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Why you should never use Facebook or Google to log in to third party websites - what to do instead (tilvids.com)

A secret phone surveillance program is spying on millions of Americans (www.foxnews.com)

Imagine that every time you make a phone call, someone is keeping an extraordinarily detailed record of the call.

EP rejects mass scanning of private messages - European Digital Rights (EDRi) (edri.org)

Some Google Drive for Desktop users are missing months of files - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

Be careful of trusting google

Meta sues FTC, hoping to block ban on monetizing kids’ Facebook data

technology@kbin.social

New laws allowing the Department for Work and Pensions to monitor the bank accounts of benefit claimants are predicted to lead to 7,400 extra prosecutions for fraud each year – resulting in 250 custodial sentences. (www.publictechnology.net)

Impact assessment forecasts that prosecutions will rocket, but claims staff will take ‘account of circumstances and vulnerabilities’ of benefit recipients and ‘no automatic decisions will be made on data alone’...

Does anyone know a good guide for flashing a lenovo t440p with libreboot/coreboot?

Sorry if this isnt exactly perfect topic for this community. But i bought a t440p because of libreboot, and am waiting for it to come in the mail. Im very excited and have watched a few videos about it. I purely bought it because of the privacy that can be had

Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data (www.404media.co)

ChatGPT is full of sensitive private information and spits out verbatim text from CNN, Goodreads, WordPress blogs, fandom wikis, Terms of Service agreements, Stack Overflow source code, Wikipedia pages, news blogs, random internet comments, and much more....

A question about secure chats (sopuli.xyz)

Two questions....

Any automated method to check for basic OPSEC mistakes whilst posting content online?

If it were possible to run LLMs without a significant investment to GPU prowess, this problem wouldn’t be very relevant. However, the bigger FOSS LLMs require a lot of power to run....

Kroger (grocery and pharmacy) Sued for Sharing Sensitive Health Data With Meta

technology@lemmy.zip

Is YouTube starting another attack on third party clients?

I’ve noticed than most of them have stopped working including all invidious and piped instances

eIDAS 2.0: Browsers VS European "Secret" Legislation (tube.kockatoo.org)

Plex starts narcing on its own users' anime and X-rated habits with an opt-out service, and it's going terribly (www.pcgamer.com)

In Africa’s first ‘safe city,’ surveillance reigns (www.codastory.com)

Nairobi boasts nearly 2,000 Huawei surveillance cameras citywide. But in the nine years since they were installed, it is hard to see their benefits.

Police across Britain equipped with live facial recognition bodycams (inews.co.uk)

cross-posted from: lemmy.nz/post/3829409

noyb files GDPR complaint against Meta over “Pay or Okay” (noyb.eu)

Meta charges up to €251.88 per year to respect the fundamental right to privacy of EU users. This is a violation of the GDPR.

Best alternative to Chromecast?

No apple TV please. Needs to support some kind of casting, and the addition of whatever googles casting is would be nice (for an oculus)

An article about how a priest was discovered using gay apps (telefoncek.si)

The priest’s data has been obtained from commercially available databases...

Largest Study of its Kind Shows Outdated Password Practices are Widespread (www.cc.gatech.edu)

“More than half of the websites in the study accepted passwords with six characters or less, with 75% failing to require the recommended eight-character minimum. Around 12% of had no length requirements, and 30% did not support spaces or special characters.”

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