Tim Chambers
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Daily podcast: Assume Everything Is Training AI Now...
#News#TechNews#AI#ArtificialIntelligence#Training#Privacy#PrivacyMatters #podcast
Aral Balkan
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If you are enabling an AI feature scanning all your emails, consider this will also scan the emails people have sent you. This information could include personal or otherwise legally protected information.
If this data leaks later (as it regularly happens with these systems), this could mean severe legal consequences for you down the road.
YOU are responsible for protecting the data of others under your custody.
This includes the messages and emails others send to you.
WARNING: #GOOGLE IS TRYING TO TRICK YOU INTO USING GEMINI AI AND FEEDING GEMINI YOUR DATA IN GMAIL AND OTHER APPS!
What Google is now doing should be ILLEGAL. PERIOD. For the first time I can recall in history of using Gmail, it just now popped a modal dialogue box -- DEMANDING that I choose whether or not I wanted "Smart Features" turned on -- which when you read the verbiage mostly means goddamned Gemini AI AND if you enable this you're giving Google permission to use your data to "improve" this horrifically invasive, inept, and misinformation spewing tech that steals data from websites for its own use without permission of those sites. DON'T LET IT SUCK IN YOUR EMAIL AS WELL!
There was no way I could find to exit the modal window without choosing YES or NO, which means my existing selection to NOT use Gmail Smart Features (long my preference) was NOT being honored. After saying NO to this disgusting query by Google, I was pushed to ANOTHER page where I was forced to choose again about "smart features" in "other" Google apps. I chose NO again and finally was permitted to escape this trap.
Note that while you can fairly easily check to make sure "smart features" are turned off in Gmail settings, I offhand don't have a clue as to how to find the similar settings in other Google apps that may have been affected by this absolutely disrespectful forced dialogue, as Google keeps trying to ram Gemini AI down our throats.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Google has become a DISGRACE.
@lauren I'm not that familiar with legal stuff but ask myself if we could get Google fined for infringement of the DSA act or GDPR laws in the EU? https://www.disinfo.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/20221020_DSAUserGuide_Final.pdf By complaints we should get the @EUCommission to an investigation: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/dsa-enforcement
Or am I too optimistic? 🤔
#Zuckerberg profetizza un futuro che fa venire i brividi… Un mondo dove chi non indossa occhiali con intelligenza artificiale sarà cognitivamente inferiore agli altri.
È #Meta (quella di #Threads) stessa che sta creando un mondo dove chi non ha i suoi dispositivi diventa automaticamente inferiore agli altri. Un assistente AI integrato nella vita quotidiana che vede quello che vediamo e sente quello che ascoltiamo.
È #Meta (quella di #Threads) stessa che sta creando un mondo dove chi non ha i suoi dispositivi diventa automaticamente inferiore agli altri. Un assistente AI integrato nella vita quotidiana che vede quello che vediamo e sente quello che ascoltiamo.
#Privacy ... questa sconosciuta.🤦♂️
https://www.punto-informatico.it/zuckerberg-chi-non-avra-occhiali-ai-cognitivamente-inferiore/
New #Disintermedia blog post, on the challenges of keeping communications private in networked software;
https://disintermedia.substack.com/p/get-a-room
As I say at the outset, I am not a security professional, and this is not security advice. I’m just an old school Direct Action activist and indymediatista, with some information to add to the mix. Add a grain of salt and stir well.
Alex Akselrod
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Bluesky will be age-gating content for UK users. It’s your privacy that pays.
The UK Online Safety Act has unleashed an unregulated market in age verification.
That we have to do these intrusive checks with countless providers for different platforms is dangerous.
https://www.theverge.com/news/704468/bluesky-age-verification-uk-online-safety-act
#onlinesafetyact #ageverification #ageassurance #privacy #dataprotection #data #biometrics #onlinesafety #ukpolitics #ukpol #bluesky
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Elena Rossini ⁂
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New Privacy Guides article 
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by me:
While most social media rely on commercial models harvesting users' data to sell to advertisers,
Mastodon offers a human-centric alternative that doesn't seek profits from your data and attention.
This means better social connections, better controls, and better privacy!
The first part of this article discusses privacy and security on Mastodon.
The second part is a tutorial to guide you in making the most of Mastodon's security and privacy related features.
This tutorial includes how to:
• Enable multifactor authentication 🔑🔑
• Adjust privacy vs discovery 👀
• Select post visibility and access 
• Verify yourself 
• Delete and back up your data 
• Block users and instances ⛔
• Opt out with hashtags #️⃣
• Move from one instance to another 🚀
I hope this helps you making the most of what Mastodon has to offers! 
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/07/15/mastodon-privacy-and-security/
#PrivacyGuides#Mastodon#Fediverse#Privacy#Security#Tutorial#TheFutureIsFederated#TinyMastodonTip
Stefano Marinelli
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Oh, my goodness. I boosted @Em0nM4stodon’s post about this earlier. But I need to share it with some intention.
This piece she wrote on Mastodon privacy/security is intense. It’s long. SO much information. Read it anyway. Seriously.
And if y’all don’t follow Em, do yourself a solid and get on that. She’s smart af about InfoSec/privacy/security. And super friendly.
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/07/15/mastodon-privacy-and-security/
#Fediverse #Mastodon#MastoTips#Privacy#InfoSec#Security#TheFutureIsFederated
Well, I finally got around to evaluating the #ManageMyHealth portal;
https://managemyhealth.co.nz/about-us/
When my GP suggested I sign up with it, I presumed it was a public service offered by Te Whatu Ora, like My Health Record;
https://www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/health-services-and-programmes/digital-health/my-health-record
So what do I think of Manage My Health? Not impressed. This is a privately-owned, for-profit digital platform, that I can't be certain isn't #DataFarming patients who sign up with it.
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Some exciting #stigmerge updates to share!
All stigmerge peers are now seeders -- there are no #leechers in official stigmerge releases. Sharing is caring! #veilid private routing mitigates the privacy hazards normally associated with sharing content over public networks directly.
Peers gossip with each other constantly, advertising themselves and discovering new neighbors -- and they store these contact lists in the #veilid DHT like a pheromone trail. So even when an original seeder is long gone and goes offline -- if just one of its last-known neighbors is online, future travelers still have a chance to join a live swarm of active peers.
Fetchers can balance downloads among multiple peers, gravitating towards the most productive ones.
It's also super-easy to run stigmerge from an OCI container now (#Docker or #Podman as you like).
Check out the updated README for more details -- and the 0.5.6 release to try these new superpowers out for yourself!
https://github.com/cmars/stigmerge
https://github.com/cmars/stigmerge/releases/tag/stigmerge-v0.5.6
After a long and sometimes complicated route, the work on #DNS #privacy at the #IETF comes to an end https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/dns-privacy/Lc1pvUnkaJOsbQJgA6WEY-xdhUs
A lot of work done, and real progress (QNAME minimization is now widely used, and DoT/DoH protect a lot of DNS traffic).
"When people started calling my personal mobile number with questions about a voluntary organisation I'm involved with, I was confused: we weren't sharing that number. It turns out that Google had decided to take the number I used to verify my identity for Google Business some years prior and start putting it in Google Search results. WTF, Google?"
@dan, 2025