#privacy-by-default — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #privacy-by-default, aggregated by home.social.
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Any piece of Software that lets you share Media with others, be it #messengers like #signal or SMPs like #mastodon or #bluesky, should prompt you to decide, whether you want to keep, change or delete the #metadata of the media file.
The same goes imo for any application, that lets you insert media files into larger documents, like #zettlr, #joplin, #LibreOffice, etc.
All these applications should offer both, a default setting AND a per-file prompt/switch that allows to make this decision.
This is BETTER than stripping metadata silently by default because:
* it creates awareness for the issue with the user base.
* I do not have to remember for each application I work with, how it handles the problem. (I should not have to read through the docs for this!)
* thus I will not have to use third party tools to remove metadata each time i share a pic, when it is actually done by the main application anyway.
* last but not least, there are cases where it is better or even important to preserve metadata. -
@linuxallday Idea for a follow-up poll: which cross-platform #FOSS browser would you recommend to a non-tech-savvy person that will work with good #privacy defaults* out of the box?
* Non big tech search engine, ad and tracker blocking - all by default with no need for extensions or any tweaking.
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From humble beginnings to a globally trusted security platform, Whonix continues to protect privacy every day.
#Whonix #Anniversary #CyberDefense #PrivacyByDefault #SecureByDesign #TorNetwork #DigitalProtection
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Maximum Anonymity
With Whonix, your real IP never touches the internet, every connection is routed through a secure, leak-proof system.#Whonix #AnonymityOnline #NoIPLeaks #PrivacyByDefault #SecureByDesign #TorPowered #CyberDefense
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Secure by Design. Privacy by Default.
Whonix is built on Kicksecure-hardened Debian and runs inside VMs — so your IP, identity & data stay protected.#Whonix #CyberSecurity #Kicksecure #PrivacyMatters #SecureByDesign #PrivacyByDefault #Anonymity #TorNetwork #VMsecurity #DataProtection #CyberDefense #SecurityHardened #OpenSourceSecurity #DigitalPrivacy
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Badwolf browser, made by @[email protected], has won me over using it as my primary browser over the past week. Simple, no frills, private, with no JS by default(easily enabled with button when you need it).
Even managed to make some quick n' dirty mods to the source for the few things I missed:
- have a home page when opening for first time
- added a key shortcut to open a new "search" tab which opens a search engine page
thanks for all your hard work on this! :blobcat_meltheart:
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Comet browser update puts privacy in users’ hands | Digital Watch Observatory
Home | Updates | Comet browser update puts privacy in users’ hands
4 Nov 2025
Comet browser update puts privacy in users’ hands
Users can manage privacy, security and AI Assistant permissions directly from the homepage.
Perplexity has unveiled new privacy features for its AI-powered browser, Comet, designed to give users clearer control over their data. The updates include a new homepage widget called Privacy Snapshot, which allows people to review and adjust privacy settings in one place.
The widget provides a real-time view of how Comet protects users online and simplifies settings for ad blocking, tracker management and data access. Users can toggle permissions for the Comet Assistant directly from the homepage.
Comet’s updated AI Assistant settings now show precisely how data is used, including where it is stored locally or shared for processing. Sensitive information such as passwords and payment details remain securely stored on the user’s device.
Perplexity said the changes reinforce its ‘privacy by default’ approach, an important principle in EU data protection law, combining ad blocking, safe browsing and transparent data handling. The new features are available in the latest Comet update across desktop and mobile platforms.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Comet browser update puts privacy in users’ hands | Digital Watch Observatory
Tags: AI Assistant, Comet, Comet Browser, Desktop, EU Data Protection Law, Mobile, Privacy, Privacy by Default, Privacy Snapshot, Users Control, Widget#AIAssistant #Comet #CometBrowser #Desktop #EUDataProtectionLaw #Mobile #Privacy #PrivacyByDefault #PrivacySnapshot #UsersControl #Widget
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Soziale Netzwerke rechtmäßig nutzen
– So geht‘s – Handreichung der @bfdi zur Nutzung sozialer Netzwerke durch öffentliche Stellen des Bundes:
👉 https://www.bfdi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/DokumenteBfDI/Dokumente-allg/2025/Handreichung-Social-Media (22.8.2025)Was öffentlichen Stellen des Bundes beachten müssen:
✅ Rechtsgrundlage
✅ Transparenz
✅ #Datenschutz-Folgenabschätzung
✅ #PrivacyByDefault
✅ Keine Exklusivität
✅ Nutzungsleitfaden#SocialMedia #Datenschutz #TeamDatenschutz #BfDI #Facebook #Meta #TikTok
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@Jörgi It does work Fediverse-wide, i.e. as a Hubzilla user, I can send posts and other content specifically to those in a certain privacy group (= Mastodon list on coke and 'roids from before there was even Mastodon), regardless of where they are. They could be on Hubzilla, on Friendica, on Mastodon, on Misskey, on Pixelfed, doesn't matter.
But there is one limitation.
Most Fediverse server software out there will understand anything coming from Hubzilla with limited permissions as a one-on-one DM. This means that in a thread with limited permissions, e.g. Mastodon users will only be able to discuss with the thread starter, but not with the others who were granted permission to receive the start post.
