Whenever you're building new tech, please seek privacy advice right from the start. Not as a last step before deployment.

Privacy people want to make your tech better! For you, your customers, and everybody else. But they can only do so if you make them part of your project, not just some final to-do on your checklist.
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#privacy #DataProtection #GDPR #tech

Copyright Cases Should Not Threaten Chatbot Users’ Privacy

#creativityinnovation #privacy #artificialintelligencemachinelearning #electronicfrontierfoundation #eff #digitalrights #digitalprivacy
posted by pod_feeder_v2

Copyright Cases Should Not Threaten Chatbot Users’ Privacy

Like users of all technologies, ChatGPT users deserve the right to delete their personal data. Nineteen U.S. States, the European Union, and a host of other countries already protect users’ right to delete.

^{Electronic Frontier Foundation}

Stop using Big Tech to organize your protests! They're part of the authoritarian surveillance and oppression as well.

✊ Replace Meetup/Facebook Groups with Mobilizon:
https://mobilizon.org

📄 Replace Google Docs with CryptPad:
https://cryptpad.fr

📍 Replace Google Map with Organic Maps:
https://organicmaps.app

🎞️ Replace YouTube with PeerTube:
https://joinpeertube.org

📧 Replace Gmail and Google Calendar with Proton or Tuta:
https://proton.me
https://tuta.com

🕸️ Create a simple html website with no tracking and no cookies, and post links to it everywhere, including paper posters and stickers.

We can organize without Big Tech. We have done it for centuries before!

#Protest #Democracy #DigitalRights #HumanRights #Privacy #MassSurveillance

CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite

^cryptpad.fr

GrapheneOS version 2025061000 released:

https://grapheneos.org/releases#2025061000

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release.

Forum discussion thread:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/23046-grapheneos-version-2025061000-released

#GrapheneOS #privacy #security

GrapheneOS releases

Official releases of GrapheneOS, a security and privacy focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.

^GrapheneOS

#Meta and #Yandex are de-anonymizing #Android users’ #web browsing #identifiers

source: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/meta-and-yandex-are-de-anonymizing-android-users-web-browsing-identifiers/

#Tracking code that Meta and #Russia - based Yandex embed into millions of websites is de-anonymizing visitors by abusing legitimate #Internet protocols, causing #Chrome and other browsers to surreptitiously send unique identifiers to native apps installed on a device, researchers have discovered. #Google says it's investigating the abuse, which allows Meta and Yandex to convert ephemeral web identifiers into persistent #mobile #app user identities.

#anonymity #surveillance #www #privacy #browser #fail #warning #danger #history #software #fail #problem #economy #news #identify #usa #politics #bigbrother

Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers

Abuse allows Meta and Yandex to attach persistent identifiers to detailed browsing histories.

^{Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)}

#EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by #Google, #Microsoft, #Amazon, #X, across Europe has no legal basis

https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/eu-ruling-tracking-based-advertising-by-google-microsoft-amazon-x-across-europe-has-no-legal-basis/

#privacy #politics

EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis - Irish Council for Civil Liberties

Landmark court decision against “TCF” consent pop ups on 80% of the internet

^{Johnny Ryan (Irish Council for Civil Liberties)}

PSA: The Tor Browser Security Level slider cannot be relied upon without a full browser restart (per an anonymous community report and confirmed by Privacy Guides staff) - Make sure you are aware of this if you rely on this feature for your safety.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/02/tor-security-slider-flaw/

#TorBrowser #Security #MullvadBrowser #Privacy #PrivacyGuides #Article

A Flaw With the Security Level Slider in Tor Browser

PSA: The security level slider in Tor Browser (and Mullvad Browser) does not fully apply until restarting the browser.

^{www.privacyguides.org}

Among other things, Meta is now making it mandatory to store voice recordings from their Rayban "smart" glasses in the Meta cloud, and making Meta AI's ability to train and see through your lenses "always on" unless you disable it each time manually.

Gonna be honest, any time someone with Raybans talks to me, I'm going to ask them to remove the glasses.

https://www.theverge.com/news/658602/meta-ray-ban-privacy-policy-ai-training-voice-recordings

#privacy #cybersecurity

Meta tightens privacy policy around Ray-Ban glasses to boost AI training

Meta is making two significant changes to its Ray-Ban Meta privacy policy in an effort to gather more AI training data and improve voice commands.

