«#WordPress.org strongly urges theme authors to switch to locally hosted #webfonts»
https://wptavern.com/wordpress-org-strongly-urges-theme-authors-to-switch-to-locally-hosted-webfonts
«Italian SA bans use of #Google Analytics»
A website using #GoogleAnalytics (GA) without the safeguards set out in the EU #GDPR violates data protection law because it transfers users’ data to the #USA, which is a country without an adequate level of #dataProtection.
https://www.garanteprivacy.it/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/docweb/9782874
I think I just found out the first #blog using #ActivityPub to power the comments area. Cool!
The Bergamot Project funded by the «European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme» released a #Firefox addo-on useful to do offline translations in order to preserve your #privacy (when you use #Google Translate you submit your data to Google's AI).
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-translations/
Last week, the Belgian government launched a proposal that would ban #Signal.
https://edri.org/our-work/belgium-wants-to-ban-signal-a-harbinger-of-european-policy-to-come/
«Big Tech loves talking up #privacy – while trying to kill privacy legislation»
Study claims #Amazon, #Apple, #Google, #Meta, #Microsoft work to derail data rules.
«The #FacialRecognition search engine apocalypse is coming»
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2022/05/27/facial-search-apocalypse
Warning: There’s an app for blurring out sensitive information in images called Obfuscate being featured on #GNOME Software right now.
Please be careful.
The default blur setting can easily be reversed.
The default should be to replace the areas with a solid colour or a pattern not derived from the underlying information.
This really should not be a featured app in its current state.
Are you FloCed? The #eff has put up a website to check whether you are part of the "original trial" set of users, as #google calls it. To find out, head over to https://amifloced.org/
I know I shouldn't tell you but someone told me you can bypass this #paywall by using the proxy function of https://www.startpage.com, a #privacy-conscious web search engine.
The era of borderless data is ending.
«Nations are accelerating efforts to control data produced within their perimeters, disrupting the flow of what has become a kind of digital currency».
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/23/technology/data-privacy-laws.html
Our mind push us to think that software can't hurt us since is not material. In reality nowdays #software is so connected to our #life that an insecure software can hurt us more than a lot of insecure devices we daily use.
Keeping your software up to date is pretty similar to the periodical #maintenance you do on your car. You can't overlook it.
«Mastercard unleashes new era of biometric #payments to enhance the checkout experience».
When using #biometric systems please keep in mind one big rule: the biometric data HAVE to be stored on a secure chip/device you own. If the data are store/managed by the service provider the system is insecure and not #privacy compliant by design.
Please avoid those kind of systems: a #databreach is always possible and you will loose something you can't change.
Submit your public feedback on the EU's Chat Control adoption
Do you want to get rid of #Microsoft services from your local network?
Here it is the official endpoints list to analyze while configuring your #firewall: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/manage-windows-11-endpoints
Google Is sharing our data at a startling scale.
«By way of online activity and location, a person in the U.S. is exposed 747 times each day to #Google’s real-time bidding».
In San Francisco Autonomous Cars Assist 24/7 'round the clock Surveillance
#SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy #News #SmartCity #IoT #California #InternetOfThings #SanFrancisco
https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/16/in_brief_security/
We are hiring two Software Engineers for our Applications Team! You'll work on Tor Browser and future applications and help millions of people circumvent censorship and protect their privacy. All details here: https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/software-engineer-applications-team-2/
A new study finds 3,000 websites on which third-party #tracking companies scoop up what you type into forms in real time — even if you never hit submit. This happens on about 1,800 websites for E.U. users too, likely in violation of the #GDPR.
https://www.wired.com/story/leaky-forms-keyloggers-meta-tiktok-pixel-study/
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