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Die Menschenrechtsaktivistin Tanya O’Carroll hat den Social-Media-Giganten Meta erfolgreich dazu gezwungen, ihre Daten nicht für gezielte Werbung zu verwenden. Die Vereinbarung ist Teil eines Vergleichs zu einer individuellen Klage, die sie 2022 gegen Metas Tracking und Profiling eingereicht hatte.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/21/meta-settles-u-k-right-to-object-to-ad-tracking-lawsuit-by-agreeing-not-to-track-plaintiff/

#meta #socialmedia #werbung #tracking #profiling #klage #aktivistin #datenschutz #privacy


A Win for Encryption: France Rejects Backdoor Mandate

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/win-encryption-france-rejects-backdoor-mandate

#privacy


"Law enforcement requests for user data from Apple, Google, and Meta mean that these companies can decide whether government authorities have access to your personal information, including location data. This means the companies with the most insight into our lives, movements, and communications are frontline arbiters of our constitutional rights and the rights of non-US citizens—a fact some are likely feeling more acutely now than ever.

Collaboration between Big Tech and the Trump administration began before Donald Trump’s swearing-in on January 20. Amazon, Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Uber each gave $1 million to Trump’s inauguration. Separately, in personal donations, so did Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Apple’s Tim Cook.

Americans concerned about the Trump administration and Silicon Valley’s embrace of it, may consider becoming a “digital expat”—moving your digital life off of US-based systems. Meanwhile, Europeans are starting to see US data services as “no longer safe” for businesses, governments, and societies.

Here’s a brief rundown of the privacy, security, and civil liberties issues related to the use of US-based digital services that suddenly feel more urgent—and what to do about it."

https://www.wired.com/story/trump-era-digital-expat/

#USA #Trump #BigTech #Privacy #CyberSecurity #DataProtection


Woohoo, @signalapp can now sync 45 days of message history when linking a desktop or iPad! 🤩

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/releases/tag/7.51.0.681

#signal #signalapp #Privacy #FOSS


#Substack rival #Ghost is now connected to the #fediverse

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/substack-rival-ghost-is-now-connected-to-the-fediverse/

#privacy #FOSS


"The fundamental issue is simple: encryption is mathematics and mathematics doesn’t discriminate between a government investigator and a criminal hacker — a back door is a back door and if it’s there, anyone can enter.

There’s also a contradiction at play. If politicians dream of making the UK a technology hub they should not be working to undermine the foundations of cyber security, on which a workable tech industry relies.

The government should withdraw its misguided mandate. Instead of surreptitiously cutting the brake cables on the technological car, it should be working to strengthen security and privacy of the technology that forms the nervous system of our world. Business leaders must also take a role, making it clear that these dangerous moves are unacceptable, and pushing the companies they license technology from to deploy encryption, and other protections, without which their interests and those of their customers will be vulnerable.

We have ceded so many of the core operations of our lives and institutions to tech, we must recognise that strong encryption isn’t the enemy of security — it is security. The argument that weakening encryption will make any of us safer is as wrong as it is dangerous."

https://www.ft.com/content/a934150f-e0f5-4e75-a2d1-a3671ea52ca0

#UK #CyberSecurity #Encryption #Backdoors #Privacy #Apple


*DO NOT TRAVEL TO THE US!*

“‘I learned with concern that a French researcher,’ on a mission for the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), ‘who was going to a conference near Houston was banned from entering American territory before being expelled,’ said the Minister of Higher Education and Research, Philippe Baptiste, in a statement sent to Agence France-Presse (AFP). ‘This measure was allegedly taken by the American authorities because this researcher's phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friendly relationships in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration's research policy,’ he added.”

https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/19/etats-unis-un-chercheur-francais-refoule-pour-avoir-exprime-une-opinion-personnelle-sur-la-politique-menee-par-l-administration-trump_6583618_3210.html

#USA #fascism #EU #France #science #freedomOfSpeech #privacy #travelWarning


End-to-End Encryption for RCS, enabling Secure Cross-Platform Messaging.

