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)
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...
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...
AdGuard Temp Mail: new temporary email service launched (www.ghacks.net)
Your Tablet's Light Sensor Can Spy On You (spectrum.ieee.org)
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Each Facebook User is Monitored by Thousands of Companies (themarkup.org)
Brave is sunsetting strict fingerprint protection mode (brave.com)
Android and iOS settings for better security and privacy (thenewoil.org)
The article lists settings to change on Android 14 and iOS 17....
Common misconceptions about privacy and security (www.privacyguides.org)
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Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service (www.ghacks.net)
This Week in Privacy #4 - Privacy Guides Blog (blog.privacyguides.org)
The Battle for Biometric Privacy (www.wired.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!...
‘Constantly monitored’: the pushback against AI surveillance at work (www.theguardian.com)
