'All Your Data ❝Я❞ Belong To Us' Thread

[tServo]

Here in the new.S.of.A, Duckduckgo has been running a commercial on TV that skewers Chrome's lack of privacy
featuring a song by 80s rock group "The Police" that is quite nifty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWpPyYlZXNI

[retina]

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/0...ent-or-warrant

Amazon’s Ring devices are not just personal security cameras. They are also police cameras—whether you want them to be or not. The company now admits there are “emergency” instances when police can get warrantless access to Ring personal devices without the owner’s permission. This dangerous policy allows police, in conjunction with Ring, to decide when access should be granted to private video. The footage is given in “​​cases involving imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to any person.”

These cameras can exacerbate racial profiling. They can also make people feel more paranoid, rather than more secure, because of the constant alerts the device is capable of providing.

Sen. Markey also raised concerns about Ring’s audio recording of people in public places, and asked Amazon for information about this. The company failed to clarify the distance from which Ring products can capture audio recordings. Earlier this year, Consumer Reports revealed that Ring’s audio capabilities are more powerful than anyone anticipated, collecting conversation-level audio from up to 25-feet away. This has disturbing implications for people who walk, bike, or even drive by dozens of these devices every day, not knowing that their conversations may have been captured and recorded. The company also refused to commit to eliminating the default setting of automatically recording audio.

[kriesel]

Originally Posted by tServo

Here in the new.S.of.A, Duckduckgo has been running a commercial on TV that skewers Chrome's lack of privacy

with an actor that's subtly sufficiently creepy and looks like he might be a cousin of Zuckerberg.

[retina]

https://www.ghacks.net/2022/07/17/fa...url-stripping/

Facebook has started to use a different URL scheme for site links to combat URL stripping technologies that browsers such as Firefox or Brave use to improve privacy and prevent user tracking.

Since it is no longer possible to identify the tracking part of the web address, it is no longer possible to remove it from the address automatically. In other words: Facebook has the upper hand in regards to URL-based tracking at the time, and there is little that can be done about it short of finding a way to decrypt the information.

... or ceasing to use Facebook.

Why are the offered "solutions" to always fight, instead of ignore. If everyone ignored FB it would either die, or decide to be more friendly to survive. Oh wait, FB be more friendly? Haha, that will never happen.

Luser: Hi FB, will you respect my privacy?
FB: What does "privacy" mean? Did you just make up a new word?

[ewmayer]

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022...vernments.html

[Till]

Originally Posted by retina

... or ceasing to use Facebook.

I deactivated my account in 2014 if I remember correctly. Never looked at it again.
Backdraw (?): Never heard of many "friends" since then.

[kriesel]

Just in case not quite all your internet data is being hoovered up enough yet:
Install the national internet observatory's browser extension!

https://nationalinternetobservatory.org/volunteer.html

They're advertising this on Facebook.

[Dr Sardonicus]

Originally Posted by kriesel

Just in case not quite all your internet data is being hoovered up enough yet:
Install the national internet observatory's browser extension!

https://nationalinternetobservatory.org/volunteer.html

They're advertising this on Facebook.

Hmm, there's an NSF grant involved for an Internet Observatory project. Award #2131929, David Lazer (Principal Investigator) and David Choffnes (Co-Principal Investigator) have $5.2 million of a $15.7 million grant to play with.

Your tax dollars at work!

[retina]

https://arstechnica.com/information-...of-their-data/

Users of the Western Digital My Cloud service are fuming after a network breach has locked them out of their data for more than 24 hours and has put company-handled information into the hands of currently unknown hackers.

Why can a remote 3rd party company lock you out of your own gear?

Oh, yeah, silly me, haha, I know the answer. Just because you paid money for it, that doesn't mean you control it. What a silly notion. Of course those companies deserve to have control over everything you have, and you should be glad about it. It's for your protection.

[slandrum]

Originally Posted by retina

It's for your protection.

As in: "It would be a shame if somethin' were to happen to your nice looking data over here."

[retina]

https://blog.1password.com/privacy-p...app-telemetry/

1Password is beginning an internal test of our new, privacy-preserving in-app telemetry system.

Sigh.

No customer vault data can be seen or collected.

So says you.

This data will be gathered from a randomized selection of accounts, de-identified, and processed in aggregate.

De-identifed == can be re-identified, as shown by many previous studies

Customer accounts are not included for now.

For now.

It's all just a promise. Even the best of intentions can be undone by a single hack. If you don't collect then you have nothing to protect, and nothing to lose.

Why would anyone use a security app that they don't control? IMO "password vaults" should really just be a protocol connecting to a dumb cloud store. Then anyone can use their own app that they control, and trust not to spy on them, to place all their encrypted stuff.