^{Chris Welch (The Verge)}

Florida’s Anti-Encryption Bill Is a Wrecking Ball to Privacy. There's Still Time to Stop It.

#privacy #endtoendencryption #cybersecuritylegislation #electronicfrontierfoundation #eff #digitalrights #digitalprivacy
posted by pod_feeder_v2

Florida’s Anti-Encryption Bill Is a Wrecking Ball to Privacy. There's Still Time to Stop It.

We've seen plenty of bad tech bills in recent years, often cloaked in vague language about "online safety.

^{Electronic Frontier Foundation}

https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/br-recherche/standortdaten-apps-datenhandel-100.html

#privacy #datenschutz #apps

Nutzer-Standorte aus Zehntausenden Apps stehen zum Verkauf

Millionen von Standortdaten aus Apps fließen an Datenhändler ab - das zeigen Recherchen des BR mit internationalen Partnermedien. In Deutschland sticht eine populäre Wetter-App besonders hervor. Experten sprechen von "Kontrollverlust".

^{tagesschau.de}

Open letter to anyone with a protest or rights-based website:

PLEASE get rid of Facebook and Google SSO login options and analytic tracking codes from your sites.

You are literally handing over your user data to unscrupulous players that are in direct opposition to your cause. These sites can and do hand over user-specific data.

To everyone, stop using these options. Set a strong password. Use an alias email. Use a VPN.

#indivisible #democrats #plannedparenthood #privacy

New Privacy Guides video 📺✨
by @jw

If you've wondered about
the difference between:

Privacy,
Security,
and Anonymity

And why some privacy-focused
services are worth using even when they don't provide perfect anonymity, watch this!

It's truly an amazing short video!
Everyone should watch it 👇

https://www.privacyguides.org/videos/2025/03/14/stop-confusing-privacy-anonymity-and-security/

#PrivacyGuides #Privacy #Security #Anonymity

Stop Confusing Privacy, Anonymity, and Security

Are you mixing up privacy, security, and anonymity? Don't worry, it's more common than you might think! In this week's video we break down each term, so you can make educated decisions on what tools are best for you.

^{www.privacyguides.org}

FreeTube ─ Watch YouTube without ads, without login, and with private playlists.

https://freetubeapp.io

#google #YouTube #privacy #ad #safety #security #InfoSec #data #advertisement #tech #technology #BigTech #app #apps #tip #tips

Amazon is going to be disabling the privacy feature that processes voice commands locally on Echo devices at the end of this month. Instead, all voice commands will be sent to Amazon's cloud for processing.

I have already followed my own steps to remediate this:

1. Unplug Echo Device
2. Throw Echo Device in Trash
3. Done

#amazon #echo #privacy

I would like to know when a post is private or not. So, is this correct?:

• To mention an individual user, I type: @username@instance.tld
• To mention a group (a subaccount used as a forum or a community) I type: !groupname@instance.tld

When I use '!', the message gets posted directly to that group. It ensures that all group members see the post. If the group is private, the message will be visible only to group members. If the group is public, the message will be visible to everyone (including non-members and possibly search engines).

Is the use of @ or ! the same as choosing 'Limited/Private' on the Permissions-tab?

Thanks,
Kind regards,
Erik

!Friendica Support

#privacy #posting #mentioning #public

🎈 US Cloud soon illegal? Trump punches first hole in EU-US Data Deal
—noyb.eu

｢ This deal was always built on sand, but the EU business lobby and the European Commission wanted it anyways. Instead of stable legal limitations, the EU agreed to executive promises that can be overturned in seconds. Now that the first Trump waves hit this deal, it quickly throws many EU businesses into a legal limbo ｣

https://noyb.eu/en/us-cloud-soon-illegal-trump-punches-first-hole-eu-us-data-deal

#uspol #eu #privacy #surveillance #tadpf

US Cloud soon illegal? Trump punches first hole in EU-US Data Deal

Trump paralysed the "Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board" (PCLOB), a key element of the EU-US data transfer deal that allows EU-US data flows.

