Visa Adds New Way To Share Customer Shopping Data With Retailers ( www.businesswire.com )
Visa is rolling out new technology that will allow the payments giant to share more information about customers' preferences [non-paywalled source] based on their shopping history with retailers as it seeks to remain a top player in the competitive e-commerce space. From a report:...
Is Privacy Worth It? ( blog.thenewoil.org )
When I announced I would be closing my communities earlier this year, a curious thing happened: a surprising number of regulars replied with some variation of “I think this is my exit.” While some were specifically talking about Matrix, claiming that mine was the only room they were really active in and therefore they saw no...
Invidious
hey mah doods...
Chat Apps, Government Ties, and Transparency – Threema ( threema.ch )
Twitter/x.com is now forcing you to disable Firefox's Enhance Tracking Protection. ( lemmy.world )
Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com...
iOS 17.5 Bug May Also Resurface Deleted Photos on Wiped, Sold Devices
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/21465918...
Telegram founder and CEO alledges signal has backdoors, they don't provide reproduceible builds, etc.
Here's what he said in a post on his telegram channel:...
OpenAI and Reddit Partnership ( t.co )
It has finally happened...not surprised though.
Android's new anti-theft features ( blog.google )
cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/25062075
Instagram locked my account and forced me to appeal and send a picture of my face, so I sent a picture of Shrek. They deleted my account
I've been a social media hermit for the past 3 years but recently I've given up and created a few accounts across different apps again. It's unreal how strict the requirements are now....
Found this wondering town ( lemmy.world )
I didn't know my city was cool enough to put signal flyers.
Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, preventing data broker sales to government agencies, moves forward ( cyberscoop.com )
The House Judiciary Committee advanced the bill 30-0....
Dutch court convicts engineer to 5 years for maintaining crypto mixer Tornado Cash ( www.patrick-breyer.de )
How to randomly pad files before encryption to prevent file fingerprinting?
Hi, I was planning to encrypt my files with GPG for safety before uploading them to the cloud. However, from what I understand GPG doesn't pad files/do much to prevent file fingerprinting. I was looking around for a way to reliably pad files and encrypt metadata for them but couldn't find anything. Haven't found any...
FTC Warns Car Makers Regarding Privacy ( arstechnica.com )
It's not quite enough for me, personally, but this is a small step in the right direction....
Coming to terms with no longer having privacy and control over my technology
I miss the days of VHS and DVD shelfs in homes, for example. If you bought the tapes and had them in your home, no corporate entity could alter those tapes without your consent, monitor how many times you watch them, sell your data to whomever they please without your knowledge, roll out new mandatory conditions to a 'user...
Telegram CEO calls out rival Signal, claiming it has ties to US government ( www.theregister.com )
Are right wingers creating FUD around Signal? ( hachyderm.io )
Privacy.com alternative for the UK & EU region
Recently I just hit by stolen card detail and makes me searching a virtual card service. Anyone knows any works in the UK and EU region? Apparently Privacy.com needs SSN to work now. Thanks.
Privacy services and non privacy payments options
Why most services that want to protect user privacy. Also those on privacyguides, don't have anonymous payment methods like cryptocurrencies? I pay for a few such services like email or cloud etc. but I don't know if it makes sense if my bank knows I'm using it anyway so they can sell that info to advertisers, gov, etc. In EU...
4chan privacy
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Thoughts on LMO Droid? ( lmo.framer.website )
I discovered this recently, I think it's a fork of Lineage? Some stuff they list is already part of Lineage but some seems extra...
What is the most appropriate way of tracking web traffic?
I have my personal blog, made with Hugo and hosted on GitHub pages. Initially I did not turn on any kind of web tracking / web analytics, because I do not like tracking at all. But I want to make my blog better and to achieve it, I need a feedback loop about traffic. For example, what are the most popular publications, or how...
Randomly getting Notion email, after having deleted my account years ago... ( slrpnk.net )
Welp I guess this is the perfect example of companies not deleting your credentials and account info when asking for it... I deleted my Notion account several years ago. And completely randomly today got an email from them about data retention, assuming this is one of those "important" emails they have to send out. Sadly, years...