From FaceID to Amazon One, should you share biometric data online? (www.euronews.com)
Mullvad VPN slowing down internet (artemis.camp)
when not connected, i get 400mbps. connected to mullvad, i only get 150mbps...
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)
Our digital world is a privacy nightmare (2021) (www.thestar.com)
Threads' New Terms and Conditions Affects the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)
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...
Why Monero's Privacy Matters (Video) (monero.town)
Some Bitcoin hodlers will say, “Who cares about privacy? Isn’t Monero just for criminals?”...
Beeper Chat App (www.beeper.com)
Has anyone taken a good look at this from a privacy standpoint? I love this in concept, but not sure if it would be privacy conscience to share credentials for all of these different apps.
Cult of the Dead Cow unveils Veilid peer-to-peer project (www.theregister.com)
Loving that lead paragraph.
OpenAI finally admitted they're crawling the web to profit off of GPT. Block it from your sites using robots.txt. (platform.openai.com)
Mullvad VPN - Infrastructure audit completed by Radically Open Security (mullvad.net)
We invite you to read the final report of our third security audit, concluded in mid-June 2023, with many fixes deployed late June 2023. Further re-tests and a verification pass was performed during July....
Brave releases its own privacy-preserving image and video search (www.theverge.com)
“Brave Search users can now search for images and videos without being redirected to Google or Bing, though some advanced search capabilities are still absent.”
Google's trying to DRM the internet, and we have to make sure they fail (par1.iv.ggtyler.dev)
Has anyone used Kagi Search (search engine)? (kagi.com)
Basically the title....
The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training (stackdiary.com)
From the article:...
I've been working on a end-to-end encrypted survey system (github.com)
Thought people might be interested in seeing a project I’ve almost completed....
Introducing the Proton Drive Windows app (proton.me)
YouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad blockers (www.theverge.com)
Proton Pass is now available (proton.me)
Should the ChrisTitus Ultimate Windows Utility be officially recommended on Privacy Guides? (christitus.com)
Just wanna take a moment to let people know about a very, very good and reputable tool for privacy and windows. I personally think it should be recommended on the main Privacy Guides site if you use windows. This is not a substitute for using Linux, however....
Logseq: A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management. (github.com)
With everything going on with Twitter and Reddit I feel like I have a new appreciation for having my own local knowledge base on Logseq....
How to make payments privately online (www.privacyguides.org)
Why is r/PrivacyGuides Private? [Subreddit Blackout Announcement] (discuss.privacyguides.net)
TL;DR: Reddit is making their tracker-filled mobile app the only way to access Reddit on mobile devices, they are falsely accusing third-party developers of blackmail, and they are on a path to severely lower the quality of content posted on Reddit and increase the amount of spam you see. To stand against these changes,...
Does anyone here have a reliable source for listening to old episodes of the The Privacy, Security, & OSINT Show Podcast? (www.inteltechniques.com)
Michael Bazzell’s podcast has been a fantastic resource to me over the years, and I was hoping to re-listen to some of the old episodes. I understand his reasoning for not wanting old episodes to be available through his main channel, but it would be a really nice resource to have old archived episodes available for listening....
Thoughts on this Reddit post claiming 'Lemmy doesn't care about privacy'? (old.reddit.com)
