II would appreciate Unihertz much more if they provided more than five minutes of security updates after each release. Or at least made it easier to run third-party ROMs.
Nothing makes me tune out of a conversation faster than if someone injects a ChatGPT response into it.
That's bad enough, but now Apple wants to create a total surveillance device that not only listens to everything we say and uploads into their cloud, but also spits up random nonsense at random times?
Can you elaborate on buying monero at an exchange and then transferring it out? Do you mean that OP should
And would it be accurate to say that a local wallet can be maintained without a lot of system power, and can run on open source software? I assume that because any transfers that are sent to or from the wallet, are basically synchronized in the Blockchain, so there's not a lot of data that needs to be stored on the user's side.
To be fair, the article itself recommends it.
The messaging in the article is a bit mixed, which makes sense because it's trying to explain Google's intentionally confusing messaging, but I would like to highlight one thing:
Can you fully disable Gemini on Android? No, and that’s by design. While you can turn off activity tracking, revoke permissions, and even uninstall the Gemini app on some devices, Google is actively replacing its Assistant app with Gemini. By the end of 2025, Gemini will be the default...
If you use Android, you should not use its Assistant if you want to keep Google away from your data.
This applies whether Google calls it Gemini or not.
At least back when police were writing thousands of fake tickets, they were doing it manually...
https://www.jalopnik.com/connecticut-police-26000-fake-tickets-hide-racism-1850627875/
You basically have to go there to view the NSFW content, don't you? I looked around some server federation rules and it seems like most servers block that one's local communities. (It doesn't appear to be out of ill will for the server, as most of them still allow federation of non-NSFW communities... But I imagine it's a large chunk of data to federate with very little reward since most Lemmy servers are run on little more than donations, volunteer efforts, and fumes.)
I think this comment said it best:
This is an obvious, thinly-veiled advertisement for a company's services. It's widely known that ad companies track you everywhere by many mechanisms. This is why we use ad blockers of all sorts. This has nothing to do with DuckDuckGo, it's merely used as a vehicle to get clicks.
And a supplemental note from the DDG team themselves :
This title is highly misleading, implying that Google tracks DuckDuckGo searches directly, which isn’t true... please change it to be more accurate about Google analytics and other Google trackers on websites you may visit.
(copied from my response to the same post in a different community)
Well this is a Hotznplotzn post, which means OP doesn't give a damn about data collection by American companies... or anything, really, besides reminding us China Bad
What people are these? Are they real people? Do they have names or a money trail?
So... controlled by whom?
I think this comment said it best:
This is an obvious, thinly-veiled advertisement for a company's services. It's widely known that ad companies track you everywhere by many mechanisms. This is why we use ad blockers of all sorts. This has nothing to do with DuckDuckGo, it's merely used as a vehicle to get clicks.
And a supplemental note from the DDG team themselves :
This title is highly misleading, implying that Google tracks DuckDuckGo searches directly, which isn’t true... please change it to be more accurate about Google analytics and other Google trackers on websites you may visit.
Axon’s Draft One is designed to defy transparency
Axon Enterprise’s Draft One — a generative artificial intelligence product that writes police reports based on audio from officers’ body-worn cameras — seems deliberately designed to avoid audits that could provide any accountability to the public, an EFF investigation has found.Our review of...
Axon Enterprise’s Draft One — a generative artificial intelligence product that writes police reports based on audio from officers’ body-worn cameras — seems deliberately designed to avoid audits that could provide any accountability to the public, an EFF investigation has found.
This is genuinely disturbing.
A developer was planning on sneaking data collection into a product through a sketchy terms of service. That on its own should keep the app out of any marketplace.
The subsequent claim that the developer simply forgot to include this in the TOS doesn't get any extra sympathy from me. Funny the apology only appeared after the developer got caught with their pants down, isn't it?
That GitHub discussion seems to confirm it. The developers shutting down their extension immediately afterwards too just reeks of suspicious activity.
The version number for the extension in my browser (1.8.8) doesn't match the latest release that's visible on this otherwise public repository (1.8.0)
So presumably at some point "someone" "somewhere" modified or added some files to the source code of this extension out of public view... and then "somehow" got a hold of this dev account password or whatever which was subsequently used to surreptitiously push it to the chrome webstore...
Leveraged for anything from buying a plane ticket to large scale business decisions, Agentic AI holds the promise of adapting to a wide variety of applications to improve users’ productivity and effectiveness.
These AI agents are so successful that their value is still completely abstract and speculative, with no specific use cases in sight. Just imagine the possibilities yourself, because we sure can't.
There are web clipping tools - even open source ones - to help you with stuff like this.
Based on your other comments here, you should probably start organizing your tabs before your browser simply crashes.
A while ago, Alexa devices would actually process the stuff you said on your device. They disabled that for some reason. They need their cloud servers to waste more energy, I guess.
Amazon must face US class action over Alexa users' privacy, judge rules
I'm surprised this article doesn't mention privacytests.org by name, but it reaches a conclusion that may as well:
If you see a dumb checklist trying to convince you to use a specific app or product, assume some marketing asshole is trying to manipulate you. Don’t trust it.
Thankfully there's a good recommendation in the very next paragraph for all things (messaging apps, browsers, etc):
If you’re confronted with a checklist in the wild and want an alternative to share instead, Privacy Guides doesn’t attempt to create comparison tables for all of their recommendations within a given category of tool.
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.
Ultimately, both protocols are good. They’re certainly way better choices than OpenPGP, OMEMO, Olm, MTProto, etc.
Why OMEMO is "bad" is indirectly answered earlier:
The most important questions that actually matter to security:
- Is end-to-end encryption turned on by default?
- Can you (accidentally, maliciously) turn it off?
If the answers aren’t “yes” and “no”, respectively, your app belongs in the garbage. Do not pass Go.
Similar discussions have skewered the federated Delta Chat for having an even worse version of this issue.
Robert Williams, Michael Oliver, and Nijeer Parks were misidentified by facial recognition software. The impact cast a long shadow.
I wondered why this was downvoted before I saw the original message in my notifications
yeah, thanks Mr/Ms obvious, you described exactly the reason of why it does not look vanilla at all, that big giant bottom ad banner
Anyway, my point is that I would assume Firefox would look different if there was evidence the user caused this banner by accidentally injecting malware into the browser within Linux.
Bumble sends people's personal profile information to OpenAI to create AI generated messages - without ever asking for consent
Open Letter to Samsung: End Forced Israeli-Founded Bloatware Installations in the WANA Region
In recent months, we have received numerous reports from users across West Asia and North Africa (WANA) expressing alarm over...
In recent months, we have received numerous reports from users across West Asia and North Africa (WANA) expressing alarm over a little-known but deeply intrusive bloatware application—AppCloud—pre-installed on Samsung’s A and M series smartphones. Without users’ knowledge or consent, this bloatware collects sensitive personal data, cannot be removed without compromising device security, and offers no clear information about its privacy practices.
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is using it in the field.
Diverse coalitions warn
Things Bill C2 does (from the site)
Following 404 Media’s reporting and in light of new legislation, automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company Flock has stopped agencies reaching into cameras in California, Illinois, and Virginia.
Texas district judge overturns Biden rule on expanded abortion, gender affirming care privacy protections
A Texas federal judge late Wednesday overturned a Biden administration rule designed to keep prosecutors from getting the medical records of patients seeking legal abortions or gender-affirming care by boosting privacy protections for women’s reproductive health information.
A 21-year-old tourist has described the horrendous treatment he allegedly received after being denied entry to the USA due to a meme depicting JD Vance as bald being found on his phone
