The article is fine IMO, but upon further reflection, you’re right that OpenAI doesn’t deserve the benefit of the doubt. I’ve amended my opinion.

Old Infomaniak stance: privacy without compromise

Infomaniak describes itself as an “ethical cloud” company and one that doesn’t compromise on “ecology, privacy, or people.”

New Infomaniak stance: Trust The Institutions!

Infomaniak spokesperson Thomas Jacobsen… believed Yen showed a “lack of knowledge of Swiss political institutions” and called for finding the right balance, not looking for extremes.

Infomaniak argued that anonymity prevents justice, saying there must be a “happy medium” to prevent the digital landscape becoming a “Wild West.”

Either they are fundamentally changing their way of doing business, or their definition of privacy does not align with reality’s definition of privacy.

Something OP conveniently fails to point out is that in China, online ID verification is already mandatory. It just requires feeding your private details into social media sites manually.

Lao Dongyan (劳东燕), an outspoken law professor at Tsinghua University, questioned the government’s commitment to personal information protection by pointing out that the country’s billion plus internet users had already been obligated to surrender their personal information to hundreds of sites and apps as a condition of use. There is little hope of protecting this information, she said, if the bulk of it has already been relinquished to private interests.

So unlike US laws that will undeniably worsen privacy, this is a step sideways.

The version of Graphite provided did not include the ability to activate the phone’s microphone or camera…it only enabled its operators access to encrypted communications on the hacked devices

“Only” Is underselling that a bit, I think.Personal messages are smaller and easier to transmit without erasing suspicion, and they’re basically a curated list of things the activists are saying to each other.

I would buy a “family plan” for this just to encourage others just to stay on the platform

there were rumors that there would be a reasonable free backup (ex. up to 1 Gb) with relatively cheap paid options above that. I scrolled through the GitHub link and couldn’t confirm or deny if this is still/actually the case.

There’s no concrete pricing plan, although there were specifics that were originally tied to those rumors.

It has been confirmed that these plans are only test data. They will change before release and were never meant to be actual plans.

I can confirm that, as someone else who has been passively listening to discussions about it, that’s the exact impression I got.

Information is available on the unofficial Signal wiki, if you feel like digging around.

Edit: apparently discussions go back at least a year. Here’s one titled “Signal is getting Cloud Backups”

@[email protected] Are you still pondering this question? Since I asked, you had enough time to post at least six more articles complaining about China and one more complaining about Russia

SimpleX also suffers several more problems, like

1. Verifying you’re talking to the same person in two different chats
2. Synchronizing rooms with more than a tiny handful of users

It’s still very experimental at this point

You should have looked at my comment history before making a fool of yourself.

Hotznplotzn is not a “good shill” for being on your side. They mix decent sources with abominably inaccurate and pro-surveillance ones.

Israel demanded data related to nearly 700 push notifications as part of a single request.

Rookie numbers IMO. But why “nearly 700” - did Israel already know the quantity of notifications, or was that a number they arrived at with Apple’s help?

according to the data, the U.S. made 99 requests for push token data related to 345 different push tokens, and received data in response to 65 of the requests between July and December 2023. The U.K. made 123 requests, about 128 tokens, and received data in response to 111…

These raw numbers are smaller but, based on my relative knowledge, scarier. I believe **tokens don’t represent single notifications, they represent all notifications to a single app on your phone **.

So the US is asking for 3-4 apps’ worth of notification data per request (person?), and get their way about two-thirds of the time. And I’d assume one token worth of data could contain hundreds, thousands, of notifications.

There’s only one app I know about that only uses push notifications to alert apps of incoming messages (without injecting the notification content into the push notification), and that’s Signal…

Serious question, Hotznplotzn: Are you against digital currencies in general because you don’t want governments to track people’s financial transactions, or are you just trying to remind people that Russia is still bad?

I guess I’ll ask you the same question I ask Putinists: Do you actually have a problem with propagandists? You get to see Hotznplotzn’s profile too. If you think there’s a different conclusion, a rational person would draw from it, be my guest in elaborate.

It’s also a very funny you would accuse me of being a Putin shill.

I think so.

Some browsers for Android have blocked the abusive JavaScript in trackers. DuckDuckGo, for instance, was already blocking domains and IP addresses associated with the trackers, preventing the browser from sending any identifiers to Meta. The browser also blocked most of the domains associated with Yandex Metrica. After the researchers notified DuckDuckGo of the incomplete blacklist, developers added the missing addresses.

So are Meta’s ties to the US and the MAGA regime.

But for some reason, Hotznplotzn appears more interested in promoting an America First form of nationalism than privacy advocacy, because that interest in privacy evaporates when American entities do it.

What this article doesn’t mention is that the URL

https://register-with-gp.ht1.uk/

sn’t a typical redirect, it actually acts as a landing page that ends up requiring another click.

That extra click takes you to

https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/find-a-gp

… Which is what, a dozen characters longer (and has an extra “www.” that can probably be discarded)? The QR codes should work just about as well. Better, if you skip the redirect

OP’s post history demonstrates an interest in only one thing. As one example, look at the way they edited this article’s title.

Original title: “…involving Meta and Yandex…”

This post: “…involving Meta and Russia’s Yandex…”

I continue to wonder if OP is interested in privacy, or is simply upset at the Russianness of this particular thing.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think this has anything to do with archive.today:

Incidentally, anyone who pays for the paid media content must also expect for user data to go to Russia:

«Until recently, Ringier sent - thanks to these cookies - the IP addresses of “Blick” readers…

This has to do with a non-Russian company inadvertently adding trackers that linked back to a Russian website. There is no inherent danger of archive.today collecting cookies from other websites if you browse to it.

If browsing to archive links is concerning, especially if it’s the only available option, I would generally recommend a VPN, but ironically, VPNs seem to trigger CloudFlare (aka non-Russian) issues that prevent me from viewing media archived on this site

Original link: Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android

Looks like Mozilla is just relying on Someone Else’s (in this case, 404 Media’s) coverage of this

a new investigation by 404 Media has revealed that ShadowDragon, a U.S. government contractor, is exploiting publicly available data from websites and services like Etsy, Reddit, Tinder, and Duolingo — to fuel mass surveillance programs for U.S. government agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

And to my eyes it looks like they’re relying on Someone Else (you) to petition them, although to be fair they do say:

Mozilla will directly pressure 30 companies, chosen based on their size, the volume of user data they hold, the vulnerability of their users, and the value of their data to ShadowDragon — especially platforms where users share sensitive information, including personal communications, affiliations, political speech, geolocation, and immigration status.

… Which is good, whatever directly pressuring means.