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138 votes
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It’s official: Cars are the worst product category we have ever reviewed for privacy
130 votes -
Time to delete your Glassdoor account and data
102 votes -
Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity on the platform
93 votes -
Man unable to interact with any of his smart devices for a week after delivery driver accuses him of being racist
89 votes -
AI is ruining the Internet
88 votes -
France passes bill to allow police to remotely activate phone camera, microphone, and GPS, in order to spy on people
79 votes -
YouTube anti-adblock detection is illegal in the EU
77 votes -
Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive
74 votes -
Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud
72 votes -
Where is everyone hosting their email these days?
This is more focused towards those that use custom domains for their email. My current plan is up at Zoho for my team in a month, and even though I've used them for the past few years its been...
This is more focused towards those that use custom domains for their email. My current plan is up at Zoho for my team in a month, and even though I've used them for the past few years its been hit-or-miss (especially when using third-party apps or programs).
Who do you use? Who do you not trust? Who would you never go back to?
Sidenote: I hope this might eventually kick off a ~privacy group, one day.
72 votes -
Apple threatens to pull FaceTime and iMessage in the UK over proposed surveillance law changes
71 votes -
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
69 votes -
Are phones really listening to us at all times?
Had an interesting conversation with my colleagues this morning. We were pretty split whether phones listen to us for advertising or not. On one hand, we anecdotally see Google news and ad...
Had an interesting conversation with my colleagues this morning. We were pretty split whether phones listen to us for advertising or not.
On one hand, we anecdotally see Google news and ad suggestions based on what we say. We know our mics are on at all times for voice assistant and music detection. But we also read online talking about how there is no evidence about the phones recording us. It's hard to trust anything nowadays.
67 votes -
Reddit announces online presence indicators
67 votes -
Why I don't like ads
65 votes -
Discord to start showing ads for gamers to boost revenue
62 votes -
YouTube orders ‘Invidious’ privacy software to shut down in seven days
62 votes -
ProtonMail on all the data that Outlook collects about your email
61 votes -
Signal messenger releases 'usernames' so you no longer need to tell someone your phone number in order for them to message you
59 votes -
Threads is the perfect Twitter alternative, just not for you
59 votes -
$5 billion Google lawsuit over ‘Incognito mode’ tracking moves a step closer to trial
58 votes -
Simple Mobile Tools bought by ZipoApps (company offering apps with ads and tracking)
53 votes -
Mozilla’s Annual Consumer Creep-O-Meter
52 votes -
Meta has long fought Europe's demands that it get people's consent before using their data for targeted ads – then a Norwegian regulator threatened daily fines
51 votes -
Google seems to be running OCR on photos in my Gmail. Is this happening to you too?
This morning I was asked to find an archived email with photos of some scientific equipment. I searched "Powerlab," the name of one of the instruments, in gmail, and the email came right up....
This morning I was asked to find an archived email with photos of some scientific equipment. I searched "Powerlab," the name of one of the instruments, in gmail, and the email came right up. Great! But then I noticed that the word "powerlab" never appeared in the text of the email. I tried searching "ML206", an arbitrary character string from one of the photos in the email, and again, the email appeared in the search, without the search phrase highlighted in the search result, as it normally would be. I tried different phrases from jpgs in emails; not all yielded search results but some did.
I'm not happy about this. I accept some compromises to privacy when using Gmail, but sending text as an image can be a way of specifically avoiding information being harvested. All I ask for is a way to turn it off.
Can anyone replicate this? Did anyone already know about this?
51 votes -
My new apartment’s most aggravating feature (latch smart locks)
50 votes -
Age verification is incompatible with the internet
50 votes -
Chrome's new forced login policy is a violation of user privacy and trust
50 votes -
Firefox’s fight for the future of the web: With Google’s Chrome dominating the market, not-for-profit rival Mozilla is staking a comeback on its dedication to privacy
49 votes -
No Instagram Threads app in the EU: Ireland's Data Protection Commission says Meta's new Twitter rival won't be launched there
48 votes -
Scott Alexander has deleted his Slate Star Codex blog due to the New York Times planning to reveal his real name in an article
48 votes -
What a bunch of A-list celebs taught me about how to use my phone
47 votes -
No more phone number swaps: Signal messaging app now testing usernames
46 votes -
How Signal walks the line between anarchism and pragmatism
45 votes -
A new bill would force internet companies in the USA to spy on their users for the Drug Enforcement Administration
45 votes -
Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway
45 votes -
CEO of data privacy company Onerep.com (used by the Mozilla Monitor service), founded dozens of people-search firms
44 votes -
Twenty-six billion records exposed in massive leak, including data from Linkedin, X, Dropbox
44 votes -
Google updates its privacy policy to clarify it can use public data for training AI models
44 votes -
While Google is attacked over privacy concerns and perceived bias, DuckDuckGo raised $10M
44 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
43 votes -
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.
43 votes -
Harvard gutted initial team examining Facebook files following $500 million donation from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Whistleblower Aid client reveals
42 votes -
EFF announces "Fix It Already" campaign to demand fixes for specific issues from nine major tech companies and platforms
42 votes -
Google's beefing up user data privacy (which includes shutting down Google+)
42 votes -
FYI: This site claims to have harvested 4B+ Discord chats, today all yours for a price
41 votes -
How to move your Instagram feed to Pixelfed, the photo app that doesn't track your every move
41 votes -
Your computer isn't yours
41 votes -
Accused of violating kids' privacy, Meta sues US Federal Trade Commission, hoping to block ban on monetizing kids’ data
40 votes