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MS Word is Using You to Train AI - ILLUMINATION - Medium
Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on…Dr. Casey Lawrence (ILLUMINATION)
Remember Microsoft's Recall? The first implementation was never released and was met with strong criticism from privacy advocates and the infosec/security community. Guess what? Microsoft has doubled down, and its controversial Recall scraper is finally entering the public preview stage. If you care about privacy, please think twice before using this on your AI-enabled PCs (Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs) blogs.windows.com/windows-insi…
#privacy #infosec #security #windows11 #DoNotWant
Previewing Recall with Click to Do on Copilot+ PCs with Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel
Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.2415 (KB5046723) to the Dev Channel. With this update, we welcome Windows Insiders with Snapdragon-poweredWindows Insider Blog
#Privacy
#infosec #privacymatters
Black Weeks at @Tutanota Save 62% On Our Legend Plan! 💎 tuta.com/blog/black-weeks-at-t…
#Encrypt #privacy #BlackFriday #Email #Calendar #FLOSS #OSS #OpenSource
Not endorsing the #degoogle hashtag here just because a hell of a lot of spackle is needed for a comparable experience, but if you're interested in #cloud email servoces, this is one of the better ones in this space.
Black Weeks at Tuta: Save 62% On Our Legend Plan! 💎 | Tuta
Get the deal from November 15 to December 4, 2024.Tuta
How to set up a mimimal/blank new tab page on Ungoogled Chromium that conforms to your system’s dark mode setting:
github.com/ungoogled-software/…
PS. You can install Ungoogled Chromium easily on macOS using Homebrew:
```shell
brew install --cask eloston-chromium
```
For more macOS setup/configuration tips see my quick gist:
codeberg.org/aral/gists/src/br…
#ungoogledChromium #chromium #chrome #minimal #newTabPage #aesthetics #accessibility #privacy #configuration #web
gists/mac-setup.md at main
gists - A place for me to post and share small, self-contained code snippets.Codeberg.org
Mounting calls to protect kids from ‘harmful’ information online, and laws that try to do that, are being challenged in the United States.
There are privacy concerns and constitutional challenges with each idea and way of protecting minors. And soon, the Supreme Court will review a Texas law requiring porn sites to block underage users.
theconversation.com/is-childpr…
#socialmedia #parenting #privacy #scotus #uspolitics
Is childproofing the internet constitutional? A tech law expert draws out the issues
Kids face risks online, but whether and how the law can protect them is a thorny issue.The Conversation
Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today!
Let's Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). Huge thanks to everyone involved in making HTTPS available to everyone for free
#tech #technology #security #privacy #encryption #https #letsencrypt #ISRG
Let's Encrypt
Let's Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). Read all about our nonprofit work this year in our 2023 Annual Report.letsencrypt.org
#Orbot lies brazenly to the user
Source: guardianproject.info/apps/org.…
Orbot is a very useful app for using the #TOR #network on #Android. With all due respect to floss and the achievements of the altruistic developers, I still think it's downright cheeky to lie so blatantly to the user.
The bridge functionality, which can be optionally activated, allows users from the censored Internet, where all TOR servers are blocked, to connect anyway.
Orbot is writing:
It will not drain your battery
This is wrong. There will be more background activity for this connections and this will cost battery power. This is a damn lie!
It will not slow down your internet
This is wrong. There will be connections from others and they will slow down your internet. With a big bandwidth you won't note it but not everyone have high speed internet. This is a damm lie!
🤥
#news #fail #Software #gui #Problem #onion #privacy #snowflake #bridge #documentation #user #lie #internet
tools like @torproject, @securedrop (by @freedomofpress) and @signalapp are going to be so important for protecting people in the coming years. please support them
A hands-On Review with Session — A Fully Encrypted Chat App
As with Threema and SimpleX, Session is one of the most secure and private chat apps that you get today (more so than Signal, and way more so than WhatsApp).
A lot of this is to do with the metadata level (that data which WhatsApp actively resell ...continues
Today on Interviews With Homophobes…
#BrendanEich #prop8 #privacy #cryptoBros kafeneio.social/@foufoutos/113…
Fou (@foufoutos@kafeneio.social)
The Internet Has Changed. Privacy Was Left Behind As we rushed into the Web 2 era, privacy was left behind https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/BRENDAN-EICH:9kafeneio
Sometime ago somebody shared a screenshot of a service with a cookie message along the lines of:
"We take your privacy seriously" while there also was a list of 600+ vendors with whom data would be shared. Does anyone have this screenshot & the source? I think this was by Microsoft MS365?
#Privacy #Cookies #Tech #TechPolicy #OpenSource #Data #GDPR #bigtech #Security #CyberSecurity
This is why you should always be an advocate for #privacy, #encryption etc. You should not fall for ”protecting the children” for governments or private corporations storing data from you they have no business storing.
Because at some point there will be a fascist government, and it will use the same mechanisms against everyone which opposes it.
