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Top Matrix Clients (2023). (articlesgallery8543.blogspot.com)

School surveillance tech does more harm than good, ACLU report finds (www.theguardian.com)

UK police urged to double use of facial recognition software (www.theguardian.com)

UK government keeping files on teaching assistants’ and librarians’ internet activity (www.theguardian.com)

OmitMe - Your Privacy-Centric, Easily Extendable Data Deletion Solution (github.com)

Thought I’d share a little side project I’ve been working on....

Why Monero's Privacy Matters (Video) (monero.town)

Some Bitcoin hodlers will say, “Who cares about privacy? Isn’t Monero just for criminals?”...

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 LAPD Is Using Controversial Mass Surveillance Tracking Software (www.vice.com)

US lawmakers introduce surveillance reforms intended to curb FBI spying (www.reuters.com)

A bipartisan team of U.S. lawmakers has introduced new legislation intended to curb the FBI’s sweeping surveillance powers, saying the bill helps close the loopholes that allow officials to seize Americans’ data without a warrant....

Google privacy button doesn't work, it's claimed (www.theregister.com)

Google User Data Has Become a Favorite Police Shortcut (www.bloomberg.com)

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From FaceID to Amazon One, should you share biometric data online? (www.euronews.com)

If you work remotely, your bosses are probably using software to track you. Here's how they'll catch you slacking off. (www.businessinsider.com)

Overview of SMS Verify for Crypto Services (monero.town)

It’s becoming more and more popular for websites (including Google & others) to demand you SMS text verify to use the service. This can be a huge drag on privacy. This article goes over a few services you can pay some tiny amount of cryptocurrency to get a burner SMS text number just for this purpose, including tips on which...

Has anyone used Kagi Search (search engine)? (kagi.com)

Basically the title....

YouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad blockers (www.theverge.com)

Thoughts on this Reddit post claiming 'Lemmy doesn't care about privacy'? (old.reddit.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!...

Cartels Are Using a Police Database to Track and Target Their Enemies (www.vice.com)

This Week in Privacy (#2) (blog.privacyguides.org)

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....

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