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Plex starts narcing on its own users' anime and X-rated habits with an opt-out service, and it's going terribly (www.pcgamer.com)

Proton Mail CEO Calls New Address Verification Feature 'Blockchain in a Very Pure Form' (tech.slashdot.org)

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...

[Discussion] How do you feel about age verification on Porn sites? (lemmings.world)

Porn sites Pornhub, XVideos, and Stripchat face stricter requirements to verify the ages of their users after being officially designated as “Very Large Online Platforms” (VLOPs) under the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA)....

Nikki Haley vows to abolish anonymous social media accounts: 'It's a national security threat' (wpde.com)

Dropbox is sharing users' files with OpenAI, here's how to opt out (boingboing.net)

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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....

Here's what telegram's founder say about Whatsapp's privacy (graph.org)

This is an article written by telegram’s founder and CEO Pavel Durov in 2019 on “Why whatsapp will never be secure”. Your thoughts?

UK porn watchers could have faces scanned (www.bbc.co.uk)

Looks like UK is going the same way as a few states. Spare a thought for us. So messed up this increasing surveillance state.

YouTube adds tracking parameters to shared URLs that can be traced back to individual Google accounts (nitter.net) German

Are Phones and Smart Speakers Listening to You? Cox Media Group Claims They Can | Cord Cutters News (www.404media.co)

Google will no longer hold onto people's location data in Google Maps — meaning it can't turn that info over to the police (www.businessinsider.com)

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

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

Why Bluesky over sth like Activitypub? (slrpnk.net)

Is it really decentralized and private?

Proton domains blocked as disposable in disposable filter (github.com)

I hope it is a way to solve this…

Privacy Win: EU Parliament Decides That Your Private Messages Must Not Be Scanned! (tuta.com)

Counterterror Director Used Hamas Attack to Justify Mass (USA) Surveillance Program Renewal (theintercept.com)

Pornhub pulls out of Montana, NC as age-verification battle rages on (arstechnica.com)

One of the Most Controversial US Spy Programs Just Got Quietly Renewed (www.motherjones.com)

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

Google loses antitrust case vs Epic Games. Jury rules Google Play store constitutes an illegal monopoly (www.theverge.com)

Is it better to use a non-FOSS email and phone number forwarder or to use one of each for everything? (www.cloaked.app)

I like to try websites out before tying my identity to them. How do you do it? Simplelogin? I honestly won’t manually make a new gmail for every new website I try and I to want the option to see what emails I get.

[es] Spanish government is working in a digital certificate to identify adults and avoid minors to access porn sites (cadenaser.com)

Age verification without name and surname: this is the way to avoid minors to watch porn.

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