Microsoft and Friends Want to Destroy Online Privacy (www.breitbart.com)
Ignore the fact that it’s coming from Breitbart. This is really freaky in more than one way....
Reddit just added a default on "presence" indicator. You have to go into settings to turn it off. (old.reddit.com)
thread on /r/privacy
Signal Server is effectively closed source software right now
The Signal Server repository hasn't been updated since April 2020. There are a bunch of links about this here but I found this thread the most interesting....
Mojeek is a search engine based in the United Kingdom. (www.mojeek.com)
Mojeek is a privacy-friendly English search engine. Unlike DuckDuckGo, Mojeek has its own index.
Your email and password were probably posted online (3 billion emails and passwords) in the mother of all data leaks [BGR] (bgr.com)
Check if your email leaked cybernews.com/personal-data-leak-check/
Affirmitive (lemmy.ml)
I "created" this logo for the community (lemmy.ml)
It would be nice if it could be used.
Covering up the camera could damage your laptop: Apple (nypost.com)
Nice try feds....
I didn't install Signal for privacy (chrispanag.com)
Surveillance Capitalism Time (lemmy.ml)
Google suspends Element (Matrix client) app from Play Store [@element_hq, Twitter] (nitter.net)
New Spotify Patent Involves Monitoring Users’ Speech to Recommend Music (pitchfork.com)
Aside from the main privacy issue, it’s also stupid that this can be patented.
Any good radio frequency detector that actually works?
Intent being to find bugs in hotels, bed and breakfasts etc.
Why is there still no decentralised search engine that actually works well?
Serious question, why do we give so much power to these tech firms such as Google, when really the solution is decentralization. We have some solutions for money with bitcoin, but there still doesn’t seem to be a viable alternative with a search engine that is decentralized?
What went wrong with Albicla – Polish government response to Facebook hegemony, funded with public money (albicla.com)
Yesterday, the “Polish response to Facebook” was launched by government media owner Tomasz Sakiewicz - Albicla or “All Be Clear”....
Privacy comparison between web browsers (spyware.neocities.org)
So Protonmail / ProtonVPN is not a good option?
I’m trying to get rid of my Google dependency and one of those steps was moving over to Protonmail. Now in the past few days i have been picking up signals that even Protonmail is not as clean as it might be....
Dess's Favorite apps and services / de-googled list. (dessalines.github.io)
This site is a good FOSS alternative to Youtube, and it's a Peertube instance (lemmy.ml)
TILvids is a video community focused on edutainment content. The goal is to deliver interesting videos that you might not otherwise see. Some other important information:...
Don't trust texting apps made in the USA
They may be sponsored by the US Government, or by cryptographers with ties to the government....
The age of Signal has come
Recent intrusive changes in the privacy policy of WhatsApp (including the sharing of never before seen amounts of unencrypted user data with the parent company Facebook) have prompted a mass exodus of WhatsApp users to the secure and open-source alternative Signal. I have been hoping for a change like this for years. I wrote a...
The Exodus has started (wapp-exodus.carrd.co)
Accelerate to the future. Privacy is fundamental.
What Android keyboard do you use?
Keyboards are probably one of the most sensitive apps on our phones, having access and handling practically everything we type. I’ve stopped using keyboards that require network access and started using only opensource apps a few years ago. What are your favorite, privacy-respecting android keyboards?...
NZBgeek Has Been Hacked Leaving Private User Data Exposed [TorrentFreak] (torrentfreak.com)
If I wanted to only choose between the two, are Dell or Lenovo laptops better for privacy if I install Linux?
I know there are more privacy oriented companies in general, like Purism or System76, but I’m currently torn between Dell and Lenovo because they are the only two manufacturers that make good laptop/tablet hybrids (which I need for university) and whose devices are reasonably Linux friendly....