Seriously though, take a minute trying to grasp how rich a company like Facebook (Meta) really is. Think, truly think, about how much money it makes every year.

Now, think about HOW it makes this money:
Does it sell a lot of expensive cars? No.
Does it sell computers around the world? No.
Does it sell oil? Nope.

It. Sells. YOU.

And how much do YOU get in exchange for producing these billions of dollars for it each year?

#Meta #Facebook #SurveillanceCapitalism #Privacy

This seems to be a week for announcing big lawsuit settlements. Here's another big one:

An Oracle lawsuit settlement for $115 million addresses claims that Oracle unlawfully tracked and collected vast amounts of personal information without obtaining proper consent from users and allegedly sold it to third parties for advertising purposes through Oracle’s various advertising products, including ID Graph and Data Marketplace.

Official settlement website: https://www.katzprivacysettlement.com/

If you think you might be an eligible class member, you only have until Oct. 17th to file a claim. See the settlement site for info on who's eligible, etc.

#privacy #consent #Oracle #lawsuit

@campuscodi

"Jumping from Google Search to Kagi gave me the opportunity to redefine how I interact with the web as a whole."

Read the full review from Make Tech Easier:

"Why I Use Kagi over Google For Searching the Web" 👇

https://www.maketecheasier.com/why-use-kagi-over-google/

#AdFree #Search #Privacy #Kagi

I love the Penguin 🐧👍

#meme #penguin #os #software #hardware #privacy #gnu #gpl #freedom #floss #opensource #nerd #humor #lol #just4fun #fun #funny #computer #desktop #linux

Ford wants to listen to our conversations. What could possibly go wrong?

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/09/ford-seeks-patent-for-conversation-based-advertising

🤦🏻‍♂️

#Ford #privacy

Ford seeks patent for conversation-based advertising | Malwarebytes

Ford has filed a patent application for an in-vehicle advertisement system based on several trip and driver characteristics

^{Pieter Arntz (Malwarebytes)}

Native support for ed25519/x25519 in the browser would be a huge step forward for in-browser/client-side cryptography.

Looks like Google is holding up our ability to use it in production.

(Firefox and Safari both have support enabled by default.)

https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_subtlecrypto_sign_ed25519

#ed25519 #x25519 #cryptography #browsers #web #mozilla #apple #google #firefox #safari #chrome #privacy #security #WebCryptoAPI

Data collection. Cartoon for Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/achterpagina/spotprenten~bc9b7dca/

#bigtech #privacy #datamining

"Meta fed its AI on almost everything you’ve posted publicly since 2007" from The Verge:

"Meta has just decided that [they] will scrape all of the photos and all of the texts from every public post on Instagram or Facebook since 2007 unless there was a conscious decision to set them on private"

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/12/24242789/meta-training-ai-models-facebook-instagram-photo-post-data

#Privacy #AI #Meta #Facebook #Instagram

Meta fed its AI on everything adults have publicly posted since 2007

Meta has acknowledged that all text and photos that adult Facebook and Instagram users have publicly published since 2007 have been used as AI training data.

^{Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)}

#EFF: #Britain Must Call for Release of British-Egyptian Activist and Coder #AlaaAbdElFattah

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/britain-must-call-release-british-egyptian-activist-and-coder-alaa-abd-el-fattah

#Egypt #activism #privacy #politics

Britain Must Call for Release of British-Egyptian Activist and Coder Alaa Abd El Fattah

As British-Egyptian coder, blogger, and activist Alaa Abd El Fattah enters his fifth year in a maximum security prison outside Cairo, unjustly charged for supporting online free speech and privacy for Egyptians and people across the Middle East and N…

^{Electronic Frontier Foundation}

My oh my. From ABC News Australia: "Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option."

A summary:

"The company does not offer Australians an opt out option like it does in the EU, because it has not been required to do so under privacy law."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-11/facebook-scraping-photos-data-no-opt-out/104336170

BTW the ABC News website has links to Facebook, Instagram and X but no Fediverse profiles. So their posts are used to train #Llama

#BigTech #AI #privacy #Meta

Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option

Facebook has admitted that it scrapes the public photos, posts and other data of Australian adult users to train its AI models and provides no opt-out option, even though it allows people in the European Union to refuse consent.

^{Jake Evans (ABC News)}

Content warning: chatcontrol latest compromise texts Reveal/hide

#Privacy #Messaging with #Secure & Encrypted Messengers

source: https://www.privacytools.io/privacy-messaging

#internet #communication #security #cybersecurity #overview #messenger #chat #surveillance #encryption #technology #software

Privacy Messaging with Secure & Encrypted Messengers in 2024

Send private messages securely and encrypted with the latest privacy messaging apps. Keep your conversations private and secure.

