Microsoft to pay $20M settlement for illegally collecting children’s personal data

submitted by Fourier from techcrunch.com

Your face is ours - the dangers of facial recognition software

submitted by PanzerDivision from france24.com

FTC: Former Amazon Ring Employee Spied On Women With Cameras In Bathrooms and Bedrooms

submitted by Drewski from reclaimthenet.org

FTC and DOJ Charge Amazon with Violating Children’s Privacy Law by Keeping Kids’ Alexa Voice Recordings Forever and Undermining Parents’ Deletion Requests

submitted by PanzerDivision from ftc.gov

Torrent Parts is a client-side static web app to read and edit the metadata of a Torrent file or Magnet URL so you know what you're downloading, before you add it to your Torrent client.

submitted by PanzerDivision from github.com

Reflections on Ten Years Past The Snowden Revelations

submitted by Drewski from ietf.org

SuperVPN already leaked customers’ data back in May 2022. This time, it has exposed a whopping 133 GB of data, including personal details of its unsuspecting users, such as IP addresses.

submitted by PanzerDivision from hackread.com

No access to banking? Let us scan your iris, face, breathing pattern in return for free "money"! This is the privacy nightmare that is the Worldcoin crypto scam, which is backed by dubious SiliconValley money.

submitted by PanzerDivision from technologyreview.com

Death of Privacy … and What Comes Next

submitted by PanzerDivision from lewrockwell.com

Britain is writing the playbook for dictators: The Online Safety Bill is a model for stripping citizens of their privacy.

submitted by Drewski from telegraph.co.uk

Leaked EU Document Shows Spain Wants to Ban End-to-End Encryption

submitted by Drewski from wired.com

ICE is demanding data from Illinois abortion clinics, restaurants, schools and more using obscure legal tool

submitted by [deleted] from cbsnews.com

TeleGuard is a messenger that does not store chats and does not share data. It is run by the same people who make the Swisscows search engine.

submitted by [deleted] from teleguard.com

Countries Ranked by Internet Privacy

submitted by [deleted] from online.stevens.edu

Bank of America Gave FBI Access to Jan. 6 Bank Records Without Customers’ Knowledge: Whistleblowers

submitted by Drewski from theepochtimes.com

'Telly' is the free 55" 4K TV that comes with an additional advertising panel and consumption data collector. Would you give up your data in exchange for a free TV?

submitted by [deleted] from archive.is

Bank Of England Fintech Director Says Anonymity Is “A Public Policy Problem And Something That Should Not Be Allowed To Continue”

submitted by [deleted] from reclaimthenet.org

Last week, FBI officials boasted that in 2022 their agents had spied on only 120,000 Americans without search warrants. Under the Constitution, that number should be zero.

submitted by Drewski from original.antiwar.com

Ysk: never click on a Mister Beast ad for 1000 USD giveaway

submitted by [deleted] from self.privacy

Biden admins want America to lead the way on digital ID

submitted by Drewski from reclaimthenet.org

weird conversation I had with chatGPT on the pimping of user data by social media companies, and the awkward censorship they are forced to engage in to prevent their users from becoming aware of it.

submitted by [deleted] from self.privacy

The FBI's Anti-Encryption Campaign

submitted by Drewski from reason.com

The US government has gone too far (Louis Rossmann about the Restrict Act, Earn it Act, Stop Csam Act)

submitted by zyxzevn from youtube.com

Anonymous Tor Phone

submitted by [deleted] from 0ut3r.space

The “Location Off” switch on your phone is a lie.