MOULE (Snow Way out Dec 6th!) (@MOULE@moule.world)
Attached: 1 image Here's how to #FediBlock threads.net on #Mastodon 4.1.0 and above (I'm unsure about how to do this on other #Fediverse #servers, sorry: FOR USERS: 1. Create a txt document 2. Type "threads.net" (without quote marks) 3.MOULE WORLD Mastodon
#AI: New #GPS #system for #microorganisms could revolutionise police work
Source: lunduniversity.lu.se/article/n…
This means you can use #bacteria to determine whether someone has just been to the beach, got off the train in the city centre or taken a walk in the woods. This opens up new possibilities within #medicine, #epidemiology and #forensics.
#police #surveillance #location #technology #privacy #news #future
New GPS system for microorganisms could revolutionise police work
Lund University. Microorganisms are organisms, such as bacteria, that are invisible to the naked eye. The word microbiome is used to describe all the microorganisms in a particular environment.www.lunduniversity.lu.se
A great guide for anyone interested in improving their #privacy posture.
(TL;DR in the comments.)
"Whatever platforms you're on, whatever devices you have, you need to have a sense of what kind of data you're generating and then use the controls available to limit who can see what you're doing."
It should matter that one of Bluesky's investors is Alumni Ventures, which also funded Outlogic (formerly known as X-Mode Social) - basically a data broker that collected and sold location data by tracking various mobile apps (including dating, music, weather, and Muslim prayer apps.)
Among other controversies, Outlogic/X‑Mode had supplied location data to U.S. military contractors:
themarkup.org/privacy/2022/01/… & cyberdaily.au/security/10093-n…
NSA called out for purchasing data from illegal data brokers
The US National Security Agency (NSA) has been called out for the unconsenting purchase of American data through illegal data brokers.Daniel Croft (Cyber Daily)
Funny how, a decade ago, they called us “tin-foil hat conspiracy theorists” for suggesting such things and we were shunned by “respectable” folks in the web community afraid to lose their favoured status as Big Tech’s bottom feeders.
#BigTech #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #capitalism #surveillance #BigWeb #web #SmallTech #ethicalTech #privacy #humanRights mstdn.ca/@teledyn/113489107039…
Aral Balkan - Free is a Lie - Thinking Digital 2014
At Thinking Digital 2013, Aral Balkan delivered the most watched and favourited Thinking Digital talk of all time. In 2014, Aral returned to Thinking Digital…Vimeo
@bjb @jrredhoIt is called Active Listening, and Alexa has a patent on it.
buttondown.com/creativegood/ar…
Surveillance never sits still
To mark the seventh anniversary of my WFMU show Techtonic, I built this week’s episode around a simple reminder: Even more devices are spying on you. I say...Creative Good
The devil is in the details! 😈
Today X changed their #privacy policy & terms of service.
2 Highlights:
-They "collect and use your #biometric information"
-3rd party collaborators might "train their artificial intelligence models" on user #data
As a surprise for #X "Premium's Anniversary" we decided to make another guide 😜
If you still have #Xitter, make sure your "Data sharing with business partners" setting is disabled!
x.com/settings/data_sharing_wi…
Also posting this on #Twitter 😂
#China Connected #SaltTyphoon Compromised AT&T / #Verizon / #LawfulIntercept #Backdoors
Installed #Windows Kernel Rootkit
"backdoors protect kids"....
Don't buy into this #propaganda.
#privacy #News #infosec #cybersecurity #USA #Telecom #CISA #ATT
heise.de/en/news/China-s-cyber…
China's cyber spies intercept phone data and calls from US network operators
Chinese cyber spies infiltrated US network operators. Conversations and data from government and politicians were intercepted, as were police wiretaps.Frank Schräer (heise online)
Senator Slams Gun Industry’s “Invasive and Dangerous” Sharing of Customer #Data With Political Operatives
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In response to a ProPublica investigation, Sen. Richard Blumenthal demanded answers from the gun industry about its “covert program” to collect information on gun owners for #political purposes.
#News #Guns #Privacy #Politics #Business
Gun Industry’s Sharing of Customer Data Slammed by U.S. Sen. Blumenthal
In response to a ProPublica investigation, Sen. Richard Blumenthal demanded answers from the gun industry about its “covert program” to collect information on gun owners for political purposes.ProPublica
good article, also applies to
* protect some other medical or family info
* protect yourself in advance of need so you don't have a suspicious change in communications habits
* (most important for people like me) help vulnerable people hide in a crowd of others with similar privacy habits. Privacy is a collective problem, and having "nothing to hide" comes with an obligation to choose #privacy to help protect those who need it
themarkup.org/the-breakdown/20…
How Do I Protect My Privacy If I’m Seeking an Abortion? – The Markup
A guide to keeping your plans private through every step of an abortion in any state, including Florida and South Dakotathemarkup.org
Pregnancy Tracking #App ‘What to Expect’ Refuses to Fix Issue that Allows Full Account Takeover
What to Expect is a popular pregnancy tracking app available for #ios and #android.
