great update on CCPA amendments #privacy: https://fpf.org/2019/06/04/ccpa-amendment-update-june-2019-twelve-bills-survive-assembly-and-move-to-the-senate/
Notices tagged with privacy, page 2
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Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2019 03:35:16 UTC 
Yale Privacy Lab
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Zorak (zorak)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2019 15:27:42 UTC 
Zorak
People are more outraged about the latest episode of Game of Thrones than they will ever be about the current state of #humanity and its impact on #nature, the erosion of #privacy and #freedom, &c. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19928231 #hn #surveillance -
Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2019 12:07:11 UTC
Yale Privacy Lab
.@Framasoft effort to replace Facebook events: "From a friends and familiy birthday party to a march for climate change, today our gatherings are trapped in the tech giants' platforms." #privacy https://joinmobilizon.org/en/
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Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2019 12:03:08 UTC
Yale Privacy Lab
.@Framasoft effort to replace Facebook events: "From a friends and familiy birthday party to a march for climate change, today our gatherings are trapped in the tech giants' platforms." #privacy joinmobilizon.org/en/
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Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2019 14:34:52 UTC
Yale Privacy Lab
important discovery in the article by @davywtf: "*Neither* of these windows use JavaScript but the position of the cursor in the left window is sent to the right window. This works on Tor Browser with JS disabled." #tracking #privacy https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/developer-creates-a-two-way-chat-using-only-css-and-html/
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Zorak (zorak)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2019 15:22:52 UTC
Zorak
#Browser #Fingerprinting: A Survey https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19838123 #privacy #hn -
Zorak (zorak)'s status on Sunday, 05-May-2019 11:45:05 UTC
Zorak
All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19823701 #hn #firefox #browser #normandy #privacy -
Aral Balkan (aral)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2019 10:10:08 UTC 
Aral Balkan
Google headlining “Digital Wellbeing” festival, major whitewashing of surveillance capitalism going on right now.
If you want to help me call bullshit on this on birdsite, RTs etc. welcome: https://mobile.twitter.com/aral/status/1124245429523238912
#SurveillanceCapitalism #Google #FuckGoogle #whitewashing #privacywashing #privacy #HumanRights
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Zorak (zorak)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2019 20:22:46 UTC
Zorak
No thanks, #Google. You don't need to know my entire #location history 24/7 to take me to a static address you already have saved. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19808999 #surveillance #tracking #stalking #surveillance #privacy #anonimity #hn -
Zorak (zorak)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2019 11:04:52 UTC
Zorak
#Google CAPTCHAs using !Tor can be almost impossible. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19715450 #CAPTCHA #tracking #stalking #surveillance #privacy #anonimity #hn -
Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 (bjoern)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2019 07:30:07 UTC 
Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺
#privacy is the freedom to act without being watched and thus, in a sense, to be who we really are — not who we want others to think we are. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/opinion/sunday/privacy-capitalism.html
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Aral Balkan (aral)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2019 13:16:55 UTC
Aral Balkan
Just popped up on my XPS 13 updates:
“This update integrates the BIOSConnect feature into Dell SupportAssist OS Recovery. This feature connects the system to the Dell image server to download and recover the operating system.”
Umm… how about no, Dell, do not connect my BIOS to the Internet thank you very much.
Wtf is wrong with these people? *smh*
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Aral Balkan (aral)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2019 13:16:03 UTC
Aral Balkan
“This update integrates the BIOSConnect feature into Dell SupportAssist OS Recovery. This feature connects the system to the Dell image server to download and recover the operating system.”
Umm… how about no, Dell, do not connect my BIOS to the Internet thank you very much.
Wtf is wrong with people? *smh*
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Zorak (zorak)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2019 00:35:40 UTC
Zorak
How to Find Hidden Cameras and Spy Gear
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18926264
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16381592
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Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Saturday, 23-Mar-2019 11:50:55 UTC 
Mike Gerwitz
Since I'm on hotel Wifi, a reminder to travelers: consider using a VPN or Tor. I use the latter, both for my web browsing and for SSH to my home server, for privacy reasons.
It's not just about data collection on guests by the hotel or network operator---some networks, like my hotel, aren't even encrypted, so any non-encrypted traffic can be sniffed. There's a lot of metadata that can be sniffed even from encrypted connections, including domains that you're accessing, and traffic analysis can get a pretty good idea of what it is you're looking at depending on the sites you're visiting. So any guest or anyone else within range (or any users of long-range antennas, even) could sniff data from guest connections.
Be safe!
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Zorak (zorak)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2019 14:06:58 UTC
Zorak
#Firefox to add !Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique called letterboxing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19323032 #uplift #privacy #hn -
Zorak (zorak)'s status on Thursday, 21-Feb-2019 12:13:34 UTC
Zorak
Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’. Also stop saying "Before you go further..." we need to share your data with tens of corporations. /s
Anybody who takes your #privacy seriously won’t even have to ask for consent, because there is nothing to ask for. -
Find us on Librem One (purism)'s status on Thursday, 21-Feb-2019 00:28:05 UTC 
Find us on Librem One
Our CEO, Todd Weaver testified today at the California Congressional Privacy Commission - hear his testimony- at - https://puri.sm/posts/purisms-ceo-todd-weaver-testifies-at-california-congressional-privacy-commission/ #ChooseFreedom #PrivacyNow #Privacy
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Zorak (zorak)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Feb-2019 14:40:24 UTC
Zorak
This should be the expectation: a note of "microphone (disabled in software)" at minimum.
Also, they're not selling it to you, they're renting it out. Such is the pathology of turning products into services. It's a sick market dynamic.
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Aral Balkan (aral)'s status on Monday, 18-Feb-2019 13:02:29 UTC
Aral Balkan
@snowdusk_ Apple vs Google on privacy: a tale of absolute competitive advantage
https://2018.ar.al/notes/apple-vs-google-on-privacy-a-tale-of-absolute-competitive-advantage/
TL;DR Apple willingly giving up its absolute competitive advantage in privacy over Google would be as daft as Samson shaving his head every morning.
That said, the long term alternatives are p2p, e2e-encrypted, and free stack (software, hardware, and services).
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