AI facial recognition: Campaigners and MPs call for ban (www.bbc.co.uk)
How Are Apps Finding My Location?
I’m using using a Revanced patched version of RIF is Fun to access Reddit. I have a VPN with ad blockers running. The app doesn’t have location permissions. I am getting ads for my city in it. The odd thing is that before the banning of 3rd party Reddit apps, I never got ads on RIF. I’m not only curious how they’re...
Issues dealing with 'Ad Blockers are not allowed on Youtube' popup on Youtube (lemmy.world)
I’m not sure which community on here this would be best fit in without the risk of it being removed by a moderator for some reason, but I started getting the following popup when trying to watch videos on YouTube as of yesterday while becoming a little bit worried my Youtube Account might get blocked permanently from watching...
What are your thoughts on this? (youtu.be)
New app to help fight private info sharing by companies (USA) (www.permissionslipcr.com)
It claims to help make request to take down your info
Poland Opens GDPR Investigation into ChatGPT and OpenAI amid Mounting Privacy Concerns (www.privateinternetaccess.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5724757...
Your car DOES NOT collect your sexual activity information (piped.kavin.rocks)
Some programs do not enable my webcam indicator LED
Since when is this a thing? I thought the indicator LED would be firmware controlled in the webcam (Logitech V-U0040)...
Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud (www.home-assistant.io)
Today’s story is about Philips Hue by Signify. They will soon start forcing accounts on all users and upload user data to their cloud. For now, Signify says you’ll still be able to control your Hue lights locally as you’re currently used to, but we don’t know if this may change in the future. The privacy policy allows...
The Tesco Clubcard Data Scam | Exposed: How Supermarkets Are Making Billions from Your Data (tilvids.com)
How do I foind out how to turn my car's Internet connection off?
After the recent article about car privacy that Mozilla put out, I want to ensure my cars have no internet connection. Is there a good website to find any privacy issues for each car and how to disable them?...
Google’s data trade, E2E encryption victory, rumors of ads in WhatsApp, and X’s risky verification (adguard.com)
TL;DR...
Privacy-respecting Microsoft Family alternative
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5234159...
JShelter, thoughts? (jshelter.org)
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PSA: The open source Raivo multi-factor authenticator announced they were acquired by "Mobime" (github.com)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/5151367
Is wire messenger private in 2023?
Basically title. Looks like wire is now heavily being targeted towards corporates. In a corporate environment you don’t need too much privacy, so I was wondering…...
Privacy hardening Grafana / Prometheus ?
cross-posted from: ttrpg.network/post/980439...
A cool tool to figure out how traceable usernames are online (sh.itjust.works)
github.com/sherlock-project/sherlockI just thought this tool was very useful for finding my accounts. let me know if you know any tools that you enjoy using for security.
[Opinion] If your site uses an external domain for determining if a user consents to tracking or not, you are still providing a vector for tracking, whether you and your user choose to allow it or not (lemmy.world)
Something I noticed on a few websites, including stackoverflow, is that they leave tracking settings up to a different website, which still lets that external party know what websites a user has been seeing, and this can be maliciously abused....
Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach (krebsonsecurity.com)
This is why you never trust closed source, for-profit companies with anything important.
It’s Official: Cars Are Terrible at Privacy and Security (foundation.mozilla.org)
Ah, the wind in your hair, the open road ahead, and not a care in the world… except all the trackers, cameras, microphones, and sensors capturing your every move. Ugh. Modern cars are a privacy nightmare.
Your car collects information on your sexual activity and you consented to it (www.youtube.com)
Cars have the worst data privacy practices Mozilla has ever seen - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
How private is namecheap?
First time website hoster here. I just need a simple, cheap website and I stumbled upon namecheap and their shared hosting/website builder....