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PLEASE get rid of Facebook and Google SSO login options and analytic tracking codes from your sites.
You are literally handing over your user data to unscrupulous players that are in direct opposition to your cause. These sites can and do hand over user-specific data.
To everyone, stop using these options. Set a strong password. Use an alias email. Use a VPN.
#indivisible #democrats #plannedparenthood #privacy
Kann keinen source code dazu finden 😔
#skred #messenger #datenschutz #privacy #google
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Skred is the first secured messaging app allowing total freedom: you don’t need any email address or phone number to use it. Open because you can start messaging without giving up your mobile number or email address. Skred is open to all.Skred, the first secured messaging app allowing total freedom
#messenger #olvid #datenschutz #privacy #google
Meta harvests personal data to track your behaviour, making assumptions about who you are and what you believe. This is used to sell targeted adverts 🏧
By settling Tanya O'Carroll's case, Meta admits that you have the right to opt-out.
It's time to #StopStalkerAds
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/21/meta-settles-u-k-right-to-object-to-ad-tracking-lawsuit-by-agreeing-not-to-track-plaintiff/
Use our tool to opt-out ➡️ https://action.openrightsgroup.org/meta-opt-out
#meta #dataprotection #surveillanceadvertising #surveillancecapitalism #adtech #GDPR #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol
Meta settles UK 'right to object to ad-tracking' lawsuit by agreeing not to track plaintiff | TechCrunch
A human rights campaigner, Tanya O'Carroll, has succeeded in forcing social media giant Meta not to use her data for targeted advertising. The agreementNatasha Lomas (TechCrunch)
Last week saw a big win for data rights! Meta settled Tanya O'Carroll's legal case against them. They agreed to stop using her data for targeted advertising.
Now it's your turn 🫵
Use our tool to #StopStalkerAds (UK residents) ⬇️
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/meta-opt-out
#meta #dataprotection #surveillanceadvertising #adtech #GDPR #privacy #surveillancecapitalism #ukpolitics #ukpol #Facebook
Meta opt-out
In March 2025, there was a huge victory for your data rights! Meta settled a four year court case with human rights campaigner Tanya O’Carroll.Open Rights Group
Meta should give us options for opting-out of stalker ads. Until they do, you can use our tool to make this request.
Take control of your privacy ✊
Act Now (UK Residents) ➡️ https://action.openrightsgroup.org/meta-opt-out
#StopStalkerAds 🚫
#dataprotection #privacy #meta #privacy #gdpr #adtech #facebook #surveillancecapitalism
Meta opt-out
In March 2025, there was a huge victory for your data rights! Meta settled a four year court case with human rights campaigner Tanya O’Carroll.Open Rights Group
Enjoy!
https://vivaldi.com/press/releases/vivaldi-is-partnering-with-proton-vpn-to-help-people-break-free-from-big-tech/
#Windows #Macos #Linux #browser #Vivaldi #Privacy #BigTech #Vivaldi @Vivaldi
Vivaldi is partnering with Proton VPN to help people break free from Big Tech | Vivaldi Browser
Vivaldi is now the first major browser to ship with Proton VPN built right in, giving uncompromising privacy from two of Europe’s most trusted tech companies.Team Vivaldi (Vivaldi Technologies)
Improving Private Signal Calls: Call Links & More
If you love group calls on Signal, but don’t want to create a group chat for every combination of your friends or colleagues, you’re in luck.Signal Messenger
“The super-conservative perspective is to assume they are completely unhinged and that even the most benign reasons for travel are going to subject non-citizens to these device searches,” said Sophia Cope, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a non-profit digital rights group.
If you’re a US citizen, you must be admitted into the country. That said, some jurisdictions allow CBP to work with the FBI or local police to advance domestic investigations, so there are still some risks of your devices being searched for domestic reasons.
