Who owns your shiny new Pixel 9 phone? You can’t say no to Google’s surveillance: "Every 15 minutes, Google Pixel 9 Pro XL sends a data packet to Google. The device shares location, email address, phone number, network status, and other telemetry."

submitted by neolib from cybernews.com

Venice: A Private and Unrestricted AI - GreyCoder

submitted by greyone from greycoder.com

Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops

submitted by Drewski from theverge.com

Telegram To Disclose Phones, IP Addresses At Authorities' Requests

submitted by Cancelthis from rferl.org

German police raid Tor-linked group in bid to uncover Tor network users

submitted by Drewski from cybernews.com

Telegram will start moderating private chats after CEO’s arrest

submitted by Drewski from theverge.com

Backyard Privacy in the Age of Drones

submitted by Drewski from eff.org

TikTok creator showing that opting out of TSA face scans isn’t always easy

submitted by Drewski from fastcompany.com

Watch How a Hacker’s Infrared Laser Can Spy on Your Laptop’s Keystrokes

submitted by Drewski from wired.com

Elon Musk's troubled Trump PAC is now being investigated by two swing states after appearing to scrape voters' data

submitted by Cancelthis from fortune.com

Google’s plan to turn off third-party cookies in Chrome is dying - Google now says Chrome won’t join Safari and Firefox in blocking the web trackers by default, and instead, it will have users choose.

submitted by neolib from theverge.com

Europe limits anonymous cash payments to €3k and all cash payments to €10k. Ban anonymous crypto payments entirely regardless of amount.

submitted by Drewski from european-pirateparty.eu

USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap

submitted by Drewski from techcrunch.com

Proton Mail Adds an Open-Source AI Writing Assistant to Take on Gmail

submitted by [deleted] from news.itsfoss.com

'Yes, you can use Signal without sharing your personal phone number. Here’s how I did it.'

submitted by [deleted] from theintercept.com

Carissa Véliz, philosopher: ‘If you want to have a good party, ask your friends not to take photos’

submitted by Drewski from english.elpais.com

"Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again

submitted by Drewski from blog.privacyguides.org

YouTube now lets you request removal of AI-generated content that simulates your face or voice

submitted by [deleted] from techcrunch.com

The Rabbit R1 has been logging users’ chats - with no way to wipe them

submitted by [deleted] from theverge.com

Privacy-Preserving Attribution in Firefox and how to disable it

submitted by [deleted] from support.mozilla.org

It turns out Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on `*.google.com` access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage

submitted by [deleted] from fedi.simonwillison.net

A U.S. government agency tasked with supporting the nation’s nuclear deterrence capability has bought access to a data tool that claims to cover more than 90 percent of the world’s internet traffic, and can in some cases let users trace activity through virtual private networks.

submitted by [deleted] from 404media.co

Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage

submitted by Drewski from simonwillison.net

Firefox Privacy - The Complete How-To Guide for 2024

submitted by [deleted] from restoreprivacy.com

The UEFA ticket app required for stadium admission tracks users and shares their location with police authorities. However, the app stores do not mention this.

submitted by [deleted] from heise.de

Authy hacked, 33 million phone numbers stolen

submitted by Drewski from appleinsider.com

Forget privacy, young internet users want to be tracked

submitted by [deleted] from archive.ph

Proton launches free, privacy-focused Google Docs alternative

submitted by [deleted] from bleepingcomputer.com

AI trains on kids’ photos even when parents use strict privacy settings

submitted by [deleted] from arstechnica.com

5 Devices You Can’t Hide From- The Government ‘Alphabet Agencies’ Including Mainly The NSA Have Been Methodically Collecting Data On Us.

