#pricacy — Public Fediverse posts

Thorium #Reader Il lettore di #eBook #opensource che stavamo aspettando
#software #windows #macos #linux #pricacy @opensource

https://webappsmagazine.blogspot.com/2026/06/thorium-reader-il-lettore-di-ebook-open.html

Thorium #Reader Il lettore di #eBook #opensource che stavamo aspettando
#software #windows #macos #linux #pricacy @opensource

https://webappsmagazine.blogspot.com/2026/06/thorium-reader-il-lettore-di-ebook-open.html

Surprise: @protonprivacy wants us to add tracking links to our website. That is an odd suggestion coming from a “privacy” company. Should we take their bribe?

We get a lot of weird suggestions by e-mail but only one company (#nordvpn) tried to bribe us before: https://fedifreu.de/@switchingsoftware/114223190053914164

#proton #protonmail #protontracking #tracking #affiliateMarketing #pricacy #privacywashing

Surprise: @protonprivacy wants us to add tracking links to our website. That is an odd suggestion coming from a “privacy” company. Should we take their bribe?

We get a lot of weird suggestions by e-mail but only one company (#nordvpn) tried to bribe us before: https://fedifreu.de/@switchingsoftware/114223190053914164

#proton #protonmail #protontracking #tracking #affiliateMarketing #pricacy #privacywashing

“Privacy is rarely lost in one fell swoop. It is usually eroded over time, little bits dissolving almost imperceptibly until we finally begin to notice how much is gone.”*…

… And now, indeed, we’re beginning to notice. Hana Lee Goldin surveys the state of play– who’s buying our personal information, what they’re using it for, and how the system works behind the screen– and considers our options…

Sometime in the mid-2000s, most of us started handing over pieces of ourselves to the internet without giving the exchange a second thought. We created email accounts, signed up for social media, bought things online, downloaded apps, swiped loyalty cards, connected fitness trackers, stored photos in the cloud, and agreed to terms of service that almost none of us have ever read in full. We did this thousands of times over two decades and counting, and each interaction felt small enough to be inconsequential.

But the accumulation is enormous. More than 6 billion people now use the internet, and each one makes an estimated 5,000 digital interactions per day. Most of those interactions happen without our conscious awareness: a GPS ping, a page load, an app opening, a browser cookie refreshing, a device checking in with a cell tower. The average person in 2010 made an estimated 298 digital interactions per day. In fifteen years, that number multiplied more than sixteenfold. Those digital interactions produce records that can persist indefinitely, stored, copied, indexed, bought, sold, and combined with other records to build profiles of extraordinary detail.

If we’ve been online since the late 1990s or early 2000s, our data footprint can include social media accounts we’ve created, online purchases we’ve made, forums we’ve posted in, loyalty cards we’ve used, and apps we’ve installed going back decades. Some of that information lives on platforms we’ve long forgotten. Some of it was collected by companies that have since been acquired or dissolved, with our data potentially passing to successor entities we’ve never heard of. The digital life most of us have been living for 15 to 25 years has produced a layered, evolving archive that only grows more valuable to the people who buy and sell it as time goes on.

Most of us sense that something is off about all of this. In a 2023 survey, Pew Research found that roughly eight in ten Americans feel they have little to no control over the data companies collect about them, 71% are concerned about government data use, and 67% say they understand little to nothing about what companies are doing with their personal information. The concern is real and widespread. And so is the feeling of helplessness: 60% of Americans believe it’s impossible to go through daily life without having their data tracked. The unease is there. What’s missing is a clear picture of what’s happening on the other side of the transaction…

[Goldin explains what data is being collected and shared, and by whom; how the data is managed and trafficked; how its being used (by insurance and financial companies, employers and landlords, retailers, AI companies, governments, and criminals); and how “inferred” data is used to augment the “hard” data. It’s chilling. She then puts the issue into context, and discusses we we can– and cannot– do about it…]

… The philosopher Helen Nissenbaum has a framework for what’s happening here: contextual integrity. The idea is that privacy isn’t about secrecy. We share information willingly all the time, when the context fits. We tell our doctor about a health condition because we expect that information to stay within the medical relationship. We search for symptoms on a health website because we assume that search won’t follow us into an insurance application. In the current data economy, that’s exactly the kind of boundary that dissolves, because the company collecting the data and the company buying it are operating in completely different contexts.

