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"Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt out.

If you are a writer who uses MS Word to write any proprietary content (blog posts, novels, or any work you intend to protect with copyright and/or sell), you’re going to want to turn this feature off immediately.

I won’t beat around the bush. Microsoft Office doesn’t make it easy to opt out of this new AI privacy agreement, as the feature is hidden through a series of popup menus in your settings:

On a Windows computer, follow these steps to turn off “Connected Experiences”: File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Optional Connected Experiences > Uncheck box: “Turn on optional connected experiences”"

medium.com/illumination/ms-wor…

#Microsoft #AI #GenerativeAI #AITraining #MSWord #Privacy #Word


MS Word is Using You to Train AI - ILLUMINATION - Medium

Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on…
Dr. Casey Lawrence (ILLUMINATION)
#privacy #microsoft #AI #word #generativeAI #msword #AITraining

To everyone when they see horrible privacy news about Microsoft replying with:

"I don't care, I use Linux"

Sure, you do. But does your medical clinic do? Does your therapist do? Does your family member typing a personal email to you in Word before sending it do too?

This is a systemic problem.

You cannot protect your own data only by using Linux yourself. You must also demand stronger regulations and enforcement to obligate organizations around to protect your data as well.

#Privacy #Microsoft

#privacy #microsoft

Ah, Backdoors bei Verschlüsselung sind in gewissen Kreisen sehr beliebt, habe ich gehört...

Justizministerkonferenz: Ermittler sollen Zweitschlüssel bekommen, um Autos einfacher verwanzen zu können
netzpolitik.org/2024/justizmin…

#privacy


Justizministerkonferenz: Ermittler sollen Zweitschlüssel bekommen, um Autos einfacher verwanzen zu können

Strafverfolgungsbehörden haben angeblich Schwierigkeiten, unbemerkt in Autos von Verdächtigen zu gelangen. Die Justizministerin von Baden-Württemberg fordert deswegen, dass Autohersteller einen Zweitschlüssel herausgeben müssen.
netzpolitik.org
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#privacy #vds #vorratsdaten

📣 Attention all custom ROM users and advocates for digital rights! 📣

Google's Play Integrity is limiting access to certain functionalities and applications for those using custom operating systems. This is a direct attack on the open-source community and a step towards further consolidating Google's monopoly in the mobile ecosystem.

The European Commission is aware of the situation, but has deemed it a low priority: europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docum…

It's time for us to take action and show Google and the EU how much we care about this issue! 💥

Sign the petition now to stop Google from limiting access to custom ROMs: change.org/p/stop-google-from-…

#StopGoogleMonopoly #CustomROMs #DigitalRights #OpenSource #PlayIntegrity #Google #deGoogle #privacy #right2repair #rightorepair #r2r #EU

Let's unite and fight for our right to use and develop custom operating systems! 💪

Stop Google from Limiting Custom ROMs! The Issue: Google systematically blocks access to apps and functionalities for users running custom Android operating systems, affecting millions of tech-savvy users who modify their devices. Why Users Choose Custom ROMs: • Overcome programmed obsolescence when manufacturers stop updating • Fix bugs in stock operating systems • Personalize and customize their device's software • Improve performance and privacy Google's False Justification: Google claims Play Integrity ensures "app security" by verifying unmodified app binaries on "genuine" Android devices. In reality, this is a tactic to: • Maintain its mobile operating system monopoly • Restrict user choice • Convince developers to stay dependent on Play Store Our Demand: We call on European Union to consider investigating the monopolistic tactics, and ask Google to allow custom ROM users to: • Access all applications • Use device capabilities fully • Exercise their right to modify owned technology This is about digital freedom, user rights, and challenging corporate control over personal technology. Sign now to support technological freedom!

Stop Google from Limiting Custom ROMs!

Alessandro Murru (Change.org)
#google #opensource #privacy #EU #degoogle #digitalrights #stopgooglemonopoly #customroms #playintegrity #right2repair #rightorepair #r2r

#email #opensource #privacy #oss #floss #cloud #degoogle #blackfriday #calendar #encrypt @Tuta

theguardian.com/technology/202…

This article discusses how to protect privacy, amidst concerns of increased government surveillance.

The article is aimed at Asylum seekers & immigrants to the US, but it's solid advice for anyone, really.

Recommendations include using encrypted messaging apps like Signal, Apple iMessage, and WhatsApp, and setting messages to disappear.

It also recommends minimizing data sharing and deleting data when possible, particularly from Google.

#privacy #security


Opt out: how to stop tech companies spying on your phone as Trump promises mass deportations

There are no federal privacy regulations to protect your information – here’s how you can do it yourself
Johana Bhuiyan (The Guardian)
#privacy #security

Real time collaboration software and text boxes that rapidly save drafts to the cloud essentially log your fingerprintable typing behavior. The industry refers to this information as “keystroke dynamics” or “typing biometrics”.

Other modern “operator signatures” are easier to minimize. A user can learn to obfuscate writing style, or can use keyboard navigation with different pointing devices to limit fingerprinting of mouse behavior.

