Apple's Cooperation with Authoritarian Governments (www.jessesquires.com)
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.
UK to depart from GDPR (www.lawgazette.co.uk)
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
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/
Covering up the camera could damage your laptop: Apple (nypost.com)
Nice try feds....
I didn't install Signal for privacy (chrispanag.com)
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.
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)
Dess's Favorite apps and services / de-googled list. (dessalines.github.io)
The Exodus has started (wapp-exodus.carrd.co)
Accelerate to the future. Privacy is fundamental.
NZBgeek Has Been Hacked Leaving Private User Data Exposed [TorrentFreak] (torrentfreak.com)
Google and Facebook Had "Secret Pact" to Divide and Conquer the Ad Market [We Are Change] (wearechange.org)
Microsoft files patent to record and "quality score" meetings on body language and facial expressions [BBC News] (www.bbc.com)
Microsoft's new dystopian 'Productivity Score' tool lets your boss track how much you use email, Teams, and even whether you turn your camera on during meetings [Business Insider] (www.businessinsider.com)
I created an issue to list Lemmy on PT! (github.com)
I also talked with one of the official members about the possibility of them administrating this community and/or hosting their own instance and they say maybe, so hurray!