‘Who Benefits?’ Inside the EU’s Fight over Scanning for Child Sex Content (balkaninsight.com)
Random searX Redirector (searx.neocities.org)
Searx is a metasearch engine that aggregates results from over seventy sources while protecting the privacy of its users. This utility forwards your search query to one of 39 random volunteer-run public servers to thwart mass surveillance....
Force the traffic of a Firefox container tab to pass through a VPN or Tor (github.com)
F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository (f-droid.org)
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Onion Mail: is free encrypted & anonymous email. (onionmail.org)
[Proton VPN Blog] Is Amazon Alexa spying on you? (protonvpn.com)
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What We Must Ask About Surveillance State Failures (thedissenter.org)
Does it matter which country you exit from in a VPN?
Would internet services be subject to, let’s say Swiss privacy laws, if you were connected to a Swiss server from your VPN? And if they do, would it make that much of a difference that it’s worth the occasional hassle of having to change the language and region?
Punkt Phone can now be linked to signal desktop (www.punkt.ch)
Anyone use Skiff?
I’m only just hearing about the suite from skiff.com and curious if anyone here uses it. They’ve been around for 3 years and apparently offer an open sourced encrypted suite. They’re mainly known a Google Docs alt, but I just learned they offer encrypted mail, calendar, and cloud (10GB for free) along with their docs....
The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing into stupidity (rachelbythebay.com)
Their latest round of stupidity pops up a new EULA and forces you to take it or, again, you can’t access your stuff. But that’s just more unenforceable garbage, so who cares, right? Well, it’s getting worse....
Guides to collect your data from Apps (privacyinternational.org)
Anyone know how to enable session restore when using arkenfox user.js? (artemis.camp)
Ive opened user.js and set browser.startup.page to 3. according to the gui that should resume previous session (0=blank, 1=home, 2=last visited page, 3=resume previous session)...
Ecosia.org updates its Privacy Policy (www.ecosia.org)
From September 2023, we will be gradually rolling out our new unique search offer. This will happen over several months and won’t apply to everyone at the same time. This means that when you search through Ecosia, we work with either Microsoft Bing or, with your consent, Google to provide you with search results and ads. In...
Google Fonts i RODO (www.internet-czas-dzialac.pl) Polish
Twórcy stron internetowych często dostosowują je w taki sposób, że przeglądarka użytkownika nawiązuje połączenia z zewnętrznymi serwisami bez wyraźnej zgody użytkownika. Co istotne, w wielu przypadkach jest to związane z udostępnianiem prywatnych informacji użytkownika innym firmom lub organizacjom.
Global civil society and experts statement: Stop facial recognition surveillance now - European Digital Rights (EDRi) (edri.org)
Signal's Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally 'a surveillance technology' (techcrunch.com)
The Audacity of Big Tech - The Irreparable Failures of Surveillance Capitalism (escapebigtech.info)
Your Fitbit is useless – unless you consent to unlawful data sharing (noyb.eu)
Can we start a group in wire?
I use wire (wire. com) for daily chatting. I like it but I couldn’t find any good communities in wire. In session, or simpleX, there are privacy (and other) groups in which anyone can participate… Can we start a privacy group in wire so we folks can also hang around?
Ontario’s BORN birth registry breach sees data ‘taken’ from 3.4 million | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)
The U.S. Government’s Database of Immigrant DNA Has Hit Scary, Astronomical Proportions (www.eff.org)
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The End of Privacy is a Taylor Swift Fan TikTok Account Armed with Facial Recognition Tech (404 Media Article) (www.404media.co)
A viral TikTok account is doxing ordinary and otherwise anonymous people on the internet using off-the-shelf facial recognition technology, creating content and growing a following by taking advantage of a fundamental new truth: privacy is now essentially dead in public spaces.
There's arkenfox on desktop, is there anything on mobile? (artemis.camp)
or can I just use the desktop one somehow
USB Debugging Samsung Phone with a GUI
Is there a GUI which I can just click and disable and enable packages debugging Samsung Android phones? I heard that there are options which are much simpler than vanilla ADB. I just want to get rid ofll the Samsung/Google/Meta bloat prepackaged with the phone. Appreciate any pointers/advice.