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7 votes
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Personal data of 1.4 million Washington state unemployment claimants exposed in hack of state auditor
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How do you manage data backups?
Hi Tildes. Hopefully this thread will be both a good discussion and helpful to some of you, and hopefully me. As I'm guessing most of you know, data backups are quite important and it is best to...
Hi Tildes. Hopefully this thread will be both a good discussion and helpful to some of you, and hopefully me.
As I'm guessing most of you know, data backups are quite important and it is best to have at least one copy locally and another copy somewhere else. At the moment, I store photos on an external hard drive and Google Drive, photos from my phone on Google Photos with copies of important original quality files saved locally, and everything else on drives in my PC and a network drive on my Raspberry Pi. It's far from ideal, I've only got one copy of some files and three or four of some others so I've been looking for something better to keep everything organised, safe and in one place.
I've tried the free trial of Backblaze, which seemed the obvious choice, but it had a few problems. I couldn't backup my Pi's network share, and in general it's a bit clunky and difficult to use. It is marketed as an easy solution to backing up data, but in doing this it just makes everything more difficult, at least for me - I know what I want backed up, and I would prefer to select it manually, but by opting in everything for backup by default you have to spend ages excluding the folders you don't want saved, one-by-one, in a UI that is difficult to use and often unclear. Sometimes the exclusions list just doesn't work - the Program Files folders are meant to be excluded by default and they were listed under exclusions but were backing up anyway. For me it found over 200,000 files, and because they were all so small it barely managed to backup 100MB in three hours. (Not that I know where the files come from because they aren't listed in the Windows app in any vaguely comprehensible way.)
So I need to find something else, and I was hoping someone here would have some recommendations. Personally I need it to:
- Be affordable and easy to setup and use
- Backup external and network drives to the cloud (physically keeping another drive somewhere else isn't an option for me)
- Be trustworthy and have strong commitments to security and privacy
- Work well for my use case: preferably automatic from Windows
Looking forward to any comments or recommendations. Thanks!
23 votes -
70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers
42 votes -
WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using the app
28 votes -
Privacy is a collective concern
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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 -
Apple launches new App Store privacy labels so you can see how iOS apps use your data
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OpenStreetMap is having a moment; The billion dollar dataset next door
23 votes -
Reddit quarantined: Can changing platform affordances reduce hateful material online?
4 votes -
How the US military buys location data from ordinary smartphone apps, including a Muslim prayer app with over ninety-eight million downloads
13 votes -
Twitter: An update on the features related to the 2020 US Elections
11 votes -
Why the extortion of Vastaamo matters far beyond Finland – and how cyber pros are responding
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Finland's interior minister summoned an emergency meeting after patient records at a private Finnish psychotherapy center were accessed by hackers
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Cambridge Analytica did not misuse data in EU referendum, says UK watchdog
5 votes -
The badly thought-out use of Microsoft's Excel software was the reason nearly 16,000 coronavirus cases went unreported in England
28 votes -
Druva introduces software as a service data protection for Kubernetes
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Microsoft leaks 6.5TB in Bing search data via unsecured Elastic server
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Geofence warrants - Smartphone location data is giving US law enforcement new surveillance tools
6 votes -
Former Chief Security Officer for Uber charged with obstruction of justice for attempted cover-up of 2016 hack that compromised data from millions of users and drivers
9 votes -
Disappearance of multiple Saudi Arabian dissidents tied to Twitter data accessed in 2015 by employees allegedly spying for the government
7 votes -
Data isn't just being collected from your phone. It's being used to score you
22 votes -
Brazilian General Data Protection Law – Overview and implications
4 votes -
How important is protecting our data from companies like Google?
I was a supporter of Andrew Yang while he was running for president. His policies appealed to me a lot. One I supported because it made sense to me; personal data as a property right. I’ve thought...
I was a supporter of Andrew Yang while he was running for president. His policies appealed to me a lot. One I supported because it made sense to me; personal data as a property right. I’ve thought about it more and I don’t see how a company like Google using my data negatively affects me. What are the negative repercussions I experience when a company uses my information like that? Are there alternatives that would protect my data more that are actually decent? I’d love to receive some explanation for this!
21 votes -
Seven "zero logging" VPN providers leak 1.2TB of user logs unprotected and facing the public internet
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Google, Facebook, and Twitter halt government data requests after new Hong Kong security law
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Tench: When data is messy
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Google starts deleting location history after eighteen months, by default
12 votes -
Oracle's BlueKai tracks you across the web. That data spilled online
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Andrew Yang is pushing Big Tech to pay users for data
18 votes -
Dating apps exposed 845GB of explicit photos, chats, and more
11 votes -
The great race to surrender our privacy (2019)
5 votes -
On WD Red NAS Drives: disclosure of Western Digital products that make use of Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR)
15 votes -
Tracking the location history of military and intelligence personnel using the Untappd beer-rating app
11 votes -
New York Times phasing out all third-party advertising data
21 votes -
Apple Store's temperature checks may violate EU privacy rules, says German data protection office
5 votes -
Zoom's explosion in popularity is shining a bright spotlight on the service's privacy and data-collection practices
15 votes -
Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t have a Facebook account
10 votes -
Meet seventeen-year-old Avi Schiffmann who runs a coronavirus tracking website used by 40+ million globally
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Google wary of sharing user location data in pandemic fight
9 votes -
I wonder what the social media meta data is like right now
Facebook et al. must be excited right now with this jackpot of acute behavioral data they're acquiring, in the context of a global catastrophe. I wonder if anyone has any insight here into what...
Facebook et al. must be excited right now with this jackpot of acute behavioral data they're acquiring, in the context of a global catastrophe. I wonder if anyone has any insight here into what kind of research they are doing? I know it's all usually a tight secret.
One idea that came to mind is that this would be excellent data to weaponize. Now we (as in social media corps.) can generate a pretty good model of what a global conflict looks like on the level of individual behavior and how that can be used for an advantage. The other edge of the sword would be this will help future public health initiatives but somehow I don't see this info being made publically available...
7 votes -
Sharing photos has the potential to reveal a lot of personal information, even if you're careful with removing metadata
9 votes -
Secret-sharing app Whisper left hundreds of millions of users’ intimate messages, locations, and other data exposed publicly on the web
9 votes -
Why Amazon knows so much about you
18 votes -
Prompted by Brexit, Google will move UK users' data out of Irish jurisdiction so they are no longer covered by EU privacy rules
21 votes -
The story of how Saudia Arabia influenced two well-liked Twitter employees to access thousands of users' private information and pass it to the Saudi Royal Family
10 votes -
Dis.cool is creating profiles of Discord users who have never signed up for their service and they are refusing to delete them.
22 votes -
Four Chinese military personnel charged for Equifax hack
10 votes -
Surveillance on UK council websites - A study of private companies’ data collection on council websites across the United Kingdom
8 votes -
How ads follow you around the internet
8 votes