^noyb.eu

Major privacy alert for Android users.

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@jack/113952225452466068

@jack #Privacy #Android #cybersecurity

Nice. How to leave #X / #Twitter and #Instagram? In the edition of tomorrow‘s newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine offers valuable tips and highlights alternatives in the #Fediverse, such as #Mastodon and #Pixelfed.

A must-read especially for @Gargron from @Mastodon and @dansup from @PixelFed and of course @helpers / @admins

📖 Read more here in german language: https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/geld-leben/social-media-alternativen-bluesky-signal-co-neustart-ohne-x-und-meta-104511246

#SocialMedia #Privacy #Alternatives #Mastodon #Pixelfed #Fediverse

Social-Media-Alternativen: Bluesky, Signal & Co: Neustart ohne X und Meta

Sie hadern mit Elon Musks Kurznachrichtendienst X und sind auch nicht mehr glücklich mit all dem, was Mark Zuckerbergs Meta-Konzern anbietet? Kein Problem. Es gibt Alternativen.

^{Von Dirk Averesch, dpa (Augsburger Allgemeine)}

Nice. How to leave #X / #Twitter and #Instagram? In the edition of tomorrow‘s newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine offers valuable tips and highlights alternatives in the #Fediverse, such as #Mastodon and #Pixelfed. A must-read especially for @Gargron from @Mastodon and @dansup from @PixelFed and of course @helpers / @admins

📖 Read more here in german language: https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/geld-leben/social-media-alternativen-bluesky-signal-co-neustart-ohne-x-und-meta-104511246

#SocialMedia #Privacy #Alternatives #Mastodon #Pixelfed #Fediverse

Alright I'm gonna put a bigger effort to switch to Signal this time around and get a few friends roped in. I installed the APK just recently. I have some questions and am hoping some of y'all fedibrains would have an answer.

1. Is there any privacy difference between Signal from the Google Play store vs installing the APK from Github?

2. Given how locked down iPhones are, could that make Signal inherently less private?

3. Are calls also e2e encrypted?

4. Is it safe to put my Signal username on my bio? Or should that only ever be shared in private?

5. Can anyone with my Signal username also see what name I set as my first name?

Some of these questions might be dumb because I'm still learning the ropes. Thanks in advance!

#signalapp #signal #privacy #messaging #socialmedia

The #network from forgotten times when #crypto meant #privacy, not #corruption:

→ https://www.hyphanet.org ←

Connect to your friends with #Hyphanet to have a safe haven to coordinate when bad comes to worse.

#freenet #decentralization

"I don't notice the ads" is for #attention what

"I don't have anything to hide" is for #privacy

Happy New Year everyone! Just in time to start off the 2025 new year (over here on the pacific coast anyways), Tenacity 1.3.4 has been released! This release contains numerous bug fixes and improvements across all sorts of platforms. Please see https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity/releases/tag/v1.3.4 for more information. (The changelog is quite long to list here).

#tenacity #audio #podcasting #foss #privacy #newyear #2025newyear

tenacity

Tenacity is an easy-to-use, privacy-friendly, FLOSS, cross-platform multi-track audio editor for Windows, macOS, Linux, and other operating systems

^Codeberg.org

if you are a proton mail user, turn off the "writing assistant"

send @proton a clear message, we did not want LLM garbage, thank you.

#LLM #AI #EMail #Privacy

TROM II: You can trade without currencies, of course - https://videos.trom.tf/w/vZiCg1pL4j8uZcU6vWyxwz

#trade #capitalism #money #currencies #influencers #instagram #datatrade #privacy

TROM II: You can trade without currencies, of course

Watch the entire documentary here - https://www.tromsite.com/documentaries/trom2/

^{videos.trom.tf}

Pleased to announce the launch of Surveillance Watch, an interactive map and resource that documents the hidden connections within the opaque surveillance industry: https://www.surveillancewatch.io/

By mapping out the intricate web of surveillance companies, their subsidiaries, partners, and financial backers, we hope to expose the enablers fueling this industry's extensive rights violations, ensuring they cannot evade accountability for being complicit in this abuse.

