Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules (arstechnica.com)
Cross posted from: midwest.social/post/6593381
Search Engine Party (searchengine.party)
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)
Dr. Google will see you now (www.globalresearch.ca)
They are collecting our medical records. I know this personally because an exgirlfriend of mine is a lawyer at Google and told me the same.
Google Just Killed Warrants That Give Police Access To Location Data (www.forbes.com)
After being featured in a Brian Krebs article, ICANN deletes video encouraging domain registrars to streamline giving up user data (infosec.exchange)
“nothing to hide, nothing to fear”
Privacy first – Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)
Here’s the “Privacy First” pitch: whatever is going on with all of the problems of the internet, all of these problems are made worse by commercial surveillance....
GDPR complaint against X (Twitter) over illegal micro-targeting for chat control ads (noyb.eu)
Apple will require court order to give push notification data to law enforcement (thehill.com)
JShelter helps protect your online privacy: Here's how to contribute — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software (www.fsf.org)
Without a Trace: How to Keep Your Phone Off the Grid (themarkup.org)
We answer the questions readers asked in response to our guide to anonymizing your phone...
EFF call to action against government spying (act.eff.org)
“The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) has introduced the FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2023–an absolutely awful bill that ignores years of abuse and unconstitutional surveillance in order to renew a mass surveillance law with no real changes, reforms, or new oversight....
Review of The Search Engine Kagi (purplerabbit.gitlab.io)
The Ghosts of the Worldwide Surveillance Apparatus Show Their Hand (scheerpost.com)
Phantom Parrot, a British documentary now screening in the US, sheds light on the Orwellian technologies being used across borders to repress activists, journalists, and others.
EU Deal on AI Act Is 'Missed Opportunity' to Ban Mass Surveillance, Say Privacy Groups (www.commondreams.org)
“Whilst the Parliament fought hard to limit the damage, the overall package on biometric surveillance and profiling is at best lukewarm,” said one advocate.
Your Smart TV Knows What You’re Watching (themarkup.org)
These TVs can capture and identify 7,200 images per hour, or approximately two every second. The data is then used for content recommendations and ad targeting, which is a huge business; advertisers spent an estimated $18.6 billion on smart TV ads in 2022, according to market research firm eMarketer.
Blazed Cloud - Your Simple and Minimal Cloud Storage Solution (blazedcloud.com)
Thoughts on this....
Google loses antitrust case vs Epic Games. Jury rules Google Play store constitutes an illegal monopoly (www.theverge.com)
Predirect: A manifest v3 web extension with minimal permissions to automatically redirect popular sites to privacy friendly frontends (github.com)
It supports both links and embeds and is available on firefox for android. List of sites is on github. I’m the main developer so you can ask questions.
Stop the surveillance power grab. Tell Congress to OPPOSE HPSCI’s Horrific Surveillance Bill and SUPPORT real reforms! (getfisaright.net)
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/9011376...
La privacy in chat online dal punto di vista legale * Chat è leggi (www.ircwebnet.com) Italian
Prima di usare una chat è consigliabile sapere queste cose.
YouTube adds tracking parameters to shared URLs that can be traced back to individual Google accounts (nitter.net) German
Verizon Gave Phone Data to Armed Stalker Who Posed as Cop Over Email (www.404media.co)
The FBI investigated a man who allegedly posed as a police officer in emails and phone calls to trick Verizon to hand over phone data belonging to a specific person...
Proton Drive Camera Backup has Arrived! (proton.me)
This has been one of the key features I’ve been waiting for to finally be able to move away from Google Photos and OneDrive for mobile photos backup.