If I have a privacy group with Alice and Bob in it, and both are on Mastodon, and I send a post to only this privacy group, Alice and Bob will both receive the post as a DM. They will only be able to have a conversation with me. Alice won't know that Bob got the post, Bob won't know that Alice got the post, and Alice and Bob will not be able to converse with each other within this conversation thread.
It's only Hubzilla and its still existing descendants, (streams) and Forte, that fully understand this special permission setting because they have a permission system that's very similar to Hubzilla's whereas Mastodon & Co. don't have any permission system to begin with.
So if Alice is on Hubzilla, and Bob is on (streams), and one of them replies to me, the other one can and will see that reply and will be able to interact with that reply. Like, Alice can reply to me, Bob can reply to Alice, and absolutely nobody else in the Fediverse will see my post or Alice's reply or Bob's reply.
By the way: (streams) and Forte literally have "privacy by default". While privacy groups are an optional, off-by-default feature on Hubzilla, access lists (practically the same) are part of the core on (streams) and Forte. And all your posts go to an access list named "Friends" by default unless you go and configure your channel to post in public by default. Conveniently, all your new connections are automatically added to the "Friends" access list by default.Is it part of the protocol? That's where it should be defined
For the longest time, namely until last August, it wasn't available on ActivityPub-based software at all. For Hubzilla itself is not based on ActivityPub.
It was first implemented in an early "pre-cursor" version of Hubzilla from 2012 that was built on a protocol specifically designed by Hubzilla's creator for a) privacy by design and, especially, b) resilience against server shutdown. That was five years before ActivityPub was first shown and six years before it became a standard. The protocol was (originally) named Zot, and Hubzilla is still based on Zot6 with ActivityPub being supported via an optional add-on that's on by default for servers, but off by default for new channels. (By the way, Hubzilla was the first software to ever implement ActivityPub.)
There's also (streams) from October, 2021, a fork of a fork of three forks of a fork (of a fork?) of Hubzilla by Hubzilla's own creator which is based on what's actually a newer version of Zot, but which has advanced so much that it's incompatible with Hubzilla's Zot6, so it's named Nomad now. (streams) has Nomad as its base protocol, it also supports Zot6, and it optionally supports ActivityPub, only that ActivityPub is built into the core now and always on by default.
ActivityPub-based software with this permission system did not exist until August, 2024 when the self-same creator forked the streams repository into something new named Forte, ripped out any and all support for protocols that aren't ActivityPub and ported all of (streams)' features to ActivityPub.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #Permission #Permissions #PrivacyGroups #AccessLists #Privacy #PrivacyByDesign #PrivacyByDefault -
Something I miss in the #Pixelfed & #Mastodon software: the possibility to have lists (like the circles in Google+) and show some content really only for some close friends.
I don't wanna show everything to all and have more privacy. So I still need to send everything via Signal and co.
i have no idea if #misskey写真部 , #lemmy or any other #fediverse software has that feature.
#featurerequest #privacy #circles #privacybydesign #privacybydefault -
„Datenschutz kann eine regulatorische Hürde sein, aber er ist auch eine Chance, nachhaltige digitale Geschäftsmodelle zu etablieren. Lesen Sie mehr in unserem neuesten Blogbeitrag, der in Zusammenarbeit mit der Universität Innsbruck verfasst wurde:“ 👉 https://threema.ch/de/work/blog/posts/datensparsamkeit-an-hochschulen
„Datensparsamkeit für die nachhaltige Digitalisierung von Hochschulen – Gastbeitrag von Matthias C. Kettemann, Leiter des Instituts für Theorie und Zukunft des Rechts an der Universität Innsbruck [@uniinnsbruck], in Zusammenarbeit mit Peter Szabó, Legal Counsel und Datenschutzberater bei Threema, und Danilo Bargen [@dbrgn], CTO bei Threema“
Von: @threemaapp 👉 https://mastodon.social/@threemaapp/114393497557103658
#Threema #ThreemaWork #Threemaapp #3maRTDeutsch #Datensparsamkeit #Datenschutz #PrivacyByDesign #DSGVO #Datenminimierung #Hochschulen #Digitalisierung #PrivacyByDefault #Messenger #Datensicherheit #InformationelleSelbstbestimmung #Grundrechte #Datensouveränität #Recht
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Oh gosh... well... what shall I decide?!
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So #Microsoft introduced a new tool called #Sway at some point. And their #SecurityScore recommendation is to prevent accidental #privacy leaks by blocking sharing output to external parties from that tool. Great!
So I assume sharing is blocked by default? Right? Right?!
It's not.
