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Nonilex

The #FBI has its own “Next Generation Identification” #biometric & #criminal-history #database program; the agency also has a #FacialRecognition apparatus capable of matching people against >640M photos—a database made up of #DriversLicense & #passport photos, as well as mug shots. The #SocialSecurity Admin keeps a master #earnings file, which contains the “individual earnings histories for each of the 350+ million SSNs that have been assigned to workers.”

#Trump#law#privacy
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The Privacy Foundation

It's a large #political action day in the US & the world - Have your mobile devices switched off or leave them at home to avoid being caught in dragnet #surveillance.

Keep them off for the complete journey - before and after. If you must use your mobile, be diligent in your efforts to protect yourself:

- Encrypt your device
- Have it pin-locked
- Disable #biometric logons
- Disable #Bluetooth
- Disable location services
- Carpool

#protest #50501 #handsoff #democracy #privacy #security

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The Privacy Foundation

Regular reminder - Participating in social #protest? Have your mobile devices switched off, in airplane mode or leave them at home to avoid being caught in dragnet #surveillance.

Keep them off on - the complete journey - before and after. If you must use your mobile, be diligent in your efforts to protect your #privacy:

- Encrypt your device
- Have it pin-locked
- Disable #biometric logons
- Disable #Bluetooth
- Disable location services

#Defend #America against #Tesla #MAGA #Trump

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tuxwise

(4/N) Having reflected a bit on your abstract assets, try to brainstorm as many of your related data and device assets as possible. Most of them will fall into one or more of the following categories:

🪪 Personally Identifiable Information (#PII)
📇 Social graphs
🗃️ Data and metadata
🛰️ #Geospatial data
🛜 Infrastructure
🫥 #Accounts and #handles

For instance, your smartphone photo collection "asset" probably contains geospatial data (#GPS coordinates in #EXIF); data and metadata (phone brand and model, in EXIF); potentially also information about your social graph, in case your family, friends or acquaintances are on your photos.

It's probably best to track your data and device assets in a spreadsheet, with the above categories as additional columns, so you can place a checkmark, where appropriate. I'd also suggest to add a column to track where the data is stored / the device is located.

Here's a little list of 🪪 Personally Identifiable Information (PII), to get you started (other categories in next posts):

🪪 Any kind of identity document
🎂 Dates of significant life events
👆 #Biometric data
⚕️ #Health data
🧬 #DNA test results
👪 #Genealogy data
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mastodon.de/@tuxwise/113503228

MastodonDEtuxwise (@tuxwise@mastodon.de)(1/N) With more challenging times ahead, the #4D​s will become more important, too: ✋ **Defend** your boundaries: know what matters to you, and properly safeguard it – instead of being an alert-driven option tinkerer. 🪪 **Define** yourself: use multiple identities that focus on a single purpose each – instead of having everything you do, have and think linked back directly to you. 👑 **Decide** like a sovereign: get to know your needs, and what meets them best – instead of sacrificing them to the interests of others. 🌐 **Dwell** the space: seek community, practice solidarity and citizenship – instead of being beaten a little later than others, in a glorious bunker. In the future, I'll post a few ideas and suggestions based on the 4Ds. BTW, I have dropped the adjective "#digital" from my vocabulary. There is no more separate "digital sphere" or "cyberspace" that wasn't part of our everyday lives. #privacy #security #anonymity
#ThreadModeling#4D
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MadeInDex 📰🌎

The devil is in the details! 😈

Today X changed their #privacy policy & terms of service.

2 Highlights:
-They "collect and use your #biometric information"
-3rd party collaborators might "train their artificial intelligence models" on user #data

As a surprise for #X "Premium's Anniversary" we decided to make another guide 😜

If you still have #Xitter, make sure your "Data sharing with business partners" setting is disabled!
x.com/settings/data_sharing_wi

Also posting this on #Twitter 😂

Screenshot of the X settings menu. To disable "Data sharing with business partners" arrows indicate you have to press "Settings" > "Security and account access" > "Data sharing with business partners" > and press opt-out.
Screenshot of a section of X new privacy policy: "Third-party collaborators." the section "to train their artificial intelligence models" is highlighted.
Screenshot X privacy policy section "Biometric Information." "we may collect and use your biometric information" is highlighted.
Screenshot of X offer: "It's Premium's Anniversary! 40% off for a limited time."
#SocialMedia
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James Bartlett :terminal:

@breadsmasher
Great question! "Need" probably isn't the right word. "Strongly desire" or "greatly prefer" would more accurate.

The reason is that I have lots of different devices with different port types. Some of my newer devices only have USB-C ports, while my older devices only have USB-A ports, and I'd really like to have just "one key to rule them all," so to speak.

I know that I could buy a little USB-A/C adapter dongle and keep that on the same keychain with the MFA key, but that introduces a degree of fragility that I'd prefer to avoid if possible.

That being said, if I found a hardware MFA key with all of the features I listed except for USB-C, then I'd happily accept the dongle compromise, because most of my devices (even the old ones) support Bluetooth, so I'd still have that as a backup option in case the dongle fails.

#MFA#2FA#fido
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James Bartlett :terminal:

My current hardware MFA key is no longer receiving security patches, so I'm in the market for a new one.

Here's a list of features I'd like my new hardware MFA key to have, in order of priority:
1. USB-A
2. NFC
3. USB-C
4. Biometric
5. Bluetooth

My current MFA key has features 1-3 and 5. Is there a Holy Grail MFA key somewhere out there with all 5 features?

I'm already pretty familiar with YubiCo's product lineup, and while I love their security rating and build quality, none of them have more than 2 of the features listed above, so that kinda bums me out.

Anyway, let's hear your hardware MFA key recommendations!

#MFA#2FA#fido
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h o ʍ l e t t

Facial Recognition at Checkout: Convenient or #Creepy?
thewalrus.ca/i-dont-want-to-pa
“It’s somewhat ironic that large corporations, seemingly concerned with #theft, are taking the #biometric #data of individuals without their knowing. But #facialrecognition and #analysis provide another perk to companies: opportunities to #amass more data about us and #sell us more stuff.”

The Walrus · Facial Recognition at Checkout: Convenient or Creepy? | The WalrusI don’t want to pay for things with my face
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h o ʍ l e t t

First ever #iOS #trojan discovered — and it’s stealing Face ID data to break into bank accounts
tomsguide.com/computing/malwar
❝Once installed on either an #iPhone or an #Android phone, #GoldPickaxe can collect facial recognition data, identity documents and intercepted text messages […]. To make matters worse, this #biometric data is then used to create #AI #deepfakes to impersonate victims and access their #bank accounts.❞
Well, we've been telling you to not use biometric auth for ages…

Tom's Guide · First ever iOS trojan discovered — and it’s stealing Face ID data to break into bank accountsBy Anthony Spadafora
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