#digitalsurveillance — Public Fediverse posts

Engadget: GM agrees to pay $12.75 million to settle California lawsuit over misuse of customers’ driving data . “Following its settlement with the FTC earlier this year over its sale of drivers’ data to brokers, General Motors has now also reached a settlement in California. The company agreed to pay $12.75 million in civil penalties to settle the lawsuit led by Attorney General Rob Bonta on […]

Engadget: GM agrees to pay $12.75 million to settle California lawsuit over misuse of customers’ driving data . “Following its settlement with the FTC earlier this year over its sale of drivers’ data to brokers, General Motors has now also reached a settlement in California. The company agreed to pay $12.75 million in civil penalties to settle the lawsuit led by Attorney General Rob Bonta on […]

Engadget: GM agrees to pay $12.75 million to settle California lawsuit over misuse of customers’ driving data . “Following its settlement with the FTC earlier this year over its sale of drivers’ data to brokers, General Motors has now also reached a settlement in California. The company agreed to pay $12.75 million in civil penalties to settle the lawsuit led by Attorney General Rob Bonta on […]

Engadget: GM agrees to pay $12.75 million to settle California lawsuit over misuse of customers’ driving data . “Following its settlement with the FTC earlier this year over its sale of drivers’ data to brokers, General Motors has now also reached a settlement in California. The company agreed to pay $12.75 million in civil penalties to settle the lawsuit led by Attorney General Rob Bonta on […]

Engadget: GM agrees to pay $12.75 million to settle California lawsuit over misuse of customers’ driving data . “Following its settlement with the FTC earlier this year over its sale of drivers’ data to brokers, General Motors has now also reached a settlement in California. The company agreed to pay $12.75 million in civil penalties to settle the lawsuit led by Attorney General Rob Bonta on […]

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Episode 4 will tackle the hardest nut: Google Play Services (notifications, location, authentication). Can we replace it with microG? Spoiler: not easily on this phone.
⬇️ Continue to Episode 4.

#DeGoogledAndroid #privacymatters #digitalsurveillance

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Stock Samsung apps are not private. I replaced them all with open source alternatives. The main source: F‑Droid (a massive repository of libre apps). I also added the IzzyOnDroid repo for more recent builds.
#fossifyapps #privacymatters #digitalsurveillance #fdroid

Gizmodo: FCC Attempts to Solve Robocall Problem by Potentially Creating Even Bigger Privacy Problem. “Among other sweeping changes, the era of the burner phone could end with the rollout of new ‘Know Your Customer’ rules voted on by the FCC on April 30, as noted by the blog of the D.C. telecom law firm Wiley Rein. Customers would, according to the proposed rules, have to present a government […]

Gizmodo: FCC Attempts to Solve Robocall Problem by Potentially Creating Even Bigger Privacy Problem. “Among other sweeping changes, the era of the burner phone could end with the rollout of new ‘Know Your Customer’ rules voted on by the FCC on April 30, as noted by the blog of the D.C. telecom law firm Wiley Rein. Customers would, according to the proposed rules, have to present a government […]

Gizmodo: FCC Attempts to Solve Robocall Problem by Potentially Creating Even Bigger Privacy Problem. “Among other sweeping changes, the era of the burner phone could end with the rollout of new ‘Know Your Customer’ rules voted on by the FCC on April 30, as noted by the blog of the D.C. telecom law firm Wiley Rein. Customers would, according to the proposed rules, have to present a government […]

Gizmodo: FCC Attempts to Solve Robocall Problem by Potentially Creating Even Bigger Privacy Problem. “Among other sweeping changes, the era of the burner phone could end with the rollout of new ‘Know Your Customer’ rules voted on by the FCC on April 30, as noted by the blog of the D.C. telecom law firm Wiley Rein. Customers would, according to the proposed rules, have to present a government […]

Gizmodo: FCC Attempts to Solve Robocall Problem by Potentially Creating Even Bigger Privacy Problem. “Among other sweeping changes, the era of the burner phone could end with the rollout of new ‘Know Your Customer’ rules voted on by the FCC on April 30, as noted by the blog of the D.C. telecom law firm Wiley Rein. Customers would, according to the proposed rules, have to present a government […]

Courthouse News Service: Meta can’t duck majority of Android advertising tracking claims. “A federal judge ruled Monday that Meta must face claims brought by Android users who say the tech giant exploited vulnerabilities in Android smartphones to match users’ browsing activity to their Meta social media accounts in an attempt to create more detailed advertising profiles.”