An exposed API endpoint handling password reset requests for the app does not require authentication or enforce rate limits and is vulnerable to brute force attacks.
#privacy #security #cybersecurity
404media.co/pregnancy-tracking…
Pregnancy Tracking App ‘What to Expect’ Refuses to Fix Issue that Allows Full Account Takeover
Vulnerabilities in the popular What to Expect app include one that allows a full account take over, and another that exposes that email address of forum admins.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
Get ready for the transition to @thunderbird mobile!
blog.iode.tech/get-ready-for-t…
#thunderbird #android #rom #privacy #cybersecurity #adblocker #iodé #degoogle #opensource
If you’re looking for an EU-based alternative to AzireVPN since they’ve now sold to a US company (why, hello, Trump presidency, how goes?), see Mullvad VPN (@mullvadnet).
#privacy #security #VPN #AzireVPN #MullvadVPN
Mullvad VPN - Free the internet
Free the internet from mass surveillance and censorship. Fight for privacy with Mullvad VPN and Mullvad Browser.Mullvad
Learn how to parse an app's privacy policy and data collection reports for keywords that signal a company's intentions when collecting, storing, and using your private information.
#privacy #policy #data #collection
pcmag.com/explainers/take-thes…
Sad to see that @mozilla needs to layoff 30%😢
Is Google’s ban on paying Mozilla for including G Search in Firefox the reason?
All #privacy companies must unite against Big Tech now! 💪
👉 tuta.com/blog/will-ban-on-goog…
Will the ban on Google payments kill Mozillas Firefox? | Tuta
How Google’s antitrust judgement could harm Mozilla and what we all must do to help!Tuta
Looks like the final nail in the coffin for Chat Control in Finland !
The Constitutional committee has sided against the proposal. Looks like Finland is going to defend the future of privacy in Europe!
yle.fi/uutiset/lyhyesti/74-201…
#ChatControl #finland #europe #privacy #encryption
Perustuslakivaliokunta ei tue Unkarin esittämää mallia lapsipornon estämiseksi
Uutiset nopeasti ja luotettavasti.STT (Yle Uutiset)
Spread #privacy this Thursday!
What's your favorite chat app?
Here are our recommendations: tuta.com/blog/best-whatsapp-al…
Please comment with choice and reasons below!
Best WhatsApp Alternatives For 2024 | Time To Go Private! | Tuta
There are lots of messaging apps similar to WhatsApp. Here's a review of the best secure alternatives: Signal, Threema, Telegram, Element, Wire, SimpleX, Session, and more.Tuta
In the weeks to come,
protecting your communications and online activities might become increasingly important 🔒
Remember that complete anonymity online is difficult to achieve,
But here are a few tools
you can start using *right now* to greatly improve your protections and data privacy online:
📶 VPN (Proton VPN): protonvpn.com/
Browser - Day-to-Day (LibreWolf): librewolf.net/installation/
Browser - Sensitive Activities (Tor): torproject.org/download/
Email (Proton Mail): proton.me/mail/pricing
📩 Throwaway Email Addresses (SimpleLogin): simplelogin.io/
Messaging & Audio/Video (Signal with username): signal.org/download/
📄 Shared Documentation (Anytype): download.anytype.io/
🔃 File Sharing (OnionShare): onionshare.org/
🗺️ Maps (OsmAnd): osmand.net/
✊ Activism & Groups (Mobilizon): joinmobilizon.org/en/
📆 Scheduling Meetups (Framadate): framadate.org/abc/en/
Why is my air fryer spying on me? Which? reveals the #smart devices gathering your data - and where they send it
Source: which.co.uk/policy-and-insight…
The Aigostar air fryer wanted to know gender and date of birth when setting up an owner account, again for no clear reason, but this was optional. The Aigostar and #Xiaomi fryers both sent people’s personal data to servers in #China, although this was flagged in the #privacy notice.
Why must smart technology be in the #cloud - is the advantage of this only surveillance? 🤔
#news #technology #Software #economy #fail #spy #bigdata #bigbrother #orwell #Problem #security
Why is my air fryer spying on me? Which? reveals the smart devices gathering your data - and where they send it - Which? Policy and insight
Which? research has found evidence of excessive smart device surveillance - from air fryers demanding permission to listen in on conversations and sharing data with TikTok, to TVs wanting to know users’ exact locations at all timesWhich?
Privacy: 2+ hrs into the hearing, protecting #encryption, #privacy & stopping #spyware are finally raised, thanks to S&D's Kaljurand. But Brunner's response pits safety against privacy - a common trope of the outgoing Commissioner.
What's more, despite an outright ask for him to commit to protecting #E2EEncryption, Brunner skirts the question. A silver lining? He compliments the Parliament's position on the #CSAReg, which rejected the Commission's mass surveillance and encryption-breaking plans
