Emanuele @emanuele@m.divita.eu
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Computer engineer. Dreamer. Hero.
Joined May 2020
How a #WhatsApp status loophole is aiding cyberstalkers
https://traced.app/2021/04/13/whatsapp-status-loophole-is-aiding-cyberstalkers/
Use the #DuckDuckGo extension to block #FLoC, #Google’s new #tracking method in #Chrome
The Electronic Frontier Foundation built a new site to tell you whether or not you are a test subject in #Google’s latest #tracking experiment. Visit Am I #FLoC’ed to see if your #browser is putting you into one of their new #advertising categories.
"Defending your privacy – our #privacy – is a civic duty," argues Carissa Véliz.
"When we tell companies about ourselves, we give away details about others, too.”
https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/privacy/2019/10/privacy-collective-concern
Facebook’s #Instagram for #kids Will Be Money
«On the surface it seems like such a platform would be bad for business, lowering the number of users who can view #ads. #Facebook says the app wouldn’t be about its bottom line. In reality, such an app could make its ad-targeting ability across its platforms even better.»
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-instagram-for-kids-will-be-money-11617102014
Would you like to discover who track your #web surfing?
Here you are a plugin to visualize 3rd-party connections between sites.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lightbeam-3-0/
#Apple’s privacy problem.
French critique contradicts the #iPhone maker’s #privacy exceptionalism.
#Google reveals what personal data Chrome and its #apps collect on you
https://thehackernews.com/2021/03/google-to-reveals-what-personal-data.html
Using our right under the General Data Protection Regulation (#GDPR), PrivacyInternational asked five #menstruation apps to share the information they hold.
Google’s FLoC is a terrible idea.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-idea
«Every site you visit will have a good idea about what kind of person you are on first contact, without having to do the work of #tracking you across the #web».
That's the result of #Google proclaming the end of third-party cookies.
«The great hack» is a great #movie you should see to better understand how data harvesting is changing history and society.
https://www.netflix.com/watch/80117542
#privacyMatters #CambridgeAnalytica #socialNetwork #politics #society
For any app that asks for your Contacts list: unless you contact each & every person in your list & ask their permission to share their birthday, phone #, real location, all emails, & any notes you have on them w the app you want to install, do not click Allow. It is unethical.
My phone was spying on me, so I tracked down the surveillants.
https://nrkbeta.no/2020/12/03/my-phone-was-spying-on-me-so-i-tracked-down-the-surveillants/
«We need privacy to explore new ideas freely, to make up our own minds. #Privacy protects us from unwanted pressures and abuses of power. We need it to be autonomous individuals, and for democracies to function well we need citizens to be autonomous».
https://lithub.com/what-does-privacy-really-mean-under-surveillance-capitalism/
Location tracking apps and #privacy implications
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-02/udb-lta021921.php
«Thanks to machine learning techniques, these data provide sensitive information such as the place where users live, their habits, interests, demographics, and information about users' personalities».
‘Smart’ TVs Track Everything You Watch
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/02/18/fowler-tv-privacy
Disconnect your #TV from the #internet and use a set top box or stick with some degree of #privacy you can control. Even if you’re not worried about the privacy angle, it’s just a waste of bandwidth.