^{www.privacytools.io}

#Ford seeks #patent for tech that listens to driver conversations to serve #ads

Source: https://therecord.media/ford-patent-application-in-vehicle-listening-advertising

#technology #advertisement #surveillance #communication #privacy #future #car #news

Ford seeks patent for tech that listens to driver conversations to serve ads

A Ford Motoer Company patent application filed in February and published last month proposes software that would monitor in-car conversations and other data to help serve up advertisements.

^{therecord.media}

[ SHARE ] Are You #Developer Interested In #Anonymity / #Darknet / #Censorship Resistant / #FreeSpeech #freedom #Technology?

🧄 🔐 I2P Can Use New Applications & Maintainers (I2P messengers, etc)

By @sadiedoreen (I2P team) - reach out, can confirm friendly! 🤓

Great opportunity to collaborate, on an uncompromising, principled #anonymity network, w/active dev OVER 20 years! 😀

➡️ If not, share this toot. Help spread the word!

#I2P #internet #anonymous #code #privacy

https://theoverlay.ghost.io/sustainability-and-standards-we-need-to-talk-about-building-censorship-circumvention-infrastructure/

Sustainability and Standards: We Need To Talk About Building Censorship Circumvention Infrastructure

Funding for FOSS projects needs to incorporate multi-year contracts for maintainers. This would ideally be someone who has experience and can assess and help a team implement best practices, policy and documentation as part of the contract.

^{Sadie Mascis (The Overlay)}

The attached picture can be improved, a bit outdated.

For chat, Matrix and XMPP clients (e.g Element and Monal) can be used.

Libre Translate can replace Google Translate.

2FAS Auth is a nice project for OTP codes.

Strongbox is nice to store passwords.

PeerTube is a real YouTube alternative instead of YouTube facades.

And Yandex is an efficient search engine.

#privacy #web #degooglisonsinternet #degooglify #Android #iOS #opensource

So... #Signal and #Wire, which both have issues, but not #Matrix / #XMPP? And for video, 2 #YouTube front ends and a proprietary YouTube clone, but no direct mention of #Peertube? And for Translation, the proprietary #Deepl, but no mention of the local and #Privacy respecting #Firefox #translate

I appreciate the intent of this post, but the research is... outdated at best.

secure and private.
No ads, no tracking

#Tuta #TutaMail #Poll #Encryption #email #privacy

Why did you choose Tuta? ☺️

Is your answer not included? Let us know in the comments 👇👇

#Tuta #TutaMail #Poll #Encryption #email #privacy

Nach 6 Wochen iOS-Nutzung kann ich sagen: Für datenschutzbewusste Nutzer, die die Kontrolle behalten wollen, ist iOS aus meiner Sicht leider nicht geeignet. Zu viel Kontrolle von Apple über das System, eingeschränkte Anpassungsmöglichkeiten und mangelnde Transparenz bei der Datenverarbeitung machen es schwer, die Souveränität über das eigene Gerät und die persönlichen Daten zu behalten.

#ios #apple #datenschutz #sicherheit #privacy #security

I dream of one day seeing this whole AI hype replaced with a genuine Privacy hype 💚

Keep fighting for privacy rights until we do.

#Privacy #PrivacyIsAHumanRight #NoAI

NEW: Details of people's therapy sessions—including reports, video and audio recordings—have been exposed by a healthcare company.

These included people mentioning sexual abuse and highly sensitive subjects. The exposed database has now been closed down

https://www.wired.com/story/confidant-health-therapy-records-database-exposure/ #cybersecurity #privacy #news #technology

If people have to hack your privacy-respecting browser to make it respect their privacy, maybe your privacy-respecting browser isn’t really privacy respecting.

#mozilla #firefox #privacy #privacyWashing #AI

Did you know that Pleroma, a Fediverse software, has the option to make "followers only" posts that reach their instance, public on their instance if they choose?

They can also automatically deny deletion requests if they want.

It's always important to remember that there's very little privacy on the internet. If you post something, even if it may seem private, always has several ways of going public and existing forever.

Pretty much everything on the internet is public and will not be deleted on request.

Screenshots and internet archive also exist.

If you don't want your post to be seen by most people, don't post it.

You are not safe just because the software or platform you're using says you are.

#Fediverse #Privacy #Fedi #ActivityPub #SocialMedia

Following Founders’ Arrest, Telegram Will Allow Moderation of Private Chats.

