The New York Times
Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret
20+ min · · Dozens of companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds. They say it’s anonymous, but the data shows how personal it is. · Shared by 649, including Nicolas Babin, Auf der Isar gibt es keine Matrosen, nur Flößer., arabist, swissmiss, Gerd Leonhard, Jane, Mark Kaigwa, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, ❤️ Umair, Josep M. Ganyet, Mark Little, BrendanEich, Liliane Ferrari ™, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, John Battelle, Richard Gutjahr, Nick Szabo, Thomas Power, Aleksandra Wisniewska, Tristan Nitot - nitot chez framapiaf point org
medium.freecodecamp.com
How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour
Summary · 5 min · · “Only the paranoid survive.” — Andy Grove · Shared by 552, including يونس بن عمارة, Benoit Curdy, Nico Luchsinger, Nils Hitze, Bram Kanstein, Courtney Bolton ★, Matthias Lampe, Eric David Smith, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Thomas Power, Dez S. Papp, PotHix, Roland Wyss-Aerni 😷, Ryan Boren, Stephen C Sanders, Carl Morris, Benoît Perrier, Simon Wüthrich, Michael Duergner, Lorenz König
Cloudflare
Announcing 1.1.1.1: the fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service
9 min · · Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better Internet. We're excited today to take another step toward that mission with the launch of 1.1.1.1 — the Internet's fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS… · Shared by 491, including Oriol Farré, Vinny Lingham, Josh Clark, Tris Hussey, Mark Kaigwa, Rate limit exceeded, adrianoesch, Thomas Pleil, Esther Schindler, Nils Hitze, Shawn Venasse, Mauricio Matias, Bjorn Larsen, Sachin Rekhi, Andreas Von Gunten, Helmi, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, David Butler, Ron McIntyre
Fast Company
Exclusive: Tim Berners-Lee tells us his radical new plan to upend the World Wide Web
5 min · · With an ambitious decentralized platform, the father of the web hopes it’s game on for corporate tech giants like Facebook and Google. · Shared by 599, including Jeremiah Owyang, Gideonro, designshard, Lord Travis Wright, Liliane Ferrari ™, Brian Roemmele, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, David Cohn, Korben, Mike Butcher, David Dias, Thomas Power, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Antonio Vieira Santos, Gerd Leonhard, MIT CSAIL, Klaus Eck, Howard Getson, Tristan Nitot - nitot chez framapiaf point org, jean marc manach @manhack@social.tcit.fr
Gizmodo
How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met
9 min · · In real life, in the natural course of conversation, it is not uncommon to talk about a person you may know. You meet someone and say, “I’m from Sarasota,” and they say, “Oh, I have a grandparent in Sarasota,” and they tell you where they live and their name, and you may or may not recognize them.
· Shared by 724, including Jane, Thomas Pleil, Oriol Farré, Ron McIntyre, Martin Stabe, Dominik Grolimund, Mathew Ingram, Ian Lurie 🇺🇦 @ianlurie@mastodon.social, Mike Butcher, Chris Messina, Matt Navarra, Nicolas Berg, Markus Maurer, Mark Kaigwa, Esther Schindler, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Kashmir Hill, Stephanie A Kowalski, Ralph Hutter, Adrian Zumbrunnen
VICE
Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware
Summary · 11+ min · · A dive into the thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking. · Shared by 4228, including Ryan Boren, Nils Hitze, Antonio Ramos, Damien Van Achter, Helmi, Florian Hanke 🍎, Markus Merz, Parin Vachhani, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯🕶, Thomas Power, cbz, Björn Ognibeni, Flurin Capaul, Andrea Desiato, Faik Ersoy, Stowe Boyd, Michael Duergner, getAbstract, janfsauer, Philipp Ebneter
Lawfare
Reflections on TikTok and Data Privacy as National Security
7 min · · What is behind CFIUS's probe into Tik Tok? · Shared by 8, including Desmond Williams
apps.apple.com
Jumbo: Privacy + Security
7 min · · Jumbo: Take back control of your personal data Featured in: The New York Times, Fast Company, TechCrunch and The Verge THE PROBLEM: Ever wanted to delete old tweets or old Facebook posts? Stop… · Shared by 11, including Harry Briggs, Desmond Williams, Rob Go, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after
Lifehacker
How to Skim a Privacy Policy
7 min · · You just downloaded the hottest new app, and now you have to click through pages of boilerplate text before you can use it. Who has time for all that? Even privacy and security-minded folks often skim… · Shared by 12, including Cory Lebson, Desmond Williams
whimsical.com
Choosing Privacy
1 min · · Why we decided to make Whimsical tracking free by default. · Shared by 11, including Desmond Williams, Jitendra Vyas, David Hellmann
itproportal.com
Can GDPR handle blockchain’s privacy problem?
4 min · · GDPR has been designed to apply to any technology, but it has real difficulties reconciling with blockchain. · Shared by 5, including Desmond Williams
AI Papers
Gaussian Differential Privacy
1 min · · Differential privacy has seen remarkable success as a rigorous and practical formalization of data privacy in the past decade. This privacy definition and its divergence based relaxations, however,… · Shared by 9, including @spite.vc on bluesky, Desmond Williams, AGI.Eth | MTL.Eth
The New York Times
Be Paranoid About Privacy
5 min · · We need to take back our privacy from tech companies — even if that means sacrificing convenience. · Shared by 38, including Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Faik Ersoy, luis antónio santos, Desmond Williams
The New York Times
Freaked Out? 3 Steps to Protect Your Phone
3 min · · Tips to prevent your location from being bought and sold. · Shared by 79, including Meghan Duffy, Fern, Desmond Williams, Klaus Eck, Massimo Banzi, Faik Ersoy, Scott Monty, Matthew Green, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, SwiftOnSecurity, Nancy, Dave Nussbaum, Nils Hitze, jean marc manach @manhack@social.tcit.fr
TNW
Your annual reminder that Facebook tracks your location after you opt out
1 min · · Facebook told US senators it tracks users' location even after they've turned those settings off. Don't be shocked, we learned this exactly a year ago. · Shared by 67, including Desmond Williams, Faik Ersoy, Katja Evertz, Matthias Lampe, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, TNW Top Stories
MIT Technology Review
How Apple personalizes Siri without hoovering up your data
2 min · · The tech giant is using privacy-preserving machine learning to improve its voice assistant while keeping your data on your phone. · Shared by 53, including Bob E. Hayes, Desmond Williams, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer