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#Google Starts Tracking All Your Devices In 6 Weeks—Forget Chrome And #Android

Long story short is that Google has made updates to its advertising ecosystem essentially _permitting_ the fingerprinting of devices for use in targeted advertising. In their words they are going to be “less prescriptive with partners in how they target and measure ads.”

Doesn’t mean fingerprinting wasn’t happening before, just that Google is giving the green signal to the rest of the ecosystem to do so… and will likely use this to maybe replace third-party cookies.

Use an adblocker. Seriously.

#privacy #ads #privacymatters #useadblockers

forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/20…

Google Starts Tracking All Your Devices In 6 Weeks—Forget Chrome And Android

Say hello to 2025—the way you're tracked has suddenly changed. Here's what you need to know.

^{Zak Doffman (Forbes)}

just discovered some very cool new projects:
git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/b…
aerogramme.deuxfleurs.fr/

aerogramme is a proxy for imap and caldav that offers encryption and some security guarantees

bagage is webdav with an s3 backend

this is all based on garage which works great on commodity hardware. you could rent a $5/mo/tb vps from hosthatch and have decently good secure, open source, cloud storage of all the above

#privacy #openSource #security #s3 #garage

bagage

Bagage is the bridge between our users and garage, it enables them to synchronize files that matter for them from their computer to garage through WebDAV

^{Gitea: git with a cup of coffee}

Google: Device Fingerprinting ist okay
heise.de/news/Google-Device-Fi…

Ist ja auch für die Werbeindustrie ganz dolle wichtig...

#privacy

Google: Device Fingerprinting ist okay

Google lässt ab Februar das Tracking von Verbrauchern per Device Fingerprinting für Werbezwecke zu – eine fundamentale Abkehr von seiner bisherigen Position.

^{Jo Bager (heise online)}

❤️ Privacy matters - so does doing good. We donate Tuta to #opensource projects! ❤️

Ready to turn on #privacy?

👉 tuta.com/blog/tutanota-for-ope…

#foss #givingback #encryption #security

What to do with people around who are carrying AI Wearables that listen to everything said and record it and send conversations to whatever language model processor? How even find out? By asking? Searching? Pat down? Is friendship ended if they refuse to shut it off? Similar for home assistants. Don't visit such people anymore?
(luckily I don't know anyone who actually uses such shit, so it's hypothetical).

#Privacy #AI #Wearables #SpyDevices #ModernWorldShit #Datenschutz #Privatsphäre

We fight for your right to #privacy with #encryption! 🔒

Check out our new scrolling animation: tuta.com/ 💪

Normalize extended ASCII
And 128+ long passwords

If you use a password manager (which you should)
There's no reason not to make it as complex as you can

#keepassxc #extendedascii #passwords #privacy #cybersecurity

GrapheneOS version 2025010700 released:

grapheneos.org/releases#202501…

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release.

Forum discussion thread:

discuss.grapheneos.org/d/18831…

#GrapheneOS #privacy #security

GrapheneOS version 2025010700 released - GrapheneOS Discussion Forum

GrapheneOS discussion forum

^{GrapheneOS Discussion Forum}

What is one thing you are planning
to do in 2025 to improve your data privacy online or to improve the data privacy of others? 🔒👀

#Privacy #NewYearResolutions2025

If you're surprised Tesla takes and keeps recordings from their cars after seeing the news about the Cybertruck in Vegas, you shouldn't be. This is not something new. Tesla has been taking and storing media for many years, claiming it's used to train their AI capabilities. You can't opt out either.

And Tesla employees do access it, make fun of you, make memes, and share the content internally, without any legitimate reason to access the content.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

While this is about Tesla, this is a growing problem across this and other industries.

#Tesla #Surveillance #Privacy

Tesla workers shared images from car cameras, including “scenes of intimacy”

Ex-staffers tell Reuters about internal image sharing: “We could see their kids.”…

^{Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)}

We are heading towards completion of another milestone 😃

Thanks to @VishnuSanal, #Prav is on Google Play Store now. It requires a 2-week testing period before being open to public downloads. Right now, only authorized testers can test it.

