v89, to linux
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How to read articles/news as a in a and way on .

Sometimes I'm busy and can't read at that moment, so I save the article/news as plain text in a PDF file to read it later. It works most of the time, but it's not perfect.

You'll need: torsocks (optional), lynx and LibreOffice installed.

Save it as a file like "pdf.sh", make it executable with "chmod +x pdf.sh" and then use it like this:

./pdf.sh https://website.com/article

jsrailton, (edited ) to psychology
@jsrailton@mastodon.social avatar

I can confidently diagnose as sociopaths.

Promised therapy customers privacy...then gave their mental health info to advertisers.

Victims get less than ten bucks each.

Company made billion+ in revenue last year alone.

In a just society with good privacy laws, they'd face existential civil & criminal consequences.

https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/nation-world/betterhelp-therapy-class-action-settlement-refund/507-b4ef5e0f-c722-4562-95e9-c3cdd7738d1a

J12t, to privacy
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"Navigating User Privacy in the Decentralized Social Web".

Online webinar, sponsored by Meta.

Just fluttered into my inbox.

https://www.privacylaws.com/events-gateway/events/fediverse2024/

jik, to Wyze
@jik@federate.social avatar

Let's talk briefly about what a tire-fire is and why you shouldn't buy from them.
I attempted to order COVID tests from them near the start of the pandemic. They sold more than they had, I never received the tests I ordered, and cancelling the order was a nightmare.
But then they started spamming me.
In 2022 I unsubscribed from their .
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jik,
@jik@federate.social avatar

In February 2024 I asked them to delete my account (created only to order the COVID tests).
They just spammed me again.
When I click the unsub link, the page it takes me to claims I'm already unsubscribed.
In addition to all this you're probably aware they've had numerous security and privacy issues with their products.
You really, really shouldn't patronize this company.

ai6yr, to privacy

Surprisingly easy to log and track Bluetooth identifiers... I wonder if anyone has built a mapping/triangulation program based on signal strength for beacons... . https://github.com/e-m3din4/ubertooth-bt-tracker

elb, to privacy
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Companies doing business in the United States should have liability for users and customers' personal information. Companies sharing that data with third parties should retain that liability, and the third parties should accrue additional liability. (NOT assume responsibility for the liability!) By liability, I don't mean "pay for credit monitoring from a company that has previously lost the same data", I mean cash on the barrel head, payable to the customer liability.

longreads, to Parenting
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"Through our phones, we are under perpetual surveillance by companies that buy and sell data about what kind of person we are, whom we might vote for, what we might purchase, and what we might be nudged into doing."

Jia Tolentino on and , for The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-hidden-pregnancy-experiment

donwatkins, to ai
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NextCloud’s long-term vision, data privacy, AI features, and more

https://allthingsopen.org/articles/nextcloud-vision-data-privacy-ai-features

ai6yr, to privacy

The Verge: Walmart shopper data will soon feed targeted ads on Disney Plus and Hulu https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/8/24152172/walmart-disney-plus-hulu-targeted-ads

emanuele, to iPhone
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gcluley, to Cybersecurity
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Cancer patients' sensitive information accessed by "unidentified parties" after being left exposed by screening lab for years.

Read more in my article on the Bitdefender blog: https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/cancer-patients-sensitive-information-accessed-by-unidentified-parties-after-being-left-exposed-by-screening-lab-for-years/

astian, to tech
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Happiness is knowing that we are constantly improving Midori to offer you the best, because users are our reason for being. Our engine is not Gecko, our engine is yours.

https://astian.org/midori-browser/download

Midori Browser 11.3.3 coming soon.

Midori 11.3.3 coming soon

astian,
@astian@mastodon.social avatar

Felicidad es saber que mejoramos Midori constantemente para ofrecerles lo mejor, porque los usuarios son nuestra razón de ser. Nuestro motor no es Gecko nuestro motor son uds.

https://astian.org/es/navegador-midori/

Midori 11.3.3 muy pronto.

jbzfn, to privacy
@jbzfn@mastodon.social avatar

Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain

「 The core of the controversy stems from Proton Mail providing the Spanish police with the recovery email address associated with the Proton Mail account of an individual using the pseudonym ‘Xuxo Rondinaire.’ This individual is suspected of being a member of the Mossos d’Esquadra (Catalonia’s police force) and of using their internal knowledge to assist the Democratic Tsunami movement 」

https://restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-data-leading-to-arrest-in-spain/

GrapheneOS, to privacy
@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social avatar

Vanadium version 125.0.6422.35.0 released:

https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium/releases/tag/125.0.6422.35.0

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release and a link to the full changelog.