There are steps you can take to make it harder for CBP officers to access your device and the data on it. So what should you do to protect the data on your phone from being searched? The main thing is to prepare ahead of heading to the airport. Here is what you should be thinking about:"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/26/phone-search-privacy-us-border-immigration
#USA #Borders #Privacy #Surveillance #DataProtection #CBP
When the company first announced it was considering a sale, we highlighted many of the potential issues, including selling that data to companies with poor security practices or direct links to law enforcement. With this bankruptcy, the concerns we expressed last year remain the same. It is unclear what will happen with your genetic data if 23andMe finds a buyer, and that uncertainty is a clear indication that you should consider deleting your data. California attorney general Rob Bonta agrees."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/how-delete-your-23andme-data
#23AndMe #DNA #Privacy #DataProtection #GeneticData
Online Tracking is Out of Control—Privacy Badger Can Help You Fight Back
Every time you browse the web, you're being tracked. That’s why EFF created Privacy Badger, a free, open source browser extension used by millions to fight corporate surveillance and take back control of their data.Electronic Frontier Foundation
Now, they've partnered to include Proton VPN directly in Vivaldi! 🎉
This is fantastic news!
#BigTech #BuyEuropean #Privacy
“It’s so unbelievable,” a former White House official, granted anonymity to discuss The Atlantic’s report candidly, said Monday. “These guys all have traveling security details to set up secure comms for them, wherever they are.”
The former White House official pointed out that members of Trump’s Cabinet — including the vice president, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, among others — were likely using personal devices, since in most cases, Signal cannot be downloaded onto official federal devices. This alone creates a host of cybersecurity issues."
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/25/signal-cybersecurity-trump-war-planning-00246881
#USA #Trump #CyberSecurity #Signal #Privacy
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The study focused on the behaviors of the three biggest voice assistant platforms: Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri and Google Assistant. What researchers found was that how concerned you should be about your smart assistant profiling you varies greatly depending on which device you use.
But in order to figure this out, they had to essentially trick voice assistants into profiling them.
They downloaded publicly available information that Google compiles on every user based on their searches, like gender, age range, relationship status and income bracket. Using those labels, they were able to design questions that could easily convince the platforms that they were, for example, married, had children or were a homeowner not a renter.
The researchers then recorded themselves asking these questions and replayed the audio to voice assistants over and over again. Over the course of 20 months, they conducted 1,171 experiments involving nearly 25,000 queries.
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What they ended up finding was that Alexa exhibits the most straightforward kind of profiling behavior: It’s all based on your interest in products.
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However, with Siri and Google Assistant, things are more complicated.
After reaching out to Apple to get their data, the company insisted “they had no data on us,” Choffnes says, “which means we couldn’t even test anything or prove any hypothesis about whether there was any profiling happening.”
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Meanwhile, Google Assistant was the strangest of the bunch. The researchers found that it was clearly profiling its users but often incorrectly."
https://news.northeastern.edu/2025/03/17/voice-assistant-profiling-research/
#VoiceAssistants #IoT #SmartObjects #Amazon #Alexa #Google #Apple #Surveillance #Privacy #DataProtection
Your voice assistant is profiling you, just not in the way you expect, new research finds
The three biggest players in voice assistants –– Google, Apple and Amazon –– have radically different approaches to profiling users.Cody Mello-Klein (Northeastern Global News)
“These differences may be marketing gloss to Meta, but to us, they’re fundamental life or death issues that the public deserves to understand so they can make an informed choice,” Whittaker concludes.
On Sunday, WhatsApp sent a message to Dutch users stating that the company can’t read their messages, including text and voice messages, photos, videos, and calls.
“They are protected by end-to-end encryption because we are always committed to protecting your privacy,” the note reads."
https://cybernews.com/news/whatsapp-signal-executives-battle/
#Cybersecurity #Privacy #Encryption #Signal #WhatsApp
Fuck off #Google!
"Google steals and exploits our #data for profit and turned this behaviour into a norm. It also colonizes our physical spaces. Google canceled its plan for a ‘Google Campus’ in Kreuzberg, Berlin under pressure by the neighborhood; yet it continues its expansion worldwide.
As a decentralized network of people, we want to keep our lives and spaces free from this law- and tax-evading company and its peers, and oppose the dystopian future they offer.
