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Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck meeeeeee.
#Privacy #Facebook
Tax prep services send sensitive financial info to Facebook https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/22/free-file-now/"If you were unfortunate enough to e-file your US tax using HR Block, Taxact or Taxslayer, your most sensitive financial information was nonconsensually shared with Facebook, where it was added to the involuntary dossier the company maintains billions of people, including people who don't have Facebook accounts.”
I'm matchboxbananasynergy, AKA Banana, That Banana Guy, Bananaman... you get the point.
My main interests are #privacy and #security - with an extra focus on #android
I've previously contributed to privacy and security resources, and I am currently doing community moderation for various privacy and security related open-source projects.
Feel free to say hi! 👋
tallship (@tallship@fosstodon.org)
@Anfeald @soapbox@gleasonator.com You're very welcome, and #Pleroma itself is kind of a hot mess now, largely in disarray, maybe even somewhat stalled after the very professionally minded #Soapbox developer left that project, forking it when he did…Fosstodon
"We confirm that iOS 16 does communicate with Apple services outside an active VPN tunnel. Worse, it leaks DNS requests. #Apple services that escape the VPN connection include Health, Maps, Wallet. We used @ProtonVPN and #Wireshark. Details in the video:
#CyberSecurity #Privacy"
Via: https://twitter.com/mysk_co/status/1579997801047822336
Unsurprisingly, most of the feedback is opposed to the regulation (~87%, see image).
Some opponents pointed out issues I hadn't even considered, some suggested useful alternatives to this #MassSurveillance regulation.
If you want to know more, I've written a in-depth blog post about this here: https://maxim.tips/against-chatcontrol/
#Chatkontrolle #privacy #VDS
Google delays removal of third-party cookies in Chrome through 2024
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/google-delays-removal-of-third-party-cookies-in-chrome-through-2024/
#privacy #google #chrome #tracking
Google delays removal of third-party cookies in Chrome through 2024
The search giant explained that it pushed back its timeline once again because it needs more time for testing to ensure users’ online privacy is protected.Esther Shein (TechRepublic)
Coronavirus: Call for single EU tracking app with data protection
EU data watchdog calls for a single, privacy-centred virus app, instead of dozens of national ones.BBC News
There is a nice infographic in this article explaining how the global COVID-19 tracking app could work but they missed a few things. Here is revised and improved variant 😀
Coronavirus: Call for single EU tracking app with data protection | BBC News
Europe's data protection watchdog has called for a single coronavirus app to be used across the EU, instead of every country making its own.
Several countries are developing tracking apps, but privacy advocates warn of the dangers they might pose.
The European Data Protection Supervisor says a single EU app with strong data protection built in is the best solution to the coronavirus pandemic.
This gives me trust in the #protection of data and #privacy on #friendica!
@Hypolite Petovan my question was about the phpmailer you maintain; I sorted it out. Sorry, if I lost any more messages/ contact requests etc.
My new (admin) user on México Pensante is robert_winkler@mexico-pensante.blog; I could not use my old nickname.
Just a reminder on Linux Superuser wisdom: "Think before you type!"
https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=NOXK4EVFmJY
Privacy on iPhone | Data Auction | Apple
iPhone has privacy features like App Tracking Transparency and Mail Privacy Protection that help you control who sees your data and who doesn’t. Learn more at https://apple.co/_privacy Song: “Fantasy” by Esquivel https://apple.Invidious
This looks like a shameful general #surveillance law entirely unfitting for any free democracy.
(via Moritz Körner@Twitter)
Sure, Signal respects #privacy - but it lacks #interoperability, #datasovereignty and it isn't ACTUALLY #opensource.
https://digital-justice.com/articles/skip-signal.html
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BramvandenHeuv5/status/1452994205954056204
Skip Signal and move to Matrix before it's too late
Signal is to privacy what duct tape is to a broken item - it solves your issues and concerns, but you shouldn't expect it to last. Instead, consider Matrix.digital-justice.com
Leave no trace: how a teenage hacker lost himself online | Hacking | The Guardian
Edwin Robbe had a troubled life, but found excitement and purpose by joining an audacious community of hackers. Then the real world caught up with his online activitiesA longish, but interesting read.