submitted by [deleted] from gabrielsieben.tech

All SMS will now be Intercepted, Screened in Malaysia

submitted by Drewski from malaysianwireless.com

Court Protects Redditors' Right to Anonymous Speech in Piracy Case

submitted by Drewski from torrentfreak.com

NC bill would allow police to track phones without warrant

submitted by Drewski from wral.com

Many Public Salesforce Sites Are Leaking Private Data

submitted by [deleted] from krebsonsecurity.com

Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing

submitted by [deleted] from theverge.com

Smartphones With Popular Qualcomm Chip Secretly Share Private Information With US Chip-Maker

submitted by [deleted] from nitrokey.com

1Password is adding telemetry

submitted by [deleted] from blog.1password.com

Hackers can find your home on Strava even if you use privacy settings

submitted by [deleted] from cyclingweekly.com

The EARN IT Bill Is Back, Seeking To Scan Our Messages and Photos

submitted by Drewski from eff.org

The EARN IT Act, an attack on encrypted communications, to be reintroduced next week

submitted by Drewski from reclaimthenet.org

Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant. Customer data not compromised

submitted by Drewski from mullvad.net

Texas Coordinates With ATF to Share Income of Residents for Warrantless Monitoring

submitted by Drewski from theepochtimes.com

Georgia National Guard Will Use Phone Location Tracking to Recruit High School Children

submitted by Drewski from theintercept.com

Elon Musk Says US Government Had Access To Private Twitter DMs

submitted by Drewski from zerohedge.com

Why did Phreesia share my medical data after I opted out?

submitted by Drewski from statnews.com

Inventor of Completely Untraceable Communication (about Converso App)

submitted by zyxzevn from rumble.com

Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to more users worldwide

submitted by [deleted] from blog.mozilla.org

Metadata and Your Privacy

submitted by [deleted] from avoidthehack.com

I’ll never bring my phone on an international flight again - neither should you

submitted by [deleted] from qz.com

Tesla Staff Shared Sensitive Images Captured by Customers’ Cars

submitted by [deleted] from petapixel.com

Amazon Illegally Harvested Kids’ Data Via Alexa-Powered ‘Smart’ Speakers

submitted by [deleted] from childrenshealthdefense.org

Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and gave them to cops: it puts everyone into a 'perpetual police line-up'

submitted by [deleted] from businessinsider.com

ICE Is Grabbing Data From Schools and Abortion Clinics

submitted by [deleted] from archive.is

Insider says Manulife Bank didn't protect customers' highly private information for years

submitted by [deleted] from cbc.ca

How to Crush Data Brokers

submitted by [deleted] from dispatch.techlore.tech

ESSENTIAL Privacy Tools (42:11) ~ Naomi Brockwell: NBTV

submitted by JasonCarswell from youtube.com

The Digital Iron Curtain: How the RESTRICT Act Threatens to Devastate Privacy and Crush Free Speech Online. Will give the US government total control of all things connected to the internet. Cars, Ring cams, refrigerators, Alexa devices, your phone, etc.

submitted by [deleted] from thefreethoughtproject.com

Russia’s Rostec allegedly can de-anonymize Telegram users

submitted by [deleted] from bleepingcomputer.com

Telemetry is not your enemy - not all data collection is the same, and not all of it is bad

submitted by [deleted] from blog.glyph.im

Toggle Resist Fingerprinting - adds a button to the tab bar to toggle the "resist fingerprinting" setting; to help prevent websites from fingerprinting your browser for tracking purposes

submitted by [deleted] from addons.mozilla.org

ChatGPT: A privacy nightmare or a helpful tool?

submitted by [deleted] from tutanota.com

OpenAI founder’s Worldcoin claims “iris recognition technology is capable of distinguishing individuals on a billion people scale”

submitted by [deleted] from reclaimthenet.org

The professor trying to protect our private thoughts from technology

submitted by Drewski from theguardian.com

How to stop email trackers from invading your privacy

submitted by [deleted] from proton.me

Deviceinfo.me - see what your device is giving out to every site you visit

submitted by [deleted] from deviceinfo.me

Blast from the past: Disabling JavaScript Won’t Save You from Fingerprinting

submitted by [deleted] from fingerprint.com

Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought

submitted by [deleted] from bitestring.com

Indiana's BMV makes millions selling your personal information

submitted by Drewski from wcpo.com

FBI, Defense Department Worked Together To Develop Facial Recognition Tech For Drones, Surveillance Cameras

