Google Update Reveals AI Will Read All Your Private Messages (www.forbes.com)
Unclassified letter reveals NSA's warrantless purchase of Americans' internet browsing data (www.techspot.com)
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...
Privacy Checkup Quiz: How well do you protect your privacy and security? (privacy-checkup.info)
The Privacy Checkup is an interactive questionnaire that uses everyday examples to show what consequences your online behavior has in regard to privacy and how to protect your data....
iPhone Apps Secretly Harvest Data When They Send You Notifications, Researchers Find (gizmodo.com)
TL;DR version:...
You Need to Turn on Apple’s New Stolen iPhone Tool (www.wired.com)
Apple today launched a new tool for iPhones to help reduce what a thief with your phone and passcode can access. The feature, called Stolen Device Protection, adds extra layers of protection to your iPhone when someone tries to access or change sensitive settings on your device.
Riot Games Now Requires Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Software for League of Legends, Following Valorant's Implementation (tuta.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/10958052...
Facebook Messenger's Rollout of End-to-End Encryption Leaves Metadata Questions Unanswered (spectrum.ieee.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/11003492...
Each Facebook User is Monitored by Thousands of Companies (themarkup.org)
Mozilla's Platform Tilt: Tracking technical issues which disadvantage Firefox relative to the first-party browser within major software platforms (mozilla.github.io)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/10939423...
Your Tablet's Light Sensor Can Spy On You (spectrum.ieee.org)
Quote from the article:...
AdGuard Temp Mail: new temporary email service launched (www.ghacks.net)
Brave is sunsetting strict fingerprint protection mode (brave.com)
Android and iOS settings for better security and privacy (thenewoil.org)
The article lists settings to change on Android 14 and iOS 17....
DivestOS is fundraising, no longer sustainable ($12,000 goal) (divested.dev)
Sharing this because it’s one of the most promising Android projects we recommend on Privacy Guides, and it would be a huge detriment to the Android/Privacy community at large if this developer is no longer able to continue this work :(...
This Week in Privacy #4 - Privacy Guides Blog (blog.privacyguides.org)
OpenAI finally admitted they're crawling the web to profit off of GPT. Block it from your sites using robots.txt. (platform.openai.com)
The Battle for Biometric Privacy (www.wired.com)
Solene'% : NovaCustom NV41 laptop review (dataswamp.org)
Disclaimer: I’m not affiliated in any way to any of the parties involved in this review. I just enjoy reading Solène’s writings in general and found myself to be especially in fond of this specific article. I share this in the hopes that others might somehow benefit from this as well!...
‘Constantly monitored’: the pushback against AI surveillance at work (www.theguardian.com)
UK proposes selfie-based, AI age verification system for porn sites (www.techspot.com)
Does the "Redirector" add-on affect your browser fingerprint in any way? (kbin.social)
I use it in my normal Firefox setup, but I've been playing with Mullvad browser and I've kept everything to the defaults so I have a good option when I want a little more anonymity without needing the nuclear option (Tor) for sensitive-ish-but-really-not-all-that-sensitive browsing....
Opting into 'link history' on Facebook and Instagram means agreeing to (more) ad targeting (www.engadget.com)
EU fingerprint checks for British travellers to start in 2024 (www.theguardian.com)
Australian privacy watchdog refuses to investigate employer that allegedly accessed worker’s personal emails (www.theguardian.com)
