Admin of an anarchist Mastodon server raided by FBI, insecure user data gets seized neowin.net Submitted by uanon on July 2, 2023 at 9:32 PM 17 comments 42
Suggestion. Paste text from linked articles in comments to reduce traffic to sites, reduce their ad revenue and increase user privacy. Could be done site wide as part of user etiquette Submitted by braketheboxes on February 24, 2018 at 10:55 PM 13 comments 29
Help people circumvent censorship: operate a Snowflake proxy snowflake.torproject.org Submitted by uanon on June 17, 2023 at 1:31 PM 8 comments 24
France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone, spy on people gazettengr.com Submitted by ziq on July 6, 2023 at 9:50 PM No comments 22
Do not use VPNs for privacy. gist.github.com Submitted by lena on October 1, 2017 at 8:28 AM 18 comments 22
An anti-porn app put him in jail and his family under surveillance arstechnica.com Submitted by __0 on June 14, 2023 at 7:28 PM 3 comments 21
Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft, here is how to disable that neowin.net Submitted by ziq on June 12, 2023 at 6:08 PM 6 comments 21
Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic tomshardware.com Submitted by ziq on January 17, 2024 at 8:38 AM 5 comments 19
A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe | Richard Stallman theguardian.com Submitted by boringskip on April 3, 2018 at 2:48 PM 10 comments 19
Signal's Meredith Whittaker: Breaking encryption while preserving privacy is 'magical thinking' cyberscoop.com Submitted by VSo2JyRe4NKDSHJbbzB8Bt on July 7, 2023 at 3:38 PM 4 comments 18
DuckDuckGo Isn’t as Private as You Thought reviewgeek.com Submitted by ziq on May 25, 2022 at 1:44 AM 6 comments 18
Dark Patterns neal.fun Submitted by Zerush on February 29, 2024 at 10:46 AM (edited on February 29, 2024 at 10:49 AM) 3 comments 16
A woman and her daughter plead guilty to abortion-related charges supported by Meta-provided Facebook chats theverge.com Submitted by Blackapocalypsexdd on July 12, 2023 at 7:38 PM 2 comments 16
Its been fun to watch Element get roasted for announcing they are at a police conference edit: updated with the first anouncement as the post link put a link to a second thread inside this post. mastodon.matrix.org Submitted by asterism on May 7, 2023 at 3:30 PM (edited on May 7, 2023 at 5:48 PM) 6 comments 16
Google collects Android users’ locations even when location services are disabled qz.com Submitted by An_Old_Big_Tree on November 21, 2017 at 3:39 PM 8 comments 16
The Massachusetts State Police deleted a tweet featuring this image, highlighting the houses effected by a gas explosion on the map. Can you tell why it was deleted? Look at the bookmarks bar: they were monitoring Leftist Facebook groups i.redd.it Submitted by ziq on September 14, 2018 at 7:22 PM (edited on September 14, 2018 at 7:24 PM) 8 comments 14
Any ideas for how two people could anonymously determine if they live in the same city? Submitted by sudo on November 16, 2017 at 5:03 PM 16 comments 14
Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to the LAPD, Internal Emails Show 404media.co Submitted by ziq on September 28, 2023 at 7:58 PM No comments 13
Library Futures | The Kids Online Safety Act Denies Young People’s Freedoms of Expression and Privacy libraryfutures.net Submitted by sqt on August 23, 2023 at 7:45 AM 2 comments 13
France set to allow police to spy on suspects through remote phone access rfi.fr Submitted by sqt on July 6, 2023 at 8:42 PM No comments 13
China Uses AI Camera to Capture Jaywalkers and Publicly Shame Them petapixel.com Submitted by sqt on June 19, 2023 at 1:52 PM 2 comments 13
‘No regrets,’ says Edward Snowden, after 10 years in exile theguardian.com Submitted by ziq on June 8, 2023 at 7:33 AM 2 comments 13
Mullvad VPN maker says police tried to raid its offices but couldn’t find any user data theverge.com Submitted by ziq on April 21, 2023 at 7:39 PM No comments 13
Google and Amazon Helped the FBI Identify Z-Library’s Operators torrentfreak.com Submitted by when_you_sleep on November 21, 2022 at 12:55 PM 6 comments 13
Companies that funded anti-choice/anti-abortion politicians want you to turn to them (as an employee) to seek an abortion Submitted by __m106__ on June 26, 2022 at 5:26 PM No comments 13