People freely hand it over. Haha. Some of these can't be avoided, like Universities strictly using Zoom for office hours/class or workplaces that use Microsoft 365.
More companies are quietly giving themselves permission to use consumer data to train generative AI models and tools.
Please hand over even more of your personal data so you can receive an ever decreasing amount of money.
Cars are getting an 'F' in data privacy. Most major manufacturers admit they may be selling your personal information, a new study finds, with half also saying they would share it with the government or law enforcement without a court order.
TV's have become privacy nightmares in recent days.
One option would be any TV that works then simply keep it offline and stream from a device that allows you to have more control over your privacy.
If you're wanting to actually use a smart TV's functions, I think NextDNS can be set up to block most of the telemetry on whichever smart TV you have.
The July 7 Free Talk Friday is the only one the is stickied that shouldn't be on programming.dev.
How about no ads? Once you force ads into something I use or make it impossible for me to block them, it is time to find an alternative.
Meta has long fought Europe's demands that it get people's consent before using their data for targeted ads. Then a Norwegian regulator threatened fines of $100,000 per day.
They usually smoke nicotine-free herbal cigarettes. I don't know the long term affects but definitely better than regular cigarettes.
I think it could be considered dedication to their work, especially when you consider they usually have to film a scene several times. Cillian Murphy probably went through thousands of them when filming Peaky Blinders. Lol
Before Reddit killed Apollo, Lemmy was really lacking in daily content. Now we've reached a point where I can open the app multiple times a day and see new content.
I don't know if anything will actually come of this but its nice to see the DOJ actually acknowledge this.
The U.K. Parliament is pushing ahead with a sprawling internet regulation bill that will, among other things, undermine the privacy of people around the world. The Online Safety Bill, now at the final stage before passage in the House of Lords, gives the British government the ability to force backd...
This CL moves the base::Feature from content_features.h to a generated feature from runtime_enabled_features.json5. This means that the base::Feature can be default-enabled while the web API is co...
Original Mastodon Post: https://kolektiva.social/@admin/110637031574056150
We’re in an exciting time for users who want to take back control from major platforms like Twitter and Facebook. However, this new environment comes with challenges and risks for user privacy, so we need to get it right and make sure networks like the Fediverse and Bluesky are mindful of past...
I am not sure exactly what the admins need but they do have a Gitub Sponsor to help out with the cost.
Saudi Arabia is seeking to be an innovation hub, but activists are warning that tech firms could be complicit in the repression of dissidents.
Private communication apps only work if they have people you want to talk to and Signal is the only one I could get my family to use.
The privacy-focused messaging app arose from a fringe culture that emphasized individual autonomy and skepticism of authority. As it tries to go mainstream, can it escape its roots?
Signal is by far much easier to get family/friends to use than Matrix or Session. Downloaded it to my parents' phones and told them this is how you contact me.
"For too long, Amazon has treated children's sensitive data as its own property," Josh Golin, executive director of Fairplay, said in a statement.
Awesome Privacy - A curated list of services and alternatives that respect your privacy because PRIVACY MATTERS. - GitHub - pluja/awesome-privacy: Awesome Privacy - A curated list of services and a...
One of my go to list when I am searching for privacy respecting alternatives.
There's a few third-party apps, with Pixeldroid being the most popular, and their official app is in beta.
The controversial Cooper Davis Act has been voted out of committee, meaning it will take another step towards enactment.
Teddit is a free and open source alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy. Teddit doesn't require you to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Before the API changes Teddit was one of my favorite ways to browse Reddit. It seems like more and more that companies make changes that reduce privacy.
I think it was chosen when Firefox mobile didn't have https everywhere for the app yet. The maintainers of the list also take a while to review and update it.
Either way. This would be a win-win for the Fediverse. Allows new people to hear about it and validates Mastadon as an alternative to Twitter and Threads.
Appreciate the transparency. The admin team here is really going above and beyond.
Oh yeah. Maybe in the next update, seems pretty risky right now to turn on 2FA.
I had to do it in the mobile browser. In settings when you turn on 2FA, a button appears above the checkbox. I tapped it in my mobile browser and it opened my authenticator app.