Notices tagged with privacy, page 4

How is #Intuit so bad at everything except, seemingly, income-tax software?
They spammed me today at an email address which to my knowledge has never had an Intuit account associated with it. When I click the unsubscribe link it brings me to their login page. But I can't log in with that email address—no account!—so I can't unsubscribe.
This is both stupid and illegal; working unsubscribe links are a requirement of the CAN-SPAM act.
I sent them a #privacy complaint. We'll see what happens.
#spam

For the record: #Intuit replied to my #spam complaint and told me I could go to https://data-privacy.app.intuit.com/preferences to unsubscribe from their spam.
I've done that; we'll see if it works.
Needless to say, they completely ignored the portion of my complaint where I pointed out that the unsubscribe link in their spam didn't work and that that's a violation of federal law. 🤷
#privacy

I love the WebDAV protocol and its extensions (CardDAV and CalDAV). Syncing Contacts between Android and Desktop (GNOME Contacts) is pretty convenient and private.
It also works pretty well with tasks.org app for Android and Errands app for GNOME to have ToDo lists completely synced between devices.
I'm very happy with this productivity and private solution.

#privacy #degoogle

#Privacy is not just about today. Privacy is largely about years from today.

And nobody knows what's going to happen years into the future.

That's something that I think a lot of people continue to miss.

Some piece of information that was completely innocent, say, in 2021, might become a serious threat in 2025.

Who will have access to that information? How will the social context change? What will the legal environment be?

Once a piece of information is out of our hands, we lose control.

"When we spend time fighting the expansion of Automated License Plate Readers capable of tracking cars as they move, or the growing ubiquity of both public and private surveillance cameras, we often hear a familiar refrain: “you don’t have an expectation of privacy in public.” This is not true." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/you-really-do-have-some-expectation-privacy-public #Surveillance #Privacy

Should we stop saying #spying when talking about #privacy and instead say #stalking ?

Internet è diventato irriconoscibile: da spazio di libertà e innovazione a strumento di controllo e manipolazione. Le Big Tech dominano ogni aspetto della nostra vita digitale, mentre disinformazione e algoritmi tossici minano la società. Ma tra piattaforme decentralizzate e nuovi modelli economici, emerge una possibilità di rinascita. È tempo di agire per salvare la rete.

#Rinascita #Internet #Decentralizzazione #Privacy #Algoritmi #Libertà #Futuro

https://www.futuroprossimo.it/2024/11/internet-e-morto-viva-internet-ecco-come-farlo-risorgere/

Signal adds a bunch of new calling features: a dedicated calls tab, call links, raise hand button, emoji reactions, and much more. https://signal.org/blog/call-links/

#Signal #privacy #Zoom #surveillance

She liked music that made her smile, want to dance, snap her fingers, tap her foot.

The happy sound filled the room, overflowed into the rest of the rooms of the house, settled with a happy sigh in her heart and relaxed there.

This music was most definitely a balm for her soul.

Phonograph Days art print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/phonograph-days-steve-henderson.html

#music #art #artwork #buyintoart #ayearforart #mastoart #fediart #fedigiftshop #home #woman #beauty #privacy #interior #decor #nostalgia #technology

I solved the Android Auto issues so...I did it!

I've just ordered a Pixel 9 Pro XL. I won't even try the stock Android, I'll immediately install #GrapheneOS on it since day 1 (that will be tomorrow).

With the Android 15 Private Space feature (and the GrapheneOS team made it possible to install Google Services inside it, disabling them when the space is locked), I can enable and disable that space (and Google Services) when needed and without having to change profile. This is impressive and, for me, a game changer.

I'll try everything for some time. The battery life of my Pixel 7 without the Google services has been impressive. Today, I had a great experience with it as a main phone.

While I used it all the day, the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra was idle (5 minutes of screen time). The Pixel consumes 22% of battery, the Samsung 20% - just being idle. No calls, no videos, just a bunch of notifications.

If the Pixel will have a comparable battery life to the Samsung, I'll keep it and eventually sell the Samsung.

A huge thank you to all the people the helped me to debug all the issues (I'm not tagging them as I'm sure I'll forget some) and to the GrapheneOS team for the great, impressive work they're doing.

#Google #Pixel9 #Pixel7 #Pixel #Android #OS #Privacy #Security #OwnYourData

It's funny to see people leaving #X to join #bluesky or #threads. They're all billionaire driven spyware, manipulative, toxic spaces.
I mentioned them yesterday during my keynote speech "Quo vadis, Free Software (quo vadis, society" at #FOSSCOMM2024 in Greece.
#Freedom #privacy

"Copyleft in the silicon domain"
by Panos Alevropoulos at #FOSSCOMM2024 @panosalevropoulos
Panos addresses a very important topic about #OpenHardware , licensing.
#FreeSoftware #Freedom #privacy

I have for the last 11 years talked about the problem with user profiling and algorithmic content. Creation of echo chambers and the ability to easily manipulate what people see for marketing purposes and worse. Even made a cat video to try to make the point. I wish more would see this.

The point is not for political parties to see the potential here, but rather to see the risk. The only way to fix this is to ban user profiling.

You have made a good choice to move the the Fediverse. It would help for more of your friends to join us.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/09/social-media-traditional-news-elections-00188548

#Politics #fediverse #Mastodon @EUCommission #Privacy #Twitter #Facebook #USPol #USPolitics

I’ve noticed a few mistaken assumptions circulating on social media lately, so I thought it was worth clarifying a few things around privacy and surveillance. https://werd.io/2024/psa-social-media-privacy-and-you #privacy #technology

Hackers Are Sending Fraudulent Police Data Requests To Tech Giants To Steal People's Private Information

#PoliceEmailCompromise #FBIWarning #MultiFactorAuthentication #Privacy #DataBreach

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/11/08/231226/hackers-are-sending-fraudulent-police-data-requests-to-tech-giants-to-steal-peoples-private-information

We have launched a secondary Signal proxy using an IP not in the same subnet as our Tor relays

Please feel free to share this with anyone who wants a single-hop proxy to send and receive Signal messages

https://signal.tube/#ghostprotocol.net

In addition to possibly allowing censored Signal users to continue using Signal in an internet censored region, using a Signal proxy will also protect a user from disclosing any network metadata to or from *.signal.org domains to spying network admins or ISPs.

#Signal #SignalApp #censorship #resistance #privacy #security #e2ee #encryption

LiberaForms spricht Deutsch! 🎉

Version 3.4.0 is now available in German, as well as English, Spanish, Basque, Catalan, and French!

A big thank you to all the translators, especially @kirschwipfel for making this possible.

For more info and instructions to upgrade, please check: https://blog.liberaforms.org/2024/11/07/version-340/

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Community #privacy #FOSS #deutsch #fedide #German #LiberaForms340

For anyone new to online #privacy and unsure where to begin, the @privacyguides resource is an excellent starting point: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/

@eff #signal #privacy #surveillance #anonymity #EatTheRich

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