Can anyone recommend an EXIF-metadata scrubbing tool for our protest photos?
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For anyone who missed my posts from yesterday, the Massachusetts legislature is having a hearing on a bunch of data-privacy related bills next Wednesday at 1pm. You can read more in my thread that starts here: https://better.boston/@athorn/114278756883061649
Good Law Project has launched a simple tool so everyone can demand Mark Zuckerberg stops using their data to target them with invasive paid content.
#Meta #DataPrivacy #Zuckerberg
While politicians sit on their hands, we're taking on Meta | Good Law Project
https://goodlawproject.org/we-are-taking-on-meta/
Good Law Project · While politicians sit on their hands, we're taking on Meta | Good Law ProjectMark Zuckerberg is turning our kids into incels and our parents into climate deniers, with paid content on Instagram and Facebook. But we’re fighting back.
This was really interesting and horrifying to read. It makes me want to buy a $20 burner smart phone for online shopping with a VPN.
But even scarier than the price gouging stuff, how do I know that Rite Aid didn’t sell information about me they obtained from facial recognition software when I went into their store/pharmacy to the government? They know I’m disabled because I’m on Medicare and I’m younger than 65. My disability doesn’t involve my ability to walk around a store, but if yours does will Rite Aid tell the government that they have video of you walking for 10 minutes just fine? Will that mess with your disability review? Maybe, who would even know?
Kroger’s Surveillance Pricing Harms Consumers and Raises Prices, With or Without Facial Recognition – EPIC – Electronic Privacy Information Center https://epic.org/krogers-surveillance-pricing-harms-consumers-and-raises-prices-with-or-without-facial-recognition/
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If the latest alleged data breach at X is accurate, can we please, pretty please, *follow and enforce* the obligation of transparency, accountability, and prompt disclosure in Europe under the GDPR?
I mean, failing to comply with the breach notification requirements could result in fines of *just* around 2% of X's annual turnover 
Twitter, #X, hit by massive data breach potentially impacting 2.8 billion users, inside job suspected - “A data leak involving a whopping 2.87 billion Twitter (X) users has surfaced on the infamous Breach Forums. According to a post by a user named ThinkingOne, the leak is the result of a disgruntled X employee who allegedly stole the data during a period of mass layoffs. If true, this would be the largest social media data leak in history, but surprisingly, neither X nor the broader public appears to be aware of it.” #DataBreach #DataPrivacy #opsec #infosec #Twitter #privacy
https://hackread.com/twitter-x-of-2-8-billion-data-leak-an-insider-job/
Hackread - Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, AI, Crypto & Hacking News · Twitter (X) Hit by 2.8 Billion Profile Data Leak in Alleged Insider JobFollow us on Bluesky, Twitter (X), Mastodon and Facebook at @Hackread
Over 40% of leaders report enhancing cybersecurity and reassessing data privacy measures to address AI-related threats and vulnerabilities.
https://www.ciodive.com/news/enterprise-cybersecurity-AI-risk-strategy-shift-report/743755/ #Cybersecurity #DataPrivacy #MIS #InfoSystems #Tech
CIO Dive · Enterprises beef up cybersecurity plans to mitigate AI risks
What’s an email mask? Here’s why tech experts say you should be using one.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91306951/whats-email-mask-why-tech-experts-say-you-should-be-using-one #eMail #Tech #eMailMasks #Privacy #DataPrivacy #Tech #Spam
Fast Company · What’s an email mask? Here’s why tech experts say you should be using oneNext time you sign up for a newsletter, consider using a decoy email address to safeguard your online privacy and security.
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@Mer__edith @signalapp @purism @PINE64 @furilabs @postmarketOS @volla @ubports @mobian I understand that addition of linked desktop devices can be a security concern from Signal's point of view. However, please allow us the option (after registering/activating on Signal Android) to completely move to the #SignalDesktop and deactivate/deregister the mobile version altogether. You can even make this dependent on the mobile user granting permission.
Thank you for the great work you all are doing for #privacy and secure communication. Although we do not like the phone number requirement, we still consider Signal one of the best communication apps and have on-boarded countless numbers of users.
