Oh look: #discord outsourced their age verification to some vendor. You know, the #ageverification that countries like the UK want to make mandatory for basically every online service. And the vendor had a data breach exposing photos of government IDs for 70,000 people.

Do you feel safer? How many children did we protect by exposing the IDs of these 70,000 (presumably) adults? Thanks for taking one for the team, you 70,000 canaries in the #privacy coal mine.

https://discord.com/press-releases/update-on-security-incident-involving-third-party-customer-service

Oh look: #discord outsourced their age verification to some vendor. You know, the #ageverification that countries like the UK want to make mandatory for basically every online service. And the vendor had a data breach exposing photos of government IDs for 70,000 people.

Do you feel safer? How many children did we protect by exposing the IDs of these 70,000 (presumably) adults? Thanks for taking one for the team, you 70,000 canaries in the #privacy coal mine.

https://discord.com/press-releases/update-on-security-incident-involving-third-party-customer-service

So, I'm documenting different ways fediverse platforms protect the privacy of individuals and posts through included flags like indexable and discoverable.

But where those are lacking, or as an attempt to add more customization to those privacy options, some people add hashtags to their profile, like nosearch or noindex

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#Privacy #Fediverse

Mozilla wants your input. Please provide it.

https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201

Here's mine.

#OpenSource #OpenWeb #Privacy #AI

Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack

https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum

#HackerNews #Reticulum #anonymous #networking #mesh #security #privacy #technology

Please keep in mind:
Surveillance capitalism is surveillance.

It's not mild surveillance,
it's mass surveillance.

#Privacy #MassSurveillance

Mozilla's survey about the future of Mozilla and AI is terribly biased towards AI. Make your voices heard. Tell Mozilla to be stewards of privacy and the open web, to not use AI and to stop violating the trust of the users

https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201

#Privacy #NoAI #Firefox