The most invasive title goes to Instagram (lemmy.ml)
blog.pcloud.com/invasive-apps/
If you want full privacy your only real hope is going decentralised federation or peer-to-peer networks (mashable.com)
Seriously any centralised social network hosted in the USA, Russia, China, Australia (to name but a few) is fully traceable, can easily be censored, and can be held legally accountable....
ClearURLs extension removed from Chrome Web Store for "having a description too detailed that can potentially confuse users" (github.com)
Once again daddy Google being an absolute asshole against projects that can damage their tracking practices....
The harsh truth of WhatsApp's privacy policy (peoplesdispatch.org)
Read this article if you still didn’t get the time to analyze the privacy policy of WhatsApp.
What's a good privacy respecting DNS over HTTPS provider?
Cloudflare DNS has DoH, but it’s Cloudflare so… ew. Is there one that is more privacy respecting and also has DNS over HTTPS?
UK to depart from GDPR (www.lawgazette.co.uk)
What would be your steps for getting out privacy nightmare on xiaomi redmi note 5 ?
Looking for solutions to delete/opt out as much as i can from GAFAMs and other chinese closed-sources stuff … im a noob and i feel lost right now … would this be a good idea? gitlab.com/W1nst0n/universal-android-debloater/...
Microsoft and Friends Want to Destroy Online Privacy (www.breitbart.com)
Ignore the fact that it’s coming from Breitbart. This is really freaky in more than one way....
Reddit just added a default on "presence" indicator. You have to go into settings to turn it off. (old.reddit.com)
thread on /r/privacy
Signal Server is effectively closed source software right now
The Signal Server repository hasn't been updated since April 2020. There are a bunch of links about this here but I found this thread the most interesting....
Mojeek is a search engine based in the United Kingdom. (www.mojeek.com)
Mojeek is a privacy-friendly English search engine. Unlike DuckDuckGo, Mojeek has its own index.
Your email and password were probably posted online (3 billion emails and passwords) in the mother of all data leaks [BGR] (bgr.com)
Check if your email leaked cybernews.com/personal-data-leak-check/
Affirmitive (lemmy.ml)
I "created" this logo for the community (lemmy.ml)
It would be nice if it could be used.
Covering up the camera could damage your laptop: Apple (nypost.com)
Nice try feds....
I didn't install Signal for privacy (chrispanag.com)
Surveillance Capitalism Time (lemmy.ml)
Google suspends Element (Matrix client) app from Play Store [@element_hq, Twitter] (nitter.net)
New Spotify Patent Involves Monitoring Users’ Speech to Recommend Music (pitchfork.com)
Aside from the main privacy issue, it’s also stupid that this can be patented.
Any good radio frequency detector that actually works?
Intent being to find bugs in hotels, bed and breakfasts etc.
Why is there still no decentralised search engine that actually works well?
Serious question, why do we give so much power to these tech firms such as Google, when really the solution is decentralization. We have some solutions for money with bitcoin, but there still doesn’t seem to be a viable alternative with a search engine that is decentralized?
What went wrong with Albicla – Polish government response to Facebook hegemony, funded with public money (albicla.com)
Yesterday, the “Polish response to Facebook” was launched by government media owner Tomasz Sakiewicz - Albicla or “All Be Clear”....
Privacy comparison between web browsers (spyware.neocities.org)
So Protonmail / ProtonVPN is not a good option?
I’m trying to get rid of my Google dependency and one of those steps was moving over to Protonmail. Now in the past few days i have been picking up signals that even Protonmail is not as clean as it might be....