Notices by Em :official_verified: (em0nm4stodon@infosec.exchange)

Important Reminder for Signal Users :signal:🔒:

If you activate the new Username feature, you might want to go to:

Settings > Privacy > Phone Number and make sure to select "Nobody" in "Who Can See My Number".

You can also select "Nobody" in "Who Can Find Me By Number" if you prefer that people who get your phone number not know if you are on Signal or not.

This is valid for both Mobile and Desktop.

#Signal #Privacy #TinyPrivacyTip

Tiny Privacy Tip for Developers 🔒✨

Data deletion is an important
process for privacy, safety, and respect of consent. It should always be:

1. User accessible :blocky_white_cursor:

2. Done thoroughly 🔎

3. Completed shortly ⏳️

4. Permanent :nes_fire:

Unless there is a legal reason for not doing so, this should be a default feature for every software and services storing users data.

Let’s work together to make sure one day it is.

#TinyPrivacyTip #Privacy

Mastodon:

Come for the moss!
Stay for the tips to resist surveillance capitalism :awesome:🌱

My profile timeline is privacy doom, cute cats, and moss 😐

Be careful with the "All or Nothing"
approach in regard to data privacy.

Absolutes can be misleading.

For example, it is not because it’s not possible to delete ALL traces of ALL your data that deleting at least the visible data isn’t worth it.

Reducing your digital traces, even when it is not completely erasing your digital traces, almost always offer some benefits to increase your privacy and security online.

Giving up however very rarely helps.

#Privacy

Using billionaires' platforms
will not save us anymore.

They have full control to silence your voices there. Using it only means more power to them. Leave their control and join The Resistance.

To build powerful communities
that will be able to resist the oppression and injustice coming up soon, we need to fully move towards independent platforms.

The Resistance will be federated ✊

Organize events 👉 https://joinmobilizon.org/en/

Diffuse news and guides 👉 https://peertube.tv/

What else? 👀

#Federation #Mobilizon #PeerTube #Mastodon > #Twitter #Facebook #YouTube #Reddit #Instagram #USpol

The Resistance starts with us ✊💚

To organize, we are going to need tools. Secure tools. Private tools.

These tools will also need our help to survive. If you can afford it, please consider donating to:

🏡 Your Mastodon instance (check your instance About page for this)

:mastodon: Mastodon Software: https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors

:signal: Signal: https://signal.org/donate/

:tor: Tor: https://donate.torproject.org/

:neocat_heart: Framasoft: https://framasoft.org/en/#support

🛡️ CryptPad: https://opencollective.com/cryptpad/contribute

#Privacy #TheResistance #USpol #Mastodon

Normalize asking for consent
before taking photos of others 📷

Normalize asking for consent
before posting photos of others online :blobcatphoto:

Normalize asking for consent
before sharing the personal information of others 📞📧 🏠ℹ️

Normalize asking for consent 💚

#Privacy #Consent

@kaia Yes! This is what consent looks like! Every conventions should have this!

People who use social media other than Mastodon :twitter: :facebook: :meta: :

If you are still using some [BigCorpSocial™️] social media account(s),
I highly recommend maintaining a good data privacy hygiene on there. Especially because of all the data collected from these platforms, most recently, infamously, for scanning all your posts to feed For-Profit-AI-Machine™️

One important step to improve your data hygiene is to delete the older posts that are no longer useful to you (you can do this automatically on Mastodon by the way) :nes_fire:

Many [BigCorpSocial™️] have rendered this task more difficult recently by removing features previously provided to third-party developers.

BUT there is a fantastic desktop app developed by @micahflee coming up for this with a workaround! :awesome:

Semiphemeral! :birdsite:✨

Semiphemeral will make it possible for you to delete your older posts from your [BigCorpSocial™️] accounts, according to your preferences.

I don't often recommend tools like this,
but this one is a great one:

Privacy by Design ✅
From a trustworthy source ✅
Top practices for data minimization ✅
Runs locally ✅

I highly recommend it to anyone with social media accounts outside of the Fediverse.

