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5 votes
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Microsoft, Facebook, trust and privacy
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Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation
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Google has quietly added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users in ~sixty markets
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Facial recognition's 'dirty little secret': Millions of online photos scraped without consent
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Targeting online privacy, US Congress sets a new tone with big tech
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Roger McNamee, FB investor, author "Zucked": mentoring Zuck, Russia, big data, surveillance-PT1
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Facebook only cares about privacy because it has to
5 votes -
An email marketing company left 809 million records exposed online
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U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says
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Mark Zuckerberg: A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking
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For years Facebook claimed the adding a phone number for 2FA was only for security. Now it can be searched and there's no way to disable that.
@jeremyburge: For years Facebook claimed the adding a phone number for 2FA was only for security. Now it can be searched and there's no way to disable that.
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Revealed: Facebook’s global lobbying against data privacy laws
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EFF announces "Fix It Already" campaign to demand fixes for specific issues from nine major tech companies and platforms
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Musical.ly/TikTok agrees to pay $5.7M to settle FTC allegations that it violated children’s privacy law
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FastMail loses customers, faces calls to move over anti-encryption laws
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Privacy Attacks to the 4G and 5G Cellular Paging Protocols Using Side Channel Information
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The real reason why Facebook and Google won’t change
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The microphones that may be hidden in your home
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Privacy vs "I have nothing to hide"
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You Give Apps Sensitive Personal Information. Then They Tell Facebook.
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Nine months ago, Facebook promised a new privacy tool that's nowhere to be found. Sources say it's a key example of the company's “reactionary” way of dealing with privacy concerns.
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By summer 2019, the Firefox browser will also block, by default, all cross-site third-party trackers
@jensimmons: By summer 2019, the Firefox browser will also block, by default, all cross-site third-party trackers, strengthening privacy without your having to do a thing." https://t.co/cqpQbSe9Ko
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2.7 million medical calls breached in Sweden due to an unsecured NAS
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Highlights and transcript from the first of Mark Zuckerberg's "public discussions on the future of technology and society"
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Startpage's Anonymous view allows us to view web pages anonymously.
The new Startpage.com Anonymous View feature has been tweaked since it was first released at the end of last year. Startpage.com developed Anonymous View to fix a major privacy gap with any...
The new Startpage.com Anonymous View feature has been tweaked since it was first released at the end of last year.
Startpage.com developed Anonymous View to fix a major privacy gap with any private search engine: once you click on one of the links you find and establish a direct connection with the third party website, you're back in the Wild West of Tracking. This website can see who you are, place cookies on your browser and track your behavior, including the links you click on and pages you view. This defeats part of the benefits of private search.
Anonymous View fixes this privacy problem AND fixes the perennial problem of proxies that only display part of a page or break without JavaScript. Anonymous View uses JS while protecting your privacy -- even preventing fingerprinting by masking your user agent information
PS : This is from a reddit post
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How did the police know you were near a crime scene? Google told them
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Facebook charged with misleading users on health data visibility
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Data privacy bill unites Charles Koch and Big Tech
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Future of personal security and privacy, upcoming trends.
A few years ago I got into improving my knowledgebase of personal security - theory and tools - but it didn't go much farther than reinforcing everything with 2FA and setting up a password...
A few years ago I got into improving my knowledgebase of personal security - theory and tools - but it didn't go much farther than reinforcing everything with 2FA and setting up a password manager, plus setting up a VPN and full disk encryption.
It seems like we're amidst a rising tide of data breaches due to, IMHO, laziness and cheapness on the part of many companies storing personal data.
So, recently I've embarked on my second journey to improve my own security via habits and software and teaching myself. Privacytools has been a super helpful resource. My main lesson this time is to take ownership/responsibility for my own data. To that end, I have switched to KeyPass with yubikey 2FA (still trying to figure out how to get 2FA with yubi on my android without NFC), moved over to Joplin for my note taking (away from Google and Evernote) and also switched to NextCloud for all of my data storage and synchronization. I'm also de-Googling myself, current due-date is end of March when Inbox is shut down.
So my question / discussion topic here, is, what are everyone's thoughts on the future of practical personal security and privacy? More decentralization and self-hosting? That's what it looks like to me. Blockchain tech would be cool for public objects like news articles, images etc. but from what I understand that has zero implication for anything personal. The other newish tech is PGP signatures, which I'm still having trouble implementing/finding use for, but surely that will change.
There is this topic but that ended up just being about encryption which I think is a no-brainer at this point. I'm more so looking for the leading edge trends.
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Why humanitarians are worried about Palantir’s new partnership with the UN
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Even years later, Twitter doesn’t delete your direct messages
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Valentine's Day *privacy not included
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Facebook uses its apps to track users it thinks could threaten employees and offices
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The US government and Facebook are negotiating a record, multibillion-dollar fine for the company’s privacy lapses
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Securing and improving privacy on macOS
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Telcos sold highly sensitive customer GPS data
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Hundreds of Bounty Hunters Had Access to AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint Customer Location Data for Years
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Many popular iPhone apps secretly record your screen without asking
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Goodbye Big Five: Kashmir Hill tried to block each of Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple from her life for a week. To end the experiment, she tried to block all five at once.
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What I learned from the hacker who spied on me
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The "Do Not Track" Setting Doesn't Stop You from Being Tracked
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Millions are on the move in China, and Big Data is watching
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Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway
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Google is also abusing Apple's Developer Enterprise Program to distribute a data-collection app
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I cut Google out of my life. It screwed up everything
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Major iPhone FaceTime bug lets you hear the audio of the person you are calling before they pick up
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Facebook moves to block ad transparency tools- including ours
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Thieves of experience: How Google and Facebook corrupted capitalism
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The CNIL has imposed a penalty of fifty million euros against Google for breaches of the GDPR
12 votes