Notices by The New Oil (thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org)

Five Things to Know about the Supreme Court Case on Texas’ #AgeVerification Law, Free Speech Coalition v Paxton

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/five-things-know-about-supreme-court-case-texas-age-verification-law-free-speech

#privacy #politics #nsfw

Biggest #Privacy Erosion in 10 Years? On #Google’s Policy Change Towards #Fingerprinting

https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/biggest-privacy-erosion-in-10-years-on-googles-policy-change-towards-fingerprinting/

#NewYear’s #cybersecurity resolutions that every startup should keep

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/31/new-year-cybersecurity-resolutions-that-every-startup-should-keep/

Critics decry #Vietnam’s ‘draconian’ new internet law

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/23/vietnam-identity-verification-internet-law-reactions-decree-147-censorship

#privacy #surveillance #censorship

#Ascension: Health data of 5.6 million stolen in #ransomware attack

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ascension-health-data-of-56-million-stolen-in-ransomware-attack/

#cybersecurity #DataBreach #healthcare #privacy

Most popular home internet routers in US may be banned as national security risk

https://9to5mac.com/2024/12/18/most-popular-home-internet-routers-in-us-may-be-banned-as-national-security-risk/

#privacy #cybersecurity #TPLink

Hundreds of websites to shut down under #UK’s ‘chilling’ internet laws

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/12/17/hundreds-of-websites-to-shut-down-under-chilling-internet/

#OSA #privacy #surveillance

Researchers uncover Chinese #spyware used to target #Android devices

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/11/researchers-uncover-chinese-spyware-used-to-target-android-devices/

#cybersecurity #China #privacy #surveillance

#Mozilla #Firefox removes "#DoNotTrack" Feature support: Here's what it means for your #Privacy

https://windowsreport.com/mozilla-firefox-removes-do-not-track-feature-support-heres-what-it-means-for-your-privacy/

#FOSS #DNT

Shame on #Google for Their Description of Google Messages’s #Encryption Support

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/12/04/shame-on-google-messages

#cybersecurity #privacy

New Video: The Invisible Way You Can Be Tracked Online

PeerTube: https://apertatube.net/w/fdszTYBKzeoE3ySQUGTzmo
YouTube: https://youtu.be/tMCcpV2c4K4

#privacy #fingerprinting #guide

#Threads users can now follow profiles from other #fediverse servers

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/04/threads-users-can-now-follow-profiles-from-other-fediverse-servers/

#privacy #Meta

The #Privacy Risks of Digital IDs: What You Need to Know

https://getsession.org/blog/the-privacy-risks-of-digital-ids-what-you-need-to-know

#DigitalID

#EFF Lawsuit Discloses Documents Detailing Government’s #SocialMedia #Surveillance of Immigrants

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/eff-lawsuit-discloses-documents-detailing-governments-social-media-surveillance

#privacy #politics #immigration

#Microsoft president asks #Trump to “push harder” against Russian hacks

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/11/microsoft-president-asks-trump-to-push-harder-against-russian-hacks/

#cybersecurity #politics #Russia

#Mullvad Browser 14.0 released

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2024/11/19/mullvad-browser-140-released

#privacy #cybersecurity #FOSS

#X sues to block #California anti-deepfakes bill

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/15/x-sues-to-block-california-anti-deepfakes-bill/

#privacy #deepfake #Twitter #Musk #politics

#Ecosia and #Qwant, two European search engines, join forces on building an index to shrink reliance on Big Tech

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/11/ecosia-and-qwant-two-european-search-engines-join-forces-on-building-an-index-to-shrink-reliance-on-big-tech/

#privacy

#iOS 18.2 Beta adds #HTTPS by default with option to block HTTP for #Safari

https://discuss.techlore.tech/t/ios-18-2-beta-adds-https-by-default-with-option-to-block-http-for-safari/10645/1

#cybersecurity #Apple

Cybercriminals now use ZIP file concatenation to evade detection

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-now-use-zip-file-concatenation-to-evade-detection/

#cybersecurity