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Police across Britain equipped with live facial recognition bodycams (inews.co.uk)

cross-posted from: lemmy.nz/post/3829409

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

noyb files GDPR complaint against Meta over “Pay or Okay” (noyb.eu)

Meta charges up to €251.88 per year to respect the fundamental right to privacy of EU users. This is a violation of the GDPR.

How to use RCS on Android while giving minimal data to Google?

I have never used Google Messages but I will most likely have to start using it once RCS support is added on iOS....

Telemetry in Flutter?

Yeah, I’m sure this is a pretty newbie question, but here I go:...

Section 702 Surveillance Reauthorization May Get Slipped Into ‘Must-Pass’ NDAA | WIRED (www.wired.com)

An article about how a priest was discovered using gay apps (telefoncek.si)

The priest’s data has been obtained from commercially available databases...

Kroger Sued for Sharing Sensitive Health Data With Meta (themarkup.org)

Two proposed federal class action lawsuits, filed in the wake of a Markup investigation, accuse the grocer of disclosing private data through its online store and pharmacy...

Google is the master of fake Privacy features - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)

Social media marketing on privacy focused platforms ?

I have a question regarding social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and other popular platforms....

Was forced to use a third party to fill a rental application. The application failed and now they're demanding significantly more sensitive information than what I ever provided before they'll comply. In UK. This can't be legal? (kbin.social)

Their reply to my request to delete my data:...

Looking for FOSS android TV (or something like Kodi, but dumber)

I’ve been looking for something to replace the google chromecast that is attached to our TV....

Matrix 1.9 to be released this week!

In a recent Matrix blog post dated November 24, they wrote:...

Facebook Watches Teens Online As They Prep for College – The Markup (themarkup.org)

“After signing into their ACT account, if a student accepted cookies on the following page, Facebook received details on almost everything they clicked on—including scrambled but identifiable data like their first and last name, and whether they’re registering for the ACT. The site even registered clicks about a...

Nick from The Linux Experiment will soon be interviewing Proton CEO Andy Yen And Wants Your Questions For him (mastodon.social)

“I’ll be interviewing Andy Yen, the CEO of #Proton in early December, and I’d like to ask them the questions YOU have about Proton Mail, Drive, Calendar or VPN, or security and privacy in general.”...

SimpleX Chat v5.4 is released (github.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/8465136...

US govt pays AT&T to let cops search Americans' phone records – 'usually' without a warrant (www.theregister.com)

A senator has complained that American law enforcement agencies snoop on US citizens and residents, seemingly without regard for the privacy provisions of the Fourth Amendment, under a secret program called the Hemisphere Project that allows police to conduct searches of trillions of phone records.

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