Read on the latest developments here: https://semiphemeral.com/x-steaming-toxic-trashpit-semiphemeral-cant-come-soon-enough/

Subscribe to get updates: https://semiphemeral.com/x-steaming-toxic-trashpit-semiphemeral-cant-come-soon-enough/#/portal/signup

Donate so it gets ready faster! :rainbowdance: https://semiphemeral.com/donate/

Follow Semiphemeral on Mastodon: @semiphemeral

#Privacy #DataMinimization #DataDeletion #Semiphemeral #Twitter #X

Each time you push back against a bad privacy practice, you are part of the solution.

Report. Complain. Refuse. Say no.
Privacy is a human right.

#Privacy

Are you currently looking for a Job in Tech?

Post in reply with:

1. Your desired work location 🗺
2. Position(s) you are looking for 💻
3. Link to your job search post, website, etc ✨

Please boost for reach! :boost_ok:

TECH RECRUITERS, SHOP BELOW!👇👇👇

#Recruiters #Hiring #JobSearch #TechJobs #Jobs #GetFediHired #FediHire #LookingForWork

You have more power to make the world better than you think.

Don't waste it all thinking you have none 💚

Fediverse Idea Proposition :mastodon: :rainbowdance:

What if we started posting about
things (news, comments, ideas, projects) that make us hopeful for the future using the #Hope ?

Hope for the future of tech, the future of digital rights, the future of the internet, the future of the world, etc.

What would you post under this hashtag today? Reply below using the hashtag :blobcatheart:

*no sarcasm allowed 🙅♀️

#Fediverse #Mastodon

Tiny Mastodon Newbie Tip 🐘✨:

If you find not many people Boost (repost) your toots (posts) with photos or memes, it could be because you did not use Alt-text 👁🗨

Adding Alt-text to your images will not only make them more accessible, it will also increase the chances that others Boost your toots! :boost_ok:

HOW TO ❓

Here’s how: https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/109323425237412179

#TinyMastodonTip

Tiny Mastodon Reminder :mastodon:💡

When discussing a specific topic, using at least one relevant hashtag in your post is a great idea to help your post getting seen and found.

👉 You can add your hashtag(s) at the end to improve accessibility and readability.

👉 You should CapitalizeEachWord of a multi-word hashtag to increase accessibility.

👉 Don't forget that you can also follow hashtags on Mastodon! :awesome:

#TinyMastodonTip #Mastodon

Seriously though, take a minute trying to grasp how rich a company like Facebook (Meta) really is. Think, truly think, about how much money it makes every year.

Now, think about HOW it makes this money:
Does it sell a lot of expensive cars? No.
Does it sell computers around the world? No.
Does it sell oil? Nope.

It. Sells. YOU.

And how much do YOU get in exchange for producing these billions of dollars for it each year?

#Meta #Facebook #SurveillanceCapitalism #Privacy

"Meta fed its AI on almost everything you’ve posted publicly since 2007" from The Verge:

"Meta has just decided that [they] will scrape all of the photos and all of the texts from every public post on Instagram or Facebook since 2007 unless there was a conscious decision to set them on private"

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/12/24242789/meta-training-ai-models-facebook-instagram-photo-post-data

#Privacy #AI #Meta #Facebook #Instagram

Super Teeny-Tiny Mastodon Tip for Newcomers 🐘✨:

There is no algorithm for your Home feed here.

On Mastodon,
WE are The Algorithm! :blobcheer:

To keep everyone's Home feeds lively,
it is important to Boost (repost) the posts of others.

So, when you see a post that you like, if you want your followers to see it in their Home timelines as well,
don't forget to Boost it! :boost_ok: 🚀✨

#TinyMastodonTip #Mastodon

As someone who does not come from nor live in the United States, I must concede a point to Trump from tonight's debate:

It is true that the rest of the world laughs.
It's not at the United States though, it is at him.

I wish you all the best to get rid of this sad and terrifying joke in November my American friends. We are all rooting for you ❤️💙✨

#USPresidentialDebate #Debate