US techno-fascists threatening the increasingly smaller democratic-elected politicians who denounce the erasure of our data privacy.

Appellate judges rejected a police urgency claim for an emergency Verizon request in their 2022 pursuit of a man they were already surveilling.

Starting November 24, Quad9 will no longer be able to offer its free cyberprotection service to users located in France.

They even had the audacity to ask for "documentation" of my use of Tuta as if I'm here to justify my damn review for them.

They don't even tell me exactly why. I have no idea what I even wrote and they don't specify. It's just "automated". Aka they remove whatever the F they don't like and of course Tuta is a target.

Sent them an email from the very Tuta account they don't believe exists and told them what I think as well.

Does anyone here want to send this to tuta? I have no clue where they can be contacted. Support ain't it, I'm assuming.

I hope Italy fines them another 4 million.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/private/p/1480051/court-rules-opm-data-disclosure-to-doge-is-unlawful

This looks like a promising app!

There is an option to have it NEVER talk to google, it uses open street maps, it downloads flock camera locations, will alert you when they're close, and - it will route around flock cameras !

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/private/p/1471349/heres-what-telegram-giving-data-to-the-u-s-government-looks-like

Source: Legal Document.

The case this document surfaced in centers around Mahmoud Amin Ya’qub Al-Muhtadi, who allegedly participated in the October 7 attacks against Israel.

I build a small messenger and I'd like opinions, not installs. Disclosure up front: I'm the developer of FlickerTalk (Android, AGPL-3.0, no account, no phone number). Limits first, since this is a privacy community: it only works when the other person has it; 1:1 and small circles, no large groups; on a direct connection the other phone can see your public IP; Google delivers the wake-up push and sees that one arrived, not what it says.

The design decision I keep second-guessing: instead of adding features to the messenger, I put them in an "Apps" tab as small sandboxed web packages you open inside a conversation. Each tool sees only what you hand it, and nothing leaves the phone until you tap send. Today: a document scanner, signing a PDF together, a shared list, split expenses, a poll, a whiteboard during calls, a few two-player games.

Questions for people who think about this more than I do:

1. Is "tools inside the chat" a privacy win (less data sent to third-party apps) or a bigger attack surface, in your view?
2. Which everyday task would you actually want to do without leaving a conversation?
3. What should a messenger refuse to bundle, no matter how convenient?

I'll answer every reply and I'm fine with "none of this, keep it simple" as an answer.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/private/p/1469221/voting-rights-and-privacy-organizations-sue-trump-vance-administration-over-secretive-co

Crossposted from https://lemmy.ml/post/53975843

The previous Polish government used Israeli spyware to target opposition politicians and members of the judicial system, the country's prime minister said on Monday in a televised address.

Donald Tusk said a two-year parliamentary investigation had found that the previous nationalist-conservative Law and Justice (PiS) governing party allowed Israel access to data collected using Pegasus spyware.

The PiS governments paid $7.65m for the system and used it to surveil opposition politicians as well as members of the legal system who were critical of the ruling administration.

According to media reports, Pegasus was acquired in late 2017, actively used from 2017 to 2023, deployed during the 2019 elections, and ultimately used against hundreds of individuals, including several prominent figures from within its own ranks.

I see people everywhere saying what city they live in, and sometimes even more detailed info than the city. This strikes me as unwise. Isn't it possible for bad actors to use that info to join the dots of details you leave everywhere and use it against you? Am I being unreasonably suspicious? People always have a strange reaction when I don't want to tell them what city I'm in. Or even what country I'm in, if I can help it. What do you all think?

Surveillance camera maker Flock is cutting its workforce as the company faces ongoing and growing backlash to its license plate readers and people-tracking technology.

News of the staff cuts comes from Reuters, which reported that Flock is reducing its staff by 18%, or around 270 employees, across the board. The publication said the employees are leaving at the end of October following a voluntary buyout program.

Wired reported last month that Flock was asking some of its employees to leave, citing the need to shrink its staff to avoid mandatory layoffs.

Flock spokesperson Paris Lewbel told TechCrunch in a statement on Friday: “Flock recently offered current employees a generous Voluntary Separation Program as part of our efforts to position the company for its next phase of growth. This was a voluntary program, not a layoff, and reflects our continued focus on building a strong, sustainable business for the future.”

As the title says, I’m trying to find a bookmark manager with peer2peer syncing and can work between browser engines. I’m currently jumping around different browsers to figure out which to stick with (all have something I don’t like for now). I have a ton of bookmarks I want to bring along but I don’t have the time/want/energy to set up a homelab at this point in time, which means no NextCloud and no DAV, which by extension means no Floccus since it relies on DAV.

I don’t care if the P2P functionality is built in or if it writes to a local file that has to rely on Syncthing for syncing between devices. That being said Syncthing would be a plus. I’ve been looking around all day and can’t find anything that’d work. The closest thing I’ve found is xBrowserSync, but that looks like it’s abandoned.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1458484/nitter-update-oct-10th-seeking-funding-and-legal-help

Hacker News.

Source: Nitter.

first of all i wanna say i have already tried a linux box with plasma bigscreen and its unfortunately not my thing

SO something that's easy to use (like an android box) and has support for youtube adblocking (and maybe even sponsorblock). I'm not looking to use a little keyboard controller to navigate a desktop ui, i would like to use a standard enough remote and navigate something that was made for a tv

i know this is like impossible and it doesn't need to be crazy private, just something that doesn't take all of my yummy data :)

thank guy