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

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For example, I have been using Google or Apple for 7 years, and seeing that I was fingerprinted, tracked through third-party cookies, etc. I want to switch to a more private option....
Today we announce that we have completely removed all traces of disks being used by our VPN infrastructure!
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.
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....
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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...
Gmail prompt to provide phone number sounds like a threat
The article is AdGuard centric but it sheds light on the whole process where Google suddenly decided to ban ad blockers.
We’re happy to announce that, for the first time ever, BusKill cables can be purchased in-personin Leipzig, Germany....
The new fairphone 5 came out, it looks cool but the price is really, really high…...
During all this monitoring, I wasn’t anywhere near the rider. I didn’t even need to see them with my own eyes. Instead, I was sitting inside an apartment, following their movements through a feature on a Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) website, which runs the New York City subway system.
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I was looking for something different from Tor and not like I2P. Someone give a look on Lokinet? What’s your thoughts?...
I FUCKING HATE THIS SERVICE. Assholes don’t let you delete your account and ask you to go to their privacy policy page and read through 500 pages of text to find the instructions on how to delete your account, only for it to say you have to contact them to delete it, and when you contact them they never respond back other than...