OpenAI and Reddit Partnership (openai.com)
It has finally happened…not surprised though.
FTC Warns Car Makers Regarding Privacy (arstechnica.com)
It’s not quite enough for me, personally, but this is a small step in the right direction....
Dutch engineer gets convicted to 5 years for maintaining Tornado Cash (www.patrick-breyer.de)
Dangerous? Signal Blasts Google Effort to Use AI to Scan for Scam Phone Calls (uk.pcmag.com)
Google’s AI model will potentially listen in on all your phone calls — or at least ones it suspects are coming from a fraudster....
Android's new anti-theft features (blog.google)
cross-posted from: lemy.lol/post/25062075
Connected cars’ illegal data collection and use now on FTC’s “radar” (arstechnica.com)
The Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Technology has issued a warning to automakers that sell connected cars. Companies that offer such products “do not have the free license to monetize people’s information beyond purposes needed to provide their requested product or service,” it wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. Just...
Anyone familiar with "No Trace Project"? (www.notrace.how)
Title says it all–a fellow bricoleur just turned me on to the No Trace Project and I’m curious to know if anyone else here has looked into it and the quality of the information therein. Thanks in advance!
Firefox version 126 introduces search data telemetry collection and enhanced copy without site tracking option (blog.mozilla.org)
With the latest version of Firefox for U.S. desktop users, we’re introducing a new way to measure search activity broken down into high level categories. This measure is not linked with specific individuals and is further anonymized using a technology called OHTTP to ensure it can’t be connected with user IP addresses....
Telegram CEO calls out rival Signal, claiming it has ties to US government (www.theregister.com)
Are right wingers creating FUD around Signal? (hachyderm.io)
Fake WhatsApp and Instagram apps that can steal personal data (www.infoterkiniviral.com)
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/13793778...
Happy Net Box by Ben Brown (happynetbox.com)
Happy Net Box is an experimental internet social experience based on the arcane and near-forgotten retro internet protocol known as FINGER....
Chat Apps, Government Ties, and Transparency – Threema (threema.ch)
Why the state monopoly on identity is worse than Big Tech (medium.com)
[Book] Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy (direct.mit.edu)
Mozilla to protect Firefox users from bounce trackers - Stack Diary (stackdiary.com)
Randomly getting Notion email, after having deleted my account years ago... (slrpnk.net)
Welp I guess this is the perfect example of companies not deleting your credentials and account info when asking for it… I deleted my Notion account several years ago. And completely randomly today got an email from them about data retention, assuming this is one of those “important” emails they have to send out. Sadly,...
Telegram apparently censor queer groups (mastodon.social)
cross-posted from: leminal.space/post/6433881
Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped Spanish police identify activist | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
By the way, the earlier posted article restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-data… had an update starting at the paragraph with title Update: Statement from Proton and additional commentary
Smart meter data: the Government’s at it again (www.openrightsgroup.org)
Man Booked For Using VPN In J&K's Rajouri, 3rd Such Case In 2 Days (www.ndtv.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15187027...
Materialious - Desktop & Android client (materialio.us)
Materialious now can be used as a Desktop or Android application. Allowing it to be used for any Invidious instance!...
Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain (restoreprivacy.com)
The Bitcoiners were wrong: a blog post about privacy and bitcoin, and how they failed to design a cash alternative (unfathom.ing)
Why Your VPN May Not Be As Secure As It Claims (krebsonsecurity.com)
Virtual private networking (VPN) companies market their services as a way to prevent anyone from snooping on your Internet usage. But new research suggests this is a dangerous assumption when connecting to a VPN via an untrusted network, because attackers on the same network could force a target’s traffic off of the protection...
