Users have loved the design of the sidebar in Midori and have requested the same in AstianGO, a major improvement will be coming soon to our search engine.
Created this after reading conversation in comments below some tech article somewhere. Someone mentioned "surfing the #internet sewer" and I really liked that phrase.
At our recent AC meeting in Hiroshima, Japan 🇯🇵, Chunhui Mo (Huawei) spoke on "Use case for Web API accessing LLMs data"
Chunhui Mo explored what it would take to expose Large Language Models (LLMs) which are distributed across many devices and platforms, to WebApps through a Web API and the advantages it could bring in terms of #privacy, security and performance.
🎂 NGI TALER's amazing partner, @glsbank is turning 50 and they celebrate half a century of socio-ecological #banking on the 1st and 2nd of June at #Bohum!
💡On Sunday at 12:00 CEST, don't miss the workshop organised by @leoo under the title "Wer weiß, was du kaufst? Datenflut beim Bezahlen" presenting the unique benefits of @Taler for #privacy preserving digital payments based on #libresoftware !
Datensparsames Android mit der Android Debug Bridge. Teil 3: Weitere Geräte und Plattformen
Die an einem Samsung Stock-ROM beschriebenen Methoden aus den ersten beiden Teilen werden auf Google Pixel und Xiaomi Smartphones, Android TV und einen Tolino Ebook-Reader angewandt, teils mit mehr, teils mit weniger Erfolg.
#Wise customers are now expected to consent to retention and disclosure to partners of #biometric facial information for up to a year simply to continue using their accounts, and even when not required by local financial regulations.
Today my wife could not send messages because Signal has implemented captchas, and the captcha failed. Nothing would send without passing the captcha. The message was being sent to another Signal user who she's messaged before and is in her contacts. It was urgent, and she had to send via SMS to get the message through.
The "feature" and "safety" creep has turned Signal into something that doesn't do its only job. They would sacrifice function for the sake of treating us like spammers. You'd also think the years of metadata they have would be enough to get us on the "not spam" list.
We were already using other apps as our primary messengers, but this is really the final nail in the coffin.
"Our privacy laws are due for reform. But Australia’s privacy commissioner should also enforce an existing rule: with very limited exceptions, businesses must not collect information about you from third parties."
"...[Sara] says after her bag was searched she was... banned from all stores using the #Technology.
"I was just crying and crying the entire journey home… 'Oh, will my life be the same? I'm going to be looked at as a shoplifter when I've never stolen'.
"#Facewatch later wrote to Sara and acknowledged it had made an error..."
#UK#Privacy#Biometrics#FacialRecognition: "Silkie Carlo, director of Big Brother Watch, has filmed the police on numerous facial-recognition deployments. She was there the night Shaun Thompson was picked up by police.
"My experience, observing live facial recognition for many years, [is that] most members of the public don't really know what live facial recognition is," she says.
She says that anyone's face who is scanned is effectively part of a digital police line-up.
"If they trigger a match alert, then the police will come in, possibly detain them and question them and ask them to prove their innocence."
The use of facial recognition by the police is ramping up.
Between 2020 and 2022 the Metropolitan Police used live facial recognition nine times. The following year the figure was 23.
Already in 2024 it has been used 67 times, so the direction of travel is clear.
Champions say that misidentifications are rare.
The Metropolitan Police say that around one in every 33,000 people who walk by its cameras is misidentified.
But the error count is much higher once an someone is actually flagged. One in 40 alerts so far this year has been a false positive."
Heather Burns has an absolutely deft way of turning the sometimes-dull world of digital privacy into entertaining, informative, and actionable prose. Too many of these sorts of books end up being a list of woes and end with "someone should do something, I guess?". Understanding Privacy is different. A…
Book cover for Understanding Privacy.Heather Burns has an absolutely deft way of turning the sometimes-dull world of digital privacy into entertaining, informative, and actionable prose.
Too many of these sorts of books end up being a list of woes and end with "someone should do something, I guess?". Understanding Privacy is different. All the way through the mantra is "You are someone! You do something! And here's how..."
Digital privacy is, I think it is fair to say, not a universally loved topic. Too often it is seen as shrill pedants lobbing fines at unsuspecting companies. The reality is somewhat more prosaic. This is a journey we all have to go on - wherever we work in the digital world.
It would be easy for this book to descend into just being a mega-long checklist. But, while there are a fair few lists, they are backed up with practical steps which can be taken by both people and companies. Some of them are wickedly witty:
Please use https://, because seeing http:// this late in the game is not the sort of ’90s flashback I enjoy.
I especially enjoyed the reframing of certain privacy mavens as "privacy ableists" - those who "criticise a person with a disability for owning an Alexa device, taking no regard for the benefit it has brought into the disabled person’s life."
I also got emotional whiplash after hearing some people described as "privacy shamers" - those who "harass anyone who is doing their best to change tech companies from the inside as being collaborators on par with the Vichy regime."
The book is full of interesting links out to further resources. Although, I should point out that links like https://smashed.by/cnilrights go via the short.io service. Which probably makes me a privacy pedant 😆.
This is an empowering read. It isn't designed to make you feel hopeless at the state of the world but, instead, it asks you to reflect on what you're doing and what you should be doing.
The final question should be the one which weighs on you heaviest: How am I going to feel about myself if I continue to work for this company and develop this product?
I got a DM about how to host a Website as anonymous as possible, especially viewed from the outside with as little attack surface as possible. I already threw a bunch of my ideas in the room, but maybe you can think of something I haven't thought of...
Please just answer to this post if something crosses your mind from security over hoster to the website itself, I will link it to the person.