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14 votes
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The day I almost decided to hold the press to account
8 votes -
Trust in software, an all time low
26 votes -
New ad-free search subscription service: Neeva
6 votes -
LinkedIn breach reportedly exposes data of 92% of users, including inferred salaries
13 votes -
Differential privacy code removed from Chromium
In a discussion on Hacker News, Jonathan Mayer pointed out that the differential privacy code was removed from Chromium. It looks like they finished doing this in February. I haven't seen any...
In a discussion on Hacker News, Jonathan Mayer pointed out that the differential privacy code was removed from Chromium. It looks like they finished doing this in February.
I haven't seen any announcement, discussion, or explanation of this based on a brief web search, so I figured I'd note it here.
At about the time this process finished, there was a Google blog post about how they're still using it in other products.
We first deployed our world-class differential privacy anonymization technology in Chrome nearly seven years ago and are continually expanding its use across our products including Google Maps and the Assistant.
(If you read this quickly, you might think it's still used in Chrome.)
Reading between the lines, I suspect that some folks at Google are still advocating for more usage of differential privacy, but they lost an important customer. Why that happened is a mystery.
11 votes -
How to make your data harder to find online
7 votes -
Why we should end the data economy
7 votes -
Amazon devices in the US will automatically join the Amazon Sidewalk mesh network and start sharing internet with neighbors on June 10th, unless opted out
30 votes -
King County, WA is first in the country to ban government use of facial recognition software
15 votes -
Our digital pasts weren’t supposed to be weaponized like this
17 votes -
Introducing Firefox’s new Site Isolation security architecture
19 votes -
Censorship, surveillance, and profits: A hard bargain for Apple in China
4 votes -
Terms and Conditions Apply
9 votes -
Huge Eufy privacy breach shows live and recorded cam feeds to strangers
5 votes -
Here’s what the opt-in app tracking in iOS 14.5 means to marketers — and how they might respond
11 votes -
We found Joe Biden’s secret Venmo. Here’s why that’s a privacy nightmare for everyone.
17 votes -
I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress; here’s what happened
23 votes -
Ransomware gang threatens release of DC police records
10 votes -
Australian Criminal Intelligence Agency looking to expand it's intelligence gathering powers by claiming that criminals use encrypted platforms 'almost exclusively'
19 votes -
EFF Surveillance Self-Defense - Privacy breakdown of mobile phones
18 votes -
96% of US users opt out of app tracking in iOS 14.5
35 votes -
The Instagram ads Facebook won't show you
26 votes -
They told their therapists everything. Hackers leaked it all.
15 votes -
Team Navalny apologizes after database of email addresses registered for planned protest leaks online
7 votes -
In defense of Signal
12 votes -
Am I FLoCed?
22 votes -
I called off my wedding. The internet will never forget
24 votes -
533 million Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
29 votes -
Employees at law enforcement agencies across the US ran thousands of Clearview AI facial recognition searches — often without the knowledge of the public or even their own departments
9 votes -
What does your gaze reveal about you? On the privacy implications of eye tracking
10 votes -
Pasco County’s Sheriff must end its targeted child harassment program
11 votes -
A comparative analysis of security, privacy, and censorship issues in TikTok and Douyin, both developed by ByteDance
5 votes -
Reddit announces online presence indicators
67 votes -
Encrypted messaging app Signal blocked in China
29 votes -
Privacy is a commons
3 votes -
Hackers break into thousands of security cameras, exposing Tesla, jails, hospitals
16 votes -
Google’s FLoC is a terrible idea
31 votes -
The Amazon Assistant browser extension requires extensive permissions, has the capabilities to monitor and manipulate all of its users' web activity, and seems to violate multiple browsers' policies
11 votes -
Signal's server repo hasn't been updated since April 2020
26 votes -
Ubuntu sends http requests to Google cloud, here’s a fix
Ubuntu has this package installed by default: network-manager-config-connectivity-ubuntu It's only purpose is to provide settings for NetworkManager to send requests to...
Ubuntu has this package installed by default:
network-manager-config-connectivity-ubuntuIt's only purpose is to provide settings for NetworkManager to send requests to connectivity-check.ubuntu.com , and based on the result (AFAIK) detect redirection by captive portals and open an ISP's page (think public WiFi, or hotel rooms, where you need to authorize to access the net).
Well, connectivity-check.ubuntu.com is hosted on Google cloud (you can check that by running:
dig connectivity-check.ubuntu.com whois [the IP from previous query]
), so by default Ubuntu sends requests to a Google cloud page.
I don't say Google counts daily active Ubuntu users (because many of those have the same IP), or that Google actively logs and analyzes that data. But some of you guys may not like that behavior.So what's the fix?
Purge the package
sudo apt purge network-manager-config-connectivity-ubuntu
If you do need a captive portal detection, create your own config file to query some HTTP (not HTTPS) page of your choice, in the example below I have a Debian page used for the same purpose. Use your favorite text editor to create and edit /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/90-connectivity-custom.conf :
[connectivity] uri=http://network-test.debian.org/nm
Restart NetworkManager
sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager
If you run an Ubuntu derivative, please report if you have network-manager-config-connectivity-ubuntu installed in the comments.
11 votes -
The small web is beautiful
23 votes -
Google to stop selling ads based on your specific web browsing
29 votes -
Spoonbill—a change-tracker for Twitter bios—offers a glimpse into the unseen effort with which we express our identities online, and how the uncanny feeling of being watched informs our sense of self
8 votes -
Brave has acquired Cliqz and their Tailcat search engine, plans to offer a privacy-oriented search engine
9 votes -
Three years later: Did the GDPR actually work?
7 votes -
Introducing State Partitioning / Total Cookie Protection, a new privacy feature in Firefox 86 that universally prevents cookie-based tracking
16 votes -
What are security, privacy, and anonymity?
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Browser ‘favicons’ can be used as undeletable ‘supercookies’ to track you online
20 votes -
Developer creeped out after he fired up Ubuntu VM on Azure and was immediately approached by Canonical sales rep on LinkedIn
14 votes