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23 votes
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For years Facebook claimed the adding a phone number for 2FA was only for security. Now it can be searched and there's no way to disable that.
@jeremyburge: For years Facebook claimed the adding a phone number for 2FA was only for security. Now it can be searched and there's no way to disable that.
43 votes -
Revealed: Facebook’s global lobbying against data privacy laws
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EFF announces "Fix It Already" campaign to demand fixes for specific issues from nine major tech companies and platforms
42 votes -
Musical.ly/TikTok agrees to pay $5.7M to settle FTC allegations that it violated children’s privacy law
10 votes -
The microphones that may be hidden in your home
23 votes -
Longer (or configurable) duration for topic read comment tracking
Comment Visits Setting This data is retained for 30 days. After not visiting a particular topic for 30 days, the data about your last visit to it will be deleted. We've had discussions before...
This data is retained for 30 days. After not visiting a particular topic for 30 days, the data about your last visit to it will be deleted.
We've had discussions before about long-lived topics, resurrecting old topics, etc. and the general consensus is that they were good and encouraged. Unfortunately, with the limited 30-day memory for topic read-vs-new comments, resurrected posts become a real pain. The current activity-sorted all-time front page has three topics from 2018, each with over a hundred comments. It'd be nice to read the new activity, but that takes either some tedious Ctrl+F with various terms ("minutes", "days", etc.) to find newish comments or re-reading everything.
I'd like to avoid relying on a third-party extension to handle this (browser and device support, issues with syncing multiple devices, etc.), and I understand the privacy goals. What are people's thoughts on making read-comment memory user-configurable, even if it's just "default 30-days" and "all-time"?
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Timeliner: A personal data aggregation & personal data backup utility for Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc…
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FastMail loses customers, faces calls to move over anti-encryption laws
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The real reason why Facebook and Google won’t change
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Privacy Attacks to the 4G and 5G Cellular Paging Protocols Using Side Channel Information
10 votes -
By summer 2019, the Firefox browser will also block, by default, all cross-site third-party trackers
@jensimmons: By summer 2019, the Firefox browser will also block, by default, all cross-site third-party trackers, strengthening privacy without your having to do a thing." https://t.co/cqpQbSe9Ko
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Privacy vs "I have nothing to hide"
9 votes -
You Give Apps Sensitive Personal Information. Then They Tell Facebook.
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Nine months ago, Facebook promised a new privacy tool that's nowhere to be found. Sources say it's a key example of the company's “reactionary” way of dealing with privacy concerns.
9 votes -
Highlights and transcript from the first of Mark Zuckerberg's "public discussions on the future of technology and society"
8 votes -
Intelligent Tracking Protection 2.1 in WebKit
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2.7 million medical calls breached in Sweden due to an unsecured NAS
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OnionShare 2 released
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One in ten people with a Medicare card have chosen to opt out of the new My Health Record digital health system, more than 2.5 million Australians in total
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Startpage's Anonymous view allows us to view web pages anonymously.
The new Startpage.com Anonymous View feature has been tweaked since it was first released at the end of last year. Startpage.com developed Anonymous View to fix a major privacy gap with any...
The new Startpage.com Anonymous View feature has been tweaked since it was first released at the end of last year.
Startpage.com developed Anonymous View to fix a major privacy gap with any private search engine: once you click on one of the links you find and establish a direct connection with the third party website, you're back in the Wild West of Tracking. This website can see who you are, place cookies on your browser and track your behavior, including the links you click on and pages you view. This defeats part of the benefits of private search.
Anonymous View fixes this privacy problem AND fixes the perennial problem of proxies that only display part of a page or break without JavaScript. Anonymous View uses JS while protecting your privacy -- even preventing fingerprinting by masking your user agent information
PS : This is from a reddit post
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The US government and Facebook are negotiating a record, multibillion-dollar fine for the company’s privacy lapses
24 votes -
How did the police know you were near a crime scene? Google told them
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Facebook charged with misleading users on health data visibility
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Data privacy bill unites Charles Koch and Big Tech
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Future of personal security and privacy, upcoming trends.