More on our wiki....."
https://wiki.fuckoffgoogle.de/index.php?title=Main_Page
https://search.fuckoffgoogle.net
#Surveillance #capitalism #Antirepor #Data #Privacy
Search results without being spyed on. no 'filter bubble'.
searx - a privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch enginesearch.fuckoffgoogle.net
https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news/display/bh_thumbs_up_maati_ke_laal_superstar_patna
#bihar #patna #india #news #press #RealityShow #bhojpuri #singing #MaatiKeLaalSuperstar #folk #culture
Enjoy tracker free reading with us. #privacy #privacymatters
Patna: "Thumbs Up Maati Ke Laal Superstar" Audition Held in Patna.
The audition for the Bhojpuri singing reality show "Thumbs Up Maati Ke Laal Superstar", presented by Pasand TV, is being conducted in various cities across India.Alok Sharma (Aliyesha)
I just tested it and it works perfectly.
Amazing work - great value add - thank you Vivaldi team!!
#privacy #digitalprivacy fuck #bigtech
Presumably this means Bluesky can now track all link clicking on their platform, including IP addresses, destinations etc?
Or have I misunderstood?
Bluesky is spinning it as a tool for publishers to track referrals, but going beyond the spin it seems to be giving Bluesky access to people's online activity?
#AskFedi #Privacy #BlueSky
The author misses some utterly crucial details however.
1) When your encrypted device is on, it is in an *unlocked* state. Only by powering off such a device is it in an encrypted state. Further, MicroSD cards are often unencrypted. Check before you fly, and power off before the border.
2) (next post)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/26/phone-search-privacy-us-border-immigration
#privacy #infosec
How to Delete Your 23andMe Data
This week, the genetic testing company 23andMe filed for bankruptcy, which means the genetic data the company collected on millions of users is now up for sale.Electronic Frontier Foundation
4 reasons CryptPad is the best privacy-focused alternative to Google Drive, Docs, and Sheets
“There are a lot of self-hosted Google Drive alternatives out there, one of the biggest being Nextcloud. Complete with Nextcloud Office which aims to replace Google’s entire suite of document software, enthusiasts are spoiled for choice these days. However, one little-known alternative that I personally see as the best replacement for Google’s overall suite of services (if you care about privacy more than anything else, that is) is CryptPad. It’s a privacy-focused open-source end-to-end encrypted online collaboration application, and the myriad of options it has match and even surpass some of Google’s own offerings.”
I use CryptPad myself, mostly for sharing various spreadsheets in public posts. It provides a very private (to me) way of sharing like this.
CryptPad is to Google Docs or MS Office like SimpleX, Session, etc is to WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram. CryptPad is really private. It requires no real name or phone number to use the service. It is privacy done right.
If anyone wants to take it even further, they can also self-host it.
See https://www.xda-developers.com/reasons-cryptpad-best-privacy-focused-alternative-google
#Blog, #officesuites, #privacy, #technology
https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news/display/bh_foundation_stone_hiranya_parvat_park
#bihar #patna #india #news #press #government #governance #tourism #employment #water #WaterCrisis #HiranyaParvat
Enjoy tracker free reading with us. #privacy #privacymatters
Patna: Foundation Stone for Modern Facilities at Hiranya Parvat Park to be Laid on April 6: Minister Dr. Sunil Kumar.
Bihar's Minister for Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, Dr. Sunil Kumar, inspected Hiranya Parvat in Badi Pahadi, located within the Bihar Sharif Assembly constituency.Alok Sharma (Aliyesha)
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-delete-your-data-from-23andme/
#privacy #guide
The date was Saturday, March 15. President Donald Trump was at his Mar-a-Lago estate attending a “candlelight” dinner that wasn’t on his public calendar. On the lawn outside, luxury cars were on display: a Rolls Royce was parked near a Bugatti and Lamborghini. Guests milled about, taking photographs of each other and the vehicles. Earlier that day, the United States had bombed Yemen, targeting Houthi leadership. At least 53 people, including children, were killed.