"Telegram CEO Pavel Durov released his first public statement since being arrested and signaled a big change for the company."

https://gizmodo.com/following-founders-arrest-telegram-will-allow-moderation-of-private-chats-2000495589

If you were using Telegram for privacy before, it's now time to stop. If they can access the chats at all, it's not private. Use signal.

#Telegram #Privacy #E2EE #Encryption

Following Founders' Arrest, Telegram Will Allow Moderation of Private Chats

^{Matthew Gault (Gizmodo)}

#Telegram will start #moderating private chats after #CEO’s arrest

source: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/5/24237254/telegram-pavel-durov-arrest-private-chats-moderation-policy-change

Earlier today, Durov issued his first public statement since his arrest, promising to moderate content more on the platform — a noticeable change in tone after the company initially said he had “nothing to hide”. “It is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform,” the company wrote in an unattributed statement posted in August.

#PavelDurov #Durov #chat #privacy #justice #france #EU #legal #surveillance #news #internet #communication #chatcontrol #economy #jail

Telegram will start moderating private chats after CEO’s arrest

Telegram has been changing the FAQ section on the company’s website around topics like illegal material. Its CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France in late August.

^{Mia Sato (The Verge)}

ClearviewAI Fined For Hosting Illegal Database For Highly Invasive Facial Recognition Tech

#Dutch #ClearviewAI #Privacy #facialRecognition #biometrics #News #Tech

https://techinformed.com/clearview-ai-fined-over-33m-for-illegal-facial-recognition-database/

Clearview AI fined over $33m for “illegal” facial recognition database

US facial recognition firm Clearview AI has been fined €30.5 million by the Dutch data protection watchdog (DPA)

^{Nicole Deslandes (TechInformed)}

Privacy-focused Tuta Mail Opens Second Office in Munich:

https://tuta.com/blog/tuta-in-munich

See how Tuta stacks up with other email providers in keeping your information private:

https://tuta.com/email-comparison

#infosec #cybersecurity #privacy

Welcome to our new office location: Munich! | Tuta

As Tuta continues to grow we are opening a second office location in Munich. Looking to join the team? Let us know!

^Tuta

Your regular reminder not to use M$ Windows

https://digitalmarketreports.com/news/25091/microsoft-recall-feature-on-windows-11-not-removable-after-all/

#Windoze #Windows #Recall #Privacy #GDPR #DataMining

Microsoft's Recall Feature on Windows 11 Not Removable After All

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 users will not be able to uninstall the controversial "Recall" feature, despite earlier reports suggesting otherwise.

^{Hilary Ong (DMR News)}

📢 ❤️ Good news alert: We are proud to announce that Tuta has officially opened it's second office in Munich! 🇩🇪 🥳

Read more about our new office here:
https://tuta.com/blog/tuta-in-munich

#email #privacy #encryption

#Privacy friendly #Browser for your #Smartphone 😊👍

Based on #Firefox (install uBlock via add-on): https://f-droid.org/packages/us.spotco.fennec_dos/

Based on #Chrome (Ad blocker included): https://www.cromite.org/fdroid/repo/

#internet #mobile #www #web #app #android #Software #fdroid

Mull | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Privacy oriented web browser

^f-droid.org

In #Leak, #Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your #Phone’s #Microphone to Serve #Ads for Stuff You Mention

Source: https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-partner-phones-listening-microphone

#internet #advertisement #marketing #surveillance #privacy #news #technology #security #economy #socialmedia

In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention

One of Facebook's alleged marketing partners explained how it listens to users' smartphone microphones and advertises to them accordingly.

^{Noor Al-Sibai (Futurism)}

Creating an #anonymous email account isn't rocket science.
👉 https://tuta.com/blog/anonymous-email

Tuta Mail supports both #Tor and #VPN signups & never asks for a phone number or recovery #email address.

This is #privacy done right 💪

So many companies build consumer products with pervasive surveillance capabilities without planning for the inevitable moment when access demand come in.

By failing to plan for this in design decisions, you expose yourself & your consumers to pressure. And introduce society to new kinds of surveillance.

It's ethical conundrum in countries with a rule of law & judicial oversight. It is much more ominous when your product reaches countries with none of that.

#infosec #privacy #cybersecurity

If you collect it, they will come.

Investigators will eventually identify any consumer product that persistently records peoples' activities.

One day, they'll show up, requesting access.

If the data is consistently helpful, they'll stop asking & start demanding.

Once this happens enough the company will probably create a law enforcement portal to simplify access & save customers the trouble...

#infosec #police #cybersecurity #privacy #security #crime #surveillance