#Privacy #Surveillance #InfoSec

Youtube is doing its best and most aggressive lately to protect their ad platform. Third party services that allow you to watch youtube videos without ads or being tracked are suffering. Invidious, Newpipe, Freetube and the like.

Now Peertube is being affected and users cannot synchronize their youtube account with their peertube one. Basically a peertube instance has an IP, and google sees that this IP is trying to grab videos from their ad platform. So they blacklist the IP. Unfortunately we can't do much.

Nothing will change until we are brave enough to move to peertube entirely or similar platforms.

Therefore our https://videos.trom.tf/ is currently unable to import videos from youtube. And we may not be able to fix this.

#peertube #youtube #privacy

Come

Let's switch to Signal: https://signal.org/install

#privacy #signal #messenger

A reminder that our tromsite.com domain is blocked by Google and thus we cannot send any emails form our tromsite.com domain to any Gmail accounts... We have tried to fix this but so far no luck.

Google is an ad company so better not use Gmail in the first place.

#tromlive #google #gmail #privacy

Does your public library use Overdrive/Libby for ebooks or audiobooks? ⚠️

In the US and Canada, the answer is probably yes. And you should speak to your library staff and commission about it.

Libby is now owned by a private equity firm & making sketchy changes: https://buttondown.email/ninelives/archive/the-coming-enshittification-of-public-libraries/

The latest development is that their overbroad privacy policy allows them to sell your borrowing history to advertisers: https://infosec.exchange/@longobord/112243098104196246

Thank you @karawynn and @longobord!

#Privacy #Libraries

After a long wait, it's finally here. FreeTube now supports user created playlists! The new v0.20.0 release has dropped and comes with a plethora of new changes along with the new playlists functionality.

You can check out the full release notes over on GitHub. You can download the new release over on our website.

https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/discussions/4848

https://freetubeapp.io/#download

#freetube #privacy #opensource

Release v0.20.0 Beta · FreeTubeApp FreeTube · Discussion #4848

Ending Support for Windows 7/8/8.1 and macOS 10.13 / 10.14 In order to stay in line with recent updates to Electron, this update drops support for all Windows operating systems below Windows 10 as ...

^GitHub

Thank you so much Eduard for becoming the 77th supporter of TROM! We run a unique fundraiser for TROM in that we need only 200 people to donate 5 Euros a month in order to support us for the long run.

Distributed support so that it won't put a big toll on anyone, and a limited goal so that we do not get rich.

If you appreciate the so many things that we do at TROM (see https://www.tromsite.com) then please consider supporting us.

#tromlive #foss #opensource #privacy #documentary #fediverse

#Apple, #Google, and Meta are failing #DMA compliance, #EU suspects

Not even three weeks after the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) took effect, the #EuropeanCommission (EC) announced Monday that it is already probing three out of six gatekeepers—Apple, Google, and Meta—for suspected non-compliance.
#privacy

https://arstechnica.com/?p=2012401

Apple, Google, and Meta are failing DMA compliance, EU suspects

Tech giants must defend against EU's "concrete evidence" of non-compliance.

^{Ars Technica}

Privacy tip: When you sell or trade-in a vehicle, remember to erase all of your data from the in-car electronics. The car dealerships will NOT do this, although they should be required to.

This wasn’t done for the last few vehicles I’ve purchased. I know one previous owners name, where she lives, what her taste in music is, where her dad lives (and how often she visited him), and what restaurants she often went to. In the wrong hands, this is dangerous as hell.

#Automobile #Privacy

Millions Of #google #whatsapp #Facebook #2FA #Security Codes #Leak Online

Security experts advise against using SMS messages for two-factor authentication codes due to their vulnerability to interception or compromise. Recently, a security researcher discovered an unsecured database on the internet containing millions of such codes, which could be easily accessed by anyone.

#news #tech #technews #technology #privacy

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2024/03/06/millions-of-google-whatsapp-facebook-2fa-security-codes-leak-online/

Millions Of Google, WhatsApp, Facebook 2FA Security Codes Leak Online

A security researcher has discovered an unsecured database on the internet containing millions of two-factor authentication security codes. Here's what you need to know.

^{Davey Winder (Forbes)}