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14 votes
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FBI found Ghislaine Maxwell using mobile phone data
15 votes -
I spent a year deleting my address online, then it popped up on Bing
20 votes -
Is Firefox still a good (enough) browser for privacy?
Someone posted this on the privacy subreddit. I also ended up finding this and this after doing a bit of searching. As someone who isn’t in the CS/IT spheres (chemical engineering is my...
Someone posted this on the privacy subreddit. I also ended up finding this and this after doing a bit of searching. As someone who isn’t in the CS/IT spheres (chemical engineering is my background), Firefox has been my go-to browser for awhile, although I’m being made aware of the flaws of Firefox (most of which go over my head) and behavior of Mozilla. What can be done to fix this, especially considering that Firefox is the only FOSS browser with a significant user base?
22 votes -
Privacy is a collective concern
4 votes -
Tim Cook responds to Facebook on Twitter: "[..] Facebook can continue to track users across apps and websites as before, [..] we just require that they ask for your permission first."
@Tim Cook: We believe users should have the choice over the data that is being collected about them and how it's used. Facebook can continue to track users across apps and websites as before, App Tracking Transparency in iOS 14 will just require that they ask for your permission first. pic.twitter.com/UnnAONZ61I
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Doxxing: Tips to protect yourself online and how to minimize harm
14 votes -
Privacy considerations in large language models
3 votes -
FTC issues orders to Amazon, TikTok, Discord, Facebook, Reddit, Snap, Twitter, WhatsApp, and YouTube seeking data about practices related to personal information, advertising, and user engagement
29 votes -
Privacy matters even if “you have nothing to hide”
12 votes -
Apple launches new App Store privacy labels so you can see how iOS apps use your data
6 votes -
Privacy is power
8 votes -
Brave Today - A privacy-preserving news reader integrated into the Brave browser and using their new "private CDN" to prevent tracking what users are reading
10 votes -
Activists sound alarm over African biometric ID projects
4 votes -
Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges
18 votes -
Teddit: A privacy-friendly Reddit frontend similar to Invidious/Bibliogram/Nitter
18 votes -
Invid - iOS app for Invidious (sideloaded, no jailbreak necessary)
8 votes -
Visa wants to buy Plaid, and with it, transaction data for millions of people
12 votes -
YouTube Vanced: A privacy-friendly YouTube app for Android with ads and telemetry stripped out
38 votes -
Cover Your Tracks - A new EFF project designed to better uncover the tools and techniques of online trackers and test the efficacy of privacy add-ons (successor to Panopticlick)
19 votes -
Google should rotate their email DKIM keys periodically and publish past secret keys, in order to remove the unintended capability for authenticating years-old emails
16 votes -
Canada's GDPR moment: Why the Consumer Privacy Protection Act is Canada's biggest privacy overhaul in decades
10 votes -
Scientific publishers consider installing spyware in university libraries to protect copyrights
9 votes -
Does Apple really log every app you run? A technical look (The answer? No.)
13 votes -
Your computer isn't yours
41 votes -
Introducing "How to Fix the Internet," a new podcast mini-series from EFF
7 votes -
Privacy is a lonely bastion. Anyone know how to meet friends online these days?
At some point we recognized the signs of desperation. My wife and I had been running to the window like puppies for a glimpse of any unusual traffic. We caught ourselves bingeing on news articles,...
At some point we recognized the signs of desperation. My wife and I had been running to the window like puppies for a glimpse of any unusual traffic. We caught ourselves bingeing on news articles, as if saturating ourselves with reporting could somehow make us relevant to a world that saw less and less of us. We even resorted to calling my mother. After listening to 90 uninterrupted minutes of narration regarding her most recent routine doctor’s visit, we broke down. We resolved to end the isolation that was slowly killing us. Then the pandemic hit.
Our biggest stumbling block is figuring out how can we make friends online using only privacy-respecting platforms and software? We would like to see some friendly faces in real time without being simultaneously, you know, mined. Could anyone in the know share suggestions?
Edit: I'm grateful people are considering this. Thank you! I find it helps to ask people what their ideal solution would be, no matter how far-fetched. So, in response to that: My dream platform/venue/project would meld aspects of Lunchclub with The Human Library. I have stories to tell. I would love to video chat with fully-clothed individuals drawn from all over the world, chosen based on their stories and ambitions. It would work the way a good host does. You know, "Greta once had the job of getting sweat stains out of Bruce Springsteen's guitar strap. You two should swap cleaning stories, since you work at that drycleaner's, right, Butchie? Is it true it's a front for the mob? Oh, excuse me, I have to disinfect the pizza guy. I'll leave you to it." Maybe I should flesh this out more.
36 votes -
EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf]
10 votes -
US Government Continues Encryption War
7 votes -
Proposition 24 passes in California, pushing privacy rights to the forefront again
13 votes -
Amazon releases "Halo" wearable which analyzes emotions in the user's voice
14 votes -
Announcing Good Reports, a new review site with recommendations for "non-toxic" online tools available as alternatives to Big Tech services
18 votes -
Why the extortion of Vastaamo matters far beyond Finland – and how cyber pros are responding
4 votes -
Finland's interior minister summoned an emergency meeting after patient records at a private Finnish psychotherapy center were accessed by hackers
5 votes -
How I’ve convinced people around me to care about privacy
11 votes -
Taking back our privacy - Profile of Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Signal
9 votes -
Do your bumper stickers reveal too much about your family?
6 votes -
Tele-health privacy concerns are a barrier to therapy
Here in the States, you hear about your insurance company waiving co-pays for tele-health therapy visits in these “uncertain times,” but searching for providers confronts you with even more...
Here in the States, you hear about your insurance company waiving co-pays for tele-health therapy visits in these “uncertain times,” but searching for providers confronts you with even more uncertainty. How do you evaluate their practices for safety and privacy? Every other practitioner subscribes to a different platform. Some, to my horror, use Zoom. Others have adopted a software suite to manage their entire practice. These therapists rely on the same company for scheduling appointment reminders, recording session notes, billing insurance, and running a video chat. When I have requested to connect via Signal, they express a preference for their platform, usually citing HIPAA compliance. One recommended a finding a provider who uses paper records as the only avenue open to me. But wasn’t there a time before companies like Spruce, SimplePractice, and TheraNest, where sensitive session notes were somehow distinct, less “networked” than today? How are therapists determining the privacy and security protections of their platform? How do I? Does anyone have experience with these companies?
13 votes -
Podcast listening is hard to track, but that doesn’t mean advertisers aren’t trying
10 votes -
Come back with a warrant for my virtual house
8 votes -
Why privacy is the most important concept of our time
8 votes -
Time to pardon Edward Snowden?
14 votes -
EARN IT Act introduced in House of Representatives
37 votes -
Egypt: Security forces abuse, torture LGBT people
6 votes -
Freetube rewrite with Newpipe-like local API released
7 votes -
Moxie Marlinspike on decentralization
14 votes -
President Trump is continuing his war on Section 230 and the right for the open internet to exist
8 votes -
A crash course in CDA Section 230, and a discussion between two lawyers about the EARN IT Act and what it means for free speech and privacy online
5 votes -
Analysis of UK charity websites finds that tracking is prevalent, with almost all of the most popular charities including trackers for advertising or data brokers and failing to comply with GDPR/PECR
8 votes -
Android 11 starts rolling out today with improvements to notifications, privacy, 5G, and more
9 votes