Forum discussion thread:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/12602-vanadium-version-12506422350-released

ianonymous3000, to Cybersecurity
@ianonymous3000@mastodon.social avatar

📚 Just completed the 'Basics of Personal Threat Modeling' course by @privacyguides 🛡️

Threat modeling is crucial because it helps identify and prioritize the most probable security and privacy risks. It enables focused resource allocation, tailored defenses, and heightened awareness.

Check it out: https://learn.privacyguides.org

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remixtures, to cars Portuguese
@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org avatar

: "I wanted to turn off data collection on my car because it’s creepy and I thought the option would be simple. It turns out that shutting off data collection and figuring out what’s been collected is much more difficult than it would seem. I know because it took me — a reasonably informed and technologically savvy person — a month to finally do so.

I’m in good company.

“It’s comically difficult,” Thorin Klosowski, a security and privacy activist at Electronic Frontier Foundation, who’s written about how to do just this, told me. “I do this for a living and I am not 100% positive I have gotten everything correct, which is ridiculous.”

In March, my husband and I bought a new Honda. When I turned on the car to leave the dealership, I got a notification telling me that data sharing was on. Right next to “on” was an “off” button. Simple enough! But when I hit “off” I got a message telling me it was “unable to change settings while network is invalid.” Right.

My children were screaming at me from the back seat, so I assumed this was a problem I could easily fix another time."

https://sherwood.news/tech/how-to-opt-out-of-the-privacy-nightmare-that-comes-factory-installed-in-new/

openrightsgroup, to privacy
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Confiscating migrants' mobile phones deprives people of access to the Internet and support networks.

It isolates people being held by the UK State and restricts their ability to exercise legal rights in the .

This follows a previous Home Office policy to seize mobile phones and extract data onto the Project Sunshine database.

Despite the practice being ruled illegal, the government is at it again.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/05/migrants-stripped-of-smartphones-ahead-of-rwanda-flights/

Morishima, to security
@Morishima@ieji.de avatar

It has been pointed out that Vivaldi's "Speed Dials" feature with no ads or affiliate listings is problematic.
Any plans for improvement, @Vivaldi?

Details: https://nitter.poast.org/Yuki27183/status/1787955010837561361#m

mobilitydimarca, to cars
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johnleonard, to privacy
@johnleonard@mastodon.social avatar

'TunnelVision' bug potentially allows snooping on all VPNs

Operating system features can be manipulated to divert traffic away from encrypted VPN tunnel

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4205875/tunnelvision-bug-potentially-allows-snooping-vpns

JamesBaker, to privacy
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Age assurance is in the news again today. Sadly this isn’t a magic solution and will instead expose users to increased cybersecurity and privacy risks and drive under 18s towards less controlled spaces to obtain and share restricted files.

kubikpixel, to privacy
@kubikpixel@chaos.social avatar

Not the first and certainly not the last time!

»Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain«

🔓 https://restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-data-leading-to-arrest-in-spain/


GrapheneOS, to privacy
@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social avatar

Secure PDF Viewer app version 19 released:

https://github.com/GrapheneOS/PdfViewer/releases/tag/19

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release and a link to the full changelog.

Forum discussion thread:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/12571-secure-pdf-viewer-app-version-19-released

EU_Commission, to random
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We have opened formal proceedings against Meta to assess whether Facebook and Instagram may have breached the Digital Services Act in areas linked to:

▪️ Disinformation
▪️ Visibility of political content
▪️ Non-availability of election-monitoring tools
▪️ Mechanisms to flag illegal content

More info: https://europa.eu/!h4Tjfy

nf3xn,
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@EU_Commission Budget shortfall 2028 volunteer just dropped.

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