submitted by [deleted] from preppgroup.home.blog

As mind-reading technology improves, Colorado passes first-in-nation law to protect privacy of our thoughts

submitted by [deleted] from cbsnews.com

6 Reasons Why Cloudflare is a Threat to the Internet Privacy

submitted by Drewski from old.reddit.com

Hack of Age Verification Company Shows Privacy Danger of Social Media Laws

submitted by Drewski from eff.org

Google, Snap, Meta and many others are "quietly" changing privacy policies to allow for AI training

submitted by Drewski from techspot.com

Mastercard To Expand Digital Biometric ID and “Behavioral Biometrics”

submitted by [deleted] from reclaimthenet.org

ID Verification Company Partnered With X Suffered Data Leak, Report Claims

submitted by Drewski from reclaimthenet.org

phraie

submitted by askllr from lkpcth.github.io

Qualcomm and Microsoft go 'beyond the call of duty' to stop independent Copilot+ PC reviews

submitted by [deleted] from tweaktown.com

Privacy features lose their way in latest Firefox update

submitted by [deleted] from theregister.com

Edward Snowden Says OpenAI Just Performed a “Calculated Betrayal of the Rights of Every Person on Earth”

submitted by Drewski from futurism.com

Mozilla Anonym is a data-hoovering monster

submitted by [deleted] from old.reddit.com

Dealership Installed This On My Car WITHOUT My Permission! | Toyota GR Corolla

submitted by zyxzevn from youtube.com

Campaigns Can Now See What You Watch on TV. It’s Changing Everything.

submitted by [deleted] from notus.org

How Your Printer Leaves Invisible Tracking Codes on Every Page

submitted by [deleted] from howtogeek.com

Oracle Is Shutting Down Its Ad Business, but it is unclear if this includes their user de-anonymization services

submitted by SoCo from adweek.com

How to turn off Windows’ aging activity tracker - Introduced for Timeline in Windows 10, the feature continued to record your PC history in Windows 11

submitted by [deleted] from theverge.com

Yet another data broker’s data breach, this time exposing personal data, decades of history, and/or voting information for at least 300 million Americans

submitted by SoCo from techcrunch.com

Google Chrome: Agree to 'privacy feature', but get tracking!

submitted by [deleted] from noyb.eu

Windows 11's Recall AI - You can copy the data from another user's "recall" folder as another user. Even if you don't have Administrator privileges on that account.

submitted by [deleted] from techrights.org

Online Privacy: An Endangered Species

submitted by Drewski from threema.ch

Your Driving, Tracked

submitted by [deleted] from archive.is

Australia's Opposition Calls for Extended Online Age Verification, Digital ID, to Combat Anonymity

submitted by Drewski from reclaimthenet.org

Free VPN Apps Are Harvesting School Kids’ Data

submitted by [deleted] from archive.ph

New York's "SAFE" Act For Kids Threatens Online Free Speech and Privacy

submitted by Drewski from reclaimthenet.org

Swiss school to trial digital trackers on its pupils

submitted by Drewski from rmx.news

You can't use Photoshop without giving a Adobe full access to all your work

submitted by [deleted] from x.com

Census Bureau Considering Cellular Tracking

submitted by Drewski from inteltechniques.com

TotalRecall - this very simple tool extracts and displays data from the Recall feature in Windows 11, providing an easy way to access information about your PC's activity snapshots.

submitted by [deleted] from github.com

Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents

submitted by [deleted] from 404media.co

Federal Real ID-Compliant Licenses or ID Cards Will Become Mandatory for US Domestic Air Travel

submitted by [deleted] from reclaimthenet.org

The Best Email Aliasing Providers in 2024

submitted by Drewski from blog.thenewoil.org

Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible with two lines of code - inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster.

submitted by [deleted] from doublepulsar.com

New X (Twitter) Policy Forces Earners To Verify Their Government ID With Israeli Verification Company

submitted by Drewski from reclaimthenet.org

Mastercard's Controversial Digital ID Rollout in Africa

submitted by Drewski from reclaimthenet.org

PayPal Is Planning an Ad Business Using Data on Its Millions of Shoppers

submitted by [deleted] from archive.is

Privacy Is A Myth. Unless You're Using Zero-Knowledge Proofs.