Keystroke biometrics are difficult to anonymize without installing software such as kloak or browser extensions (the latter of which may add fingerprintable vectors) designed to cloak some of your typing habits. Signature typos, approximate typing speed, etc. will still leak. Alternatively, we could normalize typing messages out in a simple offline editors that don’t store revision history before pasting them into other input fields.

Originally posted on seirdy.one: See Original (POSSE). #Privacy #Anonymity


GitHub - Whonix/kloak

Contribute to Whonix/kloak development by creating an account on GitHub.
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#android #opensource #privacy #thunderbird #cybersecurity #degoogle #adblocker #iodé #rom @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

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I've seen a number of toots today advising people against scanning random #QRCodes because they can be used in a number of malicious ways.

There are a number of legitimate ways people can use such codes to trick others, and it can require some deeper understanding of how systems work to avoid them. For that reason, I'm not going to contradict that recommendation, but I will add to it.

QR codes are usually just URLs encoded in a visual, machine-readable form, so they aren't necessarily more dangerous than a link. The danger comes from the fact that most scanner apps will directly open whatever URL you scan without giving you the opportunity to consider whether that's a good idea.

You can reduce the risk of scanning such codes by installing a better app which requires manual interaction to open URLs after decoding them.

For android users I recommend "BinaryEye", since it's open-source, ad-free, and has a bunch of other useful features.

Its github page links to both F-Droid and the play store:

github.com/markusfisch/BinaryE…

#privacy #security


GitHub - markusfisch/BinaryEye: Yet another barcode scanner for Android

Yet another barcode scanner for Android. Contribute to markusfisch/BinaryEye development by creating an account on GitHub.
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#privacy #security #qrcodes

#linux #foss #opensource #privacy #debian #manjaro #linuxmint #decentralization #ubuntu #archlinux #fedora

I’ve been on Fedi for a year now and have fallen in love with the platform, so here’s my introduction! I studied computer science with a focus on RTOS and FP/PL, but I’m about to start my final semester of law school. I’ll be practicing at a boutique firm that primarily handles IP cases once I’m barred. I foilboard and I play way too many rhythm games in and out of the arcade.

I contribute to open source projects where I can, and I write up my experience in my digital garden which I’ve been maintaining for over a year now. It’s also a good place to find usage tips for projects/tools that you might want to use.

My passion for tech also includes privacy, and I’m an advocate for minimizing your digital footprint. GenAI is a scam and its purveyors are causing real harm while they sell it as hard as they can.

Follow me for: #selfhosting #digitalgardening #privacy #lawfedi #section230 #copyright #patents #rustlang #gleam #haskell #RSS #neovim #NixOS #zotero #tmux #alacritty #linux #egpu #qemu #arch #archlinux #GNOME #watches #watchmaking #obsidian #obsidianmd #thunderbird #fpv #mechkeys #mechkeeb #mechanicalkeyboard #matrix #signal #fido2 #passkeys #dancerushstardom


be-far's Digital Garden

Tip You will own nothing, and you will be happy. On my little corner of the internet, I document my adventures in tech and complain about the internet of shit.
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#linux #matrix #privacy #signal #gnome #thunderbird #RSS #copyright #arch #selfhosting #haskell #archlinux #NixOS #RustLang #patents #neovim #qemu #obsidian #obsidianmd #lawfedi #gleam #passkeys #zotero #MechanicalKeyboard #fpv #digitalgardening #tmux #alacritty #egpu #watches #watchmaking #mechkeys #mechkeeb #fido2 #dancerushstardom #section230

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#matrix #privacy #infosec #ethics #opsec #matrixconf @The Matrix.org Foundation

If you are a menstruating person living in the US, stop using an app to track your period and do research about apps that will protect your data. Even better, ensure that whatever app you use does not phone home with your data at all #privacy

Edit: Ona sharing some alternatives here. Thanks a lot! systerserver.town/@ona/1134347…

ona [she/they] (@ona@systerserver.town)

1/2 @berniethewordsmith@masto.es in US and around the world. In @donestech we recommend some apps in @fdroid@lemmy.ml drip. menstrual cycle and fertility tracking. What makes drip special: Your data, your choice.
Systerserver Town
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Hackers, #Infosec specialists and #privacy advocates are going to be very important in the months to come. Please read the EFF's surveillance self-defense guide ssd.eff.org/ and reduce as much as possible the information that companies like Google or Amazon collect about you. Fedi admins and moderators, help us keeping the people away from the online agressors. If possible, make sure the services you use are based in Europe. All hands on deck

Surveillance Self-Defense

We’re the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an independent non-profit working to protect online privacy for over thirty years. This is Surveillance Self-Defense: our expert guide to protecting you and your friends from online spying.
ssd.eff.org
#privacy #infosec

Wild ass day in the Tor node operator world. Got an email from my VPS, forwarding a complaint from WatchDog CyberSecurity saying that my box was scanning SSH ports!

> Oh no, oh no, I knew I should have set up fail2ban, oh god why was I so lackadaisical!

So I remote in to the machine: no unusual network activity, no unusual processes, users, logins, command history, no sign that anything is doing anything I didn't tell it to do.

