Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications -US senator (www.reuters.com)
What is the general consensus on Zello?
I understand that Zello is not FOSS, but their website claims everything is end-to-end-encrypted....
MS Outlook Blocking Tutanota Emails As Spam (tuta.com)
Started in mid November and despite repeated requests from Tuta(nota) and reassurances from MS, it’s still happening and MS have gone silent on the subject.
Simple Mobile Tools apps
For anyone using any Simple Mobile Tools app be aware that they were sold few days ago (4 dec 2023) to a very privacy unfriendly company:...
Two minutes of DuckDuckGo rearranging & dropping results for the same search; Bing, Startpage, & DDG all unreliable vs. Google :( (files.catbox.moe)
Try it with this search:...
Kuketz Custom ROM Review: /e/ (www-kuketz--blog-de.translate.goog)
Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding (kitklarenberg.substack.com)
On November 16th, Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal, published a detailed breakdown of the popular encrypted messaging app’s running costs for the very first time. The unprecedented disclosure’s motivation was simple - the platform is rapidly running out of money, and in dire need of donations to stay afloat....
Eleutheria, for more enjoyable private, and secure communication (jami.net)
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....
23andMe hackers accessed ancestry information on millions of customers using a feature that matches relatives (www.engadget.com)
Self-hosted rotating proxy
I am looking for a solution. I’m thinking of a locally hosted socks5 proxy like TOR has, but instead of TOR, this self hosted proxy can be configured to rotate through other remote proxies that I have access to...
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.'...
When Fans Become Stalkers (www.youtube.com)
It’s a long video for sure. But worth a watch if you are concerned about privacy....
Is CTemplar back? (ctemplar.com)
If this is legit, it’s the most low-key relaunch ever…
Privacy First: A Better Way to Address Online Harms (www.eff.org)
Simple Mobile Tools to be bought by ZipoApps (github.com)
Confirmation in linked github discussion.
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’...
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....
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
A question about secure chats (sopuli.xyz)
Two questions....
