Facial recognition technology jailed a man for days. His lawsuit joins others from Black plaintiffs (apnews.com)
anonymous fb?
If I sign up using phony info and use a new email which is only for fb, always use a vpn and a browser (chromium) that I only use for fb can I be anonymous? I ask because there a couple groups that I’d like to join that only use fb. Thanks.
Inside ShadowDragon, The Tool That Lets ICE Monitor Pregnancy Tracking Sites and Fortnite Players (www.404media.co)
Google’s data trade, E2E encryption victory, rumors of ads in WhatsApp, and X’s risky verification (adguard.com)
TL;DR...
"Smart" car companies are an absolute PRIVACY NIGHTMARE | *privacy not included | Mozilla Foundation (foundation.mozilla.org)
By occupying or operating a Nissan vehicle you automatically agree to their dogshit ToS and privacy policy. You give Nissan the right to collect and sell the following data:...
The UK passes massive online safety bill (www.theverge.com)
Car Companies: Stop Your Huge Data Collection Programs (foundation.mozilla.org)
Nowadays, our cars are anything but a private space — they are full blown data collection nightmares on wheels....
Redirect YouTube to Piped (lemmy.one)
I’m currently in the process of switching from YouTube to Piped and was getting fed up with rewriting YouTube links myself. I finally found an extension that can do this with a relatively easy setup:...
NextDNS vs Control D vs Adguard DNS, which one is the best?
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/1181564...
Do eSIMs have any downsides from a privacy standpoint?
Compared to regular SIM cards....
Cult of the Dead Cow unveils Veilid peer-to-peer project (www.theregister.com)
Loving that lead paragraph.
Brave releases its own privacy-preserving image and video search (www.theverge.com)
“Brave Search users can now search for images and videos without being redirected to Google or Bing, though some advanced search capabilities are still absent.”
Google's trying to DRM the internet, and we have to make sure they fail (par1.iv.ggtyler.dev)
The Spy Pixel problem
Unsurprisingly, some folks on raddle and reddit seem to have a big problem with lemmy. A lot of it is pure FUD....
The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training (stackdiary.com)
From the article:...
I've been working on a end-to-end encrypted survey system (github.com)
Thought people might be interested in seeing a project I’ve almost completed....
Louis Rossman gets Zoom to sponsor a video about Zoom's anti-consumer terms (www.youtube.com)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/582890...
Proton Pass is now available (proton.me)
Reddit breaks Law by restoring deleted comments (youtu.be)
Is this sub related to privacytools.io?
Can't choose a secure email provider!
Hi All,...
How to make payments privately online (www.privacyguides.org)
Chrome zero-day: “This exploit is in the wild”, so check your version now (nakedsecurity.sophos.com)
You want Chrome 114.0.5735.106 or later on Mac and Linux, and 114.0.5735.110 or later on Windows....
New Tutanota Plans: More email alias addresses, more features, more storage! (tutanota.com)
Since we launched our first paid plans in 2015, our Premium price has never changed. Now the time has come to update our plans. While prices for existing subscribers will not change, we have an awesome one-time offer if you decide to switch to the new plans right now: Get the new plans at half price and benefit from more email...
Open source is no guarantee for security or privacy. It is a prerequisit.
Just because software is open source does not mean someone is actually looking at the code. But depending on the software there are incentives to do so. Some people might be technologically interested on the way a software does something and look at the source code for that. Some people might want to check the benignity for...