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Q-Day — the day someone builds a quantum computer that can crack the most widely used forms of encryption — could happen in the next decade according to cybersecurity experts. That means everything could become vulnerable, for everyone. @WIRED has the story. #Cybersecurity #QDay #Tech #Technology #DataPrivacy https://flip.it/stmSHG
WIRED · The Quantum Apocalypse Is Coming. Be Very Afraid
Have you thought about things when your privacy is taken away? Whether it’s taken from you by force, by coercion, or because of existing laws. If you haven’t started to think about it… Well, here is your wake up call. #privacy #uspolitics #dataprivacy
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For those #Genealogists who are interested, this video shows you how to copy your 23&Me results to #GedMatch , after you DOWNLOAD them from #23andMe .
#GedMatch has a host of great tools that allow you to continue analyzing your DNA and build your #FamilyTree with #GeneticGenealogy .
Be aware that law enforcement can also use this particular database. However, you must OPT IN to allow your data to be accessible to them. So far, they have been using it to help identify unknown "Jane/John Doe" bodies and solve #ColdCase crimes.
https://youtu.be/Ck9S5poH_tA?si=hN45CqTYDkEboZ9p
@geneadons #Geneadons #Genealogy #dnatestingfirmintrouble #DNAtesting #DataPrivacy #DNAdata #DNAdatabases #23andMeBankruptcy
How to delete your 23andMe data and why you should do it now
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-delete-your-23andme-data-and-why-you-should-do-it-now/ #23andMe #Privacy #DataPrivacy #Tech #Security #GeneticTesting
ZDNET · How to delete your 23andMe data and why you should do it now
23andMe's bankruptcy has customers worried about the privacy of their genetic data @Engadget lays out the steps you can take to delete your records from the site. #23andMe #DataPrivacy #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/nRPW24
Engadget · How to delete your 23andMe data
It's official...
23&Me has filed for bankruptcy.
The company has been rejecting any buyout attempts, but their Board of Directors is now saying that a Court-supervised sale is the best path forward. Part of the reason for their financial troubles was a 2023 #DataBreach that affected millions of customers and hurt their credibility in the marketplace.
Yesterday, California's A.G. reminded consumers that they have the right to demand their data be deleted and that 23&Me destroy any genetic samples. (I would add that you also have the option of downloading your #DNA data and then uploading it to #GedMatch .)
@geneadons #Geneadons #Genealogy #GeneticGenealogy #23andMe #dnatestingfirmintrouble #DNAtesting #DataPrivacy #DNAdata #DNAdatabases
23andMe’s bankruptcy means that the company will be put up for sale, and there’s no way of knowing who is going to buy it, why they will be interested, and what will become of its millions of customers’ DNA sequences. Read more at @404media. #23andMe #DataPrivacy #CyberSecurity #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/pFwYFl
404 Media · DNA of 15 Million People for Sale in 23andMe BankruptcyThere is no way to know what a buyer will want to do with the reams of genetic information it has collected. Customers, meanwhile, still have no way to change their underlying genetic data.
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> Pixel devices remain quite a solid choice if kept updated. While it seems that for the standard Google ROM there are working exploits available to perform the FFS extraction in AFU state, on the contrary GrapheneOS additional hardening and protections are effective, and have been so since 2022 [1].
osservatorionessuno.orgA deep dive into Cellebrite: Android support as of February 2025A deep dive into Cellebrite: Android support as of February 2025
Thanks for the find [1], @privacyguides !
Seems that using #GrapheneOS isn't a bad idea.
> #Cellebrite, as far as we know, publishes a support matrix for Android-based and iOS-based devices monthly or at least multiple times a year. The latest version available at time of writing is version 7.73.1 released on February 2025.
Secondary source: Osservatorio Nessuno [2]
[1]: https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/updated-cellebrite-google-pixel-matrix-leak-february-2025/25911/4
[2]: https://osservatorionessuno.org/blog/2025/03/a-deep-dive-into-cellebrite-android-support-as-of-february-2025/#the-february-2025-support-matrix
