privacy

Deleting a post is simply marking a piece of text so nobody sees it, but I think the text is still stored in their servers....

cross-posted from: discuss.tchncs.de/post/5707453...

It is my hope that Privacy is the community for this. I think freedom to use browsers the way we intend is a privacy issue....

Curious website that explains how pages want to deceive you with examples (save to use and not taken very seriously)

Congress blew a rare bipartisan chance to protect Americans’ calls and texts.

Hello,...

Confirmation in linked github discussion.

Typically, my ISP provides ~500mbps down, but Mullvad seems to struggle to get above 220mbps. Is this typical?...

I use Canva a fair bit for work, is there anything similar that’s more privacy friendly? I don’t always want to open up Gimp, ideally it’ll be available online as well.

Proton Mail, the leading privacy-focused email service, is making its first foray into blockchain technology with Key Transparency, which will allow users to verify email addresses. From a report: In an interview with Fortune, CEO and founder Andy Yen made clear that although the new feature uses blockchain, the key technology...

As title suggests, how do I go about stopping my phone from scanning my surroundings for extra devices?...

I found out about Clarity, it’s a Microsoft free product. It seems to be source available on Github...

Does an open source keyboard exist for iOS that respect your privacy?...

The Beijing institute developed the technique to crack an iPhone’s encrypted device log to identify the numbers and emails of senders who share AirDrop content, the city’s judicial bureau said in an online post. Police have identified multiple suspects via that method, the agency said, without disclosing if anyone was...

And if so, why exactly? It says it’s end-to-end encrypted. The metadata isn’t. But what is metadata and is it bad that it’s not? Are there any other problematic things?...

I assumed that Gboard spell checker contacted servers constantly and have it switched off for whatever good that does. I recently tried enabling it to play with other options and noticed that it works when my phone is entirely offline....

First off wanted to say thank you for everyone who chimed in on my last post a while ago starting my privacy journey...

Just heard of Lemmy today...

Things that make me angry about my current smartphone Samsung Galaxy S21Ultra on a Verizon plan is the mandatory software updates in which they install WITHOUT MY PERMISSION stupid apps like Netflix and addictive gambling games and stacking block games and Candy crush. God knows what else they install without my permission. I...

Has anyone heard of this AppCrypt by Cisdem? I’m normally wary of things not FOSS and I couldn’t find much information about the app or the company....