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I wish more people clean URLs before sharing it to others. (lemmy.ml)

I see a lot of people, including friends and family, sharing URLs rife with tracking parameters....

Deleting my Twitter account and data - Twitter not complying with GDPR

I filed a GDPR deletion request with Twitter a couple of weeks ago. It was quite a challenge to find a way to contact Twitter (for anyone who wants to you can do so via: secure.ethicspoint.com/…/default_reporter.asp) - but I finally succeded. I did not simply wanted to deactivate my account I want all of my data to be deleted...

a want to buy a tablet to take notes at school

Basically title, but I don’t want an iPad because of my “open source mindset” ik it sounds cringe but fr I hate Apple’s philosophy and I don’t want an iPhone to sync every shit. Also I’d like to have a tablet that doesn’t all my data to some big corporation (like Xiaomi or Google), and I don’t know where to start...

Delete your digital history from dozens of companies with this app (www.washingtonpost.com)

Sick of companies grabbing and selling your address, birth date, location, online activity, dog food brand and even adult-film preferences? Oh boy, do I have some good news. A new iPhone and Android app called Permission Slip makes it super simple to order companies to delete your personal information and secrets. Trying it...

[QubesOS] Disarm Shortcut for BusKill Hardware Dead Man Switch (www.buskill.in)

This article describes how to setup keyboard shortcuts in QubesOS so that you can temporarily disarm (pause) the BusKill laptop kill cord....

what E-Mail provider do you use and why

I’m currently still using gmail unfortunately...

Usually connect to Walmart's WiFi but they changed their policy I guess, won't be doing that now... (lemmy.ml)

F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository (f-droid.org)

f-droid.org...

Anyone use Skiff? (beehaw.org)

I’m only just hearing about the suite from skiff.com and curious if anyone here uses it. They’ve been around for 3 years and apparently offer an open sourced encrypted suite. They’re mainly known a Google Docs alt, but I just learned they offer encrypted mail, calendar, and cloud (10GB for free) along with their docs....

Signal's Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally 'a surveillance technology' (techcrunch.com)

Introducing Proton CAPTCHA | Proton (proton.me)

Today The UK Parliament Undermined The Privacy, Security, And Freedom Of All Internet Users (www.eff.org)

Mullvad Annouce Removal Of All Disk Infrastructure - Now RAM Only (mullvad.net)

Today we announce that we have completely removed all traces of disks being used by our VPN infrastructure!

Israeli cyber companies developed technology that exploits the advertising system at the heart of the online economy to monitor civilians, hack into their phones and computers, and spy on them. (web.archive.org)

Tails is a portable OS that protects against surveillance and censorship (tails.net)

Seems legit, Google knows what is best for me. (lemmy.world)

Sorry for the poor quality / lack of screenshot, this is from my work computer which I isolate from my personal devices, so I just took a picture.

Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users (www.ctrl.blog)

Google has a VPN service now (lemmy.world)

My privacy journey and privacy questions

Online privacy: Best privacy related thing I’ve done is use a nickname. If I search my real name on Google, only two results show up (and my Instagram, but I deleted it) from the same site, my place in some school competition. That’s it! But if I search my made-up nickname… Github, Gitlab, Reddit, StackOverflow,...

Google faces a £7 billion lawsuit for blocking search engine competition at the expense of consumers (consumervoice.uk)

The lawsuit argues that Google has effectively ‘bought’ the UK mobile phone search engine market. Google forced mobile phone handset manufacturers to pre-install the Google Search and Google Chrome browser apps on devices that use Google’s Android operating system in order to obtain a licence to use Google Play....

Google Chrome "enhances" our privacy further

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I just want to say that I'm so happy that people are taking notice of privacy concerns in cars

Mozilla released their studies, and I’m seeing a growing number of posts on the Internet about cars and the privacy nightmare they entail. I remember how this issue wasn’t talked about earlier because “just buy an older car” was still prevalent. I’m so happy that people are taking notice. Thank you to this community...

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