firstaudience 8 months ago

Leaked documents reveal an EU plan to reform the GDPR. If this reform becomes a reality, privacy + data protection would be massively weakened

noyb.eu

EU Commission about to wreck core principles of the GDPR

The EU Commission has secretly set in motion a potentially massive reform of the GDPR. noybs first overview of the proposed changes.

firstaudience 9 months ago

Chat Control is offically back on the Agenda Yesterday, the Law Enforcement Working Party group approved the revised Danish Chat Control proposal with broad support

firstaudience 9 months ago

A court order instructs the provider of archive.today to hand over data about the customer behind the site

heise online

Archive.today: FBI Demands Data from Provider Tucows

The mysterious website Archive.today is coming under the FBI

firstaudience 9 months ago

NFT KUNST

GIF Museum - Digital Art - GIF Collection

Das GIF Museum besitzt über 1

firstaudience 9 months ago

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firstaudience 9 months ago

Mixmaster anonymous remailer - Wikipedia

firstaudience 9 months ago

firstaudience 9 months ago

You Can Bitchat Anything

firstaudience 9 months ago

Differential privacy is used in the U.S. Census to protect individual privacy by adding noise to statistical data. This method makes it harder to identify individuals from the results. Republicans are advocating for the removal of differential privacy in Census data

Ars Technica

Republican plan would make deanonymization of census data trivial

Differential privacy" algorithm prevents statistical data from being tied to individuals.

firstaudience 9 months ago

ChatGPT gift card payable with Bitcoin on-chain + with Lightning

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firstaudience 9 months ago

A biography of Tor https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5761/TorFrom-the-Dark-Web-to-the-Future-of-Privacy

firstaudience 9 months ago

Today marks the 55th anniversary of the Bank Secrecy Act. Since then financial privacy in the United States has significantly eroded. Good overview of various legislative changes since the 1770s --> https://www.cato.org/commentary/illusion-financial-privacy

firstaudience 9 months ago

Printing tracking dots are small secret yellow dots that printers produce on every printed page. These dots provide information about the device used to print the documents

Printer tracking dots - Wikipedia

firstaudience 9 months ago

“Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.” – Aaron Swartz

firstaudience 9 months ago

Tinder is rolling out facial verification

WIRED

Tinder Launches Mandatory Facial Verification to Weed Out Bots and Scammers

Face Check will scan new members’ faces to ensure they don’t match existing profiles. The move comes as romance scams continue to proliferate, ...

firstaudience 9 months ago

This week is the 55th anniversary of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) which was signed into law on October 26, 1970, laying the groundwork for total financial surveillance

The day your financial choices stopped being private.

The Bank Secrecy Act of 1970 quietly flipped the switch on surveillance.

firstaudience 9 months ago

Internetarchive is celebrating 1 trillion archived web pages

The Web We’ve Built: Celebrating 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived

firstaudience 9 months ago

firstaudience 10 months ago

@tuma attends dev calls of several open-source projects every week to keep us updated about on-going developemts, new implementations + releases. Pretty cool! View quoted note →

firstaudience 10 months ago

Wi-Fi aware mesh for bitchat 👀

GitHub

wifi-aware/bitchat-version-on-android-using-Wi-Fi-Aware at main · NodleCode/wifi-aware

Research and development on Wifi Aware and its implementation on smartphones. Notes on when using Wifi Aware versus BLE mesh. - NodleCode/wifi-aware