submitted by [deleted] from illya.sh

Say Goodbye to Cloud Anonymity? New US Regulations Demand User Identification

submitted by [deleted] from reclaimthenet.org

When privacy expires: how I got access to tons of sensitive citizen data after buying cheap domains

submitted by [deleted] from inti.io

Total Recall: the only Copilot+ AI feature that matters is a huge privacy risk

submitted by [deleted] from tomshardware.com

New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC - Recall uses AI features "to take images of your active screen every few seconds."

submitted by neolib from arstechnica.com

Google’s call-scanning AI could dial up censorship by default, privacy experts warn

submitted by [deleted] from techcrunch.com

Is Privacy Worth It?

submitted by Drewski from blog.thenewoil.org

Defending Privacy in the Surveillance State and Fragmenting Internet

submitted by Drewski from nakedcapitalism.com

Technocrats preparing line of 'wearable' AI devices that will track data of users and 'anyone they come in contact with'

submitted by [deleted] from leohohmann.substack.com

EU Investigates Meta in Crackdown on Alleged “Rabbit Hole” Effects, Wants It To Push Digital ID

submitted by [deleted] from reclaimthenet.org

X no longer works on Firefox with privacy feature enabled

submitted by Drewski from cybernews.com

reddit client?

submitted by 346234634t4tr43 from self.privacy

Firefox to collect your (anonymized) search data

submitted by [deleted] from blog.mozilla.org

Telegram CEO calls out rival Signal, claiming it has ties to US government

submitted by [deleted] from theregister.com

Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain

submitted by Drewski from restoreprivacy.com

New Police Tech Can Detect Phones, Pet Trackers And Library Books In A Moving Car

submitted by [deleted] from forbes.com

Proton Mail hands data to police again – is it still safe for activists?

submitted by [deleted] from techradar.com

Mozilla to protect Firefox users from bounce trackers

submitted by [deleted] from stackdiary.com

Senators Seek to Curb Facial Recognition at Airports, Citing Privacy Concerns

submitted by Drewski from nytimes.com

About half a million Argentines have handed their biometric data over to Worldcoin

submitted by [deleted] from restofworld.org

Unredacted Magazine February 2024

submitted by Drewski from inteltechniques.com

Just got doxxed to within 15 miles by a vision model, from only a single photo

submitted by [deleted] from twitter.com

Automakers Confirm Warrantless Location Data Sharing With US Agencies

submitted by Drewski from reclaimthenet.org

FCC Fines Major US Carriers $200 Million for Illicit Sharing of Location Data

submitted by Drewski from cyberinsider.com

People Are Slowly Realizing Their Auto Insurance Rates Are Skyrocketing Because Their Car Is Covertly Spying On Them

submitted by [deleted] from techdirt.com

U.S. "Know Your Customer" Proposal Will Put an End to Anonymous Cloud Users

submitted by Drewski from torrentfreak.com

A federal court decided that police officers can make you unlock your phone, even by physically forcing you to press your thumb against it.

submitted by [deleted] from reason.com

Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules

submitted by Drewski from arstechnica.com

EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy

submitted by Drewski from theregister.com

A Spy Site Is Scraping Discord and Selling Users’ Messages

submitted by Drewski from 404media.co

Personal VPN services are snake-oil

submitted by [deleted] from httpscolonforwardslashforwardslashwwwdotzoltanbalazsdotcom.com

Vast majority of US hospital websites are sharing visitor data with Big Tech companies

submitted by Drewski from techspot.com

Only 19 House Republicans Oppose Unwarranted Government Spying

submitted by boston_blackie from thenewamerican.com

96% of US hospital websites share visitor info with Meta, Google, data brokers

submitted by [deleted] from theregister.com

Cookie consent choices are just being ignored by some websites

submitted by [deleted] from malwarebytes.com

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