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CW: CW Datensparsamkeit fängt beim Admin an
Vielleicht sollten wir viel mehr Lobbying für #PrivacyByDefault machen, ganz an der Basis, bei jeder Gelegenheit, auch da wo es enorm unpopulär ist, (siehe die Replies unter diesem Toot). Wo ist der Grund dafür, die IP-Adressen aller Clients am Webserver zu loggen? Wenn ihr debuggen müsst, könnt ihr das Logging immer noch temporär einschalten, alles andere ist traditionelle Sammelwut, don't @ me. #Datenschutz #Datensparsamkeit #Pissnelke
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Patrick Breyer @echo_pbreyer NOW live, via Internet link at the University of Applied Sciences Berner Fachhochschule (#BFH) in #Biel / #Bienne (i.e., #Nemo's city):
👩💻 https://www.youtube.com/live/JaJ-Msb8Dig 🐈⬛
He's talking about the importance of preserving #cash money and, additionally, using sound #ecash systems to go digital, too (like by using the @Taler system).
#Autonomy #CBDC #rCBDC #Freedom #FinancialAutonomy #Taler #Privacy #PrivacyByDefault #Security
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@astian @mozilla #Firefox already has tracker blocking enabled by default. #Midori should try to be better.
Surprising fact about which I hope to be proven wrong:
There's not a single cross-platform browser except @brave that blocks ads by default.*
Hoping for a non-Chromium alternative that will do this simple thing and also not have a BigTech search engine.
*Normal browser not Tor.
#privacybydefault #foss #bravebrowser #librewolf #mullvad #fennec #ublockorigin #adblock #adblocking
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Online kostet das Ticket 29,50 Euro. Am Automat 32,60 Euro. Warum?
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"Am 8.5.2024 haben wir ohne Kartennummer hinterlegte Vorteilscards aus den Konten entfernt."
Jetzt ist die Angabe der Kartennummer verpflichtend, wenn man auf der Website ein Ticket kaufen will. So geht #PrivacyByDesign - not!
#OEBB #BahnBubble #Datenschutz #Datensparsamkeit #PrivacyByDefault
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Die Schritte neun bis zwölf machen unsere #DSGrundausstattung für Kleinunternehmen komplett ⬇️
➡️ 09 Betroffenenrechte
Anfragen von Betroffenen erfüllen
https://ds-kleinunternehmen.de/schritt-fuer-schritt/betroffenenrechte➡️ 10 Datenpanne
Mit Datenpannen umgehen
https://ds-kleinunternehmen.de/schritt-fuer-schritt/datenpannen➡️ 11 Löschen
Löschkonzept erstellen
https://ds-kleinunternehmen.de/schritt-fuer-schritt/loeschen➡️ 12 Vorsorgen
#PrivacyByDesign und #PrivacyByDefault implementieren
https://ds-kleinunternehmen.de/schritt-fuer-schritt/vorsorgen🤓
#Datenschutz #DSKleinunternehmen https://ds-kleinunternehmen.de/startseite -
@mozilla A privacy preserving online presence should be enabled by default by the browser and shouldn't need users to install extensions that increases their attack surface and makes them more fingerprintable and unique.
#privacy #firefox #mozilla #librewolf #mullvadbrowser #waterfox #midori #tor #brave #bravebrowser #vanadium #brave #privacybydefault #privacybydesign -
@major I'd argue non-persistent MAC randomization should be the default. It means stronger privacy-protection and should not be a problem for "home usage".
The user group that deals with more complex networks (that depend on stable MACs) is probably the smaller one and the one that has more resources/knowledge to change the defaults - and understand how that change affects their #privacy.
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C'est le moment de l'année pour tenter de gagner un abonnement à vie chez @protonmail , et ça se passe ici :
https://proton.me/blog/2023-lifetime-account-charity-fundraiser
Et de découvrir qu'il y a une boutique en ligne avec de bien beaux tshirts pour afficher sa différence.
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Zum Finale 🏁 der Serie ein #BasiswissenDatenschutz für alle, die Websites, Apps, Services, Prozesse und Geräte gestalten:
#PrivacybyDesign und #PrivacybyDefault sind wichtige Ansätze, um Produkte oder Dienstleistungen von Anfang an #datenschutzfreundlich zu gestalten. Hier gibt es Definitionen und Beispiele:
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#Google zahlt #Apple mutmaßlich über 10 Milliarden $ im Jahr, um die voreingestellte Suchmaschine im Safari-Browser zu sein.
Aber warum ist das so? Das liegt daran, dass Google seine Marktposition festigen will und die meisten Nutzer die Standardeinstellungen in Softwareumgebungen nicht verändern!In diesem Artikel geht es um die Macht der Default-Einstellungen.
https://pyngu.com/magazin/tech/die-power-der-default-einstellungen/
#Default #Tech #Einstellungen #Software #PrivacyByDefault
#pyngumagazin #pyngurocks -
@hensys Ich finde, mehr Fediverse-Instanzen und andere Websites sollten dem Vorbild von https://digitalcourage.social und https://nuudel.de folgen und auf das Speichern von IP-Adressen ganz verzichten. Für @digitalcourage und die Nutzenden dieser Dienste hatte dieser Verzicht bisher keine Nachteile.
Schon anno 2000 haben die #BigBrotherAwards #Apache dazu aufgefordert, das voreingestellte #Logging entsprechend zu ändern. Passiert ist nichts, obwohl die #DSGVO inzwischen #privacyByDesign und #privacyByDefault vorschreibt. #nginx macht es auch nicht besser.
https://bigbrotherawards.de/2000/sonderpreis-apache
