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Il Garante della #privacy ha sanzionato E.ON per trattamento illecito dei #dati personali. In un caso "è stato dimostrato che l’azienda non verificava la legittimità della provenienza dei dati usati per le sue campagne pubblicitarie".

ilpost.it/2025/01/31/garante-p…


Among other things, Mozilla Thunderbird can listen to your system's microphone without asking for permission. How disappointing.
#Linux #Thunderbird #Mozilla #privacy #security


Encryption backdoors must never be allowed. To prove that Tuta is #free from any #backdoor, the entire client code is published as #opensource.

Let's fight against mass surveillance! ✊

tuta.com/blog/why-a-backdoor-i…

#privacy #encryption #surveillance


🚨 Welke gegevens van je zou #Meta nog meer allemaal gebruiken om #AI te trainen? 🤔

tweakers.net/nieuws/231648/met…

#WhatsApp heeft al AI in de app...🤷 faq.whatsapp.com/1002544104126…

Zeker zijn dat je privégesprekken en data niet en nooit worden gebruikt? Kies #Signal: signal.org/install

#privacy


Just uninstalled it for my device and my partner. #bigtech #google #privacy #security


Quoting a Mastodon post by GrapheneOS:
"The app doesn't provide client-side scanning used to report things to Google or anyone else. It provides on-device machine learning models usable by applications to classify content as being spam, scams, malware, etc. This allows apps to check content locally without sharing it with a service and mark it with warnings for users."

grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/…

#AndroidSystemSafetyCore #Android #Privacy #GrapheneOS


🚨BREAKING: Google will soon install an app called #AndroidSystemSafetyCore

They say it's a "safety measure" to protect your #privacy, but in fact it's client-side scanning.

Yet, we all know that client-side scanning is bad: tuta.com/blog/eu-client-side-s…

Deinstall the app on your #Android: System -> Apps


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#Privacy #OpenSource #Smartphone #Ethical #USA #Fairphone #Fairphone4
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If Apple complies with this, the UK government will gain access to all iCloud data globally. The only way Apple comes out of this with any integrity is to leave the UK market. If they give in to this, every regime in the world will demand the same thing. And that’s before we even get to the fact that there’s no such thing as a “backdoor” for just so-and-so. Either there is a door or there isn’t and if there is, anyone who obtains the key can use it.

theguardian.com/technology/202…

#apple #backdoor #UK #encryption #privacy #security #personhood #data #democracy #humanRights #iCloud


You remember #Apple scanning all images on your #mobile device?

If you have an #Android #phone, a new app that doesn't appear in your menu has been automatically and silently installed (or soon will be) by #Google. It is called #AndroidSystemSafetyCore and does exactly the same - scan all images on your device as well as all incoming ones (via messaging). The new spin is that it does so "to protect your #privacy".

You can uninstall this app safely via System -> Apps.

developers.google.com/android/…


Just a reminder, especially in this wild time we live in. DO NOT INSTALL WORK MDM ON YOUR PERSONAL DEVICE.
If your work requires Microsoft Intune or similar MDM, to get email/teams/slack. don't accept it. It opens your device up for them to access private data and disable/delete your phone (even if they say they wont, they can)

blog.cdemi.io/never-accept-an-…

#privacy #android #iphone #work #email #outlook #microsoft


E-Brieftasche: EU-Kommission will ständige Personenkennung durch die Hintertür
heise.de/news/E-Brieftasche-EU…

Traurig, dass das nicht einmal überrascht...

#privacy #datenschutz


#SpreadLoveNotHate ❤️

Ready to join the #privacy revolution or even become a #Legend? 🤩

The whole Tuta Team fights for your right to

✅ Privacy
✅ Freedom of speech
✅ Freedom to be who you are
✅ Fairness and equality

Plus, the paid plans offer a lot:

⚡️ 20 / 500 GB storage
⚡️ 15 / 30 Tuta email addresses
⚡️ 3 custom domains
⚡️ Unlimited labels
⚡️ Smart filters
⚡️ Sharing calendars & invites
⚡️ Family option
⚡️ Shared mailboxes

Switch now! app.tuta.com/signup


This is what I think about whenever infosec wonks on here start telling people they should use matrix or xmpp+omemo or whatnot instead of signal

To be fair, I understand the arguments and to a large extent I agree with the critiques. However, I think anyone making these recommendations is vastly underestimating the capacity or appetite for most people to deal with the user experiences presented by these alternatives.

User experience is the ultimate force multiplier. For anything that requires network effects to function (ie most anything involving communication), if it doesn't *just work* then you've lost 90% of your audience.

xkcd.com/2501/

#matrix #xmpp #infosec #cybersecurity #signal #ux #design #ui #encryption #privacy #crypto


Thanks for sharing! 👍 Together we'll spread #privacy to the world. 🔒


Opened new #email account at @Tutanota
No ads, no tracking, #encryption enabled by default, no bullshit. Highly recommended!
#degoogle #privacy
tuta.com/


Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads

timsh.org/tracking-myself-down…

#privacy #tracking #linuxmobile #surveillance


When digital #privacy is all you need...


Want to use DeepSeek models but worried about sending your data to China? 🇨🇳🚫
Good news! Perplexity AI now offers DeepSeek hosted on US servers, so you can explore its capabilities without privacy concerns.
#TechRadar: techradar.com/computing/artifi…
#PerplexityAI: perplexity.ai/
#AI #DeepSeek #Privacy #Perplexity


On a continuous effort to move away from Big Tech and transition to platforms and services that value privacy, I just made a new email account at @Tutanota
Their fundamental principles of no tracking, no data scanning, encryption, and privacy by design are much appreciated.
Thank you team at Tuta for your efforts!

