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Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://noc.social/@solomonschuler" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>solomonschuler</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@torproject" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>torproject</span></a></span> exactly that <em>is</em> the wrong assumption.</p><ul><li>As with any <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/DataCollection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataCollection</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SurveillanceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SurveillanceState</span></a> it's never about actual crime but instead get some <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Blackmail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blackmail</span></a>-Material ready for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/MILINTEL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MILINTEL</span></a> if need be.</li></ul>
BakersRelay<p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Maryland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maryland</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/GunViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GunViolence</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/DataCollection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataCollection</span></a> </p><p>From WTOPNews.com: Maryland unveils new gun violence data in the hopes of preventing it </p><p><a href="https://wtop.com/maryland/2025/06/maryland-documents-gun-violence-in-the-hopes-of-preventing-it/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wtop.com/maryland/2025/06/mary</span><span class="invisible">land-documents-gun-violence-in-the-hopes-of-preventing-it/</span></a></p>
Catherine Schmidt<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/airlines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>airlines</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/datacollection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>datacollection</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/doge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>doge</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/alt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>alt</span></a> </p><p>Wired</p><p>“It's clear the data broker loophole is pushing the government back towards a pernicious ‘collect it all’ mentality, gobbling up as much sensitive data as it can about all Americans by default."</p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/airlines-dont-want-you-to-know-they-sold-your-flight-data-to-dhs/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/airlines-dont-</span><span class="invisible">want-you-to-know-they-sold-your-flight-data-to-dhs/</span></a></p>
Trufi Association<p>Cities with strong OpenStreetMap communities don’t just have better transport data — they can have more equitable mobility. </p><p>via bsky @itsinternational.bsky.social </p><p><a href="https://www.itsinternational.com/feature/big-data-losing-our-way" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">itsinternational.com/feature/b</span><span class="invisible">ig-data-losing-our-way</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/DataCollection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataCollection</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mapping</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/opendata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opendata</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/OpenStreetMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenStreetMap</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/TransportationJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TransportationJustice</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gender</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/TrufiAssociation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrufiAssociation</span></a></p>
George E. 🇺🇸♥🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️<p>If you're an American, you <i>need</i> to order your <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/LexisNexis" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LexisNexis</a> <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/report" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#report</a>. It's free. It's not a credit report (although there are some aspects of that to it). It's a dossier on you and your life, brought to you by the largest data broker in the <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/UnitedStates" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a>. <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/PleaseBoost" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PleaseBoost</a> <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/privacy" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/security" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#security</a> <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/DataPrivacy" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DataPrivacy</a> <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/DataCollection" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DataCollection</a> <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/PersonalInformation" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PersonalInformation</a><span><br><br></span><a href="https://consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/request" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/request</a></p>
TECC :archlinux:<p><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Windows10" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windows10</span></a> is coming to an end. I won’t use <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Windows11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windows11</span></a> or other <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> products anymore. I really like <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> (especially <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/ArchLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArchLinux</span></a>). I don’t want to be told how or when to use my own <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computer</span></a>. I won’t accept <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/datacollection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>datacollection</span></a>, forced accounts, or <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/cloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cloud</span></a>-only services. In the future, I’ll play all my <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/games" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>games</span></a> on Linux too.</p><p>F*CK MICROSOFT! 🙃</p><p><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/ByeWindows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ByeWindows</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/DigitalFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalFreedom</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/GamingOnLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GamingOnLinux</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/NoCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoCloud</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/NoForcedAccounts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoForcedAccounts</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/games" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>games</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/videogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>videogames</span></a></p>
Schneier on Security RSS<p>US as a Surveillance State</p><p>Two essays were just published on DOGE’s data collection and agg... <a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/05/us-as-a-surveillance-state.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">schneier.com/blog/archives/202</span><span class="invisible">5/05/us-as-a-surveillance-state.html</span></a></p><p> <a href="https://burn.capital/tags/nationalsecuritypolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nationalsecuritypolicy</span></a> <a href="https://burn.capital/tags/datacollection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>datacollection</span></a> <a href="https://burn.capital/tags/Uncategorized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Uncategorized</span></a> <a href="https://burn.capital/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://burn.capital/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a></p>
Catherine Schmidt<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/alt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>alt</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/doge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>doge</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>musk</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/socialsecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialsecurity</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ice</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NLRB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NLRB</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/customs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>customs</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/datacollection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>datacollection</span></a> </p><p>Heather Cox Richardson DOGE Creating Master List to Target People 4/21/2025</p>