This is an information literacy problem as much as a privacy problem. Information literacy is usually framed around consumption: evaluating sources, questioning claims, recognizing bias in what we read and watch. But every time we interact with a digital service, we’re also producing information: generating a record that will be read, interpreted, scored, and acted on by organizations we may never interact with directly. Many of us have gotten better at questioning the information that comes at us: checking sources, noticing bias, and recognizing when something is trying to sell us a conclusion. But we haven’t developed equivalent habits around the information that flows from us: where it goes after we hand it over, who reads the record, what incentives they have, and what conclusions they draw. The gap between what we think we’re consenting to and what we’ve agreed to in practice is where the real exposure lives, and the system is designed to keep that gap invisible.

One of the reasons the “so what” question is hard to answer with action is that opting out of data collection often means opting out of participation. Declining a social media platform’s terms of service means not using the platform. Refusing location permissions can mean losing access to navigation, ride-sharing, weather, and delivery apps. Choosing not to create an account can mean paying more, seeing less, or being locked out of services that have become essential infrastructure for work, communication, healthcare, banking, and education.

The architecture of digital consent treats data sharing as a binary: agree to the terms or don’t use the product. There’s rarely a middle option that allows us to use a service while limiting what data gets collected and where it goes. The result is that the “choice” to share data often functions as a condition of entry into daily life rather than an informed negotiation. We’re not handing over data because we’ve weighed the tradeoff and decided it’s fair. We’re handing it over because the alternative is exclusion from services we rely on.

This is the structural context behind the Pew Research Center finding that more than half of Americans believe it’s impossible to go through daily life without being tracked. For many of us, it isn’t possible, at least not without significant inconvenience or sacrifice. The question isn’t whether we can avoid data collection entirely, because for the vast majority of people who participate in modern life, the answer is no. The question is whether we can make more informed decisions within the constraints we’re operating in, and whether the system can be pushed – through regulation, through market pressure, through better tools – toward something more transparent.

California’s Delete Act, which took effect in January 2026, is the strongest example of what’s emerging. It created a platform called DROP (Delete Request and Opt-Out Platform) that lets California residents submit a single deletion request to every registered data broker in the state. Brokers are required to process those requests, maintain suppression lists to prevent re-collection, and check the platform regularly for new requests. The European Union’s GDPR provides similar individual rights, and a handful of other U.S. states have enacted their own privacy laws with varying levels of protection. But the coverage is uneven: what’s available to a California or EU resident may not extend to someone in a state without comparable legislation.

Some services now automate parts of the opt-out process, submitting removal requests to dozens of brokers on our behalf. These can’t erase the data trail entirely, but they can narrow what’s actively available for sale.

Beyond deletion, there are smaller choices that reduce how much new data we generate. We can audit which apps have permission to track our location or access our contacts, since a surprising amount of behavioral data comes from apps that don’t need those permissions to function. We can treat “sign in with Google” and “sign in with Facebook” buttons as what they are: data-sharing agreements that can link a new service to an existing profile. And we can glance at the first few lines of a privacy policy before agreeing, looking for some version of “we may share your information with our partners,” where “partners” just means anyone willing to pay.

Most of us don’t read privacy policies, and the policies aren’t built to be read. They average thousands of words of dense legal language filled with terms like “legitimate interest,” “data processor,” and “de-identified data.” Studies consistently put them at a late high school to early college reading level (grade 12 to 14), but the difficulty goes beyond reading level: the concepts are abstract, the volume of agreements we encounter is enormous, and the design of the consent process itself pushes us through as fast as possible. Pre-checked boxes, auto-scrolling agreement windows, “accept all” buttons positioned prominently while “customize settings” options sit behind additional clicks. These are dark patterns, design choices that make the path of least resistance the path of maximum data sharing.

The result is a gap between the moment we share a piece of information and the moment that information shapes a decision about our lives. We don’t connect the app to the insurance premium or the loyalty card to the rental application because the chain of custody between them is long, complex, and designed to stay out of view.

The same critical thinking we’ve learned to apply to the information flowing toward us (checking sources, questioning claims, looking for bias) applies to the information flowing from us: who’s collecting this, what will they do with it, who else will see it, and what did we agree to? The difference is that in the data economy, we’re the product being evaluated, and the questions are being asked about us rather than by us.