Text messages sent between iOS & Android devices will soon benefit from end-to-end encryption, after the GSM Association published new specifications for the RCS protocol that include support for cross-platform E2EE.

https://www.gsma.com/solutions-and-impact/technologies/networks/gsma_resources/gsma-rcs-universal-profile-3-0-specifications/

#ios #android #rcs #protocol #it #security #privacy #engineer #media #tech #news
The new GSMA specifications for RCS include E2EE based on the Messaging Layer Security [MLS] protocol via what's called the Rich Communication Services [RCS] Universal Profile 3.0.

"The new specifications define how to apply MLS within the context of RCS," Tom Van Pelt, technical director of GSMA, said. "These procedures ensure that messages and other content such as files remain confidential and secure as they travel between clients."

<https://www.gsma.com/newsroom/article/rcs-encryption-a-leap-towards-secure-and-interoperable-messaging/>

This also means that RCS will be the first "large-scale messaging service" to have support for interoperable E2EE between different client implementations from different providers in the near future.

The development comes nearly six months after the GSMA said it was working towards implementing end-to-end encryption [E2EE] to secure messages sent between the Android and iOS ecosystems. The move followed Apple's decision to roll out support for RCS in its own Messages app with iOS 18.

Google said, "We've always been committed to providing a secure messaging experience, and Google Messages users have had end-to-end encrypted [E2EE] RCS messaging for years. We're excited to have this updated specification from GSMA and work as quickly as possible with the mobile ecosystem to implement and extend this important user protection to cross-platform RCS messaging."


"New documents obtained by 404 Media reveal that Clearview AI spent nearly a million dollars in a bid to purchase “690 million arrest records and 390 million arrest photos” from all 50 states from an intelligence firm. The contract further describes the records as including current and former home addresses, dates of birth, arrest photos, social security and cell phone numbers, and email addresses. Clearview attempted to purchase this data from Investigative Consultant, Inc. (ICI) which billed itself as an intelligence company with access to tens of thousands of databases and the ability to create unique data streams for its clients. The contract was signed in mid-2019, at a time when Clearview AI was quietly collecting billions of photos off the internet and was relatively unknown at the time.

Ultimately, the entire deal fell apart after Clearview and ICI clashed about the utility of the data with each company filing breach of contract claims. The dispute ultimately went into arbitration where it is common for disputes to be settled privately. The arbiter ultimately sided with Clearview AI in 2024 and ordered ICI to return the contract money. To date, ICI has not paid Clearview, with the company now seeking a court order to enforce the arbiter’s ruling."

https://www.404media.co/facial-recognition-company-clearview-attempted-to-buy-social-security-numbers-and-mugshots-for-its-database/

#Clearview #Surveillance #Privacy #DataProtection #SocialSecurity #FacialRecognition #Biometrics


There is a growing sentiment that the US shouldn't be relied upon for the technologies that many people and businesses use every day.

While we prefer to focus on technical guarantees like strong end-to-end encryption over matters like jurisdiction, these issues still matter, and the United States certainly does not have a monopoly on the best technologies.

We've compiled a list of some of our favorite and highly recommended European privacy tools, to highlight how easy it can be to take your data back from American Big Tech companies: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/03/19/private-european-alternatives/

#EUTech #EuropeanTech #Privacy #USElection2024 #EUCloud #EuropeanAlternatives #PrivacyGuides #Article


Jede Wette, dass das „EU-US Data Privacy Framework“ – das Datenschutzabkommen zwischen EU und USA – noch dieses Jahr kippt. Ein Feigenblatt, das nie echten Datenschutz geboten hat. 🍃

#dataprivacy #datenschutz #privacy #DataPrivacyFramework #dsgvo #fail


"In 2006, a retired AT&T engineer knocked on the door of the EFF's office in a rundown part of San Francisco's Mission district and asked, "Do you folks care about privacy?" With him he carried schematics exposing the largest US government domestic spying operation since Watergate.