Associated Press: A bank robber’s cellphone gave him away. Now the Supreme Court is hearing his case . “The geofence warrant police served on Google found that [Okello] Chatrie’s cellphone was among a handful of devices in the vicinity of the bank around the time it was robbed. Now the Supreme Court will decide whether geofence warrants violate the Fourth Amendment’s ban on unreasonable […]

CalMatters: Websites break California privacy law at ‘industrial scale,’ survey finds. “A new audit has found that websites across the internet may be failing to abide by California privacy law, ignoring a requirement to not track visitors who set a privacy control.”

BBC: Meta to track workers’ clicks and keystrokes to train AI. “Meta will start tracking the way employees work, including their keystrokes and mouse clicks, to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models. The company, which owns Instagram and Facebook, told workers on Tuesday that a new tool will run on Meta’s computers and internal apps, logging their activity to be used as training data […]

Tom’s Hardware: LinkedIn is spying on you, according to a new ‘BrowserGate’ security report — scripts stealthily scan visitors’ browsers for over 6,000 Chrome extensions and harvest hardware data. “LinkedIn is understood to be injecting a JavaScript fingerprinting script into every page load that probes visitors’ browsers for 6,236 installed Chrome extensions and collects detailed device […]

Tom’s Hardware: LinkedIn is spying on you, according to a new ‘BrowserGate’ security report — scripts stealthily scan visitors’ browsers for over 6,000 Chrome extensions and harvest hardware data. “LinkedIn is understood to be injecting a JavaScript fingerprinting script into every page load that probes visitors’ browsers for 6,236 installed Chrome extensions and collects detailed device […]

Tom’s Hardware: LinkedIn is spying on you, according to a new ‘BrowserGate’ security report — scripts stealthily scan visitors’ browsers for over 6,000 Chrome extensions and harvest hardware data. “LinkedIn is understood to be injecting a JavaScript fingerprinting script into every page load that probes visitors’ browsers for 6,236 installed Chrome extensions and collects detailed device […]

Tom’s Hardware: LinkedIn is spying on you, according to a new ‘BrowserGate’ security report — scripts stealthily scan visitors’ browsers for over 6,000 Chrome extensions and harvest hardware data. “LinkedIn is understood to be injecting a JavaScript fingerprinting script into every page load that probes visitors’ browsers for 6,236 installed Chrome extensions and collects detailed device […]

Tom’s Hardware: LinkedIn is spying on you, according to a new ‘BrowserGate’ security report — scripts stealthily scan visitors’ browsers for over 6,000 Chrome extensions and harvest hardware data. “LinkedIn is understood to be injecting a JavaScript fingerprinting script into every page load that probes visitors’ browsers for 6,236 installed Chrome extensions and collects detailed device […]

Paypal decided to ask for more data. I decided to finally cancel it

#paypal #digitalsurveillance

NOTUS: The White House App Is Riddled With Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities. “The cybersecurity experts’ reviews of the app code turned up a host of issues that they say make data — for both users and some White House staffers — vulnerable. Several told NOTUS they were shocked by the slipshod approach to cybersecurity by the federal government, especially while the U.S. is engaged in war.”

Gothamist: New digital hall passes track bathroom breaks, gather data in NYC schools. “Permission to use the bathroom has taken an Orwellian turn at more than 150 New York City public schools, students say. New digital hall passes allow teachers to more closely monitor how long a student is spending in the bathroom — and who else has requested a bathroom break.”

Mashable: Trump’s new White House app is a security and privacy nightmare. “X user @Thereallo1026 went so far as decompiling the White House app and found that it’s sharing the exact location data of its users every 4.5 minutes and sending that information to a third-party server.”

