If you're a #facebook user, you can object to your information being used for #aItraining: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/6359191084165019

‘The real “problem,” for Washington, is that [Europe w]on’t accept food drenched in pesticides, genetically modified crops, or digital platforms that ignore #privacy and spread #disinformation.’ 💯

warning signs we all need

Any popular web browser are based on Google Chrome, except Firefox 🤓

Privacy Guides is formally taking a stand against dangerous and frightening technologies.

Security-focused developers and misguided "advocates" have long attempted to convince those involved in privacy and security that E2EE is an advanced security measure designed to protect your sensitive data, and Privacy Guides has stood by for far too long not setting the record straight.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/01/the-dangers-of-end-to-end-encryption/

Open letter to anyone with a protest or rights-based website:

PLEASE get rid of Facebook and Google SSO login options and analytic tracking codes from your sites.

You are literally handing over your user data to unscrupulous players that are in direct opposition to your cause. These sites can and do hand over user-specific data.

To everyone, stop using these options. Set a strong password. Use an alias email. Use a VPN.

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"ChatGPT hallucinating a "fake murderer and imprisonment" while including "real elements" of the Norwegian man's "personal life" allegedly violated "data accuracy" requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)...

As Holmen saw it, his reputation remained on the line the longer the information was there, and—despite "tiny" disclaimers reminding ChatGPT users to verify outputs—there was no way to know how many people might have been exposed to the fake story and believed the information was accurate.

"Adding a disclaimer that you do not comply with the law does not make the law go away," [data protection lawyer, Kleanthi Sardeli] said. "AI companies can also not just 'hide' false information from users while they internally still process false information. AI companies should stop acting as if the GDPR does not apply to them, when it clearly does. If hallucinations are not stopped, people can easily suffer reputational damage."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/chatgpt-falsely-claimed-a-dad-murdered-his-own-kids-complaint-says/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned

❌ No safe message scanning technology exists.

⚠️ These powers would force a cybersecurity weakness onto apps like WhatsApp and Signal.

‼️ Hackers, predators and spies could crowbar their way into everything you send.

✍️ Tell Ofcom: End-to-end Encryption Means Online Safety ➡️ https://action.openrightsgroup.org/48-hours-tell-ofcom-practice-safe-text

⏰ CLOSES Monday 10 March at 5pm.

#PracticeSafeText 💬

🚨 Time is Running Out to Save Encryption 🔐

Ofcom is consulting on implementing message scanning powers in the UK Online Safety Act.

This would break end-to-end encryption on the messaging apps we all use!

⏰ CLOSES Monday 10 March, 5pm.

Use our tool to tell Ofcom #PracticeSafeText 💬

ACT NOW ⬇️

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/48-hours-tell-ofcom-practice-safe-text

Well, that was quick!

I wrote about about my disappointment with @mozillaofficial changes:

https://mastodon.social/@BjornW/114032743031437841

Seems they were just starting 🙄

Read
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-terms-of-use/

Check
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/

- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/#notice

Consider other Open Source apps you may use: aren't you sad that these lack ToS & Privacy legalese?

My advise: move away from Mozilla.

They have lost my trust.

1/N

Read this:

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-leadership-growth-planning-updates

👀 at this:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/leadership

I'm baffled about the myriad of @mozillaofficial structures, amount of directors / C-level people & how to rhyme 'investing in privacy-respecting advertising; with 'draw a bigger circle of supporters over the long run.'

As a long time Mozilla supporter, I was already unhappy about the direction of the last years & this does certainly not bode well for the future. 😞 😩

#Firefox #Mozilla #Thunderbird #Tech #OpenSource

France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU.

Here's how you can stop them: 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/france-surveillance-nacrotrafic-law

🇳🇿 I've had quite a few outrageous responses to my alerts, this is another one of those, sent by teammateapp.com CEO.

After my initial alert and follow up email, I get a reply lying about the severity of the exposure and telling me to stop harassing the company.