That person was Mark Klein, who died on March 8 this year from cancer. He was 79.

After a life working in telecoms, Klein realized he had helped the NSA wire up a listening station in AT&T's San Francisco switching facility - the infamous Room 641A - that was being used to illegally spy on Americans.

The evidence he gathered and shared led to two lawsuits that exposed the extent to which US citizens were being spied on by their own government in the post-9/11 world. Klein faced legal pressure, death threats, and the constant fear of ruin, to get his story out and tell the public what was going on. But Klein regretted nothing."

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/15/rip_mark_klein/

#USA #NSA #Surveillance #ATT #MassSurveillance #PoliceState #Privacy


"The Trump administration’s Federal Trade Commission has removed four years’ worth of business guidance blogs as of Tuesday morning, including important consumer protection information related to artificial intelligence and the agency’s landmark privacy lawsuits under former chair Lina Khan against companies like Amazon and Microsoft. More than 300 blogs were removed.

On the FTC’s website, the page hosting all of the agency’s business-related blogs and guidance no longer includes any information published during former president Joe Biden’s administration, current and former FTC employees, who spoke under anonymity for fear of retaliation, tell WIRED. These blogs contained advice from the FTC on how big tech companies could avoid violating consumer protection laws."

https://www.wired.com/story/federal-trade-commission-removed-blogs-critical-of-ai-amazon-microsoft/

#USA #Trump #FTC #Antitrust #ConsumerProtection #Privacy #BigTech #AI


Consumer Reports investigated people-search site removal services. 🕵️‍♀️ Their findings? Largely ineffective! 😬 Only 35% of personal info was removed within 4 months. Learn more about protecting your data: [https://innovation.consumerreports.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Data-Defense_-Evaluating-People-Search-Site-Removal-Services-.pdf] #Privacy #DataProtection #ConsumerReports


कैबिनेट मंत्री गणेश जोशी के खिलाफ विजिलेंस में दोबारा होगी शिकायत, हाईकोर्ट जाने की भी तैयारी: एडवोकेट विकेश नेगी।

https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news/display/uk_vigilance_case_ganesh_joshi

#uttarakhand #dehradun #india #news #press #politics #corruption #vigilance #RTI #HighCourt #GaneshJoshi

Enjoy tracker free reading with us. #privacy #privacymatters


CM Nitish Kumar Inaugurates and Lays Foundation Stone for Water Supply Projects Worth ₹7,166 Crore.

https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news/display/bh_cm_nitish_inaugrates_water_supply_projects

#bihar #patna #india #news #press #politics #nitishkumar #water #DrinkingWater #HarGharNalKaJal #Rural #RuralDevelopment

Enjoy tracker free reading with us. #privacy #privacymatters


पाकिस्तान से आई सीमा हैदर भारत में भी मां बनीं, सचिन मीणा और हैदर की पहली संतान बेटी हुई।

https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news/display/nd_seema_haidar_now_mother

#newdelhi #delhi #india #news #press #love #CrossBorderLove #SeemaHaider #pakistan #PakistanToIndia

Enjoy tracker free reading with us. #privacy #privacymatters


When you get to use such a good privacy respecting browser for free, you need to support in some other ways. @Vivaldi merch in the snail mail today!

#vivaldibrowser #merch #privacy


Bihar Agriculture Department Honours Progressive Farmers in Horticulture.

https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news/display/bh_govt_honours_progressive_farmers

#bihar #patna #india #news #press #farming #farmers #horticulture #agriculture #ModernFarming

Enjoy tracker free reading with us. #privacy #privacymatters


:github: GitHub uncovers new Ruby-SAML Vulnerabilities allowing Account Takeover Attacks.