Ars Technica: FBI started buying Americans’ location data again, Kash Patel confirms. “Three years after saying it had stopped buying location data of Americans without a warrant, the FBI acknowledged it has restarted the purchases. During questioning at a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing yesterday, FBI Director Kash Patel said the location data purchases have produced valuable […]

Me, in 2021: "piracy of open source makes no sense"

Me, in 2026: "They did it. They fucking did it. Look at what they fucking did. With various states pushing age verification and biometric identification laws on developers, and distro developers complying far too easily, now it has actually become *necessary* to pirate Open Source software"

Two *very* notable examples of developers who are *already* adding fascism to FOSS: #systemd (as expected) and XDG / #freedesktop .

[1] https://lemmy.world/comment/22746018

#Linux #OpenSource #Piracy #OpenSourcePiracy #DigitalSovereignty #DigitalSurveillance

MinnPost: These warrants let police sweep up data from anyone near a crime scene. A bipartisan Minnesota bill says they should be illegal. . “Law enforcement can request data related to crime scenes – or more expansive areas – and work backwards to look for suspects. A group of bipartisan Minnesota lawmakers says they should be illegal except in emergency scenarios. They argue reverse […]

Lifehacker: How to Stop Social Media Platforms From Tracking You When You Share Posts. “When you hit the share button on social media apps such as Instagram, Facebook, or Threads, these sites tack on a tracker to the link you’re sharing. This tracker means that Instagram can tell who you’ve shared the link with, and it likely uses this information to further optimize its algorithm for ads. […]

As expected, now a new service ``systemd-censord`` is being proposed for Debian.

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2026/03/msg00018.html

#DigitalSurveillance #Debian #Systemd

Having a VERY annoying time with a job offering that requires to take an *external*, *automated*, *AI-driven*, *once-only* online test.

Just about as soon as I entered it locked controls, not letting me even click the help or info options, and started filling RAM until the tab crashed. Tried reloading, told me I had a few chances remaining. Restarted the test, RAM filled again, tab crashed. Tried again, test timeout.

And now I'm locked out of the external system so I can't even continue or request an alternative on this end.

I'm tempted to ask the job offerer for a manual, or at least human-driven test, but if that doesn't work I'm gonna pass on this offering.

The external test provider that repeatedly crashed was Pendula / SHL, btw. And I hear in this field they are one of the *better* ones! I've heard the ones used for universities are *ridiculous*.

#AntiAI #Pendula #DigitalSurveillance

Here's what concerns me most from a privacy perspective. These bills don't just verify age once. They create a persistent identity layer inside the operating system that applications can query at will.

The commercial age verification vendors who would provide this infrastructure (Yoti, Veriff, Jumio) charge $0.10 to $2.00 per check, require proprietary SDKs, demand API keys tied to commercial accounts, and operate cloud-only with no self-hosted option. Your age verification data goes to a third-party cloud service. Every time.

Compare this to what the EU built. The EU Digital Identity Wallet under eIDAS 2.0 is open-source, self-hostable, and uses zero-knowledge proofs. You can prove you're over 18 without revealing your birth date, your name, or anything else. No per-check fees, no proprietary SDKs, no data going to a vendor's cloud. The EU's Digital Services Act puts age verification obligations on Very Large Online Platforms (45M+ monthly users), not on operating systems. FOSS projects that don't act as intermediary services are explicitly outside scope. Micro and small enterprises get additional exemptions.

#ageverification #followthemoney #privacy #digitalsurveillance

@TheLastOfHisName https://beige.party/@TheLastOfHisName/116222062028401019

Iran Faces Widespread Internet Shutdown Amid Conflict and Infrastructure Damage

📰 Original title: The Future of Iran’s Internet Is More Uncertain Than Ever

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/iran-faces-widespread-internet-shutdown-amid-conflict-and-infrastructure-damage/?redirpost=13447084-71f7-4e4e-ad90-3b3e5eaafd29

#technology #iran #internetshutdown #digitalsurveillance

Iran Faces Widespread Internet Shutdown Amid Conflict and Infrastructure Damage

📰 Original title: The Future of Iran’s Internet Is More Uncertain Than Ever

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/iran-faces-widespread-internet-shutdown-amid-conflict-and-infrastructure-damage/?redirpost=13447084-71f7-4e4e-ad90-3b3e5eaafd29

#technology #iran #internetshutdown #digitalsurveillance

In the age of mass #digitalsurveillance, people’s fundamental right to organize is under threat. 🫂

In its new guide, WIRED explores 5 tools and techniques that help grassroots movements oppose vast #surveillance powers and safeguard their #privacy.

