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Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain ( restoreprivacy.com )

DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android ( mullvad.net )

"just got doxxed to within 15 miles by a vision model, from only a single photo of some random trees. the implications for privacy are terrifying. i had no idea we would get here so soon. holy shit" ( twitter.com )

How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? ( themarkup.org )

Simple steps to take before hitting the streets

People Are Slowly Realizing Their Auto Insurance Rates Are Skyrocketing Because Their Car Is Covertly Spying On Them ( www.techdirt.com )

The Best Secure Email Providers in 2024 ( blog.thenewoil.org )

Like it or not, email is a critical part of our digital lives. It’s how we sign up for accounts, get notifications, and communicate with a wide range of entities online. Critics of email rightfully point out that email suffers from a significant number of flaws that make it less than ideal, but that doesn’t change the...

Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped Spanish police identify activist | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )

By the way, the earlier posted article https://restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-data-leading-to-arrest-in-spain had an update starting at the paragraph with title Update: Statement from Proton and additional commentary

Microsoft plans to lock down Windows DNS like never before. Here’s how. ( arstechnica.com )

The TRUTH about Bank Privacy ( odysee.com )

YouTube could roll out ads while videos are paused after “strong traction” in experiment - Dexerto ( www.dexerto.com )

Telegram apparently censor queer groups ( mastodon.social )

cross-posted from: https://leminal.space/post/6433881

The Bitcoiners were wrong: a blog post about privacy and bitcoin, and how they failed to design a cash alternative ( unfathom.ing )

Israel using Meta's WhatsApp to kill Palestinians in Gaza through AI system ( www.middleeastmonitor.com )

According to software engineer and blogger, Paul Biggar, however, one key detail on the methods employed by the Lavender system that is often overlooked is the involvement of the messaging platform, WhatsApp. A major determining factor of the system’s identification is simply if an individual is in a WhatsApp group containing...

Why Apple’s iPhone Browser-Choice Option Sucks ( www.wired.com )

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...

Free Software Webmail Systems (fsf recommended email providers) ( www.fsf.org )

US Police Banned by Microsoft from Using Azure's AI Facial Recognition Technology ( www.techtimes.com )

European Law Enforcement Officials Declare Encryption Must Be Broken To Ensure Public Safety ( www.techdirt.com )

from the less-safety-equals-more-safety,-say-EuroCops dept

Google engineers want to introduce DRMs for web pages, making ad-blocking near-impossible in the browser ( github.com )

And since you won't be able to modify web pages, it will also mean the end of customization, either for looks (ie. DarkReader, Stylus), conveniance (ie. Tampermonkey) or accessibility....

Digital surveillance is omnipresent in China. Here’s how citizens are coping ( theconversation.com )

Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose ( arstechnica.com )

Pulling this off requires high privileges in the network, so if this is done by intruder you're probably having a Really Bad Day anyway, but might be good to know if you're connecting to untrusted networks (public wifi etc). For now, if you need to be sure, either tether to Android - since the Android stack doesn't implement...

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