So can we get it back? Not entirely. Data that’s already been collected, copied, sold, and processed across multiple systems can’t be fully recalled. What we can do is reduce what’s actively available for sale, slow the flow of new data going forward, and take advantage of legal tools that didn’t exist a few years ago. The archive of our past digital lives is too distributed to undo, but the file is still being written, and we have more say over the next page than we did over the last twenty years of them.

So what if they have our data? The tradeoff extends well beyond better ads. It reaches into the prices we’re charged, the credit we’re offered, the jobs we’re considered for, the insurance premiums we pay, the AI systems trained on our behavior, the accuracy of the profiles used to make decisions about our lives, and the degree to which government agencies can monitor our movements without a warrant. Every new service we sign up for, every permission we grant, and every terms-of-service agreement we accept adds another layer to that file. We can’t close the file entirely, but we can make more informed decisions about what goes into it next…

Eminently worth reading in full: “So What if They Have My Data?“

See also: “Why Do We Care So Much About Privacy?” (source of the image above) in which Louis Menand suggests that our concern should be with the “weaponization” of data…

* Daniel J. Solove, Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security

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As we reinforce our rights, we might recall that it was on this date in 1996 that the internet-as-we’ve-come-to-know-it broke big into the mainstream: Yahoo! launched the national campaign that asked “Do You Yahoo?” advertising its web-based search service on national television. The campaign was created by ad agency Black Rocket and Yahoo Marketing Head Karen Edwards (whose many awards for the work include a seat in the Advertising Hall of Achievement).

An early spot from the campaign…

https://youtu.be/X2_XzGPqBJ0?si=VxM6vlzcR89uDOKr

Google will scan all our photos starting from the new update that will be released, every day a new violation of privacy by an American giant, who's next? Apple?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2026/04/20/google-starts-scanning-all-your-photos-as-new-update-goes-live/

#pricacy #fuckgoogle #BoycottAI #boycottgoogle #ChatControl

Google will scan all our photos starting from the new update that will be released, every day a new violation of privacy by an American giant, who's next? Apple?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2026/04/20/google-starts-scanning-all-your-photos-as-new-update-goes-live/

#pricacy #fuckgoogle #BoycottAI #boycottgoogle #ChatControl

RE: https://mastodon.social/@AnnaAnthro/116233569224750601

Should be using something like Signal anyway because #Meta ... ew.

#technology #socialmedia #Instagram #pricacy #security #chat #encryption

RE: https://mastodon.social/@AnnaAnthro/116233569224750601

Should be using something like Signal anyway because #Meta ... ew.

#technology #socialmedia #Instagram #pricacy #security #chat #encryption

Okay, nach Jahren Google Chrome heute den Wechsel zu @brave gewagt.

Tbh: I like!

Fühlt sich leichtgewichtiger an. Privacy als netter side effect und nativem ad block bei gewohnter Chromium experience.

#browser #brave #pricacy

RE: https://mstdn.feddit.social/@admin/115909921287682040

再换成了deepseek/deepseek-chat，直接给我打了十几个tag，何意味......

然后AI Tag再次失败的原因是没有打开“Enable paid endpoints that may train on inputs”

#deepseek #karakeep #openrouter #pricacy

Wie Microsoft die Integrität der Luzerner gefährdet. Fälle von häuslicher Gewalt, Steuerbussen, psychologische Gutachten: Interne Dokumente zeigen, welche Daten in die Microsoft-Cloud des Kantons Luzern migriert werden sollen. Das Parlament entscheidet demnächst über einen Stopp.

#qsvpress #microsoft #o365 #pricacy #datenschutz #luzern
https://www.republik.ch/2025/10/20/wie-microsoft-die-integritaet-der-luzerner-gefaehrdet

💡 Vous êtes dans un lieu public (cas classique : voisin de #TGV) et quelqu'un s'absente en laissant son ordinateur portable allumé et déverrouillé ? Mettez lui ce site web https://croissant.noobops.fr/ (et verrouillez sa session)
#️⃣ #HygièneNumérique #Pricacy #DataPrivacy #ViePrivée #DonnéesPersonelles #Mobilité

