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A movie I'm really psyched to rewatch soon is one of my favorites, Minority Report (despite my dislike of Tom Cruise), to see both the things I thought when I saw it as 'this is tech that basically already exists' (personally tailored ads) to tech we have now that's probably worse than that in terms of #surveillance and

#privacy

How to Disappear: Secrets of the World’s Greatest Privacy Experts
Inside the world of extreme-privacy consultants, who, for the right fee, will make you and your personal information very hard to find

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"2FA Liberapay does not yet support two-factor authentication."
When!? 🤦
#LiberaPay #Privacy

Inside a phone smuggled out of North Korea #privacy

Hi Zusammen,
wer von euch hat ein #Murena Phone und ist zufrieden mit Kamera, Privacy, F-Droid, e/OS
#Fairphone #opensource #privacy

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
Privacy:
🎵 Sword, NYC
#Privacy
https://trust.bandcamp.com/track/sword-nyc
https://open.spotify.com/track/7rzTjuRI4kLyruVZmrWXkk

You know what would be really cool? A #quantifiedself person influence monitor. Say I have a #Fitbit and Joe has a Fitbit, we could have them detect when we are in proximity (if both people agreed) and then it would let us know over time how being around the other person influenced us - e.g. did heart rate variability increase or decrease (do they relax us or cause stress), did we burn more calories (maybe we usually go on hikes together), did we sleep better that night, and so on.
There are definitely people in my life who I'm pretty sure have significant effects on me in both directions, it'd be awesome to quantify them.
It would also be cool if one could do this without data sharing - e.g. maybe one presses a button on ones device to indicate one has entered x's presence and again when one has exited...
Honestly, I'd totally forget to do this...so something passive would be better - e.g. when you want to start tracking the next time you are around someone you press a button and it scans for electronic signatures and identifies Bluetooth etc. uniquely so that when you are around then it auto knows and can record...
The latter raises issues of #consent and #privacy...I'm not sure how/if one could do this in an ethical manner...but I'd like to have it 😂

The broligarchs are loving this idea...
#privacy #surveillance

Health Secretary Wants Every American To Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years - Slashdot
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a major federal campaign to promote wearable health tech, aiming for every American to adopt a device within four years as part of a broader effort to "Make America Healthy Again." Gizmodo reports: RFK Jr. announced the initiative ...

TIL: Slack messages from private channels aren't private anymore, if someone post it in a public channel :🤯
Then everyone can read it.
I guess it's a feature and not a bug,, but I was really not expecting this!
#privacy #security

No one ever seems to mention how weirdly difficult the #WashingtonPost has made it to secure one's personal #privacy on their site.
☑️ Opt Out of Sale of Personal Information

At first I thought "wow, there's a #privacy event in #Vilnius but then I read the post.

If you still think that #Apple cares for the #privacy of its paying customers:
Apple Gave #Governments Data on Thousands of Push

This is really cool, but it also has dangerous #privacy & #surveillance concerns (depending on the implementation details and what becomes feasible in the field, say for spies and police).

This Laser Breakthrough Can Read Text on a Page From a Mile Away
Your eyesight might be good enough to confidently read the tiny text at the optometrist from a few meters away.

A well written, but terrifying read
#surveillance #privacy
https://pr…

The growing surveillance state in the U.S. is far worse than you imagined
Through legal loopholes, executive orders, and shady contracts, the Trump administration crushes safeguards protecting against surveillance

It's 38 minutes past midnight here. I've completed the deletion of at least 40 accounts I no longer use. Some of them are true PITA, spinning you around in support/chatbot/send mail hell.
I also changed at least 5 accounts from my Gmail address to another, privacy oriented provider.
#privacy #data

Installed #ironfox on one of my family member's phone.
#degoogle #privacy

Okay, big one: What more privacy-focused Ai platforms do you use instead of Google Gemini? :chatgpt:
I use Brave browser, but have been using Gemini a lot for random stuff. Obviously wanting to move away from it now. Haha
#privacy #dataprivacy

Moving to Signal is hard
#privacy

Moving to Signal is hard

A popular VPN is seeing a 1400% spike in signups as the UK's age verification law takes effect #privacy

Anyone know good smart speaker things like Amazon Alexa that doesn't phone home etc?
#smarthome #homeassistant #privacy

#EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) #Privacy Victory! Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction in #OPM / #DOGE Lawsuit.

Privacy Victory! Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction in OPM/DOGE Lawsuit
NEW YORK–In a victory for personal privacy, a New York federal district court judge today granted a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) disclosure of records to DOGE and its agents. Judge Denise L. Cote of the U.S. District Court for the...

Ai ai ai ai… It’s all about AI! They are forcing you to use it, even if you don’t want to.
I always say, “If it’s too much in your face, they can leave me alone and keep it.”
#ai
#tech
#privacy

Just wondering when an european "Linkedin" will start or if there is already one available? We clearly can't trust a US company with all our personal data, relations, employers etc. ?
#linkedin #eu #privacy

Watching the second to last season of SVU (wifey loves it) and the cops just got info from being in a Discord server. Realistic. The FBI are all over Discord too. Always keep that in mind. Say nothing sensitive there. Discord servers are NOT secure, the authorities can always easily get in, and they often do.
#Discord #privacy

Some years ago when I was degoogling my life I was thinking " man I'll miss Google search "
Now I think " thanks god I already made the switch "
#degoogle #google #privacy

Seriously, fuck this shit.
#mastodaoine #meme #e2ee #privacy

Pluralistic with a succinct reaction to the "catastrophically bad clause" being, apparently, pushed onto mastodon.social and at least suggested as a default from the source software of mastodon itself in a future update.
#mastodon #tos #meta #lawyers #privacy https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114706917718152039

Just unplugged my Google Homes *cough. listening devices*. Thanks, I can use Siri or native app to control my own lights thank you.
#privacy #dataprivacy #degoogle

Yliopiston Apteekki fined over 1 M€ by the #privacy authority of #Finland for using #GoogleAnalytics and #Facebook trackers…

Why are we still calling them 'Google apps'?
Why not SPYWAREs by Google?
#degoogle #privacy #google

facebook illegal spying
Resolutely never having FB on my phone now vindicated. Thanks, past me.
#facebook #android #spying #privacy #law

Got something to say about this Tim Apple? #apple #onlinechildsafety #evil #tech

No encryption in #whatsapp group apps
One more reason to switch to #signalapp
#encryption #privacy

#photos #eu #europe #privacy #google