Two high-severity security flaws have been disclosed in the open-source ruby-saml library that could allow malicious actors to bypass Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) authentication protections.

https://github.blog/security/sign-in-as-anyone-bypassing-saml-sso-authentication-with-parser-differentials/

#github #ruby #saml #library #it #security #privacy #engineer #media #programming #tech #news


Mastodon friends, I've heard a few suggestions of companies moving from US cloud providers to those based in the EU, due to risks with the Trump administration/Cloud Act, etc.

Has anyone come across any businesses that have made the leap recently? Feel free to DM or message on Signal, mattburgess.20

#infosec #privacy #cloud #security


Hab mir mal wieder Threema installiert. Bleibt die ewige Frage: Threema und/oder Signal – was nutzt ihr und warum? 🤔

Und wie schafft ihr es, eure Kontakte von WhatsApp wegzulocken? Einfach selbst wechseln und hoffen, oder aktiv überzeugen? Gibt’s Tricks - oder gebt ihr irgendwann auf?

Bin gespannt auf eure Erfahrungen!

#Threema #Signal #WhatsApp #Messenger #Privacy #Datenschutz


📣 Announcing Altbot 2.0: The Privacy & Green Update 🔒💚


Exciting news! After months of development, Altbot 2.0 is officially launching with major improvements to privacy, efficiency, and description quality.

What's new in Altbot 2.0:

  • 100% local AI processing for true privacy - unlike Google Gemini which saves data for training, Altbot 2.0 retains ZERO information about you or your images using the powerful Ovis2:8B model running on my custom AltTron server equipped with an A5500 GPU and expansion capacity for two additional GPUs
  • Full GDPR compliance with clear informed consent - I've implemented comprehensive privacy measures including transparent data handling policies, user rights protection, and minimal data collection practices that exceed GDPR requirements
  • Better quality descriptions across all 11 supported languages thanks to a newly developed translation layer specifically optimized for local LLM models
  • Significantly more energy efficient with a new feature that shows you exactly how much energy was used for each request! This efficiency comes from using a server-grade GPU optimized for lower power consumption, and 36% of the energy consumed is from clean sources mainly nuclear power (thanks to being based in Georgia)
The only data Altbot 2.0 records:
  • That a request happened
  • How long it took to complete
  • What type of media it was (image, video, or audio)
  • What language was used
No images, no content, no personal data saved - ever.

For those who don't know, Altbot has been helping make the Fediverse more accessible by automatically generating alt-text descriptions for images. The project has grown beyond anything I imagined, now serving thousands of users across the network.

Support Altbot's Future 💝


To bring these privacy and efficiency improvements to life, I had to invest in a more powerful server than initially planned. The server costs exceeded my budget by around $900, which I've covered out of pocket. Who woulda thought that competing with a $1.98 trillion dystopian mega corporation would be expensive? Shocking, I know.

I've set up a Ko-fi fundraising goal to help recover these costs and support ongoing development: Ko-fi.com/micr0byte

Your contributions will help ensure Altbot remains:
  • Free for everyone
  • Continuously improved
  • Sustainably maintained
Even small donations make a huge difference and motivate me to keep enhancing accessibility across the Fediverse!

This milestone represents a commitment to ensuring accessibility doesn't come at the cost of privacy or environmental impact. I'm incredibly proud of what we've built together.

As Altbot continues to grow, I'm open to sharing more about this journey with anyone interested in accessibility, ethical AI, or Fediverse projects.

For press inquiries: inquiries@micr0.dev

Feel free to boost or reach out!

#Accessibility #Fediverse #AltText #EthicalAI #OpenSource #Privacy #Altbot


The power of voice (and our devices’ microphones)

• Smart devices capture real-time intent data by listening to our conversations •
Advertisers can pair this voice-data with behavioral data to target in-market consumers…..