💡 Vous êtes dans un lieu public (cas classique : voisin de #TGV) et quelqu'un s'absente en laissant son ordinateur portable allumé et déverrouillé ? Mettez lui ce site web https://croissant.noobops.fr/ (et verrouillez sa session)
#️⃣ #HygièneNumérique #Pricacy #DataPrivacy #ViePrivée #DonnéesPersonelles #Mobilité

#Alabama’s #IVF #Ruling Is #Christian #Theology #Masquerading as #Law

The #ruling is clearly #unconstitutional, but don’t expect the #Corrupt #SupremeCourt to come to the #rescue.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #WomensRights #Pricacy #BodilyAutonomy #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Hategroups #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Misogyny #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/alabama-ivf-ruling/

#Alabama’s #IVF #Ruling Is #Christian #Theology #Masquerading as #Law

The #ruling is clearly #unconstitutional, but don’t expect the #Corrupt #SupremeCourt to come to the #rescue.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #WomensRights #Pricacy #BodilyAutonomy #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Hategroups #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Misogyny #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/alabama-ivf-ruling/

@Tutanota Mia privateco estas grava al mi, ĉar mi ne ŝatas la korporacioj uzas miajn datojn sen mia scio, mi ne konsentas al miajn datojn ekvendis.

(My privacy is important to me, because I don't like the corporations using my data without my knowledge, I don't agree to my data being sold.)

#pricacy #privateco

Tää facebookin ja Instagramin uusi "rahat tai henki" -valinta voisi yjtä hyvin sisältää STOP-merkin ja "Poista tilisi tästä" -vaihtoehdon.
#pricacy #EU #Meta #pseudochoice #yksiyyisyydensuoja #Facebook #Instagram

#Android phones can now tell you if there’s an #AirTag following you
#pricacy #surveillance
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1957104

#Android phones can now tell you if there’s an #AirTag following you
#pricacy #surveillance
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1957104

😎

#CookiePolicy #cookie #data #pricacy

Heute zum letzten mal...
Wer uns 2022 noch gerne besuchen möchte, wir haben von 13-16 Uhr geöffnet :thaenkin:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.52761&mlon=13.33824#map=19/52.52761/13.33824

#datenschutz #pricacy #Berlin #moabit

Heute zum letzten mal...
Wer uns 2022 noch gerne besuchen möchte, wir haben von 13-16 Uhr geöffnet :thaenkin:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.52761&mlon=13.33824#map=19/52.52761/13.33824

#datenschutz #pricacy #Berlin #moabit

When was the last time you thought about #Ello, that #adfree and #pricacy respecting #SocialNetwork that started as a #Facebook alternative a few years ago and had caught a little traction in arty spheres?

I admit, I had not thought about it for ages… https://ello.co/

When was the last time you thought about #Ello, that #adfree and #pricacy respecting #SocialNetwork that started as a #Facebook alternative a few years ago and had caught a little traction in arty spheres?

I admit, I had not thought about it for ages… https://ello.co/

@ScottMortimer
Vieil article de début 2021, je n'utilise pas #telegram donc il m'est impossible d'en dire les évolutions et correctifs. Peut-on conclure sans se tromper que telegram n'est pas une messagerie sûre et qu'elle vend vos données ? Peut-on dire qu'elle est une amélioration par rapport à #whatsapp en terme de #pricacy ? Je 'tente' de promouvoir #xmpp , qui n'a pas de buts commerciaux (ce qui est la clé, en fin de compte), mais restons lucide que XMPP reste confidentiel. Aucune solution.

TIL: https://web.archive.org/web/20241214105427/https://techautonomy.org/

Must-read für jede:n die/der in der Tech-Branche arbeitet.

#DigitalAutonomy #surveillancecapitalism #pricacy #foss #opensource

TIL: https://web.archive.org/web/20241214105427/https://techautonomy.org/

Must-read für jede:n die/der in der Tech-Branche arbeitet.

#DigitalAutonomy #surveillancecapitalism #pricacy #foss #opensource

Unfortunately, the birdsite's #mobile website will also detect that you enforce #pricacy and #security regulations by running #javascriptFree. And it, too, will ask you whether you would like to visit their #legacy web site.

So you press Yes.

And nothing seems to happen.

Why?

Because #Twitter #webdevs chose to save your preference in a #cookie in your browser. So you have to allow 1st-party cookies.

#Twitter needs to inform us about that on those redirect pages. #UX #UserExperience