Question about phones: Am I overreacting?
I don’t like so called smartphones (flashy devices to mine your data and other reasons) but my regular no touchscreen phone’s microphone is no longer working as it should, making conversations difficult....
KeepassXC and KeepassDX Guide (purplerabbit.gitlab.io)
Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules (arstechnica.com)
Cross posted from: midwest.social/post/6593381
Search Engine Party (searchengine.party)
why are threat actors using telegram and not simplex / briar /jami etc.
I dont understand why threat actors / hackers use telegram which obtains your phone number and not simplex or even signal for that matter
I don't have anything to hide, so I don't care
What to say to people who say this kinda of thing? Usually I just say “ok then”
Google will no longer hold onto people's location data in Google Maps — meaning it can't turn that info over to the police (www.businessinsider.com)
why don't you guys scrobble?
From a privacy standpoint, i guess. I want to support open scrobbling with listenbrainz and the account isn’t directly linked to a real acc. Why shouldn’t I/ why don’t you?
Privacy is not just an illusion; it’s a delusion.
Things like privacy statements and permission to use cookies are little more than sophisticated propaganda. If you think for a moment the Overlords cannot prepare a dossier on you within minutes that would make your mother faint and your father die of shame, you’re living in fantasy land. You have no idea how much data they...
Privacy minded ` instant messaging ` quest.
Hi,...
Does it even make sense to care about privacy?
Heyha !...
Dr. Google will see you now (www.globalresearch.ca)
They are collecting our medical records. I know this personally because an exgirlfriend of mine is a lawyer at Google and told me the same.
Google Just Killed Warrants That Give Police Access To Location Data (www.forbes.com)
Someone opened my phone
I’m running Graphene on a Pixel 6. I lost it and someone opened it somehow and called two of my contacts to give it back....
Blocking app access to the internet
Question for the group on a problem I’m trying to solve: How can I block internet access for some apps on standard, OOTB Android?...
Mull vs Fennec
I am having problems reaching Tuta through Mull on my Android (Mull 120.0.0, downloaded from f-Droid). Checking, I saw that Fennec is version 120.1.0....
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....
GDPR complaint against X (Twitter) over illegal micro-targeting for chat control ads (noyb.eu)
Apple will require court order to give push notification data to law enforcement (thehill.com)
JShelter helps protect your online privacy: Here's how to contribute — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software (www.fsf.org)
Are there any good privacy friendly keyboards for android?
I’ve looked at a few on fdroid and they all seem like they aren’t being maintained anymore....
Without a Trace: How to Keep Your Phone Off the Grid (themarkup.org)
We answer the questions readers asked in response to our guide to anonymizing your phone...
EFF call to action against government spying (act.eff.org)
“The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) has introduced the FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2023–an absolutely awful bill that ignores years of abuse and unconstitutional surveillance in order to renew a mass surveillance law with no real changes, reforms, or new oversight....
Review of The Search Engine Kagi (purplerabbit.gitlab.io)
The Ghosts of the Worldwide Surveillance Apparatus Show Their Hand (scheerpost.com)
Phantom Parrot, a British documentary now screening in the US, sheds light on the Orwellian technologies being used across borders to repress activists, journalists, and others.