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12 votes
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Facebook, Google and other tech firms must verify identities under proposed UK law
3 votes -
Covid testing company "selling customers' DNA"
12 votes -
San Francisco district attorney claims California crime labs are using DNA from sexual assault survivors to investigate unrelated crimes
17 votes -
My journey down the rabbit hole of every journalist’s favorite app, Otter.ai
4 votes -
The unnerving rise of video games that spy on you
14 votes -
Google drops FLoC after widespread opposition, pivots to “Topics API” plan
16 votes -
Suicide hotline shares data with for-profit spinoff
25 votes -
Where a thousand digital eyes keep watch over the elderly
3 votes -
The battle for a powerful cyberweapon: A Times investigation reveals how Israel reaped diplomatic gains around the world from NSO’s Pegasus spyware
4 votes -
How do you feel about social media archiving tools such as Pushshift?
On and off throughout the years, I have attempted to make my online footprint as small as possible, taking steps such as: using pseudonyms on social media creating a new account every year or so...
On and off throughout the years, I have attempted to make my online footprint as small as possible, taking steps such as:
- using pseudonyms on social media
- creating a new account every year or so
- overwriting old posts with a new message blanking out my original post
- "deleting" posts after a few days if the account has a higher probability to be tied to my real life
The last point, I put quotations around deleted because I understand that once I post something, it is not ever really deleted but it adds a barrier of entry to trying to dig into my personal life. Pushshift comes up because, try as I might, I seem to have difficulty getting accounts removed from their searches. Additionally, I think they allow you to download reddit data in bulk so even if I were able to get my name removed from the search results, the data could still exist on someone's hard drive, somewhere.
From your perspective, are services like Pushshift, that archive people's information without their explicit knowledge, ethical? On the one hand, I think of detestable content that users might post then delete later to avoid accountability. On the other hand, I think of people like me who want to keep their data footprint as small as possible because of the crazies who might utilize this information to do harm.
8 votes -
No place to hide - UK campaign against end-to-end encryption
9 votes -
Diskless infrastructure in beta (System Transparency: stboot)
4 votes -
The hubris of big data
4 votes -
Norway's data privacy watchdog fines Grindr $7.16 million for sending sensitive personal data to hundreds of potential advertising partners without users' consent
7 votes -
VPN testing reveals poor privacy and security practices, hyperbolic claims
20 votes -
You are the product
4 votes -
Vizio’s profit on ads, subscriptions, and data is double the money it makes selling TVs
22 votes -
Our post-privacy world
7 votes -
How to scrub your online footprint?
I don't necessarily want to delete everything there is about me, but I want to significantly clean it. I've been deleting old accounts lately, I've seen some screenshots of my tweets on Reddit and...
I don't necessarily want to delete everything there is about me, but I want to significantly clean it. I've been deleting old accounts lately, I've seen some screenshots of my tweets on Reddit and I've asked the authors to delete them. They've been kind enough to do it.
But I feel like there's more that I need to do. I just realized that there are probably a lot of screenshots of YouTube comments and Tweets that I've put out there in the world with my name and face. It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't drastically increase my footprint last year during my time on Twitter.
I'm not a techy person, I was thinking about asking or hiring some type of hacker or expert to help me. Because they could probably find more information about me than me.
Can anyone help?
17 votes -
An update on Standard Notes early pricing and roadmap
11 votes -
Proposed illegal image detectors on devices are ‘easily fooled’
9 votes -
Facebook - An update on our use of face recognition
15 votes -
Can data die? Why one of the internet's oldest images lives on without its subject's consent.
27 votes -
New York Times journalist Ben Hubbard hacked with Pegasus after reporting on previous hacking attempts
8 votes -
The future of PrivacyTools
17 votes -
New study raises fresh ‘privacy concerns’ about data sharing from Android mobile phones
6 votes -
Approximate data deletion from machine learning models
3 votes -
Company that routes SMS for all major US carriers was hacked for five years
27 votes -
Linux (In)security
10 votes -
Microsoft, Google, Facebook and other tech firms are pressing lawmakers to stop prosecutors from secretly snooping on private accounts
3 votes -
Facebook paid FTC $4.9B more than required to shield Mark Zuckerberg, lawsuit alleges
11 votes -
Billed as the most secure phone on the planet, An0m became a viral sensation in the underworld. There was just one problem for anyone using it for criminal means: it was run by the police
14 votes -
ProtonMail: Important clarifications regarding arrest of climate activist
33 votes -
Apple delays the rollout of its plans to scan iPhones for child exploitation images
15 votes -
Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources
19 votes -
An open letter against Apple's privacy-invasive content scanning technology
20 votes -
Apple's plan to "think different" about encryption opens a backdoor to your private life
15 votes -
Apple introduces expanded protections for children, including on-device scanning of images to detect child abuse imagery
24 votes -
Diners beware: That meal may cost you your privacy and security
8 votes -
Venmo gets more private—but it’s still not fully safe
5 votes -
The privacy war raging within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), where normally-secretive tech companies are wrangling over the future of your data — and their own power — in plain sight
14 votes -
The day I almost decided to hold the press to account
8 votes -
Trust in software, an all time low
26 votes -
New ad-free search subscription service: Neeva
6 votes -
Oildrop - A self-auditable userscript manager
13 votes -
LinkedIn breach reportedly exposes data of 92% of users, including inferred salaries
13 votes -
Differential privacy code removed from Chromium
In a discussion on Hacker News, Jonathan Mayer pointed out that the differential privacy code was removed from Chromium. It looks like they finished doing this in February. I haven't seen any...
In a discussion on Hacker News, Jonathan Mayer pointed out that the differential privacy code was removed from Chromium. It looks like they finished doing this in February.
I haven't seen any announcement, discussion, or explanation of this based on a brief web search, so I figured I'd note it here.
At about the time this process finished, there was a Google blog post about how they're still using it in other products.
We first deployed our world-class differential privacy anonymization technology in Chrome nearly seven years ago and are continually expanding its use across our products including Google Maps and the Assistant.
(If you read this quickly, you might think it's still used in Chrome.)
Reading between the lines, I suspect that some folks at Google are still advocating for more usage of differential privacy, but they lost an important customer. Why that happened is a mystery.
11 votes -
How to make your data harder to find online
7 votes -
Security tips for online LGBTQ+ dating
11 votes