Win for Free Speech! Australia Drops Global Takedown Order Case (www.eff.org)
GitHub - tyrtles/Unlike-Everything-on-Facebook: A simple browser script to unlike everything on Facebook. (github.com)
New state privacy laws creating complicated patchwork of privacy obligations (www.reuters.com)
United Airlines starts serving passengers personalized ads on seat-back screens (www.cnbc.com)
Is Your Driving Being Secretly Scored? (www.nytimes.com)
XScreenSaver: Google Store Privacy Policy (www.jwz.org)
How AI surveillance threatens democracy everywhere (thebulletin.org)
How to Quit Google, According to a Privacy Expert (lifehacker.com)
Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents (www.404media.co)
Essays: How Online Privacy Is Like Fishing - Schneier on Security (www.schneier.com)
Texas Attorney General investigates reports of car manufacturers selling secretly collected driver data (www.ksat.com)
Pakistan - Firewall being installed to rein in social media (www.thenews.com.pk)
Walmart Just Announced a Brand-New Way to Track Customers, and It All Starts Today (www.inc.com)
Windows won’t take screenshots of everything you do after all — unless you opt in (www.theverge.com)
EFF Covers Secrets in Your Data on NOVA (www.eff.org)
Google leaked tons of personal data and even a Nintendo Direct: report (mobilesyrup.com)
How to close facebook accounts remotely?
Hey guys, I am trying to get rid of my old Facebook accounts. I have not been using them for years, in fact I dont know their login data and for one i dont even have access to the email address any more....
Microsoft violates children’s privacy – but blames your local school (noyb.eu)
GDPR rights are being ignored. In practice, this leads to a situation where Microsoft is trying to contractually dump most of its legal responsibilities under the GDPR on schools that provide Microsoft 365 Education services to their pupils or students....
The Sunbird: How to Start an Announcements-Only Thread on Signal (crimethinc.com)
When iCloud Won't Let you Delete Your Data (odysee.com)
Reports of deleted data coming back, after scrubbing/reset and phone sold to others.
This Undisclosed WhatsApp Vulnerability Lets Governments See Who You Message (theintercept.com)
3D-Printed USB Dead Man Switch (Prototype Demo) (www.buskill.in)
Today we’re ecstatic to publish our first demo showing a homemade BusKill Cable (in the prototype 3D-printed case) triggering a lockscreen....
A Monster Allowed to Grow Up (thememoryhole.substack.com)
The Roots of the Surveillance State
Automattic buys Beeper for $125MM, launches closed-source "privacy" app (techcrunch.com)
Curious how none of the coverage of this purchase mention that the app isn’t open-source, which makes all of their claims of “end-to-end encryption” worthless...
Secure Operating Systems (Microkernels seems to be the future)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/17506000...