@WIRED

Full guide:👇 https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-organize-safely-in-the-age-of-surveillance/

Gizmodo: Facing Backlash, OpenAI Amends Pentagon Deal to Add More Anti-Surveillance Verbiage. “News broke Monday night that OpenAI and the Pentagon have amended their controversial deal to include more words about privacy protections.”

The Tech ICE Uses To Find You

- With billions in new funding, ICE is buying the most powerful surveillance gear on earth to spy on civilians.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1K7yLWs2DM

#Proton #ICE #DigitalSurveillance #Fascism

Gizmodo: Feds Used Online Advertising Data to Track the Public’s Phone Locations. “An internal U.S. Customs and Border Protection document reveals that the agency bought online advertising data that could allow it to track mobile phone locations over time.”

Gizmodo: Feds Used Online Advertising Data to Track the Public’s Phone Locations. “An internal U.S. Customs and Border Protection document reveals that the agency bought online advertising data that could allow it to track mobile phone locations over time.”

Gizmodo: Feds Used Online Advertising Data to Track the Public’s Phone Locations. “An internal U.S. Customs and Border Protection document reveals that the agency bought online advertising data that could allow it to track mobile phone locations over time.”

Gizmodo: Feds Used Online Advertising Data to Track the Public’s Phone Locations. “An internal U.S. Customs and Border Protection document reveals that the agency bought online advertising data that could allow it to track mobile phone locations over time.”

Gizmodo: Feds Used Online Advertising Data to Track the Public’s Phone Locations. “An internal U.S. Customs and Border Protection document reveals that the agency bought online advertising data that could allow it to track mobile phone locations over time.”

Svenska Dagbladet: She Came Out of the Bathroom Naked, Employee Says. “Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’s lives.”

The Power of "No"

"When you refuse to install a program that disrespects your freedom - even when it is inconvenient, and especially when it's inconvenient - you're declaring that your rights aren't for sale. You're proving that proprietary software isn't the only way."

https://jxself.org/power-of-no.shtml

#foss #freesoftware #software #opensource #digitalAutonomy #digitalsurveillance

New York Times: Lawmakers Ask Tech Companies What User Data They Provided to D.H.S. This link goes to a gift article. “The letters cited reporting by The New York Times that found tech companies had been flooded with requests from the Department of Homeland Security for the names, email addresses and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize Immigration and […]

New York Times: Lawmakers Ask Tech Companies What User Data They Provided to D.H.S. This link goes to a gift article. “The letters cited reporting by The New York Times that found tech companies had been flooded with requests from the Department of Homeland Security for the names, email addresses and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize Immigration and […]

New York Times: Lawmakers Ask Tech Companies What User Data They Provided to D.H.S. This link goes to a gift article. “The letters cited reporting by The New York Times that found tech companies had been flooded with requests from the Department of Homeland Security for the names, email addresses and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize Immigration and […]

New York Times: Lawmakers Ask Tech Companies What User Data They Provided to D.H.S. This link goes to a gift article. “The letters cited reporting by The New York Times that found tech companies had been flooded with requests from the Department of Homeland Security for the names, email addresses and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize Immigration and […]

New York Times: Lawmakers Ask Tech Companies What User Data They Provided to D.H.S. This link goes to a gift article. “The letters cited reporting by The New York Times that found tech companies had been flooded with requests from the Department of Homeland Security for the names, email addresses and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize Immigration and […]

Engadget: Someone made an app to warn you if smart glasses are nearby. “As first reported by 404 Media, the app detects the unique Bluetooth signature emitted by smart glasses and sends a push alert that someone wearing the device may potentially be nearby.”