If you are interested in testing, please share your Gmail address with us.

On the other hand, the app is free to download from #Fdroid. Please remember that the service is still in public beta.

Stay tuned!

#XMPP #privacy #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

As we wrap up #2024 one thing is clear:

#privacy is a human right only possible with end-to-end encryption 🔐

Do you agree? 💭

Ready for #NewYear? Time to make up a #NewYearResolution 💪

Why not choose #privacy over Big Tech⁉️

Here are some ideas. 👇 Which is on your list for #2025❓

And more tips to #deGoogle your life: tuta.com/blog/how-to-leave-goo…

The #38C3 presentation about the massive #Volkswagen data leak is over and the leak was as bad as it sounded. 100,000s of cars could be located down to cm precision. Also a lot of metadata that is NOT supposed to be public. Disturbing.

The main takeaway was that the real problem here wasn't the leak itself, but that this data was collected in the first place.

I agree. It's not a good idea to create mountains of very personal data and then pray it never leaks.

#privacy #fail #leak #breach #vw

@Tutanota Apparently #tuta still hasn't set a concrete, near term date for the availability of the *option to export all emails in one go* .

So: Customers can easily import their emails to #Tutamail, but they have to manually select and export all of their emails if they want to migrate away to a different #email provider.

To me, that looks like a vendor lock-in.

You can keep on telling that it's already planned, but you should really walk the talk!

#vendorlockin
#hotelcalifornia
#privacy

Looking for a last minute present? 🎁

Give #privacy!

Tuta gift cards are available in seconds under Settings - Gift cards within your Tuta account. ❤️ 🔒 🎄

I know that Tuta has been planning it for years. But that wasn't my question.

Apparently #Tuta still hasn't set a concrete, near term date for the availability of the *option to export all emails in one go*.

So: Customers can easily import their emails to #Tutamail, but they have to manually select and export all of their emails if they want to migrate away from Tuta to a different #email provider.

To me, that looks like a vendor lock-in.

#vendorlockin
#hotelcalifornia
#privacy

About Better Data Privacy for All:

Sometimes, you will notice that
I give privacy tips not only to improve your own privacy but also for you to be better at improving the privacy of others.

Because if we truly care about privacy and privacy rights, we must also do the work ourselves to be better at protecting the privacy of others.

Privacy is team work and only by changing our own behaviors will we be able to slowly transform our societies' cultures into more privacy-respectful ones.

Be the privacy respect you wish to see in the world.

This is important,
for all of us 💚

#Privacy #DigitalRights #HumanRights

#AI vs #privacy ? 🤔

Our users for sure say so:

✅ 29% want TutaDrive 🔒

❌ Only 3% want an AI Copilot 👀

tuta.com/blog/tuta-survey-2024

Big thanks for the @eff for these recommendations to the #EU:

✅ Protect users’ rights to #secure, #encrypted, and #private communication

✅ Adopt a #privacy-first approach to fighting online harms like #targeted #ads

✅ User-centric approach to regulate big tech platforms (Digital Markets Act)

✅ Create conditions of fair digital markets that foster choice innovation and fundamental rights

We at Tuta couldn't agree more! 👏 👏 👏

mastodon.social/@eff/113640698…

Data Privacy is not just about privacy.

Data privacy is also about safety, about democracy, about diversity, about equality, about empathy, and, perhaps most important of all, about consent.

When you fight for privacy rights, you also fight for all of the above. You fight for a better freer and safer society for all.

#Privacy #HumanRights #Democracy

Aber eines muss man der Versicherung lassen: Am Sonntag per Fax widersprochen, am Montag Vormittag beim Sachbearbeiter angerufen: Widerspruch war bereits eingetragen.

Wer sich jetzt fragt: Ja, der Widerspruch muss auf ALLEN Kommunikationskanälen akzeptiert werden. Ihr könnt also selbst entscheiden, ob Ihr das per Webformular, Mail, Fax, Anruf oder Schneckenpost tun wollt. Tut es bald: Sind die Daten einmal raus, holt sie nichts zurück!

