Tag: Privacy
Keet: un Semplice Strumento di Privacy (da affiancare ad altri)
Oggi volevo prenderla veramente alla lontana, parlando di questa specifica applicazione che ho istallato e sto usando con estrema soddisfazione. Si chiama Keet, ed è in sostanza una chat privata (superficialmente paragonabile a Whatsapp, Telegram, o meglio Signal, viste le caratteristiche che la rendono interessante), che permette di godere di un livello di privacy di gran lunga superiore a quello solitamente concesso dal dilagante mainstream. L'app mi piace particolarmente in quanto viene racco...
Automakers Pressure Congress To Ban Chinese EVs To ‘Protect Privacy’
If you enjoy badly written bipartisan protectionist tech legislation designed primarily to coddle giant U.S. companies under the xenophobia-tinged breathless pretense of privacy and national security, you are really going to enjoy the next twelve to twenty-four months.While the U.S. drowns in corrupt kakistocracy, the Chinese are making significant market inroads in everything from AI...
Some Tech Companies Have Privately Pushed Back On ICE Subpoenas. They Should All Do More.
In a handful of known cases, large social media companies have privately pushed back against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) subpoenas when the agency tried to unmask anonymous users who tracked immigration activities or criticized the government. As ICE engages in a pattern of illegal and chilling investigations, any resistance is welcome. But social media...
RFK Jr. Wants Your Medical Records
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. You might assume that what you tell a doctor stays between you, your physician and perhaps your insurer. But the reality is more complicated. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the federal privacy law that governs health information...
Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
I Want to be Unremarkable
A meditation on the contradiction of writing publicly while wanting to remain unremarkable, drawing on Daoist uselessness, Epicurean lathe biōsas, state legibility, and Deleuzian imperceptibility—and why the only peaceful path is to keep writing and surrender to shared oblivion.
Meta’s $17 Billion Settlement Is A Bad Deal For Teens And All Social Media Users
Meta’s settlement with 52 state attorneys general is a bad deal for all internet users, and especially for teens. That’s what we said the day the settlement was announced. In this post, we go through the Settlement’s provisions in detail and explain why that is so, including how: The Settlement embeds age assurance technology and...
Anthropic and Perplexity want less private data in their clouds
Anthropic is moving monitoring logs into customer-controlled cloud storage while Perplexity routes sensitive work to a Mac. Both reduce provider custody without eliminating trust in automated controls.
My Switch to KeePass
I have been a satisfied user of online password managers for many years. It is a brilliant invention that enables people to set a unique and hard-to-guess password for every account they have. Recently, I have started using KeePass-based password managers, where I manage my own password database. 1Password 1Password was my first introduction to...
Why AI Transparency Isn't Optional—And How to Demand It
Learn why AI transparency and consent requirements aren't optional—and how to demand accountability from companies hiding their data practices and AI trainin...
How AI Watermark Mandates Could Unmask Journalists Who Never Touched AI
Imagine a scenario where a documentary filmmaker, in the course of making the documentary, captures some damning footage of corporate malfeasance, which she wishes to share with an investigative reporting organization anonymously. Should we be concerned that mandates on AI watermarking might reveal who she is, even if she's not using AI at all? Last...
Copyright Wars: Artists, Musicians, and Writers Fighting Back Against AI
Discover why 70+ lawsuits are reshaping AI copyright. Learn how artists, musicians, and creators are fighting back against unauthorized training data use.
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AI and Child Safety: What Parents and Educators Actually Need to Know
Learn what parents and educators must know about AI safety for children, including deepfakes, sextortion, and real protection strategies.
French Constitutional Council Blocks Under-15 Social Media Ban, In A Ruling That Should Concern Every Other EU Country
Even as the wider EU was grinding through a long, drawn-out process to figure out which regulatory levers to pull on kids' safety online, France decided to YOLO it earlier this summer by jumping at the chance to ban all social media for kids under 15. This kind of thing has become popular with out...
Protect Your Image: Defending Yourself Against Deepfakes and Nonconsensual AI
Learn how to protect yourself from deepfakes with our 5-step defense plan. Track your online presence, secure your content, and know your legal rights.
Your Private Messages Should Belong to You - Now They Can
ATSMS brings end-to-end encrypted messaging and calls to the AT Protocol identity you already have.
Spot the Fake: Tools and Techniques to Identify AI-Generated Images
Learn how to detect AI generated images using practical tools and techniques. Spot fakes with metadata analysis, reverse searches, and detection tools that a...
Flock (Again!) Activates A Camera System A Town Had Voted To Shut Down
The easiest way to tell that Flock Safety doesn't really care that its massive network of ALPR (automatic license plate reader) cameras is being abused by cops to stalk their exes and harass residents is to judge it by its actions. When confronted with court case after court case detailing these allegations (and those are...
My love for Mullvad goes beyond their VPN
An indispensible ally in the fight against mass surveillance and the end of the right to the secrecy of correspondence
Why Are Gay Bars Building Databases Of Their Patrons?
Recent reports have raised alarm about the use of PatronScan, an ID-checking and face-scanning system, at multiple LGBTQ+ bars in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood. Much of the attention has focused on reports that the system photographs patrons as they enter venues and questions about whether those images are used for facial recognition. A broader privacy...
The Password Database Is Dead, We just haven't buried it yet.
Modern Digital Identity relies on storing millions of credentials in a central server databases, creating high-value targets for breaches. By shifting the authentication to device-native hardware and ZKPs, we can eliminate database leaks risks entirely.
The SCREEN Act Threatens Privacy Far Beyond Adult Websites
The Senate Commerce Committee is set to consider S. 737, the SCREEN Act, a sweeping age-verification bill that would require online services to verify users’ ages before they can access any sexually explicit content. If this bill passes, it will force millions of adult internet users to give up their anonymity, privacy, and security before...