This CEO also didn't know what Proton is and thought I work for them and threatened to report me to them in case I didn't stop. :blobshrug:

Read about it here: https://jltee.substack.com/p/new-zealand-companys-impossible-to-hack-security

If you’re a Windows user, I can help you switch to Linux. Please stop supporting an insecure and privacy-intrusive operating system. What’s stopping you from switching to Linux/macOS? Ask all your questions, and I’ll answer everything.

This is *the most malicious, brutal* malicious compliance I've seen in quite some time, possibly ever, and I am HERE FOR IT. Thank you, @jwz

https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.html

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

The UK is rogue in trying to order a backdoor to Apple encryption.

US lawmakers slam the UK's secretive order, calling it what it is:

🔥 'Dangerous' for global cybersecurity
🔥 'Effectively a foreign cyberattack'

The Home Office must back off ✋

#encryption #surveillance #e2ee #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #Apple #privacy

Any device that needs to be off because it can't be trusted with your conversations should not exist in the first place.

I'm closing several accounts and deleting any customizations and personalizations like profile pics, etc.

I hate how every frikkin' service is hoovering up my data. I'm also closing accounts like LinkedIn that train their #AI on my data with poor visibility and limited controls.

Location data collected by over a hundred Dutch apps are for sale online.

It appears that the owner of popular weather app Buienalarm (Rain Alarm, in rough translation) does not know how the location data of its users ended up at this data broker. The app has 5 million users, a quarter of all people in The Netherlands. (Yes, it’s a rainy country.)

https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/tech-innovatie/10564779/locatiegegevens-gebruikers-buienalarm-online-te-koop

Let's just be clear: #Telegram has proven that they'll gladly accommodate nation states and probably has been doing so for years.

To think that it is secure when all the content, all the messages, are actually available to the company - albeit dispersed across nation states - is false.

#Privacy is #security, full stop. You've got #Signal for IM, #Session as well, not to mention #Matrix for group chats and servers. All have actual, factual peer-to-peer encryption and obvious key systems.

Android-knowledgeable folks: has the code for turning mic access off been audited to a comfortable point?

It's one of the things I like most about Android, but also as it's a software and not hardware toggle, I am skeptical that it means much.

Latest comic. A British consumer rights group examined unnecessary data harvesting by “smart” devices, including air fryers connected to phone apps. While these devices may not pose the greatest privacy risk in our everyday lives, they are part of a growing Internet of Things capable of collecting data when and where we least expect it.

Congress Pushes #Apple to Remove #Deepfake Apps After 404 Media Investigation

https://www.404media.co/congress-pushes-apple-to-remove-deepfake-apps-after-404-media-investigation/

Remember Friends:

You cannot both have secure end-to-end encryption to protect your communication AND also have a backdoor/key/access only for "the good guys."

This is not possible.
Do not believe anyone telling you otherwise.

End-to-end encryption protects us all,
we must fight to keep it ✊🔒

So a crazy thing happened. In a crime thriller film called Les chambres rouges (Red Rooms, 2023) there is a scene where the hacker protagonist is attempting to purchase a snuff film in online auction. The auction happens via IRC or IRC-like chatting environment and to my surprise there's actually me @rolle and my wife @mustikkasoppa who are one of the bidders.

1) The nickname of my wife is mistakenly written as "mustikasoppa" (with one k) but if I recall correctly she has used a mistakenly written nickname in the past
2) We are both operators and on the same IRC channel as we've been for the past 17 years

This is not a coincidence. One nickname can be made up by accident but not two with these features and definitely not in a French movie. My wife's nick "mustikkasoppa" is Finnish and means "blueberry soup".

Our IRC logs are more or less public because of open source and statistics so I presume the scene has been made with chatgpt which has scraped our nicks from the Internet so that they ended up in the movie. We still chat via IRC every day together.

The era of AI... Do your background check, folks. I'm glad this wasn't a dramatized documentary film but a complete fiction. However my wife and I are real. Mixed feelings.