So what's up? Turns out there's been a widespread campaign where some actor is spoofing IPs to make it look like systems running Tor are scanning port 22: forum.torproject.org/t/tor-rel…

Operators from all over are saying they're getting nastygrams from their VPS providers because WatchDog is fingering their source IPs (which are being spoofed and NOT part of a global portscanning botnet).

@delroth did an amazing writeup of the whole thing here: delroth.net/posts/spoofed-mass…

#tor #infosec #cybersecurity #threatintel #privacy


[tor-relays] Tor relays source IPs spoofed to mass-scan port 22?

It would be hard to explain to Verizon I run Tor relays since they technically don't allow servers. I hope I'm not forced onto AT&T Internet Air as my particular co-op rental unit won't let met get Spectrum even when other units can, not that I wante…
Tor Project Forum
#privacy #infosec #Tor #cybersecurity #threatintel @Pierre Bourdon

#privacy #encryption #surveillance #backdoors

#email #privacy #encryption #security

@Tutanota I just realised that all the comments I have added to my contacts over the years, including family-related and medical important information, are gone...

github.com/tutao/tutanota/issu…

Bugs are becoming more common recently, and this one made me lose data. I'm quite disappointed.

#Email #OpenSource #FOSS #Security #Privacy


Lost all my contact comments on Android · Issue #7818 · tutao/tutanota

This is not a feature request (existing functionality does not work, not missing functionality). I will request features on forum or via support. I've searched and did not find a similar issue. Bug...
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#foss #email #opensource #privacy #security @Tuta

#privacy #werbung

Op vrijdag 22 november (13u30) en zaterdag 23 november (11u) organiseer ik een wandeling vanuit de Krook in #Gent waar we met #OpenStreetMap en @MapComplete bewakingscamera's in kaart gaan brengen.

Na een korte uitleg gaat iedereen een eigen kant op, op zoek naar camera's.

Dit past binnen mutationfest.be/program

(Of je kan ook meer info vinden op de meetup-pagina: meetup.com/openstreetmap-belgi…)

#privacy #bewakingscameras #surveillance


Programma | Mutation

Ontdek de rode draad die vier unieke locaties aan Gent Zuid verbindt. Laat je drie dagen verwonderen door een intensief programma.
Mutation
#privacy #openstreetmap #surveillance #gent #bewakingscameras @MapComplete

Accrescent 0.25.0 is out with Android 15 app archiving support, Private Space support, and settings UI improvements!

We also forgot to announce that since 0.24.0, Accrescent supports in-app predictive back!

Check out the release notes below 👇

github.com/accrescent/accresce…

#privacy #security #appstore #android #accrescent #opensource


Release 0.25.0 · accrescent/accrescent

This release adds initial app archiving support on Android 15, makes Accrescent show up as an installer in Private Space, and improves the settings UI! We also forgot to mention that since 0.24.0, ...
GitHub
#android #opensource #privacy #security #AppStore #accrescent

#foss #opensource #privacy #VLC

We asked and you answered! Here's Tuta's updated list of best WhatsApp alternatives in 2024 👏

Which one is your favorite? 🤔 Do comment below - or check out our detailed review first!

👉 tuta.com/blog/best-whatsapp-al…

#WhatsAppalternatives #Messenger #Privacy #Encryption

Signal, Threema, Wire, Element, SimpleX, Session.

Best WhatsApp Alternatives For 2024 | Time To Go Private! | Tuta

There are lots of messaging apps similar to WhatsApp. Here's a review of the best secure alternatives: Signal, Threema, Telegram, Element, Wire, SimpleX, Session, and more.
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#privacy #encryption #messenger #whatsappalternatives

#android #privacy #security #AppStore #accrescent

#privacy #chrome

#privacy #encryption #calendar #zeroknowledge

#privacy #encryption #degoogle #calendar #zeroknowledge

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#privacy #Germany #freedom #surveillance

"Bier’s first hit app, TBH, was marketed to teenagers and...it 'requested address book access before actually being able to use the app'. [...] Bier’s reputation for success is built on this growth hacking technique, so I understand why he is upset."
[...]
"Apple’s solution is imperfect. But if it stops the Biers of the world from building apps which ingest wholesale the contact lists of teenagers, I find it difficult to object."

pxlnv.com/blog/growth-hack/

#Apple #Privacy #SocialMedia #Tech

#apple #privacy #socialmedia #tech

#privacy #encryption #calendar #teaser

Massive E-Learning Platform #Udemy Gave Teachers a Gen #AI 'Opt-Out Window'. It's Already Over.

Udemy will train generative AI on classes developed/users contributed on its site. It is opt-out (meaning, everyone was already opted in) with a time window... and opting out may "affect course visibility and potential earnings."

Udemy's reason for the opt-out window was reportedly because removing data from LLMs is hard. IMO, that would be the reason for making it opt-in, but here we are...

#privacy #privacymatters #llm

404media.co/massive-e-learning…

#privacy #AI #privacymatters #llm #udemy

#foss #email #privacy #cryptography #security #crypto @Tuta

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