Dangerous? Signal Blasts Google Effort to Use AI to Scan for Scam Phone Calls (uk.pcmag.com)
Google’s AI model will potentially listen in on all your phone calls — or at least ones it suspects are coming from a fraudster....
Coming to terms with no longer having privacy and control over my technology
I miss the days of VHS and DVD shelfs in homes, for example. If you bought the tapes and had them in your home, no corporate entity could alter those tapes without your consent, monitor how many times you watch them, sell your data to whomever they please without your knowledge, roll out new mandatory conditions to a ‘user...
Android's new anti-theft features (blog.google)
cross-posted from: lemy.lol/post/25062075
What is the most appropriate way of tracking web traffic?
I have my personal blog, made with Hugo and hosted on GitHub pages. Initially I did not turn on any kind of web tracking / web analytics, because I do not like tracking at all. But I want to make my blog better and to achieve it, I need a feedback loop about traffic. For example, what are the most popular publications, or how...
Connected cars’ illegal data collection and use now on FTC’s “radar” (arstechnica.com)
The Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Technology has issued a warning to automakers that sell connected cars. Companies that offer such products “do not have the free license to monetize people’s information beyond purposes needed to provide their requested product or service,” it wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. Just...
Anyone familiar with "No Trace Project"? (www.notrace.how)
Title says it all–a fellow bricoleur just turned me on to the No Trace Project and I’m curious to know if anyone else here has looked into it and the quality of the information therein. Thanks in advance!
Firefox version 126 introduces search data telemetry collection and enhanced copy without site tracking option (blog.mozilla.org)
With the latest version of Firefox for U.S. desktop users, we’re introducing a new way to measure search activity broken down into high level categories. This measure is not linked with specific individuals and is further anonymized using a technology called OHTTP to ensure it can’t be connected with user IP addresses....
Telegram CEO calls out rival Signal, claiming it has ties to US government (www.theregister.com)
Are right wingers creating FUD around Signal? (hachyderm.io)
Looking for a free email service
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Improving privacy on lemmy
Lemmy admin should add option in the account settings for hiding your username from your posts/comments, and hiding your profile from the public, so noone would be able to see all of your posts in your profile page, and even if someone is using a tool for scrapping posts, they wouldn’t be able to link the posts to 1 user,...
I found a worm on my USB
This is probably not the right community but I haven’t found a better one....
Chat Apps, Government Ties, and Transparency – Threema (threema.ch)
What is the cost of privacy?
I have been pro privacy and anti data harvesting for many years now, however it is becoming increasingly more difficult staying off some platforms. Mostly Meta....
Fake WhatsApp and Instagram apps that can steal personal data (www.infoterkiniviral.com)
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/13793778...
Happy Net Box by Ben Brown (happynetbox.com)
Happy Net Box is an experimental internet social experience based on the arcane and near-forgotten retro internet protocol known as FINGER....
How to randomly pad files before encryption to prevent file fingerprinting?
Hi, I was planning to encrypt my files with GPG for safety before uploading them to the cloud. However, from what I understand GPG doesn’t pad files/do much to prevent file fingerprinting. I was looking around for a way to reliably pad files and encrypt metadata for them but couldn’t find anything. Haven’t found any...
What are the most private social media platforms?
I’ve been feeling uneasy about the privacy implications of using Lemmy and similar platforms. The ability for anyone to view your entire posting history feels to me like publicly sharing my browser history. In contrast, most other social media platforms allow you to limit your feed visibility to just friends or followers....
Why the state monopoly on identity is worse than Big Tech (medium.com)
[Book] Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy (direct.mit.edu)
Mozilla to protect Firefox users from bounce trackers - Stack Diary (stackdiary.com)
Randomly getting Notion email, after having deleted my account years ago... (slrpnk.net)
Welp I guess this is the perfect example of companies not deleting your credentials and account info when asking for it… I deleted my Notion account several years ago. And completely randomly today got an email from them about data retention, assuming this is one of those “important” emails they have to send out. Sadly,...
Thoughts on Nothing Phone 2 running with e/os?
I wanted to degoogle since Google has been most annoying so far with S21FE. Was thinking of getting Pixel 8a but due to mixed reivews I was looking for other phones. Thoughts on this? Would be also nice if I can get some opinions from people who have the phone as well.
Instagram locked my account and forced me to appeal and send a picture of my face, so I sent a picture of Shrek. They deleted my account
I’ve been a social media hermit for the past 3 years but recently I’ve given up and created a few accounts across different apps again. It’s unreal how strict the requirements are now....