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Google Update Reveals AI Will Read All Your Private Messages (www.forbes.com)

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....

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...

iPhone Apps Secretly Harvest Data When They Send You Notifications, Researchers Find (gizmodo.com)

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Unclassified letter reveals NSA's warrantless purchase of Americans' internet browsing data (www.techspot.com)

Fossify Phone (Fossify is a fork of Simple Mobile Tools) is now available, adding to Fossify's existing Gallery, File Manager, and Calendar apps

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/11117839...

The Definitive History of Facebook (airmail.news)

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.

Facial recognition used after Sunglass Hut robbery led to man’s wrongful jailing, says suit (www.theguardian.com)

Targeted Ads are a Cybersecurity Risk (avoidthehack.com)

The article provides a comprehensive overview of the risks associated with targeted ads and malvertising. It offers insights into the different ways malvertising can be carried out and how it can appear on any advertisement on any website, including popular ones. It cites examples of high-profile malvertising cases involving...

Facebook Messenger's Rollout of End-to-End Encryption Leaves Metadata Questions Unanswered (spectrum.ieee.org)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/11003492...

Recommendation for webcam that doesn't push its software?

Hi, I’m on Windows 10 at home and Windows 11 at work. I’m going to migrate to Linux for my next PC (might eventually do it on this one, though I’ve currently done so many tweaks that I intend to keep this for gaming for now). Our two laptops and mini-PC already run Linux Mint, but I digress… (I just don’t want anyone...

What's the best strategy for changing to GrapheneOS?

I have a google pixel, and I know I could install grapheneOS on it. But I’m very, very hesitant, since I depend so much on my phone....

Companies Make it Too Easy for Thieves to Impersonate Police and Steal Our Data (www.eff.org)

Full text from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) article:...

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...

This Week in Privacy #5 (blog.privacyguides.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...

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