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10 votes
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Google confirms it's letting third parties scan your Gmail
21 votes -
A life insurance company wants to track your fitness data
10 votes -
Purism Announces The "Librem Key"
8 votes -
NCIX Data Breach - after bankruptcy, terabytes of unencrypted customer/company data have been sold to multiple buyers
20 votes -
Introducing the Cloudflare Onion Service
12 votes -
US mobile giants want to be your online identity
11 votes -
Battery saver had been turned on for a lot of Pixel users unintentionally, according to Google employee
21 votes -
Google China prototype links searches to phone numbers
10 votes -
Leaving Apple & Google: /e/ first beta is here
14 votes -
How Game Apps That Captivate Kids Have Been Collecting Their Data
11 votes -
Today, Europe lost the internet. Now, we fight back
10 votes -
GCHQ data collection violated human rights, Strasbourg court rules. Spies breached right to privacy in programme revealed by Edward Snowden, judges say
10 votes -
Mozilla co-founder's Brave files adtech complaint against Google
15 votes -
Feedbin goes private by default, explains design desicions to enhance user privacy
10 votes -
A call for principle-based international agreements to govern law enforcement access to data
7 votes -
Trend Micro says sorry after apps grabbed Mac browser history
6 votes -
On an internet run by personal information, what do you do to manage yours?
Almost every content provider online tries to access some of your personal info, whether it's to keep itself afloat, improve functionality, or create profits. In 2014, Google made [89.4%]...
Almost every content provider online tries to access some of your personal info, whether it's to keep itself afloat, improve functionality, or create profits. In 2014, Google made [89.4%] (https://revenuesandprofits.com/how-google-makes-money/) of its profits from advertising, all of which attempts to target users with their interests (though Google does allow this to be disabled).
What do you do to try and protect yourself from data collection? What software, programs, or browser extensions do you trust to protect you, and not just also monitor your activities?
If you don't do any of this, why not? To what extent do you think companies should be allowed to use your data?
30 votes -
/e/ first beta soon to be released
9 votes -
A year later, Equifax lost your data but faced little fallout
17 votes -
Who controls your data? Nine reporters in London, Paris, New York & San Francisco filed more than 150 requests for personal data to 30+ popular tech companies
8 votes -
New Alpha Release: Tor Browser for Android
20 votes -
Brave browser gets Chrome's extensions starting Thursday with major new version
20 votes -
New Release: Tor Browser 8.0 [based on Firefox Quantum]
15 votes -
Help defend Australian encryption laws
9 votes -
Should Grindr users worry about what China will do with their data?
16 votes -
Google and Mastercard cut a secret ad deal to track retail sales
26 votes -
While Google is attacked over privacy concerns and perceived bias, DuckDuckGo raised $10M
44 votes -
Mozilla: Changing our approach to anti-tracking
34 votes -
The tech industry is lobbying for federal data & privacy regulation that is friendly to the tech industry, but hostile to users' interests
11 votes -
Venmo's public API exposes millions of transactions, startling users
10 votes -
Phone Numbers Were Never Meant as ID. Now We’re All At Risk
22 votes -
Danah Boyd - The messy fourth estate
5 votes -
Facebook will pull its data-collecting VPN app from the App Store over privacy concerns
7 votes -
Blind loyalty - How a social network is redefining the future of corporate culture
14 votes -
I don't trust Signal
18 votes -
The Data Detox Kit- An 8 day challenge to clean up your online data.
16 votes -
Google tracks your movements, like it or not
20 votes -
Australia's crypto-busting bill still on the table
6 votes -
CCleaner provokes fury over Active Monitoring, user data collection
28 votes -
Why you need a network-wide ad-blocker
17 votes -
Facebook in talks with banks to add your financial information to Messenger
18 votes -
Alberta privacy commissioner to investigate use of facial recognition software on Calgary malls
9 votes -
Spotify user requests GDPR data, gets 250 MB of extremely detailed data, down to the headphone brand.
@steipete: Tried the GDPR data export from Spotify. By default, you get like 6 JSON files with almost nothing. After many emails and complaining and a month of waiting, I got a 250MB archive with basically EVERY INTERACTION I ever did with any Spotify client, all my searches. Everything.
34 votes -
'Spycam porn' sparks record protests in South Korea
6 votes -
At least two malls are using facial recognition technology to track shoppers' ages and genders without telling
10 votes -
What we have now is not advertising
23 votes -
A withering verdict: MPs report on Zuckerberg, Russia and Cambridge Analytica
14 votes -
US Congress demands Jeff Bezos explain Amazon’s face recognition software
15 votes -
Police facial recognition system faces legal challenge
3 votes