#Usenet access with #privacy, in theory
on 02026-08-31#News about Samuel #Tunick’s prosecution, a sort of #interview with him. #human-rights #privacy #USA #politics
on 02026-08-21“The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that publishers and VPN providers aren’t liable for #copyright infringement” #law #human-rights #privacy
on 02026-07-30#Google #reCAPTCHA #security “As we identify potentially fraudulent behavior from agents, we enable application providers to deter and mitigate malicious requests by requesting humans to be in the loop using the new QR code-based challenge. This AI-resistant mitigation challenge to prove human presence is designed to make automated fraud economically unviable. ... Existing reCAPTCHA customers are automatically Fraud Defense customers, with no migration required, no action needed, and no change to pricing.” #privacy #human-rights
on 02026-06-30#GrapheneOS #security will be impacted by #Google #reCAPTCHA update that requires a mobile app installed. #privacy #human-rights
on 02026-06-30This is unsurprising but bad for #human-rights. Using BlueTooth, Wi-Fi, and license plates:
“An Integrated Signal Intelligence System
“Identify Suspects by the Electronic Devices They Use
“#ELSAG "SignalTrace" is a groundbreaking software system for law enforcement, designed to identify suspect people or vehicles, even when a license plate number is not known. This system integrates seamlessly with the ELSAG Enterprise Operations Center, our standard data management and analysis software.
“SignalTrace is designed to help law enforcement identify people of interest by the signals emitted from their electronic devices they travel with, such as fitness trackers, smartwatches, RFID tags, and local signals from their mobile phones.
“(...) while 70 cars in 100 may contain iPhones, only one will have an iPhone 13rev2, an Audi radio, a pair of Bose headphones, a Garmin sports watch, a key finder, and the license plate ABC-1234.”
Their defense against accusations of #privacy invasion: “Respects individuals’ privacy rights (does not decrypt or read content from devices).” But they’re doing dragnet data collection on innocent people: “The SignalTrace system simply stores data until a specific request is made of the system by an investigator. It allows an electronic signature to be alerted on once it has been identified in the process of an investigation, and only in a case where a crime occurred.” They show a photo of one mounted on a utility pole with a couple of panel antennas.
on 02026-06-22Voytek at #Uber analyzed their data to see which of their customers were having one-night stands, calling the #privacy invasion "Rides of Glory": “A RoGer is anyone who took a ride between 10pm and 4am on a Friday or Saturday night, and then took a second ride from within 1/10th of a mile of the previous nights’ drop-off point 4-6 hours later (enough for a quick night’s sleep).”
on 02026-04-30people are starting to wake up to the fact that problems like the #Rivian #privacy invasion are national security concerns
on 02026-04-30#Rivian won’t respect your #privacy unless you disable navigation (for non-Canadian vehicles, this involves “reach[ing] out to Rivian Service to request that we disable the eSIM card in the vehicle through a service appointment”)
on 02026-04-30this guy, "Mark K", says he can’t put a photo of his face on his #Microsoft account because it gets flagged as child pornography by #PhotoDNA. #privacy
on 02026-04-09discussion of #Microsoft nuking #VeraCrypt and #WireGuard. #privacy #human-rights
on 02026-04-08Scott Hanselman (#Microsoft VP) claiming #Microsoft nuked #VeraCrypt and #WireGuard by accident. #privacy #human-rights
on 02026-04-08the announcement of #Microsoft nuking essential #security software #VeraCrypt. #privacy #human-rights
on 02026-04-08discussion on the new #Microsoft revocation of #VeraCrypt and #WireGuard signing keys, possibly in an attack on #privacy and #human-rights.
