Pakistan - Firewall being installed to rein in social media (www.thenews.com.pk)
Walmart Just Announced a Brand-New Way to Track Customers, and It All Starts Today (www.inc.com)
Windows won’t take screenshots of everything you do after all — unless you opt in (www.theverge.com)
Google leaked tons of personal data and even a Nintendo Direct: report (mobilesyrup.com)
EFF Covers Secrets in Your Data on NOVA (www.eff.org)
Microsoft violates children’s privacy – but blames your local school (noyb.eu)
GDPR rights are being ignored. In practice, this leads to a situation where Microsoft is trying to contractually dump most of its legal responsibilities under the GDPR on schools that provide Microsoft 365 Education services to their pupils or students....
The Sunbird: How to Start an Announcements-Only Thread on Signal (crimethinc.com)
When iCloud Won't Let you Delete Your Data (odysee.com)
Reports of deleted data coming back, after scrubbing/reset and phone sold to others.
This Undisclosed WhatsApp Vulnerability Lets Governments See Who You Message (theintercept.com)
3D-Printed USB Dead Man Switch (Prototype Demo) (www.buskill.in)
Today we’re ecstatic to publish our first demo showing a homemade BusKill Cable (in the prototype 3D-printed case) triggering a lockscreen....
A Monster Allowed to Grow Up (thememoryhole.substack.com)
The Roots of the Surveillance State
Automattic buys Beeper for $125MM, launches closed-source "privacy" app (techcrunch.com)
Curious how none of the coverage of this purchase mention that the app isn’t open-source, which makes all of their claims of “end-to-end encryption” worthless...
Telegram’s peer-to-peer SMS login service is a privacy nightmare (techcrunch.com)
Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services (arstechnica.com)
Skiff is shutting down (skiff.com)
As we begin to shift focus to our shared efforts with Notion, we will be closing down Skiff’s product suite after a 6-month sunset period
Your Slack DMs aren’t as private as you think - Vox (www.vox.com)
Pocket Link
U.S., Dozens of Rogue California Police Agencies Still Sharing Driver Locations with Anti-Abortion States (www.eff.org)
The EFF and ACLU letter lists 35 specific police agencies which either have informed the civil liberties organizations that they plan to keep sharing ALPR information with out-of-state law enforcement, or have failed to confirm their compliance with the law in response to inquiries by the organizations....
FBI Overstepped Authority in Warrantless Search of Hundreds of Safe Deposit Boxes, Court Rules (theintercept.com)
Murena (the /e/ Foundation brand) introduces Murena Mobile - a privacy-focused mobile plan (murena.com)
they’re not mentioning how exactly is it privacy focused, sadly. still, perhaps worth looking into.
Riot Games Now Requires Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Software for League of Legends, Following Valorant's Implementation (tuta.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/10958052...
Maker Naomi Wu is Silenced by Chinese Authorities (And Why I Blame Elon Musk) (skepchick.org)
FTC bans X-Mode from selling phone location data, and orders firm to delete collected data (techcrunch.com)
LAPD wants to remotely access 10,000 public and private security cameras (boingboing.net)
Google settles $5 billion privacy lawsuit over tracking people using 'incognito mode' (apnews.com)
Indian journalists targeted by Israeli spyware again: What do we know? (www.aljazeera.com)
