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Goffi
@Goffi@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

I've just published a protoXEP to expose a lot of information on data policy, as part of my current @nlnet grant. The plan is to have services (XMPP server, gateways, etc) expose to clients how long they keep data, if they encrypt, how they handle authentication, who can access data, what is backup frequency, where data are located, etc.

This is very precious information when you use a service.

I now want to expose in a easy way this to end-users.

#XMPP#Libervia#NLnet #data #privacy
Goffi
@Goffi@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

I've just published a protoXEP to expose a lot of information on data policy, as part of my current @nlnet grant. The plan is to have services (XMPP server, gateways, etc) expose to clients how long they keep data, if they encrypt, how they handle authentication, who can access data, what is backup frequency, where data are located, etc.

This is very precious information when you use a service.

I now want to expose in a easy way this to end-users.

#XMPP#Libervia#NLnet #data #privacy
Goffi
@Goffi@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 18 hours ago

As I don't think that I'll have time to make a video this week, here are some screenshots of the implementation. This is test, the fields and algorithm to calculate the score will improve with time and feedback.

I wanted to do that for years, and it's now done and specified thanks to @nlnet and @NGIZero .

Specification (to be improved with time) is at https://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/data_policy.html .

This is very important informations that can now be checked at a glance.

#xmpp#Libervia #nlnet #data #privacy

The mouse pointer is above the badge of the previous screenshot, it show a "Data Policy Report" panel. Here is the content of the panel: ``` Score: 3.75/10 Details: -20 Your login data are transmitted to this service. -5 Terms of Service are not linked. 10 The service does not store data. ``` The first two scores, with negative values, are show in red, the last one, with positive value, is shown in green.
The mouse pointer is above the badge of the previous screenshot, it show a "Data Policy Report" panel. Here is the content of the panel: ``` Score: 3.75/10 Details: -20 Your login data are transmitted to this service. -5 Terms of Service are not linked. 10 The service does not store data. ``` The first two scores, with negative values, are show in red, the last one, with positive value, is shown in green.
The mouse pointer is above the badge of the previous screenshot, it show a "Data Policy Report" panel. Here is the content of the panel: ``` Score: 3.75/10 Details: -20 Your login data are transmitted to this service. -5 Terms of Service are not linked. 10 The service does not store data. ``` The first two scores, with negative values, are show in red, the last one, with positive value, is shown in green.
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
@ZhiZhu@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

"a woman named Bendu Kiadu is mourning her child Gbessey, who was just 1 year old.

Gbessey caught #malaria in March. In normal times, a community health worker would have administered simple medicines for malaria... But the closing of #USAID led to the collapse of some supply chains, so #health workers had no malaria medicine to offer Gbessey.

...The next day, Gbessey died.

“Our #children are dying because of a lack of medicine,” Kiadu told me."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/opinion/waste-musk-trump.html

#Musk#Trump #News

Photo with caption from article: Photo: A woman holding a baby. Caption: Bendu Kiadu holds her newborn, Osman, who is sick with malaria. Her 1-year-old son, Gbessey, died when the local clinic ran out of malaria medicine. Credit: Saidu Bah for The New York Times
Photo with caption from article: Photo: A woman holding a baby. Caption: Bendu Kiadu holds her newborn, Osman, who is sick with malaria. Her 1-year-old son, Gbessey, died when the local clinic ran out of malaria medicine. Credit: Saidu Bah for The New York Times
Photo with caption from article: Photo: A woman holding a baby. Caption: Bendu Kiadu holds her newborn, Osman, who is sick with malaria. Her 1-year-old son, Gbessey, died when the local clinic ran out of malaria medicine. Credit: Saidu Bah for The New York Times
Text from article: Come also to the village of Vonzua in western Liberia, where a woman named Bendu Kiadu is mourning her child Gbessey, who was just 1 year old. Gbessey caught malaria in March. In normal times, a community health worker would have administered simple medicines for malaria, and the United States noted just last year that it provided “vital” and “critical” support to fight malaria in Liberia. But the closing of U.S.A.I.D. led to the collapse of some supply chains, so health workers had no malaria medicine to offer Gbessey. Kiadu rushed the child to a clinic, but it, too, had run out of malaria medicine. The next day, Gbessey died. Now Kiadu’s youngest child, Osman, is also seriously ill with malaria, and the community health workers and the clinic still have no malaria medicine. She worries that she will lose two of her children within months. “Our children are dying because of a lack of medicine,” Kiadu told me.
Text from article: Come also to the village of Vonzua in western Liberia, where a woman named Bendu Kiadu is mourning her child Gbessey, who was just 1 year old. Gbessey caught malaria in March. In normal times, a community health worker would have administered simple medicines for malaria, and the United States noted just last year that it provided “vital” and “critical” support to fight malaria in Liberia. But the closing of U.S.A.I.D. led to the collapse of some supply chains, so health workers had no malaria medicine to offer Gbessey. Kiadu rushed the child to a clinic, but it, too, had run out of malaria medicine. The next day, Gbessey died. Now Kiadu’s youngest child, Osman, is also seriously ill with malaria, and the community health workers and the clinic still have no malaria medicine. She worries that she will lose two of her children within months. “Our children are dying because of a lack of medicine,” Kiadu told me.
Text from article: Come also to the village of Vonzua in western Liberia, where a woman named Bendu Kiadu is mourning her child Gbessey, who was just 1 year old. Gbessey caught malaria in March. In normal times, a community health worker would have administered simple medicines for malaria, and the United States noted just last year that it provided “vital” and “critical” support to fight malaria in Liberia. But the closing of U.S.A.I.D. led to the collapse of some supply chains, so health workers had no malaria medicine to offer Gbessey. Kiadu rushed the child to a clinic, but it, too, had run out of malaria medicine. The next day, Gbessey died. Now Kiadu’s youngest child, Osman, is also seriously ill with malaria, and the community health workers and the clinic still have no malaria medicine. She worries that she will lose two of her children within months. “Our children are dying because of a lack of medicine,” Kiadu told me.
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
@ZhiZhu@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

"How often does this happen? The #Trump administration is also dismantling #data collection, making it difficult to count the deaths it is causing. By one American economist’s online dashboard, about 350,000 people worldwide have died so far because of cuts in #American aid. My guess is that the figure isn’t so high, partly because it takes time for #children to weaken and die, but that the rate of deaths will accelerate."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/opinion/waste-musk-trump.html

#Musk#Trump#GOP#Politics #News#USA#US
C.
@cazabon@mindly.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

I learned something today: Google's Gemini "AI" on phones accesses your data from "Phones, Messages, WhatsApp" and other stuff whether you have Gemini turned on or not. It just keeps the data longer if you turn it on. Oh, and lets it be reviewed by humans (!) for Google's advantage in training "AI" etc.

But this only came to my attention because of an upcoming change: it's going to start keeping your data long-term even if you turn it "off": "#Gemini will soon be able to help you use Phone, #Messages, #WhatsApp, and Utilities on your phone, whether your Gemini Apps Activity is on or off."

This is, of course, a #privacy and #security #nightmare.

If this is baked into Android, and therefore not removable, I'd have to say I'd recommend against using Android at all starting July 7th.

https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/gemini-ai-will-soon-access-calls-and-messages-on-your-android-even-if-you

#spyware#AI#LLM#Google #spying #phone#Android #private #data
ProPublica
@ProPublica@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

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