It seems Gen Z is just fine with parents knowing where they are all the time (www.businessinsider.com)
YouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad blockers (www.theverge.com)
Google's trying to DRM the internet, and we have to make sure they fail (par1.iv.ggtyler.dev)
Signal is Flawed, Why XMPP is Amazing! (new animated video) (monero.town)
Some will curse me out for discussing decentralization and freedom. I am NOT saying the average person should be concerned with CIA spying. What I’m saying is that one should promote decentralized internet infrastructures that empower the individual over corrupt institutions, even though this threat model likely does not apply...
If you work remotely, your bosses are probably using software to track you. Here's how they'll catch you slacking off. (www.businessinsider.com)
New Discord TOS binds you to forced arbitration - Opt-Out Now (discord.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17618684...
Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal (techcrunch.com)
PSA: Nova Launcher has been owned by analytics company Branch since 2022 (www.androidpolice.com)
Since a few folks seem unaware of this, I’m posting anew for visibility.
Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain (restoreprivacy.com)
Google forced to reveal users' search histories in Colorado court ruling (www.techspot.com)
The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training (stackdiary.com)
From the article:...
NSA ’just days from taking over the internet’ warns Edward Snowden (cointelegraph.com)
Abortion Snitching Is Already Sending People to Jail (msmagazine.com)
EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy (www.theregister.com)
The EU’s Data Protection Board (EDPB) has told large online platforms they should not offer users a binary choice between paying for a service and consenting to their personal data being used to provide targeted advertising....
Browser Fingerprints Lead to Price Discrimination (monero.town)
Not only is it legal, it’s much more common than you’d think. Companies charge different prices based on your browser fingerprint....
Marketing Company Claims That It Actually Is Listening to Your Phone and Smart Speakers to Target Ads (www.404media.co)
A marketing team within media giant Cox Media Group (CMG) claims it has the capability to listen to ambient conversations of consumers through embedded microphones in smartphones, smart TVs, and other devices to gather data and use it to target ads, according to a review of CMG marketing materials by 404 Media and details from a...
Proton Pass is now available (proton.me)
Logseq: A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management. (github.com)
With everything going on with Twitter and Reddit I feel like I have a new appreciation for having my own local knowledge base on Logseq....
New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC (arstechnica.com)
‘People have no idea’: How smart devices spy on us and reveal information about our homes (english.elpais.com)
OpenAI finally admitted they're crawling the web to profit off of GPT. Block it from your sites using robots.txt. (platform.openai.com)
We're giving Lemmy a try: Welcome to !privacyguides@lemmy.one (www.reddit.com)
With Reddit's encroaching IPO and their poorly planned API changes, we need a place to keep up with privacy topics that isn't tied to an anti-privacy, centralized sinking ship site....
Italy considers law against sharenting to protect children's privacy (www.techradar.com)
Lemmy apps for smartphones (github.com)
Links to a hopefully growing list of lemmy clients....
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....