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25051283-cmg-pitch-deck-on-voice-data-advertising-active-listening?ref=404media.co

#Amazon #Google #Facebook #data #Privacy #activelistening


:microsoft: 240 Million Windows 10 Users are vulnerable to six different Exploits.

⚠️Protect yourself Now!!!⚠️

If you’re running a Windows 10 PC, make sure you download the latest update right now. Microsoft patched 57 vulnerabilities affecting its foundational systems and core products, including six actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities.

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/releaseNote/2025-Mar

#microsoft #windows #update #it #security #privacy #engineer #media #tech #news


What’s the difference between privacy and anonymity? 🤔

Privacy = protecting your personal info & controlling who sees it.

👤 Anonymity = hiding your identity so no one can trace you.

Examples:
Privacy: not sharing your address,
Anonymity: hiding your IP with a VPN.

More info below! 👇 #blog #tech #privacy

https://blog.internxt.com/privacy-vs-anonymity/


“There is significant public interest in knowing when and on what basis the UK government believes that it can compel a private company to undermine the privacy and security of its customers.”

ORG, Big Brother Watch and Index on Censorship call for the Tribunal into the UK government's secret order for Apple to break encryption to be held in public.

The case happens TOMORROW.

Read more ⬇️

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/apples-appeal-against-uks-secret-icloud-backdoor-order-must-be-held-in-public-rights-groups-urge/

#encryption #e2ee #privacy #security #ukpolitics #ukpol #cybersecurity #apple


:apple_inc: Apple releases Emergency Security Patch for WebKit Zero-Day Vulnerability.

The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2025-24201 and was found in the WebKit cross-platform browser engine used by Apple's Safari and many other apps.

⚠️Install the Update immediately!!!⚠️
[For your device security, it’s a good practice to install updates within 36 hours of becoming available.]

https://support.apple.com/en-us/100100

#apple #ios #macos #update #it #security #privacy #engineer #media #tech #news
However, the advisory does not mention if Apple's own security team discovered the flaw or if it was reported to it by an external researcher. It also does not mention when the attacks began, how long they lasted and who was targeted.

The update is available for the following devices and operating system versions:

• iOS 18.3.2 and iPadOS 18.3.2 - iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 13-inch, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 7th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
• macOS Sequoia 15.3.2 - Macs running macOS Sequoia
• Safari 18.3.1 - Macs running macOS Ventura and macOS Sonoma
• visionOS 2.3.2 - Apple Vision Pro

With the latest development, Apple has addressed a total of three actively exploited zero-days in its software since the start of the year, the other two being CVE-2025-24085 & CVE-2025-24200.

⚠️Installing security updates as soon as possible is highly recommended to block potentially ongoing attack attempts.⚠️


AIIMS Patna Observes World Glaucoma Awareness Week with Awareness Walk.

https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news/display/bh_aiims_patna_world_glaucoma_awarness_week

#bihar #patna #india #news #press #health #Glaucoma #EyeHealth #AIIMSPatna #AIIMS #PreventBlindness

Enjoy tracker free reading with us. #privacy #privacymatters


Cloud vs. local storage: which saves you more?
💾 Local = one-time cost but hidden fees (upgrades, power, risk of data loss).

☁️ Cloud = flexible pricing with security, backups & accessibility.

Who will win the battle? Check out our article here

#tech #privacy #blog

https://blog.internxt.com/cloud-storage-vs-local-storage-cost


In affidavit, former Social Security official says DOGE is putting benefits at risk

https://www.muskwatch.com/p/in-affidavit-former-social-security

"detailed how deputies for #ElonMusk forced their way into the agency, formed a clandestine unit, and gained access to its most sensitive #databases...

also warned that careless actions by Musk’s #Doge could lead to interruptions in #SocialSecurity payments."

#Musk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #USPol #USPolitics #Data #Privacy #News #US #USA
Headline from Musk Watch:
In affidavit, former Social Security official says DOGE is putting benefits at risk

by Caleb Ecarma
Mar 10, 2025