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The right time to start protecting your digital privacy is before your trip […] The simplest and most reliable precaution against border searches is to reduce the amount of information that you carry across the border....

NOTE: This is about the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination after a search warrant for someone’s cell phone is procured; not about digital privacy in general at the U.S. Border (a warrantless search)....

The highlight of the research is that Apple users were less likely to be victims of financial fraud after Apple implemented the App Tracking Transparency policy. The results showed a 10% increase in the share of Apple users in a particular ZIP code leads to roughly 3% reduction in financial fraud complaints....

Mentre si assiste a un’impennata di siti di social media federati, come Bluesky e Mastodon, alcuni tecnologi sperano di andare oltre questo modello di decentralizzazione con applicazioni completamente peer-to-peer. Due progetti di punta, Spritely e Veilid, danno un’idea di come potrebbe essere....

iMessage di Apple offre ai clienti una messaggistica crittografata end-to-end, ma solo se vogliono parlare con qualcuno con un prodotto Apple. Gli SMS sono insicuri, ma la risposta di Apple per proteggersi è quella di acquistare iPhone. Tuttavia, i computer sono più o meno equivalenti, quindi un dispositivo Android potrebbe...

The EFF has a white paper with a proposal to address various online ‘harms’ systemically....

A federal court on Thursday blocked Montana’s effort to ban TikTok from the state, ruling that the law violated users’ First Amendment rights to speak and to access information online, and the company’s First Amendment rights to select and curate users’ content....

See also: Fifth Circuit says law enforcement doesn’t need warrants to search phones at the border monero.town/post/402125