on 02026-04-08"WindScribe" also just got their signing keys revoked for publishing Microsoft Windows software, but there are clues that this may be resolved soon? #privacy #security #human-rights
on 02026-04-08archive of <https://www.404media.co/microsoft-abruptly-terminates-veracrypt-account-halting-windows-updates/>: #Microsoft terminates the signing accounts of #VeraCrypt and #WireGuard, essential #encryption #security systems for Microsoft Windows. This prevents any future versions of the software from being installed, but does not disable existing installs, until July: “Users who have enabled system encryption with VeraCrypt may face boot issues after July 2026 because Microsoft will revoke the [certificate authority] that was used to sign the VeraCrypt bootloader.” #privacy #human-rights
on 02026-04-08Age verification #politics and #privacy
on 02026-02-24discussion of the "Cape" #privacy focused #MVNO for #cellphones in #USA.
on 02026-02-24#Discord violating users’ #privacy to comply with age verification laws
on 02026-02-10#privacy #human-rights #crypto #news: “by default, #BitLocker recovery keys are uploaded to Microsoft’s cloud, allowing the tech giant — and by extension law enforcement — to access them and use them to decrypt drives encrypted with BitLocker, as with the case reported by Forbes.”
on 02026-01-25Mangled copy of Cory Doctorow’s short story “Scroogled” about #human-rights and #privacy in the #Google era.
on 02025-12-13#EFF launches #age-verification hub. #toread #human-rights #privacy
on 02025-12-12#news from 02022 of Google flagging Mark [anonymous]’s Google account for child porn when he sent a photo of his toddler son’s infected penis to the doctor and reported him to the police. The police decided no abuse had happened but he never got his account back. #privacy #human-rights #USA #politics
on 02025-11-27#KMart still exists in #Australia and was using #facial-recognition #biometrics in a way that violated #privacy laws
on 02025-11-11“To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 2003 Computing Research Association (CRA) Gordon-style Conferencea on Grand Challenges in Trustworthy Computing, the original attendees were invited to a virtual retrospective. This landmark conference, held November 16–19, 2003, at Airlie House in northern Virginia, brought together 50 technology and policy experts in #security, #privacy, and networking to identify transformative research challenges. The resulting report became a cornerstone for researchers and funding agencies at a pivotal moment in the evolution of cybersecurity (then called information and communication security).”
on 02025-11-05“For a future with #privacy, not mass #surveillance, #Germany must stand firmly against client-side scanning in the #Chat-Control proposal” #politics #EU #human-rights #PDF
on 02025-10-02discussions of #VPN use for #privacy and #censorship circumvention (VLESS, Xray, v2ray, passwall2, etc.)
on 02025-08-28#Indonesia is “in chaos” and just blocked access to Twitter and Discord and #VPN providers. One recommendation if you have a server overseas is to use #Wireguard with #wstunnel to avoid the sort of protocol blocking that, for example, Uzbekistan applies. #politics #news #censorship #privacy #human-rights
on 02025-08-28#Treacherous-Computing for “confidential VMs” #privacy despite #Linux #virtualization #toread
on 02025-08-24#Comcast is watching you in your home with a motion detector built into their Wi-Fi. #security #privacy
on 02025-08-21#UK #news: #facial-recognition vans with #neural-networks to search for, supposedly, sex criminals. #human-rights #privacy
on 02025-08-13“The purpose of this list is to track and compare tunneling solutions. This is primarily targeted toward self-hosters and developers who want to do things like exposing a local webserver via a public domain name, with automatic HTTPS, even if behind a NAT or other restricted network.” #decentralization #networking #security #tunnels #privacy #self-hosting
on 02025-07-27“In 2023 it’s hard to connect two devices directly. #Dumb-pipe punches through NATs, using on-the-fly node identifiers. It even keeps your machines connected as network conditions change. (...) Dumb pipes are #Iroh Connections. The dumbpipe tool is a 200-line wrapper around the iroh Rust crate. You can use the iroh Endpoint to create a connection to use as a dumb pipe in your own app. (...) These dumb pipes use QUIC over a magic socket. It may be dumb, but it still has all the features of a full #QUIC connection: UDP-based, stream-multiplexing and encrypted. Besides using the multiplexed streams you can also use multiple connections each with their own ALPN.” Looks similar to magic-wormhole. #privacy #security #networking #tunnels
“Police in #Spain have reportedly started profiling people based on their phones; specifically, and surprisingly, those carrying Google Pixel devices. Law enforcement officials in Catalonia say they associate Pixels with crime because drug traffickers are increasingly turning to these phones. But it’s not Google’s secure Titan M2 chip that has criminals favoring the Pixel — instead, it’s #GrapheneOS, a privacy-focused alternative to the default Pixel OS.” #privacy #human-rights #security
on 02025-07-23#Jitsi has a #config.prejoinConfig.enabled=false URL fragment option which joins you to a meeting without any interaction, which can be used to spy on you if you’ve allowed Jitsi to have audio access previously. #privacy #security
“Sir Keir Starmer’s government is seeking a way out of a clash with the #Trump administration over the #UK’s demand that #Apple provide it with access to secure customer data, two senior British officials have told the Financial Times.