#encryption #EmailEncryption #privacy


Nice. How to leave #X / #Twitter and #Instagram? In the edition of tomorrow‘s newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine offers valuable tips and highlights alternatives in the #Fediverse, such as #Mastodon and #Pixelfed.

A must-read especially for @Gargron from @Mastodon and @dansup from @PixelFed and of course @helpers / @admins

📖 Read more here in german language: augsburger-allgemeine.de/geld-…

#SocialMedia #Privacy #Alternatives #Mastodon #Pixelfed #Fediverse


There's no end to corporate manipulation of people's privacy.
#CVS #privacy

gizmodo.com/cvs-is-turning-loc…


Nice. How to leave #X / #Twitter and #Instagram? In the edition of tomorrow‘s newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine offers valuable tips and highlights alternatives in the #Fediverse, such as #Mastodon and #Pixelfed. A must-read especially for @Gargron from @Mastodon and @dansup from @PixelFed and of course @helpers / @admins

📖 Read more here in german language: augsburger-allgemeine.de/geld-…

#SocialMedia #Privacy #Alternatives #Mastodon #Pixelfed #Fediverse


On this Data Privacy Day, choose a search engine that puts you first. No ads. No tracking. No compromise. Just the results you want, on your terms.

(Illustration by Chaz Hutton for Kagi)

#Kagi #Search #DataPrivacyDay #DataPrivacyWeek #Privacy #AdFree


Let's say China manages to get just a little bit of data about people from just a few of these ... 😑

"China's overlapping tech-industrial ecosystems"

high-capacity.com/p/chinas-ove…

#cybersec #cybersecurity #infosec #itsec #china #privacy #gdpr #dataprotection #dataskydd


Reminder that @1password currently has 6 positions open on the Security team, with more likely on the way. If you want to work with me (or, even better, be on my Privacy team), check out the listings here and see if one might be a good fit for you.

jobs.lever.co/1password?depart…

#jobs #hiring #fedihire #security #privacy #passwords


Earlier today, Google rejected a feature request asking for the option to use DNS-over-HTTPS servers other than Google’s and Cloudflare’s in Android: issuetracker.google.com/issues…

According to Google’s own testing, DoH is more private, secure, and performant than DoT on Android. There is no reason whatsoever to limit it to a handful of Google-approved servers.

Just like with Manifest V3 in Chrome, this arbitrary restriction on what DNS servers can use the most modern technologies in Android is a clear example of Google abusing their position to campaign against blocking invasive trackers. One of the clearest uses for custom DNS servers is the ability to block privacy-invasive services like Google’s at the DNS level.

Further details & discussion on our forum: discuss.privacyguides.net/t/go…

#android #google #privacy #dns


The United States Government, in the wake of mobile cellular networks being compromised by China, finally suggested Americans use encrypted apps and services. One of those suggestions, provided as an exexample, by the Joe Biden Administration, was Signal.

Donald Trump, however, around the time Mark Zuckerberg made his announcement, concerning Meta policy, has continuously used WhatsApp as their example.

#Signal #WhatsApp #Privacy #Encryption #Safety #Security #Meta


So our beloved PM is announcing some "strong controls" as he's afraid of the coup... which is plain nonsense and he's just afraid to hear what people think of his romantic affairs with bloodlusting dictator, but that's not the point why I post this.

There is legitimate question on the table - what is actually the best offline (no Internet) messaging app as of today? I recall Bridgefy. Is there anything better?

#infosec #privacy #protest


Die Signatur-Problematik bei F-Droid ist offenbar noch immer nicht gelöst: "We find it concerning that F-Droid constantly chooses to move the goalposts and continues to rely on a fundamentally broken approach for certificate pinning, merely patching [15] known vulnerabilities without ever addressing the underlying cause." 😵👇

github.com/obfusk/fdroid-fakes…

#fdroid #security #privacy #certpinning #signature


Microsoft Office 2016 and Office 2019 will no longer receive software updates, technical support, or bug and security fixes after 14.10.2025.

Consider migrating to LibreOffice.

LibreOffice is free to use.
LibreOffice supports Office file formats.

Install LibreOffice and compare it with your version of Office.

Website: libreoffice.org
Mastodon: @libreoffice

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#Microsoft #Office2016 #Office2019 #Office #LibreOffice #CyberSecurity #Privacy #InfoSec #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS


👋 hi
We heard you moved away from a toxic social media platform?
Congrats! now do Google Docs!

cryptpad.org

#privacy #collaboration #office-suite #googledocs #office365


"Hey, what's your password?"

Nice try. My password is:

Tuta_MailDoesntLetThatHappen!

Enjoy your Sunday! 🤩

🔐 #Encryption #Privacy #Security 🔐


This #NewYearsResolution should be about increasing your #privacy. Share now!

❤️ ❤️ ❤️


Fighting for your right to #privacy since 2011. Thanks everyone for your support! 💪💪💪


Looks like #Microsoft appointed the new Data Protection Supervisor of the #EU.

This happened because the “left-liberal camp” did not agree on which candidate to support, if I am reading the news correctly.

I saw outgoing EDPS Wojciech Wiewiórowski at more than one @fnf meeting, and I doubt that his successor will turn up at this grassroots #privacy barcamp.

heise.de/en/news/Too-critical-…

#Wiewiorowski #EDPS


I like @Tutanota as email provider, but, sometimes it feels like their developers have never used an email client before in their life.
Now they *just* (I mean....) introduced labels, BUT you still cannot create filters that automatically apply labels too.
Gmail may be the evil to avoid at all cost, but, their UX had already everything like 20 years ago.

Tuta is good for privacy, but their UX is stuck in the '90s and it makes a horrible whole email experience. #privacy


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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…