Emanuele @emanuele@m.divita.eu
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Computer engineer. Dreamer. Hero.
Joined May 2020
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
«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.
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».
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/
Your data is valuable. Everything you do online and everywhere you go with your #phone is tracked. And there’s a robust market for that data, a market that lets governments and private individuals purchase reams of your personal data.
«The EU Commission’s New Proposal Would Undermine #Encryption And Scan Our Messages»
TL;DR: The executive body of the European Union published today a legislative proposal (text) that, if it became law, would be a disaster for online #privacy in the EU and throughout the world. Fortunately, the misguided proposal published today is far from the final word on this matter.
#Twitter, #Facebook, #Reddit, #Minecraft direct messages can be read by any super-user (administrators, server operators & so on).
On #Mastodon happens to be the same. Your instance admin can read all your DMs.
Mastodon already implemented most of the server-side bits, but several challenges remain to implement the feature in clients.
Keep this in mind and choose your media wisely when communicating sensitive data.
Researchers find Amazon uses Alexa voice data to target you with ads.
The report concludes that #Amazon and third parties (including advertising and #tracking services) collect data from your interactions with #Alexa through #Echo smart speakers and share it with as many as 41 #advertising partners.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/28/23047026/amazon-alexa-voice-data-targeted-ads-research-report
At least you can say you are not alone at home anymore.
41 fu**ing partners.
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I know the #fediverse is no perfect. Nothing is.
Don't be fooled from one bad-managed #Mastodon instance. That's not the entire network.
You are free to move away as when you change your email provider. You can join another instance close to your ideas and culture. You can run your own one.
In any case you will be able to speak with those you want to and ignore what's away from your spirit.
Think of it: what are you doing right now here is communicate/socialize with people without #tracking, data-harvesting, ghost-control of your behaviour.
That's life changing to me. It's like when breathing fresh air.
#Mastodon is digital fresh air. 🙂
That's something you should give credit to and value in your life.
Edward #Snowden helped create Zcash #privacy coin
The #NSA #whistleblower was one of six people holding part of a private key to create #Zcash using the pseudonym "John Dobbertin."
https://decrypt.co/98870/edward-snowden-helped-create-zcash-privacy-coin
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) launches today the public pilot phase of two social media platforms: EU Voice and EU Video.
Facebook doesn’t know what it does with your data, or where it goes: leaked document.
«We do not have an adequate level of control and explainability over how our systems use data,” #Facebook engineers say in leaked document»
The document raises the question of whether Facebook is able to broadly comply with #GDPR
Anomaly Six, a secretive government contractor, claims to #monitor the movements of billions of #phones around the #world and unmask spies with the press of a button.
https://theintercept.com/2022/04/22/anomaly-six-phone-tracking-zignal-surveillance-cia-nsa/
#privacyMatters #tracking #smartphone #surveillance #massdatacollection
New Consumer Reports research shows that #Ring #doorbell #cameras and similar devices can capture your audio at conversational tones taking place 20-30 feet away. It «really changes the paradigm of privacy».
https://www.consumerreports.org/video-doorbells/video-doorbell-cameras-record-audio-too-a4636115889/
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«#Google bans apps with hidden data-harvesting #software»
TL;DR: Researchers caught a data broker tied to US national #security harvesting extensive personal information including precise location via #weather apps, QR readers, speed-trap detectors and #Muslim prayer apps installed on >60m #Android smartphones.
