BleepingComputer – Want to prevent people from harvesting your personal information? Keep reading to learn how to remove your data from people search sites. “Protecting your digital footprint is crucial if you want to prevent phishing, scams, and other unwanted side effects caused by online data harvesting. Every day, people around the globe suffer from… Continue Reading
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Meet the tracking companies that follow you around the internet
Datawrapper – “Considering the cookie consent banners that have come to grace our screens on a daily basis, it might not come as a surprise that companies are interested in extracting data from your online activities, and that browsing the internet is not exactly a private affair. Still, it is hard to grasp how this… Continue Reading
Big Brother Becomes Little Brother
Ken Klippenstein – Corporations are the new nation state, U.S. intelligence admits – Envious of the power and wealth of corporate America, the head of U.S. intelligence has issued a new directive calling on the spy agencies to “routinize” and “expand” their partnerships with private companies. Agencies are even authorized to incur “risk” in these… Continue Reading
How to switch Apple Intelligence on/off on your iPhone
Mashable: “If you’re not sure whether you want Apple Intelligence on your iPhone, the next iOS update will have it automatically switched on. As we reported in January, Apple’s AI features will default to active when you install iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, or macOS 15.3 — all expected within the next few days. This applies… Continue Reading
Marginalia Search
Marginalia Search – Explore the Web your way – Search: All. Blogs, Academia, Vintage, Plain Text, Wikis, Forums, Recipes, Search in Title, Recent Results, Remove Javascript, Reduce Adtech. Prioritizes non-commercial content Tools for both search and discovery Find lost old websites Open Source Custom index and crawler software Simple technology — no AI or cloud… Continue Reading
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 26, 2025
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 26, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex… Continue Reading
The Protesters’ Guide to Smartphone Security
Privacy Guides: “For most protesters, activists, and journalists, your smartphone is an essential tool you depend on for organizing with your peers, accessing and distributing information, and helping others. It also represents a great risk, as a tool that is easily appropriated by authorities for targeted and mass surveillance. The perennial question when it comes… Continue Reading
PowerSchool hacker claims they stole data of 62 million students
Bleeping Computer: “The hacker who breached education tech giant PowerSchool claimed in an extortion demand that they stole the personal data of 62.4 million students and 9.5 million teachers. PowerSchool is a cloud-based software solutions provider for K-12 schools and districts that provides tools for enrollment, communication, attendance, staff management, learning systems, analytics, and finance.… Continue Reading
Federal Court Rules Backdoor Searches of 702 Data Unconstitutional
EFF: “Better late than never: last night a federal district court held that backdoor searches of databases full of Americans’ private communications collected under Section 702 ordinarily require a warrant. The landmark ruling comes in a criminal case, United States v. Hasbajrami, after more than a decade of litigation, and over four years since the… Continue Reading
LinkedIn accused of using private messages to train AI
BBC: “A US lawsuit filed on behalf of LinkedIn Premium users accuses the social media platform of sharing their private messages with other companies to train artificial intelligence (AI) models. It alleges that in August last year, the world’s largest professional social networking website “quietly” introduced a privacy setting, automatically opting users in to a… Continue Reading
4 Cybersecurity Misconceptions to Leave Behind in 2025
The New Stack: “Most people know that cyberthreats lurk around every corner. Be it an opportunistic lone criminal or a hacker with the power of a nation-state behind them, it can feel like the world and its dog want to access your private data. Beyond this, though, how well do people grasp the threat? According… Continue Reading
The Powerful AI Tool That Cops (or Stalkers) Can Use to Geolocate Photos in Seconds
404 Media: “A powerful AI tool can predict with high accuracy the location of photos based on features inside the image itself—such as vegetation, architecture, and the distance between buildings—in seconds, with the company now marketing the tool to law enforcement officers and government agencies. Called GeoSpy, made by a firm called Graylark Technologies out… Continue Reading
