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Lemmy instance admin snooping at votes (monero.town)

So I was going through /all and this admin is snooping at vote counts for posts in his instance and then posting it publicly....

The Great Privacy Awakening (piped.video)

Privacy implications of accelerometer data (dl.acm.org)

Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It (www.wired.com)

For facial recognition experts and privacy advocates, the East Bay detective’s request, while dystopian, was also entirely predictable. It emphasizes the ways that, without oversight, law enforcement is able to mix and match technologies in unintended ways, using untested algorithms to single out suspects based on unknowable...

iPhone apps abuse iOS push notifications to collect user data (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Privacy Checkup Quiz: How well do you protect your privacy and security? (privacy-checkup.info)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/11275170...

Nitter is shutting down (github.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/11136426...

Google Update Reveals AI Will Start Reading All Your Private Messages (www.forbes.com)

Fossify Contacts and Fossify SMS Messenger (Fossify is a fork of Simple Mobile Tools) are now available, joining Fossify's existing suite of Gallery, File Manager, Phone, and Calendar apps. (search.f-droid.org)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/11253225...

Why you shouldn't use a SIM card and use an hotspot as an alternative (piped.video)

The video discusses the privacy concerns associated with SIM cards in mobile phones, highlighting three main reasons to be cautious. First, it explains how SIM cards enable constant location tracking through communication with cell towers. Second, it delves into the autonomy of SIM cards, particularly proactive SIMs that can...

Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are “as painful as possible” for Firefox (www.theverge.com)

Mozilla is unhappy because the use of browser engines other than WebKit will be restricted to the EU, forcing them to develop two different apps....

iPhone Apps Secretly Harvest Data When They Send You Notifications, Researchers Find (gizmodo.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/11219865...

"Cars are the worst product for privacy" | Hope this will reach the normie consumer! (foundation.mozilla.org)

Mullvad uses Gmail (simplifiedprivacy.com)

On the fence about the importance of privacy? Start researching articles about using advertising data points(example article linked) (www.wordstream.com)

I’m wanting to get a better understanding of what the actual data is that advertising companies have on us, we all know its “a lot” we often hear....

Do you use Mull browser? If so you may want to donate to keep Divested computing alive so they can continue to maintain Divest os and Mull among other things. (divested.dev)

NSA Buys Americans’ Internet Data Without Warrants, Letter Says (www.reuters.com) Portuguese

NSA Director Paul Nakasone confirmed such purchases in his letter to Wyden, saying the data collected “may include information associated with electronic devices being used outside - and, in certain cases, inside - the United States.”

Wi-Fi Password On Post-It Note (social.vivaldi.net)

Couldn’t help but share 😂

Apple is bringing sideloading and alternate app stores to the iPhone (www.theverge.com)

Apple is finally allowing full versions of Chrome and Firefox to run on the iPhone (www.theverge.com)

Amazon Ring stops letting police request footage in Neighbors app after outcry (arstechnica.com) Portuguese

Warrantless access may still be granted during vaguely defined “emergencies.”

British man Aditya Verma appears in Spanish court over plane-bomb hoax (www.bbc.com)

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Cryptographers Just Got Closer to Enabling Fully Private Internet Searches (www.wired.com)

" three researchers have crafted a long-sought version of private information retrieval and extended it to build a more general privacy strategy. The work, which received a Best Paper Award in June 2023 at the annual Symposium on Theory of Computing, topples a major theoretical barrier on the way to a truly private search."

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