Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records (www.wired.com)
Chromite - Any sensible reviews?
On Android using Bromite and Mull (with uBlock). Have seen here mention of Chromite. A quick search shows that it is a fork of Bromite. Has anyone undertaken a meaningful real world comparison or general experience?
noyb files complaint against EU Commission over targeted chat control ads (noyb.eu)
Thanks Max!
Privacy = no free speech (lemmy.ml)
Starting today Facebook must pay $100.000 to Norway each day for violating our right to privacy. (tutanota.com)
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I learned about startpage recently. (www.startpage.com)
Heard some sketchy stuff about duckduckgo recently, found out about start page.many users?
*privacy not included | Our Longest Naughty List Ever: The 2023 Holiday Buyer's Guide Is Here! (foundation.mozilla.org)
Defeating Little Brother requires a new outlook on privacy (www.malwarebytes.com)
As far back as 2010, in a piece titled “Little Brother is Watching,” author Walter Kirn wrote for the New York Times: “As the internet proves every day, it isn’t some stern and monolithic Big Brother that we have to reckon with as we go about our daily lives, it’s a vast cohort of prankish Little Brothers equipped with...
13 days before the first eIDAS vote, still no public text (last-chance-for-eidas.org)
Just saw this update. I’ll quote from the previous article for a complete picture....
How can i delete my info from caller id apps ?
Recently i noticed that even i don’t have an account on caller id apps, still it shows my details from who saved my info on their phone who uses caller id apps.
Meta Confirm Charging EU Users For Ad-Free Access to FB and Insta (alternativeto.net)
Meta has officially confirmed its decision to introduce a subscription plan for ad-free access to Instagram and Facebook for users in the European Union, EEA, and Switzerland. This move comes a few weeks after Meta first considered the idea, amidst regulatory pressure from the EU regarding the company’s ad targeting and data...
FTC bans one more data broker from selling your location info (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
“The InMarket Apps have been downloaded onto over 30 million unique devices since 2017,” reads the FTC complaint against InMarket Media....
Fossify Phone (Fossify is a fork of Simple Mobile Tools) is now available, adding to Fossify's existing Gallery, File Manager, and Calendar apps
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/11117839...
Sen. Markey Writes to 14 Car Companies with a Variety of Questions About Data Privacy Policies (www.markey.senate.gov)
ArsTechnica article on the letter. Just a short summary, with some more context on other works and investigations into the auto industry's privacy issues....
Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications - US senator | Reuters (www.reuters.com)
Privacy first – Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)
Here’s the “Privacy First” pitch: whatever is going on with all of the problems of the internet, all of these problems are made worse by commercial surveillance....
Authorized Fetch Circumvented by Alt-Right Developers (wedistribute.org)
A controversial developer circumvented one of Mastodon's primary tools for blocking bad actors, all so that his servers could connect to Threads....
Using Disinformation Like A Pro (yewtu.be)
Disinformation is a criminally underrated technique for protecting yourself against doxing, data breaches, and tracking. But it’s important to use it right to be both effective and a law-abiding citizen. In this video, I share my tips and techniques gathered over the year to protect your privacy where tools fall just a little...
Film Companies and Reddit Clash Again in Court over Anonymous Piracy Comments (torrentfreak.com) Portuguese
iPhone apps abuse iOS push notifications to collect user data (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
EFF’s Street-Level Surveillance project shines a light on the surveillance technologies that law enforcement agencies routinely deploy in our communities (sls.eff.org)
These resources are designed for advocacy organizations, journalists, defense attorneys, policymakers, and members of the public who often are not getting the straight story from police representatives or the vendors marketing this equipment....
Prem Sikka: How the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill is the government’s latest erosion of hard-won rights (leftfootforward.org)
'The Bill only targets the less well-off. There is no equivalent surveillance of legislators who accept payments to advance the interests of their corporate paymasters.'...
Google lists improvements that only users from the EU will get - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)
Google collects and shares data between its own services by default. Search, advertising, YouTube and several others exchange user data. Users in the EU have to give consent to this form of sharing. By default, data will no longer be exchanged between services. EU users may already manage the Google Services that may or may not...
23andMe hackers accessed ancestry information on millions of customers using a feature that matches relatives (www.engadget.com)
Wireguard server recommendations
I am looking for some recomandations to add more wireguard servers. Right now I only have a few protonvpn free servers.