The officials both said the Home Office, which ordered the tech giant in January to grant access to its most secure cloud storage system, would probably have to retreat in the face of pressure from senior leaders in Washington, including Vice President JD #Vance. (...) US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi #Gabbard has also suggested the order would be an “egregious violation” of Americans’ privacy that risked breaching the two countries’ data agreement.” #privacy #human-rights #USA #politics
on 02025-07-21people in #USA are getting their Teslas towed so the police can confiscate the built-in camera footage. “Tesla drivers, by contrast, get served individually because they control their own camera footage.” #privacy #security #human-rights
on 02024-09-27#video #toread about #iPhone taking your picture every 5 seconds. #privacy
on 02024-08-31#Jitsi no longer allows anonymous meetings. “Starting on August 24th, we will no longer support the anonymous creation of rooms on meet.jit.si, and will require the use of an account (we will be supporting Google, GitHub and Facebook for starters but may modify the list later on.” #privacy #security
on 02023-09-25discussion of #Apple’s #privacy decision to not scan people’s phones
on 02023-09-02“#Apple’s Decision to Kill Its CSAM Photo-Scanning Tool Sparks Fresh Controversy: Scanning every user’s privately stored iCloud data would create new threat vectors for data thieves to find and exploit. It would also inject the potential for a slippery slope of unintended consequences. Scanning for one type of content, for instance, opens the door for bulk surveillance and could create a desire to search other encrypted messaging systems across content types. (...) We decided to not proceed with the proposal for a hybrid client-server approach to CSAM detection for iCloud Photos from a few years ago. We concluded it was not practically possible to implement without ultimately imperiling the security and privacy of our users.” #USA #politics #censorship #privacy #security
on 02023-09-02“How I changed my #D-Link camera from cloud camera to a locally managed IP camera. D-Link DCS-8000LH usage info and #defogging tools” #webcam #selfhosting #privacy #security #surveillance
on 02023-07-01getting a #webcam to #selfhosting: “How I changed my #D-Link camera from cloud camera to a locally managed IP camera” “All of my IP cameras just FTP to my server where they get immediately uploaded to my google drive. It works perfectly and it’s cheap but they’re still Chinese cameras connected to the Internet. / Is there a list of cameras that can be converted like this?” “Wyze V2 with Dafang-hacks have been super reliable in the past but these cams are now out of production with no reliable confirmation of this working with the V3s.” “I have been using wz_mini_hacks [1] on my Wyze V3 and have been pretty happy with it.” “I run frigate (mines runs off their Docker image but you can use other alternatives like home assistant plugin). I also pair frigate with scrypted so you can tie the cameras into HomeKit.” “Not OP, but I configured a mosquitto server. Then a simple shell script service with 'mosquitto_sub' and ffmpeg to fetch the rtsp stream on motion events.” “I've been using Agent DVR for recording, alerts and local storage though the alerts rely on a non-local MQTT broker (HiveMQ) due to the double-NAT setup my ISP imposes, otherwise I would have used a local Mosquitto broker.” “You can get Amcrest PoE cameras that are great quality that are around $50. Works without wifi or an app but someone in HN posted that the newer ones need an app? But I haven’t come across one and the newest one I got was about six months ago.” “Most xiaomi camera and white labels mostly work. I side load the customer firmware on a Yi camera and it’s been a solid wifi camera. The VLAN it’s on has zero internet access.” #privacy #security #surveillance
on 02023-07-01“On 11 May 2022 the #EU Commission made a second legislative proposal, which is to force all providers of email, messaging and chat services to comprehensively search all private messages in the absence of any suspicion.” #privacy #politics
on 02023-03-09#TikTok #privacy
on 02023-01-04#India’s Supreme Court establishes a legal right to #privacy in a decision against Modi’s #Aadhaar program, overruling the 1961 Kharak Singh verdict. #human-rights
on 02017-08-27The sensational #Roomba #privacy story that #iRobot later denied.