Trump flew to the event on Air Force One with Elon Musk and Musk’s four year old son X, according to photos and videos viewed by WIRED. Throughout the weekend, Musk was in close contact with Trump and at least one member of the president’s brain trust who was participating in a Signal group chat where highly sensitive details of the planned operation were being shared. Experts say the conversation appears to have violated government protocols on information sharing."
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-officials-signal-chat-candlelight-dinner-mar-a-lago-yemen/
#USA #Trump #Musk #Leaks #PressFreedom #Signal #CyberSecurity #Privacy
A great headline - the and is doing multiple jobs here
the messaging app’s co-founder said on X: “There are so many great reasons to be on Signal. Now including the opportunity for the vice-president of the United States of America to randomly add you to a group chat for co-ordination of sensitive military operations. Don’t sleep on this opportunity.”
http://archive.today/2025.03.25-132922/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/social-media/article/what-is-signal-app-group-chat-jz6fdfkrz
#Signal #Security #Privacy
According to LayerX Labs, who have been tracking this campaign for more than a year, the phishing attack attempts to trick Mac users into thinking that their computers have been “locked” via a fake security warning that pops up while users are browsing the web.
https://layerxsecurity.com/blog/layerx-identifies-new-phishing-campaign-targeted-at-mac-users/
#apple #macos #it #security #privacy #engineer #media #tech #news
![[ImageSource: LayerX Labs]
The webpage then appears to be frozen which, like most phishing attempts, adds a sense of urgency and fear that something is wrong with your computer. The window that appears displays a warning that the computer has been subjected to a trojan virus and asks the user to enter in their Mac username and password.
The warning message [captured in a screenshot by LayerX Labs], contains some glaring errors that show it’s not legitimate: It does not conform to any of Apple’s styling either in color or general appearance and misspells macOS as “MacOS.”
It also provides a phone number to contact “support,” however, when [Macworld] called this number they only got a message playback that said the recipient was not available and to call back between 8am and 5pm – even though they were calling during that time frame. The number is obviously fake and will likely never be answered.
<https://www.macworld.com/article/2642938/new-mac-phishing-attack-causes-fake-freezes-to-nab-your-apple-id-password.html>](https://nerdculture.de/system/media_attachments/files/114/223/204/816/717/565/original/c3108acab7427601.jpeg "[ImageSource: LayerX Labs]
The webpage then appears to be frozen which, like most phishing attempts, adds a sense of urgency and fear that something is wrong with your computer. The window that appears displays a warning that the computer has been subjected to a trojan virus and asks the user to enter in their Mac username and password.
The warning message [captured in a screenshot by LayerX Labs], contains some glaring errors that show it’s not legitimate: It does not conform to any of Apple’s styling either in color or general appearance and misspells macOS as “MacOS.”
It also provides a phone number to contact “support,” however, when [Macworld] called this number they only got a message playback that said the recipient was not available and to call back between 8am and 5pm – even though they were calling during that time frame. The number is obviously fake and will likely never be answered.
<https://www.macworld.com/article/2642938/new-mac-phishing-attack-causes-fake-freezes-to-nab-your-apple-id-password.html>")
LayerX Labs Identifies New Phishing Campaign Targeted at Mac Users - LayerX
A new phishing attack campaign, targeting Mac users and identified by LayerX Labs, shows the trials and tribulations of combating online phishing, and how attacks morph and shift in response to adaptations by security tools.Or Eshed (LayerX)
Be aware that Mailchimp apparently does not respect peoples' decision to unsubscribe by deleting their PII; but rather holds on to it. (As a recipient, this is *not* what I expect.)
