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38 votes
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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 -
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
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Does Apple really log every app you run? A technical look (The answer? No.)
13 votes -
Your computer isn't yours
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Introducing "How to Fix the Internet," a new podcast mini-series from EFF
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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 -
Proposition 24 passes in California, pushing privacy rights to the forefront again
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Amazon releases "Halo" wearable which analyzes emotions in the user's voice
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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
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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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How I’ve convinced people around me to care about privacy
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Taking back our privacy - Profile of Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Signal
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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 -
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
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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 -
Windows 10 Ameliorated review
13 votes -
Amazon Alexa for Residential will let the voice assistant power apartment complexes
15 votes -
Does Google know me better than I know myself?
5 votes -
Inside Amazon’s secret program to spy on workers’ private Facebook groups
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Apple delays "asking permission to track" privacy feature in iOS 14, releases more information about upcoming privacy updates
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How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism - A new, short book by Cory Doctorow that looks at big tech as a monopoly problem
18 votes -
Geofence warrants - Smartphone location data is giving US law enforcement new surveillance tools
6 votes -
Requiring a Facebook account for Oculus VR is bad for users, devs, and competition
17 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 -
Starting in October 2020, all new Oculus VR devices will require logging into a Facebook account, and support for existing Oculus accounts will end on January 1, 2023
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Can killing cookies save journalism? A Dutch public broadcaster got rid of targeted digital ads and its revenues went up 62-79%.
31 votes -
Data isn't just being collected from your phone. It's being used to score you
22 votes -
Being born in the 80s is the only thing that makes me realize how life with no constant connection existed and is possible
15 votes -
Brazilian General Data Protection Law – Overview and implications
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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!
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Using a VPN may make you less secure
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My hot take on internet "Privacy"
Internet privacy it is a farce and companies are using the fear for profit. In reality the only thing you can do is decide in which company do you trust. First thing you choose is the ISP, we all...
Internet privacy it is a farce and companies are using the fear for profit. In reality the only thing you can do is decide in which company do you trust.
First thing you choose is the ISP, we all know that they are all scummy and get caught every year selling information, throttling services, lying, etc.
Then, if you want to be safe from your ISP you have to get a VPN and it is the same old story again. Even if you manage to never send or receive a bit outside the VPN you have to trust they are not loging everything and selling it.
It is a never ending story, because after that you have to trust the OS, the hardware manufacturers of each piece of your phone/pc, the modem, the router, the apps, and if you are talking with someone make it double because you have to trust all the same things from the one receiving the message.
People talks about huawei spying for the CPP like if things like PRISM doesn't exist. Every country has some kind of mass surveillance program and there is nothing we can do about it. If I were american I would prefer being spy by the Chinese that can't get me extradited.13 votes -
Seven "zero logging" VPN providers leak 1.2TB of user logs unprotected and facing the public internet
20 votes -
The phone bill security hole in HIPAA
5 votes -
Hundreds arrested after European law enforcement agencies monitored over 100 million encrypted messages sent through Encrochat, a network used by criminals
20 votes -
Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked
8 votes -
My take on email
14 votes