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smeg, in Marketing Company Claims That It Actually Is Listening to Your Phone and Smart Speakers to Target Ads

This seems fishy. Beyond being illegal in a lot of places, if this was actually possible without people noticing (e.g. detecting massive data usage of audio being uploaded or native battery/CPU usage of it being processed locally) then we’d know about it!

My first thought is that this is the classic tech sales bullshit of claiming your product can do something impossible in order to sell it. What’s most confusing is the statement from the bottom of the article:

“CMG businesses do not listen to any conversations or have access to anything beyond a third-party aggregated, anonymized and fully encrypted data set that can be used for ad placement. We regret any confusion and we are committed to ensuring our marketing is clear and transparent,” the statement added.

So are they admitting it was bullshit or what?

Melody, in yubikey and USB

You should be safe if you are the only one with access to that computer.

If you are sharing the computer with another human being; please Unplug your Yubikey and take it with you when you are not using the computer and it is likely that another human being could be using the computer. Just to be safe; Do Not Leave Your Yubikey Plugged In If Another Person Is Using It…unless you’re authorizing them to access something.

Your Yubikey can’t tell who clicked it’s button as it is NOT a Fingerprint Reader.

sqgl, in UK proposes selfie-based, AI age verification system for porn sites

Soon they will be wanting dick pics.

jlow,

I’d actually have less qualms with that then sending a porn site my face. It’s amazing that they think this will go down well.

leraje, in Does the "Redirector" add-on affect your browser fingerprint in any way?
@leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I speak under correction, but I believe that whilst yes adding any add-on can potentially alter your fingerprint, it’s also true that a site has to test for the presence of that particular add-on you’ve added. I don’t believe there’s a way to test generally for the presence of add-ons and report back which add-ons a visitor is using.

Gekoloniseerd, in The LAPD Is Using Controversial Mass Surveillance Tracking Software

I’m shocked I tell you SHOCKED. suprised picachu face

Showroom7561, in Privacy Guide recommend software. Get them Cheaper (Black Friday)

Also, Adguard lifetime subscriptions are often dirt cheap on Stacksocial.

Xirup, in Where to store OTP tokens

In the case of Keepass, it is commonly said that it is best to have a database exclusively for your OTP.

For example, you have your passwords in a db called “My passwords” with an exclusive encryption password, and then another db called “My OTP’s” with its own encryption password, so if someone somehow get access to one, that person still won’t have access to the other, and therefore cannot enter your account.

SweetMylk,

Then use the same password for both for the sake of convenience.

ExtremeDullard, (edited ) in Why Not Store Encrypted Emails in Plaintext Locally?
@ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

If you’re in Linux, you can use eCryptfs to setup a private encrypted directory, move the ~/.thunderbird directory into it and just leave a symlink to it in your unencrypted home directory. Then you can store your emails in plain text in the encrypted private directory.

It’s not even complicated to set up: most Linux distributions are setup so that the private directory is automounted upon login: when you’re not logged in, your data at rest is encrypted. It only becomes readable when you’re logged in.

Both my Thunderbird and Firefox directories are stored in my private directory.

_s10e,

This does not answer the question. OP wants to Thunderbird to decrypt PGP mails. Yes, it makes sense to use an encrypting fs, but we are still missing this thunderbird feature.

sduvick, in What is xtrapath3.izatcloud.net, why does my phone connect to it?

@AlbinJose1001 base host appears to be some location provider from Qualcomm? http://izatcloud.net/

AlbinJose1001,
@AlbinJose1001@endlesstalk.org avatar

I don’t know. My xiaomi device is making crazy amount of connections to… Xiaomi.net Xiaomi.com Miui.com idmb-app-chat-global-xiaomi10-407281533.ap-south-1.elb.amazonaws.com And now… xtrapath1.izatcloud.net

name_NULL111653,

As others have said, manufacturer telemetry. Just the usual built-in spyware that people are fine with for some reason… Everyone does it, they’re just bad at hiding it in this case.

bbbhltz,
@bbbhltz@beehaw.org avatar

As mentioned, this is a Qualcomm thing. Not exactly spyware, but probably not necessary either.

www.qualcomm.com/site/privacy/services

Qualcomm Location Service (formerly “IZat Location Services” or “IZat”) is technology offered by Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in the U.S., QT Technologies Ireland Limited in countries within the European Economic Area, and Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (Korea) YH in the Republic of Korea (a.k.a. South Korea). Qualcomm Location Service may enable your device to determine its location more quickly and accurately – even when your device is unable to get a strong GPS signal.

Something like the UAD could disable it, or you could use Tracker Control to block it, or straight up use adb to disable it… But, it will run even if disabled.

The package is com.qualcomm.location so,

adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.qualcomm.location

will disable it, but it will always come back…

lemann,

Removing it can cause a bootloop in some cases, likely something in the boot process is looking for it and reinstalling that app if missing. Google’s play services recently started doing that with permissions that are revoked with root

Should be removable on a non-stock ROM though

spez, in Google abandons “Web Environment Integrity”
WTF, in India's biggest data breach? Hacking gang claims to have stolen 815 million people's personal information

India ≠ Privacy

Tygr, in Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection

Anyone have family call them after finding out blocking ads on YT is even possible?

I think all this is causing a bit of Streisand effect. Now even more will be blocking ads.

ExtremeDullard, in Lemmy is most censored social media than instagram,facebook,reddit,etc...
@ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Troll

giacomo, in Practical file manager on Linux Ubuntu

If you’re coming from windows, I think kde may be easier to transition to than gnome.

trash80, in It seems Gen Z is just fine with parents knowing where they are all the time

Rising levels of anxiety among young people may be driving the embrace of location apps.

I’m not sure it isn’t the other way around.

cheese_greater,

I honestly feel like so much of the anxiety comes down to lack of stable and sufficient income + meaninful employment and also (maybe more so) bad living situations. Housing is wielded as an incredibly potent weapon against young people often by narcissistic and dysfunctional family(s) and its scary as fuck to face the spectre of homelessness or the prospect of having to adjust to the torrent of change it would entail. They shouldn’t have to worry about idiot monster parents and constantly having to deal with their housing being on the table/chopping block any time they disagree or set a boundary.

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