I would not be at all surprised if other providers also do this; but in this case, it was Mailchimp being caught holding the smoking gun.
https://www.troyhunt.com/a-sneaky-phish-just-grabbed-my-mailchimp-mailing-list/
#WritingCommunity #writers #authors #Mailchimp #privacy
A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed my Mailchimp Mailing List
You know when you're really jet lagged and really tired and the cogs in your head are just moving that little bit too slow? That's me right now, and the penny has just dropped that a Mailchimp phish has grabbed my credentials, logged into m…Troy Hunt
https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news/display/uk_dehradun_lachhiwala_toll_plaza_accident
#uttarakhand #dehradun #india #news #press #accident #RoadSafety #TollPlaza #LachhiwalaTollPlaza #RoadSafetyIndia #BrakeFailure
Enjoy tracker free reading with us. #privacy #privacymatters
देहरादून: देहरादून लच्छीवाला टोलप्लाजा: एक्सीडेंट के दृश्य देख कांप उठती है रूह।
देहरादून के लच्छीवाला टोलप्लाजा पर आज सुबह करीब 8 बजे एक ऐसा दर्दनाक सड़क हादसा हुआ जिसे देखकर हर किसी की रूह कांप गई।प्रेम पंचोली (Aliyesha)
https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news/display/uk_dehradun_lachhiwala_toll_plaza_accident
#uttarakhand #dehradun #india #news #press #accident #RoadSafety #TollPlaza #LachhiwalaTollPlaza #RoadSafetyIndia #BrakeFailure
Enjoy tracker free reading with us. #privacy #privacymatters
देहरादून: देहरादून लच्छीवाला टोलप्लाजा: एक्सीडेंट के दृश्य देख कांप उठती है रूह।
देहरादून के लच्छीवाला टोलप्लाजा पर आज सुबह करीब 8 बजे एक ऐसा दर्दनाक सड़क हादसा हुआ जिसे देखकर हर किसी की रूह कांप गई।प्रेम पंचोली (Aliyesha)
https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news/display/hp_research_deliberate_challenges_himalayas
#himachal #dharamshala #india #news #press #seminar #SaveHimalayas #HimalayanChallenges #ClimateActionNow #DelhiUniversity
Enjoy tracker free reading with us. #privacy #privacymatters
Dharamshala: Researchers Deliberate on Challenges and Solutions of the Himalayas.
A seminar on the theme “Challenges of the Himalayas and Their Solutions” was organised at the conference hall of the Deputy Commissioner’s office.Rajesh (Aliyesha)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/24/23andme-faces-an-uncertain-future-so-does-your-genetic-data/
As 23andMe's bankruptcy looms, privacy experts warn customers to delete their DNA data.
KEWL🌀NEWS
#DNA #23ANDME #PRIVACY #PRESS
The Metropolitan Police will permanently put up live facial recognition cameras in south London, as part of a pilot project that may see the scheme extended across the capital.
It makes no difference as to what people think or want or the effective of the technology. Or even what Parliament has accepted (wot you mean is has been debated? 🤔)
http://archive.today/2025.03.23-183929/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/london/article/croydon-to-get-uks-first-permanent-facial-recognition-cameras-0b6hhxhc7 (archive)
#Privacy #Policing #UkPolitics #Authoritarianism #BritishState
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
Meta settles UK 'right to object to ad-tracking' lawsuit by agreeing not to track plaintiff | TechCrunch
A human rights campaigner, Tanya O'Carroll, has succeeded in forcing social media giant Meta not to use her data for targeted advertising. The agreementNatasha Lomas (TechCrunch)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/win-encryption-france-rejects-backdoor-mandate
#privacy
A Win for Encryption: France Rejects Backdoor Mandate
In a moment of clarity after initially moving forward a deeply flawed piece of legislation, the French National Assembly has done the right thing: it rejected a dangerous proposal that would have gutted end-to-end encryption in the name of fighting d…Electronic Frontier Foundation
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
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/releases/tag/7.51.0.681
#signal #signalapp #Privacy #FOSS
Release 7.51 · signalapp/Signal-iOS
Now when you link your primary Signal device to a new Desktop or iPad, you can bring your chat history and your last 45 days of media with you. The transfer process is end-to-end encrypted, and com...GitHub
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/substack-rival-ghost-is-now-connected-to-the-fediverse/
#privacy #FOSS
Substack rival Ghost is now connected to the fediverse | TechCrunch
Newsletter platform Ghost, an open source competitor to Substack, is now connected to the fediverse, also known as the open social web. Federated apps runSarah Perez (TechCrunch)