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[USA] Appeals court rules that cops can physically make you unlock your phone ( reason.com )

EFF "cover your tracks" browser privacy test ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ Wanted to share this awesome tool to test your browser, also please do share your results in the comments.

To those of you with nothing to hide: One day you might have. Because you don’t make the rules. ( mullvad.net )

Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission ( www.neowin.net )

Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising ( www.techradar.com )

How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas ( sherwood.news )

There are lots of reasons to want to shut off your car’s data collection. The Mozilla Foundation has called modern cars “surveillance machines on wheels” and ranked them worse than any other product category last year, with all 25 car brands they reviewed failing to offer adequate privacy protections....

Google, Snap, Meta and many others are "quietly" changing privacy policies to allow for AI training ( www.techspot.com )

Meta is a complete dumpster fire

Nothing profound here, just need to vent: I haven't used Facebook for several years now, but I just got my 10 year old son a Meta Quest 2 and had to activate it by linking to my Facebook account. Just two days later I got a warning that the account will be locked because they detected that a child was using the Quest with an...

New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC ( arstechnica.com )

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/10924833

As mind-reading technology improves, Colorado passes first-in-nation law to protect privacy of our thoughts ( www.cbsnews.com )

Microsoft CEO of AI: Online content is 'freeware' for models ( www.theregister.com )

Signal, MEPs urge EU Council to drop encryption-eroding law ( www.theregister.com )

Lawsuit Claims Microsoft Tracked Sex Toy Shoppers With 'Recording in Real Time' Software ( www.404media.co )

Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims ( arstechnica.com )

A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back ( www.windowscentral.com )

‘AI is reliant on mass surveillance’ and we should be cautious, warns head of messaging app | 7.30 ( m.youtube.com )

PSA: always update your smartphone | Ratel RAT targets outdated Android phones in ransomware attacks ( www.bleepingcomputer.com )

Instagram Confirms Testing Unskippable Ads for Some Users: Report ( www.gadgets360.com )

Chat control vote postponed: Huge success in defense of digital privacy of correspondence! ( www.patrick-breyer.de )

Today EU governments will not adopt their position on the EU regulation on “combating child sexual abuse”, the so-called chat control regulation, as planned, which would have heralded the end of private messages and secure encryption. The Belgian Council presidency postponed the vote at short notice. Once again the chat...

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