This Firefox extension should be part of Firefox and do more and confine all sites, but it's a start https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/feedback/addon/@testpilot-containers/ You can set it to confine Facebook so, Facebook can only "see" what you do in Facebook and not what do you search somewhere else, for example. But you can do the categories you want. I have for Meta, Github, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Shopping, Work, etc. #Privacy#Firefox#Advice
So my plan with my current #VPN provider expires soon and I’m thinking of moving to #Proton. I like the idea of getting, as part of the plan, extras such as Proton mail - get some control and #privacy over my email accounts (away from Gmail). However, I am a little worried that if I create multiple email addresses I essentially lock myself into Proton’s paid plan… Losing email addresses would be an unnecessary nightmare to manage 🤔
Has anyone else switched to Proton to manage their VPN & emails?
That is 1 good interview with @Mer__edith at #zib2 / ORF pointing out all the perils and side effects, wrong assumptions and promises of giving up #privacy in exchange for more security.
Also: the risk of putting ourselves into full dependency of tech giants. There is a notion that #AI - which resources are controlled by a few companies - will spread so widely and quickly that no one can prevent it. This is dangerous, stupid and not even necessary.
Ah, it finally hit me. When some of the folks here seemed to have been perplexed by people wanting to both post publicly, but still have some control over who can read/interact with their posts?
That's robots.txt. We just need a way to set robots.txt for each of our accounts.
Could someone explain to me why do #Privacy advocates keep saying that if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product. Even if you are paying for the product, you still are the product. Case in point, Microsoft Windows OS. Apple. Google workspace. All cell phone providers. Laptop manufacturers. Netflix. YouTube premium. They still take your data and sell truckloads of it so why do people keep saying this phrase? I genuinely want to know what this phrase means today even when you pay for the product, and you still are the product.
A few months ago, I added this image to my homepage for anyone to see, at a glance, where I stand when it comes to social media sites. Feel free to reuse! #privacy#TakingBackControl
and a Telegram Bridge (not tested with private messages)
Since this Matrix instance is selfhosted, the uptime of the instance will not be the BEST and downtimes can happen so use it at your own risk. However, you can see how stable my selfhosted server is here: https://stats.uptimerobot.com/89VnzSKAn/793739181
‘British newspaper groups have warned #Apple that any move to impose a so-called “web eraser” tool to block advertisements would put the financial sustainability of journalism at risk.
‘Apple is preparing to include an AI-based #privacy feature in the #Safari browser in the next #iOS 18 software update that will remove ads or other unwanted website content, according to reports.’ https://on.ft.com/4be4E5Y
Ich möchte mich ganz herzlich für die anhaltende Unterstützung und das Vertrauen in meine Arbeit bedanken. Eure Spenden ermöglichen es mir, mich weiterhin auf die Qualität und Entwicklung des Blogs zu konzentrieren und unabhängig und frei von kommerziellen Interessen zu bleiben. Ohne eure Großzügigkeit und Unterstützung wäre dies nicht möglich. Vielen Dank! ❤️
It’s often hard to get a sense of how well you are protecting your privacy online, but today in the mail my partner received two home loan spams from different banks that she could link to her recent browsing of Zillow to help a friend move. 😒
BRITT BILL WOULD CREATE FEDERAL DATABASE TRACKING PREGNANCIES
Alabama Senator Katie Britt, best known for delivering a bizarre, melodramatic televised response to President Biden's 2024 State of the Union address, has introduced a bill to create a federal website to collect data on pregnant people.
#EU#Spain#Catalonia#Cybersecurity#Privacy#Encryption#Wire#Proton: "As part of an investigation into people involved in the pro-independence movement in Catalonia, the Spanish police obtained information from the encrypted services Wire and Proton, which helped the authorities identify a pseudonymous activist, according to court documents obtained by TechCrunch.
