It seems Gen Z is just fine with parents knowing where they are all the time (www.businessinsider.com)
Google forced to reveal users' search histories in Colorado court ruling (www.techspot.com)
What do you use for cloud storage and why?
I’ve been wanting to move away from Dropbox for a long while, but I haven’t been able to find a suitable replacement. Dropbox has always been super convenient and has just worked for me....
BVG out here recommending the best 2FA Apps! (lemmy.one)
Nevertheless I chose my Yubikey instead.
Switching to more privacy friendly alternatives
How have others gotten friends/family to make the switch? I’ve been doing a cleanup of my digital life over the last year or so and am trying to move to using more privacy friendly alternatives where possible....
‘People have no idea’: How smart devices spy on us and reveal information about our homes (english.elpais.com)
Marketing Company Claims That It Actually Is Listening to Your Phone and Smart Speakers to Target Ads (www.404media.co)
A marketing team within media giant Cox Media Group (CMG) claims it has the capability to listen to ambient conversations of consumers through embedded microphones in smartphones, smart TVs, and other devices to gather data and use it to target ads, according to a review of CMG marketing materials by 404 Media and details from a...
Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection (www.theregister.com)
The state of open source SMS messagers
With simple messager selling out & qksms no longer being actively worked on. What’s our options for open source sms messagers?...
UK proposes selfie-based, AI age verification system for porn sites (www.techspot.com)
What is your favorite cybersecurity tool and why? (discuss.tchncs.de)
If you can create a Lemmy instance and federate, you can shovel data about every vote linked to an account
I’ve created this post: sh.itjust.works/post/8898162...
What do you think about MX Linux
It’s really great for someone who doesn’t know how to use debain itself and their community are super friendly so do you think it’s worth it’s legacy
Browsers compared (lemmy.basedcount.com)
Source: digdeeper.club/articles/browsers.xhtml
Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent (www.ghacks.net)
Alternatives for simplemobiletool gallery and calendar?
Hi everyone, I’m In the need of an offline calendar and gallery now that simplemobiletools got sold off. I’m wondering what you guys use? My bad if the formatting is weird on this post, I’m trying out a new lemmy client...
Google abandons “Web Environment Integrity” (simplifiedprivacy.com)
Google has abandoned the “Web Environment Integrity” API that was supposed to allow websites to only allow approved and verified browser environments. The plan would allow websites to reject browser or even OS modifications that were “unattested” for the purpose of supposedly stopping bots, piracy, ad-blocking, and other...
Inside the deadly instant loan app scam that blackmails with nudes (www.bbc.co.uk)
Signal details costs of keeping its private messaging service alive | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Is Proton Unlimited Worth renewing?
As the title says, I have been using Proton Unlimited for almost a year; I mainly use Proton Pass, VPN and mail. Mail and Pass are pretty good. However, proton VPN is hit and miss because of the constant loading, slow and unreliable servers....
How Meta’s New Face Camera Heralds a New Age of Surveillance (dnyuz.com)
Most private crypto wallet? (kbin.social)
The whole point of me making certain payments with crypto is for it not to be attached to my name. obviously the crypto service company has my cc details. whats the most privacy friendly one? ty :)
Chat Control 2.0: EU governments set to approve the end of private messaging and secure encryption (www.patrick-breyer.de)
(Please see comments)Alternatives to Signal if they exit EU due to ending E2EE
Like the title states looking for E2EE apps (Android and iOS) without going into much details or needs to be robust enough and easy to use for anyone and stable for operations that are susceptible to constant electronic warfare. I did some research and thought about replacing Signal with Molly and wondering if it will still work...
Help wanted
I live in the EU and the company I work at has been bought out by an american company. They now want me to sign a document that lets them transfer my personal data from my employer to the USA. They want my Name, full address and birthday. It says that they need this for some “compliance regulation” which includes the...