on 02017-08-06#Jean-Yang #paper on #formal-methods for #security, ”A language for automatically enforcing #privacy policies” #toread
on 02017-06-14#USA #privacy #human-rights case of #Francis-Rawls continues; he remains jailed for contempt of court for saying he doesn’t remember the #crypto keys to his disks
on 02017-04-30Kiran is not happy about #Aadhaar. #India #politics #privacy
on 02017-03-11Biddle’s #Palantir article on #Thiel and #USA spying. #privacy #human-rights
on 02017-03-11#Uber invaded users’ #privacy to guess whether they were city enforcement officials or not, feeding city officials fake data, with a program called "Greyball".
on 02017-03-03Uber Cab is being ordered by New York to give it a comprehensive list of all pickups and dropoffs, and is fighting. #privacy
on 02017-01-05In 2014, the #XKEYSCORE code was published, including their list of “extremist forums”, which apparently includes #Linux Journal. #security #privacy #human-rights #NSA
on 02016-06-26“Facial recognition service [FindFace] becomes a weapon against Russian #porn actresses” #face-recognition #privacy #security #Russia
on 02016-04-27using FindFace #deep-learning #neural-networks to do #face-recognition #image-recognition of photos of random people he meets on the subway. #privacy
on 02016-04-16on #privacy and #human-rights, with history on J. Edgar Hoover and Dick Nixon.
on 02016-01-11“The Weird Visa”, a short story about #privacy in the near future
on 02016-01-04Facewatch facial recognition tolls the death of #privacy in public: live cameras feed into face-recognition algorithms to alert on the presence of known suspects.
on 02015-12-28#public-shaming of #Muslims including invading their #privacy
on 02015-11-28Diamond shops in Rotterdam now require #biometrics to enter. Wear sunglasses, they won’t open the door. Wal-Mart has tested out #facial-recognition in stores. #security #privacy
on 02015-11-22ultrasound ad tracking detected by smartphones and tablets to violate your #privacy.
on 02015-11-14Discussion of #privacy issues in #Microsoft Windows version 10. Apparently Microsoft isn’t actually uploading your disk contents to their servers to scan them for “pirated” files yet.
on 02015-08-23#Microsoft Windows 10 sends parents a weekly activity report on their kids’ computer use. #privacy #humanrights
on 02015-08-10The core #politics of the #Iceland #Pirate-Party: critical thinking and well-informed policy, civil rights, a right to #privacy, transparency and responsibility, freedom of information and expression, direct #democracy and the right to self-determination.
on 02015-08-10Roy Fielding is not in favor of HTTPS Everywhere because he thinks caching helps with #privacy
on 02015-08-05#humanrights #privacy a 42-year-old police computer investigator used the police systems to identify vulnerable women to seduce
on 02015-08-05Dan Geer proposes legal restrictions on #PII databases to protect #privacy.
on 02015-08-05