#epa #epa_datenschatz #datenschutz #privacy

So a crazy thing happened. In a crime thriller film called Les chambres rouges (Red Rooms, 2023) there is a scene where the hacker protagonist is attempting to purchase a snuff film in online auction. The auction happens via IRC or IRC-like chatting environment and to my surprise there's actually me @rolle and my wife @mustikkasoppa who are one of the bidders.

1) The nickname of my wife is mistakenly written as "mustikasoppa" (with one k) but if I recall correctly she has used a mistakenly written nickname in the past
2) We are both operators and on the same IRC channel as we've been for the past 17 years

This is not a coincidence. One nickname can be made up by accident but not two with these features and definitely not in a French movie. My wife's nick "mustikkasoppa" is Finnish and means "blueberry soup".

Our IRC logs are more or less public because of open source and statistics so I presume the scene has been made with chatgpt which has scraped our nicks from the Internet so that they ended up in the movie. We still chat via IRC every day together.

The era of AI... Do your background check, folks. I'm glad this wasn't a dramatized documentary film but a complete fiction. However my wife and I are real. Mixed feelings.

#OpenAI #Privacy #Movies #IRC #GenerativeAI #ChatGPT

Naughty or nice? Santa doesn’t need to know. 🎅❌

Tuta’s encrypted calendar keeps your events so private, even Santa stays in the dark. 🔒🗓️

#Privacy #Encryption #PostQuantum

→ U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid unprecedented cyberattack
nbcnews.com/tech/security/us-o…

“The hacking campaign, nicknamed SaltTyphoon by Microsoft, is one of the largest intelligence compromises in US history, and it has not yet been fully remediated.”

“Privacy advocates have long advocated using end-to-end encrypted E2EE apps.” *sigh*

👇

#Americans #encrypted #cyberattack #hacking #SaltTyphoon #US #Privacy #E2EE

U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid cyberattack

Amid an unprecedented cyberattack on telecommunications companies such as AT&T and Verizon, U.S. officials have recommended that Americans use encrypted messaging apps to ensure their communications stay hidden from foreign hackers.

^{Kevin Collier (NBC News)}

🚨 Biggest US Hack in History! 🚨

If China can breach US telcos, what’s stopping them from exploiting encryption backdoors? Nothing.

Backdoors don’t make us safer - they put everyone at risk.

Demand #PrivacyFirst: Say NO to backdoors! 🔒

Read more here: tuta.com/blog/china-salt-typho…

#Cybersecurity #Encryption #Privacy #StopBackdoors

Worst US hack in history: Chinese can monitor all your calls and emails. | Tuta

Salt Typhoon has infiltrated major telecom networks, proving backdoors to encryption are a catastrophic risk.

^Tuta

Repeat offenders drive bulk of tech support scams via #Google #Ads

"Search engines, and Google’s in particular, are our gateway to the web. Yet, that door sometimes opens up to unsavory places thanks to sponsored search results, AKA ads."

This is part of the reason I recommend using an #adblocker (whether in browser, on device, or network-based.)

#cybersecurity #scams #security #privacy

malwarebytes.com/blog/scams/20…

Repeat offenders drive bulk of tech support scams via Google Ads | Malwarebytes

Consumers are getting caught in a web of scams facilitated by online ads often originating from the same perpetrators.

^{Jérôme Segura (Malwarebytes)}

Thunderbird is jarig (20) en afhankelijk van donaties. Ik gebruik het al (bijna al die) jaren en dacht, ik doe een donatie....

He, @thunderbird Waarom willen jullie weten waar ik woon?????? #privacy #Thunderbird

“if we give our data to companies, the wealthy will rule.

If we give our data to governments, we will end up with some form of authoritarianism.

Only if the people keep their data will society be free.

#Privacy matters because it gives power to the people.”

— Carissa Véliz, “Privacy is Power”

Gmail and Outlook are popular but not necessarily the best - especially when it comes to #privacy and #security.

In this in-depth guide we review #Gmail vs #Outlook and fill you in on the best email provider that's ad-free, private, and secure. 😉

👉 Read more: tuta.com/blog/outlook-vs-gmail