Kent Pitman<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.cat/@riley" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>riley</span></a></span> </p><p>People in the US with non-binary genders encoded into their government IDs, whether in the id number itself or in other associated personal data, are quaking in their boots that the government will come after them in some way, so I'm not sure "fun" is the word I'd have used. As I've long said, and as we're seeing play out now, benevolent systems can melt down into non-benevolent systems, so trusting in the will, intent, etc. of a government to be kind is not a great thing. </p><p>It's still good to seek governments that are kind, but still building in protections against futures that are not so rosy is a thing no one should ever fuss about.</p><p>A favorite quote of mine, from John Gilmore at the First Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy, 1991, which I had the good fortune to attend. His entire remarks are not long and worth reading, but this especially was prophetic:</p><p>«Society tolerates all different kinds of behaviour -- differences in<br>religion, differences in political opinions, races, etc. But if your<br>differences aren't accepted by the government or by other parts of<br>society, you can still be tolerated if they simply don't know that you<br>are different. Even a repressive government or a regressive individual<br>can't persecute you if you look the same as everybody else. And, as<br>George Perry said today, "Diversity is the comparative advantage of<br>American society". I think that's what privacy is really protecting.</p><p>The whole conference has spent a lot of time talking about ways to<br>control uses of information and to protect peoples' privacy after the<br>information was collected. But that only works if you assume a good<br>government. If we get one seriously bad government, they'll have all<br>the information they need to make an efficient police state and make it<br>the last government. It's more than convenient for them -- in fact,<br>it's a temptation for people who want to do that, to try to get into<br>power and do it. Because we are giving them the means.»</p><p>Source: <a href="http://www.toad.com/gnu/cfp.talk.txt" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="">toad.com/gnu/cfp.talk.txt</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>This edict, issued yesterday in the US among a flurry of others, is relevant for its vast scope: <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">whitehouse.gov/presidential-ac</span><span class="invisible">tions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/NonBinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NonBinary</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Totalitarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Totalitarianism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/DataCollection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataCollection</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/PersonalData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PersonalData</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ExecutiveOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveOrder</span></a></p>
cobalt going beige today<p>Anyone know why and how SO MANY CHARACTERS can be in a URL? In general I may think the URL has trackers or some sort of data collection added to it if there is a download, but this is pretty darn heft. I have not even opened this file to read it as the PDF file. Ideas? <a href="https://awscommunity.social/tags/WebDeveloper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebDeveloper</span></a> <a href="https://awscommunity.social/tags/Software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Software</span></a> <a href="https://awscommunity.social/tags/Tracking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tracking</span></a> <a href="https://awscommunity.social/tags/DataCollection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataCollection</span></a> <a href="https://awscommunity.social/tags/Substack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Substack</span></a></p>
Harry Sintonen<p>Did you know that <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> by default stores your local Spotlight searches and uses them to improve their service?</p><p>This option is NOT accessible from the obvious location of "Privacy &amp; Security" but instead from "Spotlight". <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/telemetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>telemetry</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/datacollection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>datacollection</span></a></p><p>EDIT: Apparently this option applies to all Apple devices, including iPhones, iPads and the like. I would suggest turning this off on all of them.</p>
OSTechNix<p>Manjaro Linux Introduces Opt-Out Telemetry with Manjaro Data Donor <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Manjaro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Manjaro</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/ManjaroDataDonor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ManjaroDataDonor</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/MDD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MDD</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Inxi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Inxi</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/SystemInformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SystemInformation</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/DataCollection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataCollection</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Opensource</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <br><a href="https://ostechnix.com/manjaro-data-donor/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ostechnix.com/manjaro-data-don</span><span class="invisible">or/</span></a></p>
TFed 🚀🌍:blobcatpat:<p>What is Trade-Free?</p><p><a href="https://www.trade-free.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">trade-free.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Trade-Free is an idea that shares a lot in common with <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a>, or Purely Free.</p><p>The diffs btw FOSS and Trade-Free is: Trade-Free can't include Ads, trackers, consumerism, etc. etc… </p><p>If some FOSS application got <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/datacollection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>datacollection</span></a>, or you have to see <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Ads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ads</span></a>, or you have to pay for <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/access" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>access</span></a>, or there are <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/trackers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trackers</span></a>, etc. Even if it's FOSS, it's not Trade-Free anymore.</p><p>So when the app definitely wants something from you, it's not <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TradeFree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TradeFree</span></a> anymore.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Society</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Hack On Self: The Alt-Tab Annihilator - Last time, I told you about a simple script I made to collect data about my laptop... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2024/10/07/hack-on-self-the-alt-tab-annihilator/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2024/10/07/hack-o</span><span class="invisible">n-self-the-alt-tab-annihilator/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/attentiontracking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>attentiontracking</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/hackadaycolumns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hackadaycolumns</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/datacollection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>datacollection</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/senseoftime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>senseoftime</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/lifehacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lifehacks</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/mischacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mischacks</span></a></p>

"The investigation looked into Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Reddit, SnapChat, TikTok, Twitter/X, Twitch, and YouTube. The #FTC ordered them to provide information on their #datacollection policies in 2020.
Four years later, the 129-page report highlights their failures to protect users from "abusive data practices," particularly teens and children. Though these platforms appear free, users pay the price by forking over more personal data than they are likely aware of."
pcmag.com/news/ftc-social-medi

PCMag · FTC: Social Media Sites Are 'Vast Surveillance' OperationsBy Emily Dreibelbis

Some people don't want to use browsers based on #Chromium. And it is a choice as valid as any other. But one thing is clear: building a #browser engine from scratch is not a simple task.

Our team maintains and modifies the Chromium code constantly, both to add features and to get rid of #datacollection tools and other stuff added by #Google. And this is already complex enough.

On top of that, we also have to modify WebKit on #iOS - at least for the time being.

Here's a recent interview where CEO @jon talks about our choices and the challenge of going against #BigTech as a small company:

kode24.no/artikkel/kritiserer-

(It's in Norwegian but don't let that scare you! 😉)

Kode24 · Kritiserer Google, men bruker Chromium: «Urealistisk å lage egen motor»By Kurt Lekanger