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New from me: Companies in the EU are starting to look for ways to ditch Amazon, Google, and Microsoft cloud services amid fears of rising security risks from the US. But cutting ties won’t be easy

wired.com/story/trump-us-cloud…

#cloud #privacy #data


This is a really interesting question: obviously, there's a lot of debate lately about #data and personal information (don't forget, data and information are two different things), and protection of those things, and what they can be used for and all that.

But legally speaking, is it possible for anyone to OWN data in #SouthAfrica?

techcentral.co.za/can-data-be-…

#privacy


Digital #Privacy at the U.S. #Border: Protecting the #Data On Your Devices


source: eff.org/wp/digital-privacy-us-…

Border agents may attempt to scrutinize the content stored or cached on your phones, laptops, and other portable electronic devices, including electronic communications, social media postings, and ecommerce activity. Moreover, agents may seek to examine your public social media postings by obtaining your social media identifiers or handles. As of this writing, the federal #government is considering requiring disclosure from certain foreign visitors of social media login credentials, allowing access to private postings and “friend” lists.


#usa #travel #socialmedia #smartphone #news


Important #UK #petition to sign: "Ban behavioural data extraction for advertising"

petition.parliament.uk/petitio…

If you are a UK citizen or UK resident PLEASE SIGN THIS 🙏🏼

We need the #government to take this seriously so creeps like this #databroker don't get more data:
gizmodo.com/data-broker-brags-…

And #democracy is undermined by the #microtargeting from #socialmedia - #Trump /Brexit/Romania etc

#surveillancecapitalism #dataprivacy #advertising #RTB #databreach #infosec #uspol #data #selfhosting


Nothing short of #outrageous #trashit 😡#privacy

#usa #amazon #canada sharing w @404mediaco @pluralistic @eff #data #infosec #ai

Amazon is going to be disabling the privacy feature that processes voice commands locally on Echo devices at the end of this month. Instead, all voice commands will be sent to Amazon's cloud for processing.

I have already followed my own steps to remediate this:

1. Unplug Echo Device
2. Throw Echo Device in Trash
3. Done
chow.fan/@mookie/1141628205889…


Amazon is going to be disabling the privacy feature that processes voice commands locally on Echo devices at the end of this month. Instead, all voice commands will be sent to Amazon's cloud for processing.

I have already followed my own steps to remediate this:

1. Unplug Echo Device
2. Throw Echo Device in Trash
3. Done

#amazon #echo #privacy




Pretty fascinating look at how "Covid changed everything", in 30 charts.

"Decades from now, the pandemic will be visible in the historical data of nearly anything measurable today: an unmistakable spike, dip or jolt that officially began for Americans five years ago this week."

nytimes.com/interactive/2025/0…

#news #covid #health #PublicHealth #data #dataviz #charts


Friends. I’m honored to be part of a team who is archiving data being targeted by fascists: science, health, DEI, climate…all of it.

It’s exhausting, mentally psychologically. But totally worth it.

What @lavaeolus began is now a thriving group effort. There’s a core group of us working feverishly, but anyone is welcome to join us.

Learn how you can get involved:
safeguarding-research.discours…

#Resist #Resistance #Fascism #Data #Archive #Science #Research #Climate #Development #Activism


After #community #protest: #Firefox #update on their "Terms of Use"


Source: blog.mozilla.org/en/products/f…

Our intent was just to be as clear as possible about how we make Firefox work, but in doing so we also created some #confusion and #concern. With that in mind, we’re updating the language to more clearly reflect the limited scope of how #Mozilla interacts with #user #data.


#news #Software #privacy #security #internet #Browser #Problem #www #web #freedom


A Study of Mint Plants. A Device to Stop Bleeding. This Is the Scientific Research Ted Cruz Calls “Woke.”

The senator flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like “female” and “diversify.” A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude method for identifying research he calls “woke.”
propublica.org/article/ted-cru…

#News #Science #Data #Research #Medicine #Biology #USPolitics


Some of the data used by Cambridge Analytica highlighted gun owners’ most personal information, like:
• If they owned cats
• Whether they were dieting
• If they were recently divorced
• Their political opinions

propublica.org/article/gun-own…

#News #Data #Privacy #Guns #Technology #Psychology


DOGE can now access a HUD system that includes addresses domestic violence survivors have relocated to for safety, medical records in disability cases and credit reports in lending discrimination cases.

Few of the records are redacted or anonymized.

propublica.org/article/doge-el…

#News #HUD #Housing #DomesticViolence #Data #ElonMusk #DOGE


And here's a preliminary archive of data sets and publications from the US Department of Agriculture, including SNAP, chemical use, imports, etc.

git.lsit.ucsb.edu/publicdata/u…

#data #datarescue #USDA #publicdata


Public Environmental Data Partners archives climate datasets, uploading copies to public repositories and cataloging where and how to find them if they go missing from government websites. Scholars explain: theconversation.com/how-to-fin… #climatechange #data #epa #NOAA