Digital surveillance is omnipresent in China. Here’s how citizens are coping ( theconversation.com )
Japan working on European DMA equivalent - INCYBER NEWS ( incyber.org )
Made Python program to delete messages from Discord ( github.com )
Hello fellow privacy enthusiasts!...
People Are Slowly Realizing Their Auto Insurance Rates Are Skyrocketing Because Their Car Is Covertly Spying On Them ( www.techdirt.com )
Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules ( arstechnica.com )
The legal situation is more complex and nuanced than the headline implies, so the article is worth reading. This adds another ruling to the confusing case history regarding forced biometric unlocking.
Microsoft is silently installing Copilot onto Windows Server 2022 ( mastodon.gamedev.place )
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Two Years Post-Roe: A Better Understanding Of Digital Threats ( www.techdirt.com )
from the our-digital-reality dept
CJEU Gives File-Sharer Surveillance & Data Retention a Green Light * TorrentFreak ( torrentfreak.com )
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What are your thoughts on Invizible pro ? ( f-droid.org )
The app seems fairly small in size compared to orbot which is really old and also invizible pro seems to do a ton of things that including firewall vpn etc . So does it connect to tor network properly and pass all your traffic through it as good as orbot and completely block internet acces to not whitelisted services as good...
YouTube could roll out ads while videos are paused after “strong traction” in experiment - Dexerto ( www.dexerto.com )
Thoughts on the Notesnook v3 update? ( blog.notesnook.com )
I want to hear your opinions on the technical changes of the new Notesnook update.
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....
Why Apple’s iPhone Browser-Choice Option Sucks ( www.wired.com )
The TRUTH about Bank Privacy ( odysee.com )
U.S. "Know Your Customer" Proposal Will Put an End to Anonymous Cloud Users * TorrentFreak ( torrentfreak.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/9850201...
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....
Almost all hospitals in the USA share data with third parties report finds ( jamanetwork.com )
Alcohol Addiction Treatment Firm will be Banned from Disclosing Health Data for Advertising to Settle FTC Charges that It Shared Data Without Consent ( www.ftc.gov )
According to the complaint, the company contradicted its privacy promises. From 2020-2022, the company allegedly disclosed users’ personal information, including their health information, to numerous third-party advertising platforms via tracking technologies, known as pixels and application programming interfaces (APIs),...
Android 15 will run Bluetooth with your phone still turned off. ( security.googleblog.com )
I saw this on infinity for Reddit earlier, I don't know if there's a workaround for this or not.
96% of US Hospital Websites Share Visitor Data with Google, Meta, Data Brokers, and Other Third Parties, Study Finds ( www.theregister.com )
Academics at the University of Pennsylvania analyzed a nationally representative sample of 100 non-federal acute care hospitals – essentially traditional hospitals with emergency departments – and their findings were that 96 percent of their websites transmitted user data to third parties....
Proton AG and Standard Notes joined forces ( proton.me )
Unfortunately for now there are not usable for me....
Apple Warns Users in 92 Countries About 'Mercenary Spyware' Threat ( www.pcmag.com )
Worth noting: the warning originally had a direct mention that the attack was from a surveilling government, but they removed that part after being asked.
Redlib: Open-source, privacy-focused frontend for Reddit without Reddit's ads, trackers, and bloat. A fork of Libreddit. ( safereddit.com )
The purpose of this post is not to endorse the use of Reddit ( https://shields.tosdr.org/en_194.svg), but rather to inform users of a privacy-friendly approach in case they need to utilize the platform....
'Pay or Okay' explained: Why more and more websites make you pay for your privacy - noyb ( noyb.eu )
Breezy Weather: An open-source, privacy-friendly Android weather app forked from the now-unmaintained Geometric Weather ( f-droid.org )
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