submitted by [deleted] from techdirt.com

Congressman who is leading effort to renew Warrantless Surveillance finds out he was under FBI Surveillance

submitted by Drewski from nytimes.com

This is What Happens When Your Phone is Spying on You

submitted by [deleted] from today.ucsd.edu

Discord promises outraged users it won’t store call recordings - for now

submitted by [deleted] from arstechnica.com

Eric Schmidt testifies that there should be no “true anonymity” when accessing generative AI platforms

submitted by [deleted] from reclaimthenet.org

Best Seedboxes For Torrenting

submitted by greyone from greycoder.com

Police warrant orders Ring to provide man's home footage

submitted by Drewski from theregister.com

The MuWire project has been shut down

submitted by [deleted] from github.com

Utah introduces digital driver's licenses, following plans to introduce online platform age checks

submitted by Drewski from reclaimthenet.org

Guide for making private payments - online and in person - Privacy Guides

submitted by Drewski from privacyguides.org

Twitter’s privacy-preserving Tor service goes dark

submitted by Drewski from techcrunch.com

Phone and Laptop Seizures at Airports and Borders

submitted by [deleted] from privacytools.io

Biden's Executive Order Nightmare: Government Will Track Every Dime You Spend

submitted by [deleted] from gatestoneinstitute.org

Biometric Exit - its creepy

submitted by [deleted] from identitywoman.net

The cameras know who you are. Now they want to use AI to find your friends too

submitted by [deleted] from latimes.com

Thought you'd opted out of online tracking? Think again

submitted by [deleted] from theregister.com

Biden seeks renewal of warrantless spying powers

submitted by Drewski from wsws.org

BetterHelp shared customer data while promising it was private, says FTC

submitted by SoCo from theverge.com

France aims to protect kids from parents oversharing pics online

submitted by [deleted] from politico.eu

Australia agrees on digital ID rollout and data sharing

submitted by Drewski from reclaimthenet.org

Memphis has a system of over 2,000 “SkyCop” cameras that police can tap into and manually adjust. But not everyone thinks they make the city safer.

submitted by [deleted] from archive.is

13 good reasons why you shouldn't trust Signal

submitted by [deleted] from www-heise-de.translate.goog

Brave browser to block “open in app” prompts, pool-party attacks

submitted by [deleted] from bleepingcomputer.com

Signal app warns it will quit UK if law weakens end-to-end encryption

submitted by [deleted] from theguardian.com

Mozilla Study: Data Privacy Labels for Most Top Apps in Google Play Store are False or Misleading

submitted by [deleted] from foundation.mozilla.org

Study: It’s Comically Easy To Identify ‘Anonymized’ Users In The ‘Metaverse’ With A Tiny Bit Of Motion Data

submitted by [deleted] from techdirt.com

Every modern computer has a backdoor

submitted by [deleted] from sysjolt.com

Erasing Data Securely from Your SSD or HDD

submitted by [deleted] from blog.privacyguides.org

How to Set Up Firefox for Privacy (updated version)

submitted by [deleted] from avoidthehack.com

How Cops Exploit Data Cartels To Spy On You

submitted by [deleted] from youtube.com

The sudden global push for age verification to end online anonymity and drive digital ID uptake

submitted by Drewski from reclaimthenet.org

Internal IRS documents obtained by Motherboard show the IRS paid Israeli firm Cobwebs Technologies hundreds of thousands of dollars for a tool that helps it monitor the web while undercover.

submitted by neolib from vice.com

Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale on Data About You

submitted by [deleted] from themarkup.org

A Researcher Tried To Buy Mental Health Data. It Was Surprisingly Easy.

submitted by [deleted] from slashdot.org

Setup Automated I2P Browser (Librewolf) On Pinephone/Linux Phones/Devices

submitted by [deleted] from buymeacoffee.com

TrustPid: Baking ad tracking into the internet infrastructure

submitted by [deleted] from edri.org

Google's Go may add telemetry reporting that's on by default

submitted by SoCo from theregister.com

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