A few years ago I got into improving my knowledgebase of personal security - theory and tools - but it didn't go much farther than reinforcing everything with 2FA and setting up a password...
A few years ago I got into improving my knowledgebase of personal security - theory and tools - but it didn't go much farther than reinforcing everything with 2FA and setting up a password manager, plus setting up a VPN and full disk encryption.
It seems like we're amidst a rising tide of data breaches due to, IMHO, laziness and cheapness on the part of many companies storing personal data.
So, recently I've embarked on my second journey to improve my own security via habits and software and teaching myself. Privacytools has been a super helpful resource. My main lesson this time is to take ownership/responsibility for my own data. To that end, I have switched to KeyPass with yubikey 2FA (still trying to figure out how to get 2FA with yubi on my android without NFC), moved over to Joplin for my note taking (away from Google and Evernote) and also switched to NextCloud for all of my data storage and synchronization. I'm also de-Googling myself, current due-date is end of March when Inbox is shut down.
So my question / discussion topic here, is, what are everyone's thoughts on the future of practical personal security and privacy? More decentralization and self-hosting? That's what it looks like to me. Blockchain tech would be cool for public objects like news articles, images etc. but from what I understand that has zero implication for anything personal. The other newish tech is PGP signatures, which I'm still having trouble implementing/finding use for, but surely that will change.
There is this topic but that ended up just being about encryption which I think is a no-brainer at this point. I'm more so looking for the leading edge trends.
17 votes -
Why humanitarians are worried about Palantir’s new partnership with the UN
8 votes -
Even years later, Twitter doesn’t delete your direct messages
4 votes -
Valentine's Day *privacy not included
10 votes -
Facebook uses its apps to track users it thinks could threaten employees and offices
6 votes -
Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway
45 votes -
Many popular iPhone apps secretly record your screen without asking
23 votes -
Securing and improving privacy on macOS
13 votes -
Telcos sold highly sensitive customer GPS data
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Hundreds of Bounty Hunters Had Access to AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint Customer Location Data for Years
10 votes -
Millions are on the move in China, and Big Data is watching
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Goodbye Big Five: Kashmir Hill tried to block each of Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple from her life for a week. To end the experiment, she tried to block all five at once.
19 votes -
What I learned from the hacker who spied on me
7 votes -
The "Do Not Track" Setting Doesn't Stop You from Being Tracked
20 votes -
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff review – we are the pawns
7 votes -
Inrupt releases React SDK for Solid
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Google is also abusing Apple's Developer Enterprise Program to distribute a data-collection app
24 votes -
I cut Google out of my life. It screwed up everything
38 votes -
Major iPhone FaceTime bug lets you hear the audio of the person you are calling before they pick up
25 votes -
Facebook moves to block ad transparency tools- including ours
8 votes -
Thieves of experience: How Google and Facebook corrupted capitalism
6 votes -
The CNIL has imposed a penalty of fifty million euros against Google for breaches of the GDPR
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Netflix, YouTube, Amazon and Apple accused of GDPR breach
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Twitter's Android app disabled "protect my tweets" when other settings were changed, potentially making private tweets public
12 votes -
Privacy and Politics
I was thinking about the intersection of internet privacy and politics. You could even say I was having a bit of a mini-crisis. I like to think of myself as being pretty liberal, but I wondering...
I was thinking about the intersection of internet privacy and politics. You could even say I was having a bit of a mini-crisis. I like to think of myself as being pretty liberal, but I wondering how that fits into privacy. I was a little upset when I learned that Obama called Edward Snowden unpatriotic. I was kind of thinking that what he did was patriotic. Wasn't the NSA monitoring US citizens without warrants. That's morally wrong right? I think I would be pretty fine with the government monitoring someone if they had a warrant given to them by a non-secret court. I'm wondering if anyone here can give me some insight on this or if anyone else feels/has felt this way.
4 votes