404 Media Scores Leaked Document Detailing The Dozens Of Surveillance Tools ICE Has Access To
The always-invaluable 404 Media has scored another minor coup. We all know ICE is heavily invested in surveillance tech, ranging from its purchases of cell location data from data brokers to throwing money at Clearview AI, the most notorious of facial recognition tech firms. But there's so much more to it than that. On top...
Public and Private Knowledge
Why publishing a knowledge base requires synthesis and declassification rather than exposing a private graph.
Why does protecting your privacy require a computer science degree?
From vintage Instagram filters to owning your digital footprint. Reclaiming your social media shouldn't be an engineering challenge.
A Full Guide to Properly Delete Corporate Social Media Accounts
Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads, X, Reddit, Discord. Eight platforms, eight different deletion policies. A full technical walkthrough of what 'delete' actually means on each one, the prep work nobody tells you to do first, and the human-side work the documentation doesn't mention.
REVIEW: Missing 'Missing Richard Simmons'
Nearly a decade after Dan Taberski's Missing Richard Simmons first asked the world where its brightest fitness star had gone, a review of the podcast that helped invent true-crime infotainment—and of the public's complicity in turning a man's right to disappear into a cultural obsession. On parasocial friendship, the ethics of documentary mystery, and why the legacy of Richard Simmons has been swallowed by the very mystery he refused to solve.
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Strangers and Intimates
The fascinating story of how private life was won, and how it might just as easily be lost... Private life is in mortal danger, following decades in which it has been relinquished and ransacked. It is threatened by a three-headed state and corporate surveillance, a confessional, 'tell-all' culture that makes people complicit in the invasion of their own privacy, and the intense politicization of private life. Tiffany Jenkins's groundbreaking book traces the emergence of private sanctuaries from authority and public opinion to show that private life is a very recent – and hard-won – achievement. It also warns that, if we're not careful, it will be a temporary one. Strangers and Intimates is animated by dramatic human from the political struggles in the seventeenth century that led to Edmund Coke's rallying cry that 'an Englishman's home is his castle'; to the first modern privacy panic in 1844, when the British government opened private letters sent to the exiled Italian republican Giuseppe Mazzini; and from the embrace by the public of reality TV to the Chinese government's social credit system. A private life is a precious, sustaining resource that is of profound intrinsic value, and it must be defended. We won't know what we have lost until it has gone...
CookieCrumble im App Store
Berlin, Juni 2026 CookieCrumble für Safari – die erste App für iOS, die Cookies gezielt löscht Für den Mac gibt es seit Jahren leistungsfähige Tools zur Verwaltung von Cookies. Auf dem iPhone sieht…
CookieCrumble Testflight jetzt auch für macOS
Eigentlich war ich mit Cookie.app bisher ganz zufrieden. Bis ich vor Kurzem festgestellt habe, dass die App den Großteil der Safari-Cookies weder anzeigt noch löschen kann. Von den 254 Domains, die…
What next on FISA Section 702? Good question!
Once things do pick up, they're likely to start moving quickly. So ... stay tuned!
on your side, all the way down
you'll never see most of what we do to keep your journal yours. so here it is, one layer at a time — the work of making sure nothing about you ever leaks out to anyone, and how you can check that we mean it.
Choosing Friction and Clear Skies: I’m No Longer Using Cloudflare
I'm pausing my folk.zone project to completely replace Cloudflare in my stack with more ethical choices after a conversation with Adam Newbold of omg.lol, the site that inspired the project in the first place. For in practice, there is no such thing as neutrality, and convenience is not a virtue.
W Social is TruthSocial with a European accent.
Different politics, identical structure: wealthy insiders, community infrastructure they didn't build, and openness performed just long enough to matter. The establishment always wants its own internet.
Why We Need Devices for Children
All-out social media bans are harmful for kids and adults, but there's a more effective, privacy-respecting option...
Make your Gmail more private
Proton, the Swiss encrypted and privacy-aware email service, now lets you read and reply to your Gmail emails from within Proton. If you're looking to wean yourself off Gmail, or just curious about trying an alternative, this could be a good place to start: anyone you reply to will still receive your messages as Gmail,...
The Comprehension Problem: A Proposal for Synthesis Disclosure on ATProto
On May 23, @dame.is pointed a Claude agent at their own Bluesky account. In minutes, it paginated through ~2,000 posts and produced a detailed political profile — organized by topic, with representative quotes, noting that explicit politics was "a steady minor stream, not the main event."
The Cost of Comprehension
On May 23, @dame.is demonstrated something simple: a Claude agent, connected to Bluesky via bsky.md, paginated through approximately 2,000 of their posts and built a categorized political profile in minutes. Topics, representative quotes, behavioral patterns—all synthesized into a readable dossier.
Owning My Corner of the Internet: Self-Hosting Decentralized Social Media
When do we get a Privacy-Preserving CDN?
The surveillance-capitalism business model that defines the Internet today is only going to get more imposing. The vast majority of our online requests today are serviced and logged by centralized infrastructure - even more centralized than what we probably expect. While our collective hivemind takes rightful pride in the successful pushes that have improved this...
Social Sync v0.5.0 — Identity & Consent
Rebranding to Social Sync, implementing a granular consent system, and moving to AT Protocol OAuth.
The Internet's Landlord Problem
A quarter of the entire Internet uses Cloudflare. This is an existential threat to the Internet's ideals. I realized I need DDoS protection, but I could not use Cloudflare in good conscience. And so, I'm beyond excited to announce that I'm now using Deflect.ca for my website.
"But it's just Bluesky..."
We hear you. Here's what we've done about it, and what's coming next.
Boops: the story so far...
A small feature with a surprisingly complicated launch.