privacy

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These TVs can capture and identify 7,200 images per hour, or approximately two every second. The data is then used for content recommendations and ad targeting, which is a huge business; advertisers spent an estimated $18.6 billion on smart TV ads in 2022, according to market research firm eMarketer.

I honestly feel defeated right now, it feels like currently it’s impossible to truly stay private online unless one is willing to move to a cabin in the woods with no internet and you stop using tech all together and truly become a ghost and stay offline. Can someone help me feel like everything I am currently doing is...

“Whilst the Parliament fought hard to limit the damage, the overall package on biometric surveillance and profiling is at best lukewarm,” said one advocate.

To be eligible for things like a GDPR Data deletion request etc, is it enough that I am a citizen or must I be a resident? ty :)

It supports both links and embeds and is available on firefox for android. List of sites is on github. I’m the main developer so you can ask questions.

Ok I have a question. I’m kinda a noob when it comes to privacy. I’ll follow the guides and do the things to try to minimize ad companies selling my data etc....

Thoughts on this....

I’m currently using GrapheneOS and I quite like it, but I would like to switch to something else. Will I lose much privacy if I switch to e/OS? Can I lock bootloader after flashing it like on GrapheneOS? I’m using Pixel 7 btw

I have a NAS as my primary photo backup solution and one day someone will make a photo frame that I can point at it and it will just cycle through photos, but until that day, it’s just a blackhole of memories. That said, that blackhole is important enough to me that I also back up online....

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The FBI investigated a man who allegedly posed as a police officer in emails and phone calls to trick Verizon to hand over phone data belonging to a specific person...

Prima di usare una chat è consigliabile sapere queste cose.

How do notifications work in the official Telegram Android app (Play Store vs Site version maybe)? Does it have the same mechanism as Signal, which only recognizes the presence of notifications via Google services, but sends them via its web socket service?

Long title, wopsi....

you can see this is a throwaway account, you likely won’t get replies. btw i recently switched from edge to arc browser since i got an invite somehow (am using startpage as my search engine)

This has been one of the key features I’ve been waiting for to finally be able to move away from Google Photos and OneDrive for mobile photos backup.

Every year or so I try one or more privacy focused keyboards. I always end up right back on SwiftKey after a couple of weeks because most of the keyboards I try have the same problem: the predictions suck....

I’ve used a VPN on individual devices for some time now. Every once in a while I come across a website that says it’s blocking my access because of my IP address. I then change to another server until one isn’t flagged anymore. The problem is there isn’t one server that’s free from this issue....

Im looking to buy monero privately, and so i want to remove myself as much as possible. the easiest way to buy some on localmonero.co is thru paypal. i was looking to use google voice maybe? just make a new gmail for it? idk tho, what yall think?