#technology #tech #security #privacy #hacking #malware
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/14/leave-no-trace-how-a-teenage-hacker-lost-himself-online?CMP=fb_a-technology_b-gdntech
First two very simple steps:
- Install Firefox on both your desktop and your smartphone, stop using Google Chrome. Bonus point if you add the uBlock origin addon.
- Install Signal to talk with your friends. You can continue to use whatsapp in the same time, that is fine. But start using Signal anyway, so when enough people will have done the same, you will be able to ditch whatsapp.
➡️ @switchingsoftware
The guide's website is at https://switching.software
Thes a git for the project at https://codeberg.org/swiso/website
#SwitchingSoftware #Privacy #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Computing #Alternatives #Federation #Federated #DeleteFacebook #DeleteGoogle #DeleteMicrosoft #DeleteAmazon
@Andreas_Schwab@twitter.com @1Br0wn@twitter.com @FantaAlexx@twitter.com @EP_SingleMarket@twitter.com When you control whole markets & 2+ billion users, being a digital silo is not an option. Way too dangerous for us and our democracies.
(Also: #interoperability does not break #security or #privacy. Ask @ara4n@twitter.com & the folks at @matrixdotorg@twitter.com. They know a thing or two about this.)
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ilumium/status/1401922257564450827
This Is The BIGGEST #SCAM of The Century
#technology #security #privacy #mobile #smartphone #surveillance #internet #hack #exploit #software #trust #nsa #spy
So, I'm checking the #FacebookLeak, some people in there doesn't even have a FB account. But it turns out they have a WhatsApp one. In the leaked data WhatsApp users' ID seem to start with 1000. It also includes gender, which is not something one declares when registering on WhatsApp.
Remember that the leak is supposed to be from 2019. That tell us that, 2 years ago, #Facebook was already linking whatsapp data inside Facebook, even when you don't have a FB account, and pushing data from facebook to your #WhatsApp data, like the gender. Two ways binding.
#privacy
https://www.digitalrights.ie/facebook/
#privacy #security #infosec
Every human being must have to make their own choices as far as their #privacy goes so that when they grow up they don't have to fix some bragging moments shared from some dumb parents!
#babyprivacy #choice #socialmedia #photo #tracking
Shady homebrew crypto that once got broken, crowning themselves as "savior of #privacy" when nobody can verify the whole stack, and now this: #ads in chats.
https://telegram.dog/durov/142
Use #XMPP with proper #e2ee (like #OMEMO) or nothing at all. You can't have a realistic expectation of privacy otherwise.
Link by @thenewoil ne
'Spy pixels in emails have become endemic' | BBC News
The use of "invisible" tracking tech in emails is now "endemic", according to a messaging service that analysed its traffic at the BBC's request.#technology #tech #security #privacy
Wow I did not know how many (German) universities are already using @matrixdotorg@twitter.com for their probably hundreds of thousands of students and staff.
#federation #interoperability #privacy
https://doc.matrix.tu-dresden.de/en/why/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ilumium/status/1354073767450963968
This article about a #CIA offshoot funding several prominent Internet #privacy projects is pretty damning on its own, but it will not change my app usage decision. I do not personally use #Signal to be protected from nation-state level #surveillance.
However, it put in perspective Edward Snodwen's recent "testimonial" for the app as being alive as a good reason to use Signal. Now I do not believe this is the main reason or even a reason at all he hasn't been assassinated on the US government orders yet.
Bottom line, even if Signal had a US-government backdoor, I'd still recommend its use to protect oneself from corporate surveillance.
La politique de confidentialité de WhatsApp va accélérer l’adoption d’applications de messagerie décentralisées https://www.servicesmobiles.fr/?p=68679 #Expert #Messagerie #Privacy #Startup
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/servicesmobiles/status/1349296392896827392
1. Shitty crypto scam embedded into it (BAT)
2. Whitelists privacy breaking scripts (https://brave.com/script-blocking-exceptions-update/)
3. Embedded "Brave Today" in new tabs which can't really be completely disabled and makes a shit ton of requests, including tracking ones