy-law-could-send-company-execs-to-prison-for-20-years/
Googleâs Selfish Ledger is an unsettling vision of Silicon Valley social engineering - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/17/17344250/google-x-selfish-ledger-video-data-privacy
In Vernor Vinge’s 2006 novel Rainbows End, there’s a group called FOP (Friends Of Privacy) who are a radical misinformation-chaffing charity. Basically, they spread large amounts of fake, believable, and boring dox about people, so that automated analysis of OSINT has to work harder.
Facebook Has Had Countless Privacy Scandals. But This One Is Different. https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/why-facebooks-data-scandal-just-wont-quit
Privacy and Tracking on the Fediverse | Lainblog https://blog.soykaf.com/post/privacy-and-tracking-on-the-fediverse/
Privacy Policy ⌘ Read more…
Amber Case über Privacy und das IndieWeb ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/a/24m
A Standards-based, Open and Privacy-aware Social Web ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/11V
Nazi crimes archives set to open
BBC News: Nazi crimes archives to set open.
The 47 million files hold Nazi records of forced labourers, concentration camp victims and political prisoners. They have been used to help people trace their relatives, but were kept closed to protect victims’ privacy. Many people felt the files should be opened to historical researchers to ensure the details of the Holocaust ( [Nazis genocide](http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/genocide/holocaust_overview_01.s … ⌘ Read more
Your Privacy at stake
Something very infortunated has happened and I want to encourage you, and the people you know, to help amend this by signing the petition and emailing your elected officials as soon as possible.
The NTIA, which is the telecommunications and Internet arm of the Department of Commerce, has disallowed private … ⌘ Read more