Privacy

Sorry if this has been addressed before, but I'm looking to remove google from my life, and the phone is a huge part of that. I have a samsung s20fe with verizon, and i want to switch to a phone to install graphene and not have to sign in to google ever again.

phone recommendations? , and what verizon issues might i need to prepare for?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/50162198

From my understanding, an EU Council position doesn't necessarily mean the legislation will be adopted? This really feels like it'll be the time when it'll be adopted. The worst timeline.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/32096847

In the last days I spent a disproportionate amount deleting old accounts I found in my password manager, and mostly because so many companies - despite the GDPR - have rudimentary, manually when not completely nonexistent processes to delete your data.

In this post I describe my process going through about 100 old accounts and trying to delete them all, including a top 10 for the weirdest, funniest or most interesting cases I encountered while doing so.

Product website: https://www.tingfire.com/

The ever important privacy policy: https://www.whiskerlabs.com/privacy-policy/

My insurance company sent me one of these in the mail, for "free". They say it helps avoid fires caused by electrical faults. But it needs to be both plugged in to an outlet and connected to my wifi, so the data can be sent "home". And so I can use their app, of course.

How Ting prevents 4 out of 5 electrical fires: Ting detects dangerous electrical arcing signals – the precursor to most electrical fires. It leverages advanced AI to analyze 30 million electrical signals per second, enabling detection with unmatched precision and speed.

What do you all think? Might the benefits outweigh the obvious privacy problems with a device like this?

Or, is there any home grown way to achieve the same thing? Thanks!

Didn't even know they had a free tier until yesterday. Is it any good? I've been using it with no issue on low data situations.

Yes, I know about the original dev political issues.

cross-posted from: https://gregtech.eu/post/16189047

I had a TC file sent to me, I installed TC to open it.

I used to use TC a lot; many years ago.

But I remembered that there was some controversy a few years back.

Is there a replacement?

The ability to mount an encrypted filesystem and then send that file to someone is really useful.

Clarification: I want an app that can block both trackers and ads device-wide.

A new neighbor moved in and is really advocating for them, but I think most people in the HOA are split. It's come up after some recent thefts after someone left a garage door open. I'm thinking of organizing my arguments like this:

1. Even with a camera capturing a thief's face, police are unlikely to actually catch the person or retreive the stolen property.
2. Invasion of personal privacy, I don't like being tracked and my whereabouts being monitored
3. Surrendering biometric data without my consent
4. Police / ICE using the data without permission to harass our residents

How does this sound? It's so exhausting fighting against this. Does anyone have any other good points or articles that can provide support? Many thanks in advance

cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/22674675

WeTransfer has announced a change in its Terms & Conditions at WeTransfer, however, which formally comes into effect in August. There’s a paragraph under the heading of ‘Content’, clause 6.3, that might generate some concern among its users.

You hereby grant us a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable license to use your Content for the purposes of operating, developing, commercializing, and improving the Service or new technologies or services, including to improve performance of machine learning models that enhance our content moderation process, in accordance with the Privacy & Cookie Policy. Such license includes the right to reproduce, distribute, modify, prepare derivative works based upon, broadcast, communicate to the public, publicly display, and perform Content. You will not be entitled to compensation for any use of Content by us under these Terms.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/38550444

The Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) application DeepSeek is set to be removed from app stores in Germany at the behest of the federal data protection officer, Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider, due to violations of European law.

"China does not have a level of data protection that corresponds to our General Data Protection Regulation," she told the newspapers of the Funke media group. Data transfers to China are "extremely critical," she said.

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Specht-Riemenschneider said she supports the initiative of the Berlin data protection officer and did not accept criticism that data protection is a hindrance to innovation.

"Data protection is a guarantee of trust. It can even be a competitive advantage," said Specht-Riemenschneider. "What hinders innovation is legal uncertainty in the market. And this also stems from a proliferation of digital legislation."

She said that digital legislation in Europe must be better coordinated, with clear rules including for data protection.

Authorities in South Korea, Italy, Taiwan and Australia have already taken action against DeepSeek.

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• Doctors can save audio recordings to their personal accounts and devices source.

• Data will be used to train AI source.

• 8 hour battery (perfect for a 24 hour shift) source

Further Reading: Amazon | 3M | Eko

A lot has happened in the past month: the EU Commission (the executive branch of the EU) publicly attacked the three largest porn sites — including us — over our supposed obligation to prevent minor access, while completely ignoring far larger mainstream platforms.

AV implementation was also scheduled to begin in France in June 2025, but was later halted — though only temporarily. However, it is set to come into effect next month in the UK — July 2025.

And just yesterday — June 27 — the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) issued a devastating decision that opens the door to broad state regulation of adult content, effectively allowing AV laws with minimal constitutional constraint.

Vulnerabilities affecting a Bluetooth chipset present in more than two dozen audio devices from ten vendors can be exploited for eavesdropping or stealing sensitive information.

Researchers confirmed that 29 devices from Beyerdynamic, Bose, Sony, Marshall, Jabra, JBL, Jlab, EarisMax, MoerLabs, and Teufel are affected.

The list of impacted products includes speakers, earbuds, headphones, and wireless microphones.

Amazing article by the famous british reporter Tom Burgis. He is one of my favorite book author and journalist. Thank you Tom👏👏👏