A reminder to Swifties and non-Swifties alike to regularly review your phone's location sharing settings.
Remember: the deepest privacy threat from mobile phones is the way that they announce your whereabouts all day (and all night) long.
Stalking your ex using phone location services isn’t cool. Neither is the way that governments and companies use your phone's data to determine where you've been. Learn more about protecting your privacy, and how EFF helps:
From 7 March, the designated gatekeepers – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft – must comply with all obligations in the Digital Markets Act.
These changes give you control of your:
📱 data: decide freely how your data is used
📱 phone: choose your default apps, browsers and search engines
📱 apps: install the apps you want and remove pre-installed apps
Feel like we are moving up the consumer protection ladder. If the Democrats win strong majorities in the House and Senate expect a push for stronger data privacy protections similar to the European GDPR.
#GM already sends telematics and behavior data to #lexisnexis. This is different from the data “experts” are talking about that insurance companies use. This isn’t claims data. Setting insurance rates based on behavior is also not new, but it has always been opt-in. You buy a dongle or run a phone app that sends behavior data. You do this willingly.
But this is different. You don’t have a choice if you want to have the car. And #Kia is joining in on this.
When we think of tracking or surveillance, we often think of Facebook, Instagram or Google but Viber (chat app) and Canva (photo editing) also do some tracking.
Leveraging my #privacy and #ai friends. A super talented and capable undergraduate student graduating at the end of the quarter reached out to me asking for career routes forward, prior to (or perhaps instead of) law school, that would allow for the exploration of #dataprivacy, #compliance, and AI #policy.
I know about IAPP and their training and certification programs, but didn't immediately have any additional resources off the top of my head. Thoughts? Tips? Thanks!
Finding people by phone number was something that advocates for survivors of domestic violence have called out as a problem pretty much since the beginning. When I volunteered for SafeEscape.org (an awesome org, btw) we explicitly cautioned people about the risks of using Signal because it would tell all their contacts also using Signal that they joined. That's no good if you're trying to establish secure communications around an abuser.
This is definitely a GREAT news day for privacy-focused communications.
"But Meta’s version of consent offers users a Hobson’s choice — of paying at least €9.99/month for an ad-free subscription (per each account they have on Facebook and Instagram); or agreeing to its tracking.
No other choices are available, despite the GDPR stipulating that for consent to be a valid legal basis for processing people’s information it must be freely given."
Excited to share that I joined Bitkom as Head of Data Privacy & Security. The team covers regulation efforts both in Germany and in Brussels, connects relevant stakeholders and represents the industry related to account identity, information security, national security, defense, and data privacy.
I'm looking forward to continuing to work on today's most exciting and pressing issues for tech and society, meeting new and familiar faces, long-time friends, experts and stakeholders in these fields.
We are posting here the messages from organizations, institutions, NGOs, etc. that have opened a channel on Mastodon and left #X/Twitter. Many of their arguments cite the same points as mentioned in our open letter calling the universities to become active on Mastodon and fediverse servers.
The messages represent a broad consensus among Internet users who want to bring the choice of social media in line with their mission statements. The first of these is the data protection foundation @DS_Stiftung.
It writes about itself: „Acting independently in the field of #DataPrivacy, Stiftung Datenschutz links politics and the public, academics and business. It complements existing organizations and initiatives while liaising closely with German data protection authorities on state and federal levels.“ https://stiftungdatenschutz.org/english
At the end of September, she drew the consequences and broke away from X/ #Twitter https://twitter.com/DS_Stiftung/status/1704059550335119522
If blocking threads.net functions like a mute, I still need a way to actually block #threads accounts so I don’t fall prey to Meta’s data exploitation.
Anyone? If you don’t know, boosting is appreciated.
To be clear, this post should not be interpreted as a position or general statement on Threads interfacing with the Fediverse. There are many good things that could come from wide adoption of distributed social media. This post is focused narrowly and specifically on Fediverse user's data rights and any threats to those rights from anyone who would claim that simply by connecting to ActivityPub and interacting with the Fediverse that they have broad rights to Fediverse user data.
Note that the purpose here is simply to state you do not consent to any use of your data beyond what you have authorized in your instances privacy policy.
If you would like to "sign" the notice feel free to simply reply, boost, or favourite.
@Gargron Yes, but this does not address the issue. The concern expressed here is the use of this identity data, as well as Mastodon user content and interactions, for the purpose of Threads broader business services, including ads.
BUT the EU version has a different section for USERS WITHOUT A THREADS PROFILE that probably is in response to EU rules.
The EU version is arguably OK, and would not have generated this post. The issues raised by this post relate to the US version, and specifically to those Fediverse users who do not have a Threads profile.
Actors #naming in EU laws:
"The end user and recipient of the service are both natural and legal persons using a certain service. However, the #DSA recipient of the service can be a person acting in a personal or commercial/professional capacity whereas the #DMA end user can only be a person acting in a personal capacity."