Emanuele @emanuele@m.divita.eu
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Computer engineer. Dreamer. Hero.
Joined May 2020
«Meta accused of breaking the law by secretly tracking #iPhone users».
#Meta was sued on Wednesday for alleged undisclosed #tracking and #dataCollection in its #Facebook and #Instagram apps on #Apple iPhones.
#IranProtests: Signal is blocked in Iran. You can help people in #Iran reconnect to #Signal by hosting a proxy server.
«#Microsoft Edge and #Google #Chrome enhanced spellcheck feature exposes passwords»
«Meta faces mounting questions from Congress on #health data #privacy as hospitals remove #Facebook tracker».
In June, The Markup reported that #Meta pixels on the websites of 33 of top 100 hospitals in #America were transmitting the details of patients’ doctor’s appointments to Meta when patients booked on the websites.
https://www.statnews.com/2022/09/19/facebook-meta-pixel-congress-health-data/
«#EU pitches cyber law to fix patchy Internet of Things»
The European Commission has presented a new Cyber Resilience Act proposal aimed at imposing new #cybersecurity requirements on #internet-connected devices ranging from "smart" toys and fridges to #security cameras.
https://www.politico.eu/article/new-cyber-act-to-raise-safety-standards-across-the-bloc/
«The risks of student #surveillance amid #abortion bans and #LGBTQ restrictions».
#Instagram fined €405M for violating kids’ #privacy.
The Irish Data Protection Commission has fined #Meta-owned social media platform for violations of the #GDPR.
https://www.politico.eu/article/instagram-fined-e405m-for-violating-kids-privacy/
« After self-hosting my #email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won».
Email is now an oligopoly, a service gatekept by a few big companies which does not follow the principles of #NetNeutrality.
I read more and more often about people using SIM-free mobile phones in order to protect a little bit more their #privacy.
Do you own/use any? Did you setup a dummy account on it?
«If we accept as normal and unavoidable that everything in our lives can be aggregated and sold, then we lose so much more than data. We lose the #freedom to be human». - Tim Cook
«I'm concerned about the harmful effects of a market based around leveraging massive amounts of people's data. I’m especially concerned about harms to civil rights and equal opportunity, the proliferation of #misinformation, harms to competition, and increasing labor exploitation, including through worker #surveillance».
- "Disputing the Dogmas of Surveillance Advertising
National Advertising Division Keynote 2021" by Rebecca Kelly Slaughter
«The first assumption I would like to challenge is the idea that “privacy” is the only concern for consumers in digital markets. Of course, #privacy is critically important — I share the view that it is a fundamental right. But it is not the only important concept.» - Rebecca Kelly Slaughter
«Twitter executives opted to allow #Twitter to become more dependent upon revenue coming from Chinese entities even though the Twitter service is blocked in #China. […] After Chinese entities paid money to Twitter, there were concerns within Twitter that the information the Chinese entities could receive would allow them to identify and learn sensitive information about Chinese users who successfully circumvented the block».
The German Court ruled that use of #Google Fonts without prior consent is a violation of Europe’s #GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) because #GoogleFonts exposes the visitor’s IP address. Court’s ruling threatens a fine of €250,000 for each case of infringement if the site owner does not comply.
https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/31/website_fine_google_fonts_gdpr/
Emanuele
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Are you a #webdeveloper? Please, keep in mind that unless the website asks for informed consent before it loads the #GoogleFonts there is no legal basis available to transfer the visitor personal data to #Google and you should avoid/delay that request.
You are allowed to serve any font from any service after complying with #GDPR.
«A dad took #photos of his naked toddler for the doctor. #Google flagged him as a criminal».
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveillance-toddler-photo.html
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@emanuele obligatory link to Drip, as it is not mentioned in the article: https://bloodyhealth.gitlab.io/ #drip
«Period-Tracking Apps Won’t Say Whether They’ll Hand Your Data Over to Cops»
In total, of the 25 apps #Mozilla reviewed, 18 were slapped with its “Privacy Not Included” label, indicating that people should be cautious of using them, 8 failed to even meet Mozilla’s minimum #security standards, several accepted extremely weak passwords. Mozilla wasn’t even able to find a #privacy policy for the #pregnancy app #Sprout which was recommended by Cosmopolitan»
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88qxj4/period-tracking-apps-privacy-data
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So about that Twitter thing here: https://privacy.twitter.com/en/blog/2022/an-issue-affecting-some-anonymous-accounts
- 2022-01: Twitter learns of a vuln allowing anyone to find the account a phone number or e-mail is connected to. They "had no evidence" of it being exploited, so they took their time.
- 2022-07: Fix is deployed. They still didn't tell anyone.
- 2022-08: Twitter learns it _was_ exploited, and a data dump is already on sale.
Sounds like a bog standard #security incident, but here's the kicker:
- 2022-03: #Russia invades #Ukraine.
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