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PH government agencies warn people about using the popular 90s AI Yearbook app, which uses 8-12 of your photos to generate retro-themed images.
The "photos could be used for malicious purposes, namely, for the fabrication of false identities online, identity theft, data breaches, phishing, sexual exploitation, ransomware attacks, and other forms of malicious activities."
In this article, I introduce @HanHemen
(ThereHere) an ongoing #ActionResearch-driven e-#Diaspora platform via Basque Government, which aims to ensure #DataPrivacy through experimentation with #blockchain coproducing with end-users via #DAOs
#CFPB "Today, we are proposing a rule to give consumers the power to walk away from bad service and choose the financial institutions that offer the best products and prices."
“The rule bans banks from charging their customers junk fees to access their data, and bans businesses you give that data to from "collecting, using, or retaining data to advance their own commercial interests through actions like targeted or behavioral advertising." It also guarantees you the unrestricted right to revoke access to your data.
The rule is intended to replace the current state-of-the-art for data sharing, which is giving your banking password to third parties who go and scrape that data on your behalf. This is a tactic that comparison sites and financial dashboards have used since 2006, when Mint pioneered it:
"Daddy, when I grow up I want to be a Data Broker just like you, so I can help people be more effectively targeted by advertising and political persuasion."
In case you missed yesterday...Ars Technica reports our cars are spying on us. The Mozilla Foundation found that one car brand in 25 studied collected data such as race, sexual orientation and even our sexual activity. 84 percent of brands analyzed said they can also share our data!
Threads now has a Supplemental Privacy Policy (https://help.instagram.com/515230437301944) regarding "Third Party Services" like Mastodon. Should Threads interconnect with Mastodon via #ActivityPub, this addresses what they will do with our data.
Note that they will collect information from anyone "allowing Threads users to follow you or interact with your content". The information they collect will include your profile, your content, and your interactions.
So #Facebook just asked me if I wanted to create a post with some photos I had downloaded onto my phone. It was album artwork I had uploaded to use with some music tracks, they weren't even in my main DCIM album, but evidently, good ol' #Meta has scoured my entire phone looking for pictures. That's not creepy at all! And people are falling over each other to join #Threads SMH :blobcatglance: #DataPrivacy#DataSecurity#GDPR#DataProtection
Stories like this remind us why being mindful of protecting one's privacy online is important and that "private" messages in the majority of places aren't private at all without end-to-end encryption.
Be mindful of what sensitive data you're relinquishing to companies.
Since my post about the #DuckDuckGo app and #Threads is still getting lots of attention, I want to be clear about how I actually feel about #DataPrivacy.
It's a lot like #recycling. Yeah it's a good thing to protect your own personal data, but if we're being honest, it's not effective on an individual scale. We need good legislation at a national level to meaningfully change the game for the benefit of us all. Until then, no matter how careful you are, you're still being negatively affected.
Have you, or do you plan to create a Threads "suckware" account and give Mark permission to hoover up all your personal information?
Data Collected by Threads: Health and Fitness, Financial Information, Contact Info, User Content, Browsing History, Purchases, Location, Contacts, Search History, Identifiers
MFers are really bragging about running to a social media platform being operated by the same company which destroyed your country with Facebook, harvested data on every aspect of your life with Instagram, and made "the next big thing" unusable when they data-gated Oculus.
Like, do you all even think about the consequences of your actions, or do you just blindly follow orders like good little sheep?
The Zuck suck is in full swing. In the few short hours since I started using #Threads, #DuckDuckGo has already blocked over 200 data tracking attempts. These include things like "headphone status" and "screen density."
In 2020, the EU-level judiciary decreed #SchremsII whereby customers of US cloud service providers must themselves verify the data protection laws of the recipient country, document its risk assessment and confer with its customers.
In 2021, various French-state-level authorities stated that #MSOffice365 did not conform (to doctrine and #GDPR) or that secondary education schools should avoid it. 👇
Storing data in "the Cloud" legally constitutes data processing.
#MicrosoftOutlook: "Synchronisation with the Microsoft server" transfers your data to Microsoft.
The German Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, Ulrich Kelber, described the data collection as "alarming" and announced his intention to pursue at European level: https://social.bund.de/@bfdi/111381793883035665