Earlier this year, the Spanish police Guardia Civil sent legal requests through Swiss police to Wire and Proton, which are both based in Switzerland. The Guardia Civil requested any identifying information related to accounts on the two companies’ respective platforms. Wire responded providing the email address used to register the Wire account, which was a Protonmail address. Proton responded providing the recovery email for that Protonmail account, which was an iCloud email address, according to the documents.
In the request, which listed “organised crime” and “terrorism” as the nature of the investigation, Spanish police wrote that it wanted to “find out who were the perpetrators of the facts taking place in the street riots in Catalonia in 2019.”"
A privacy-friendly and interactive Kanban board to organize personal tasks and TODOs. The desktop application is available for Debian Linux and Windows. The release contains a new feature and a bugfix.
“Why is it that so many companies that rely on monetizing the data of their users seem to be extremely hot on AI? If you ask Signal president Meredith Whittaker (and I did), she’ll tell you it’s simply because “AI is a surveillance technology.””
Updated with a statement from Sen. Merkley, who proposed the amendment and was a part of the negotiation: "As I worked with other Senate negotiators to develop a compromise proposal governing TSA’s use of facial recognition, it became abundantly clear that the end goal for TSA is to make facial recognition mandatory for all American air travelers and that the current opt-out system will end."
Datensparsames Android mit der Android Debug Bridge - Teil 2: Berechtigungen und Sensoren
Im zweiten Teil der Artikelserie geht es darum, die ungewollte Erfassung von Nutzerdaten über Sensoren und Lücken im Berechtigungsmanagement zu erkennen und soweit möglich abzustellen. Als Beispiel dient wie im ersten Teil ein Samsung Phablet mit Android 14 (Stock-ROM).
@gnulinux Zu dem Artikel kam noch ein Kommentar , den ich auch hier gerne mit Euch teilen würde:
"Vielen Dank für deinen sehr guten Artikel, der viele wichtige Informationen enthält die #Google und die ganzen Gerätehersteller aus bestimmten Gründen nicht publik machen und / oder lieber versteckt halten wollen.
Besonders geflashed hat mich dabei dieser Satz: "Ein Entwickler kann sich für seine Apps, insbesondere für Systemapps, neue #Berechtigungen ausdenken und implementieren, die nirgendwo in der regulären Einstellungen-App sichtbar werden." Und das, obwohl man uns seit gefühlt mindestens den letzten 5 Android-Hauptversionen ein immer besser werdendes App-Rechte-Management verkauft hat. Wenn dem wirklich so ist, dann ist damit das gesamte Rechte-Management unter Android ziemlich absurd und besitzt (zumindest für mich) keine Integrität und Vertrauen mehr. Das zusätzlich jede beliebige App, ohne Zugriffserlaubnis auf die Sensoren, dennoch deren im System hinterlegte Log-Dateien einfach so auslesen, kopieren und im Grunde genommen irgendwohin übermitteln kann, setzt dem Ganzen dann noch die Krone auf!
Und weshalb muss man eigentlich einen Dienst wie reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org bemühen, um Anzahl & Art von #Trackern in einer Android-App zu erfahren?? - Informationen die im (angeblich so sicheren) Google-Play-Store schlicht verschwiegen werden!!
Das ist doch in Wirklichkeit alles ein riesengroßer Skandal! Wo sind hier die Datenschützer? Wann kommen die Klagen der Verbraucherschützer? Wieso kaufen die Leute weiterhin ihre Geräte ausschliesslich von diesen Datenkraken?"
Coincidentally, this seems to expose a gap in #Fediverse security—since right now there's no way for me to continue posting to a hashtag I use frequently and avoid this user, who openly admits that they use .social to browse hashtags and then quote posts.
The only way I can use a hashtag on this federated network is to make my post publicly visible. Doesn't that make all hashtag-based communities here vulnerable to surveillance and potential abuse?
@adnan Maybe the #Fediverse would benefit from some kind of "listed and fediverse-public but not external-public" level of post visibility that would allow people to have their posts on hashtags propagated across the fediverse and visible internally within the federated timeline but not visible via pages like the non-authenticated external search on most instances to people who are not logged in 🤔