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XLE@piefed.socialto Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•ChatGPT and other AI tools could be putting users at risk by getting company web addresses wrongEnglish3·2 days agoConsidering Google has put effort into intentionally worsening its own product, it makes sense that their chapel alternative would be something people just use.
What are the chances Mozilla will actually open source the deepfake text detector, which is literally the only part of the entire fake spotport folio that might be worth preserving?
XLE@piefed.socialto Firefox@lemmy.ml•Why does Firefox have unblockable ads on the NTP?English3·7 days agoThis narrows the possibilities down to
threefour interesting options.- Mozilla did this, and you’re the first person to talk about it online
- Your OS did this, and you’re the first person to talk about it online
- A protected browser page got hijacked by malware on Linux
- You did this and forgot, somehow
Some other comments have been annoyingly dismissive, but I hope you push onward to figure out what the hell this is. Because if it’s one of the first two, it’s a big deal.
XLE@piefed.socialto Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Cloudflare offers to make AI pay to crawl websitesEnglish8·7 days agoSo Cloudflare’s business model is openly the same as a corrupt security guard, somebody who promises to protect your stuff unless they get paid well enough?
XLE@piefed.socialto Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•[Comcast] Using WiFi Motion in the Xfinity appEnglish6·8 days agoThat’s terrifying.
As an example, they list a printer detecting motion nearby.
XLE@piefed.socialto Firefox@lemmy.ml•Why does Firefox have unblockable ads on the NTP?English51·8 days agoWhat part of it doesn’t? Besides the massive banner added the bottom of the screen, everything looks like it’s the default. That icon in the top-left corner comes preinstalled. The search engine is still the default. The only customization I see here is an extra theme and a couple of add-ons.
XLE@piefed.socialto Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Danish citizens to ‘own their own faces’ to prevent deepfakesEnglish1·8 days agoAnd the AI Company Man told me I needed to scan my face into an orb to do this! At least they used the word “governance” a bit and offered me a pittance for the brave new opportunity.
XLE@piefed.socialto Firefox@lemmy.ml•Why does Firefox have unblockable ads on the NTP?English61·8 days agoThis is something new. What’s under the 3-dot menu? And to cover our bases, can you look through your browsing history to determine where this copy of Firefox came from?
XLE@piefed.socialto Firefox@lemmy.ml•Why does Firefox have unblockable ads on the NTP?English10·8 days ago“thought-provoking stories” has been part of Mozilla’s Firefox for a while, originally tied to their Pocket branding. I guess Pocket is dead but sadly not this part of it.
XLE@piefed.socialto Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•New VPN Service Can't Log Users by Design - TorrentFreakEnglish23·9 days agoThere seems to be something a little… off here. VP looks like it’s a tech demo for a patent held by another company.
The new VPN service is operated by the American company VP.NET LLC, which in turn is owned by TCP IP Inc
And TCP IP (a terrible name for people who want to look it up) is exclusively proud of owning a patent it thinks is worth a lot of money. From its site:
We own the intellectual property that enables hardware-guaranteed network privacy—addressing a critical market gap worth $562 billion by 2032.
To me, it sounds like the CEO is trying to sell the company itself as a product to a larger investor. And that other privacy considerations, like jurisdiction, never factored into this.
Then I got to this part of the article, which seems to confirm those suspicions.
The idea to use SGX as a privacy shield comes from Andrew Lee, the chief privacy architect at VP.net. As the founder of Private Internet Access, which he sold to Kape a few years ago, Lee has a long history in the VPN space. However, he believes this new concept is a breakthrough.
So this company is run by somebody who sold out before.
XLE@piefed.socialto Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Protesters blockade Palantir offices over tech firm’s ‘totalitarian’ work with ICEEnglish4·9 days agoAnd you personally believe the people manipulating Trump have names like…
XLE@piefed.socialto Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Protesters blockade Palantir offices over tech firm’s ‘totalitarian’ work with ICEEnglish61·10 days agoSo the people you were actually referring to were…
XLE@piefed.socialto Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Protesters blockade Palantir offices over tech firm’s ‘totalitarian’ work with ICEEnglish71·10 days agoTrump is a muppet being played out, people above him feed him king vibes to play him out. They manipulate his narcism for their profit. Elon and the young kids that are working doge are played out.
You mean people like Curtis Yarvin, Peter Thiel, white supremacist Stephen Miller, and the Project 2025 team, right?
Because people could read your post and think you were talking about Jews.
XLE@piefed.socialto privacy@lemmy.ca•ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails ShowEnglish3·11 days agoAll I can tell you is what I read on the linked page because I haven’t analyzed the bill itself.
Impact on ALL Canadians:
Companies must keep records of your personal data under secret government orders, with blanket immunity for privacy violations for handing over more than they should.
XLE@piefed.socialOPto Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails ShowEnglish13·12 days agoIt’s your right until they ban it
XLE@piefed.socialto privacy@lemmy.ca•Psylo iOS browser takes aim at digital fingerprintingEnglish1·12 days agoIs there no such thing on Android already?
Usually, Apple devices are limited on features, but I’ve never seen an Android app pull this off.
XLE@piefed.socialto privacy@lemmy.ca•ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails ShowEnglish15·12 days agoWatch out for Bill C2. It requires companies to collect data on you (Canadian citizens) and shields them from “accidentally” oversharing it.
XLE@piefed.socialOPto Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails ShowEnglish25·12 days agoIt’s difficult to identify cops when they hide their name, badge number, and face. And when they get extra, pro bono legal support when challenged.
And those are just the developments from this year that I can recall.
Edit: this was supposed to be a reply to @NoiseColor@lemmy.world but either my app broke or I’m half blind
XLE@piefed.socialOPto Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance memeEnglish11·12 days agoWhat are you assuming about my identity, and declaring about your own identity, that makes you uniquely able to speak about affairs in China, while telling others to shut up about it?
I’m surprised this article doesn’t mention privacytests.org by name, but it reaches a conclusion that may as well:
Thankfully there’s a good recommendation in the very next paragraph for all things (messaging apps, browsers, etc):
Also: shots fired at XMPP throughout, as the poor protocol limps along trying desperately to catch up to the encryption baseline that was set over a decade ago by the first versions of Signal.
Why OMEMO is “bad” is indirectly answered earlier:
Similar discussions have skewered the federated Delta Chat for having an even worse version of this issue.