NSA Director Paul Nakasone confirmed such purchases in his letter to Wyden, saying the data collected "may include information associated with electronic devices being used outside - and, in certain cases, inside - the United States."

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looking for a VPS with good specs for it's price, at the same time it should be as safe as possible, I don't want whoever's running it to have access to my files

the main thing I need is storage, like 300-400 gb of storage would be perfect, idk how much that'd cost tho

what do you guys suggest?

thanks in advance

Warrantless access may still be granted during vaguely defined "emergencies."

TL;DR

Don't use snapchat

As the title suggests. I want community opinions on the Arc browser.

Not sure this is the absolute best community but it's what comes to mind.

Was watching this: https://youtu.be/S7dWigI7Soc

Say at the gas pump should I be using tap rather than pin code?#

" three researchers have crafted a long-sought version of private information retrieval and extended it to build a more general privacy strategy. The work, which received a Best Paper Award in June 2023 at the annual Symposium on Theory of Computing, topples a major theoretical barrier on the way to a truly private search."

If any of you have been browsing r/privacy lately you would have come across the British student who had the Air-force literally swarm the flight he was on. This is because he made some joke about a bomb sitting in an airport.

Current speculation suggests that Snapchat has a word-filter and could locate the IP as that of an airport, and notified authorities immediately. Another, somewhat less plausible reason posited is that the government holds the private keys for TLS-encrypted traffic for Snapchat and could decrypt and read the message and that's how they knew.

~~For the paranoid people here: the latter claim, even if it is not true, poses great concern to us. If im may be permitted to run with it; It essentially means that using a public CA isn't exactly safe anymore. For all of you homelabbers using Let's Encrypt - think again.~~ Don't listen to me, I don't understand certificates well.

Talking on a tangent: let us consider the position of TOR. It has been said that TOR devs accommodate the government and the government has backdoors built in TOR. And even if they didn't, the technique of owning a majority of instances running TOR nodes will allow them to identify and associate traffic. TOR is not safe if you want to really keep your content private. On a similar vein, I am a bit skeptical of the privacy advantages of using session, but I have yet to read their whitepaper.

I haven't read much about i2p, but I wouldn't be surprised if the government has their paws in there too.

What are you doing to browse and communicate privately today?

A privacy focused search engine without logs or trackers, own index and above all, the special feature to show in the search result the ads, trackers and other crap waiting for us in every listed page.

Clicking in the icon marked with the arrow for an complete analytic in whotracks.me

To insert the search engine in the browser

https://ghosterysearch.com/search?q=%s

A great video about the Manifest v3 and how Google is trying to make you view ads.

For some time, trying to watch videos on Invidious or Freetube has been a pain. It has been oscillating day by day but now I get like 3 seconds of video for 8 seconds of loading time

Some days ago I saw a notice on top of the webpage in some Invidious instances stating something like "Youtube is trying to impede frontends"

Today i tried going to youtube.com and enabling some requests on uBO and videos loading freakin' fast

Is anyone getting the same?

I looked it up on DDG but couldn't find any defenitive answers . If you can put in the info that one would need to attach the proxy to foxy proxy and an ELI 5 would be much appreciated too . Thanks for the answers in advance . I know free services are bad just wanted to see if someone has any hidden gems like proton hosts free vpn and i'll swear by them anyday .

I've been playing with both the Thumb and the Unexpected keyboards. I like 'em both but, man, I have to admit I'd like them more if they had that top bar that predicts what you might be. Is that just a no-go from a privacy perspective? Can that functionality be local?

(I also wouldn't mind a good voice typing feature)

These resources are designed for advocacy organizations, journalists, defense attorneys, policymakers, and members of the public who often are not getting the straight story from police representatives or the vendors marketing this equipment.

Whether it’s phone-based location tracking, ubiquitous video recording, biometric data collection, or police access to people’s smart devices, law enforcement agencies follow closely behind their counterparts in the military and intelligence services in acquiring privacy-invasive technologies and getting access to consumer data. Just as analog surveillance historically has been used as a tool for oppression, we must understand the threat posed by emerging technologies to successfully defend civil liberties and civil rights in the digital age.

The threats to privacy of these surveillance technologies is enormous, as law enforcement agencies at all levels of government use surveillance technologies to compile vast databases filled with our personal information or gain access to devices that can lay bare the intricacies of our daily lives. Use of these surveillance technologies can infringe on our constitutional rights, including to speak and associate freely under the First Amendment or be free from unlawful search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment. Law enforcement also tends to deploy surveillance technologies disproportionately against marginalized communities. These technologies are prone to abuse by rogue officers, and can be subject to error or vulnerability, causing damaging repercussions for those who interact with the criminal justice system.

The resources contained in this hub bring together years of research, litigation, and advocacy by EFF staff and our allies, and will continue to grow as we obtain more information.

I once knew a site that could detect and list ALL the used trackers and cross-site cookies and other stuff of any site.

You just had to input the site name and it scanned it for you.

Now I can't find it. No site can actually list the trackers for me to examine.

Currently, I'm just using the default 'Drive PDF Viewer' on my Android devices, would love to switch to something FOSS and non-google. Any good recommendations?

If it's available on F-Droid, that would be preferable.

From their Masto acct:

"It’s almost #DataPrivacyWeek - vote now for your favorite data privacy tools in this 1-minute survey! "

Hello, currently I use qksms but its very problematic and lacks basic fetures. One of those issues being you cant send videos, and sending and recieving media is pixalated or blurry because of a commpresion issue. I've already tried adjusting the compresion options in settings to find out it doesn't work.

What messangers do you guys/gals recommend?

It's been a while since I started my privacy journey, but there was something I always wanted to do even before I started to care about my privacy. I always have loved the idea of having a blog to talk about different things that I am interested in, and creating content of value for others, and not gibberish content full of SEO spam, completely generated by AI as these are more frequently seem now, completely making the web worst.

I know the primary source of income on the internet are ads, but now that I am aware about all the tracking that is being made, and all the dark pattern companies make on the internet, has make me second thought the idea of making an income (I know is hard) out of something I would love to do.

Ads on the web are dominated by google, I have been de-googling my life since I started learning about better privacy focused alternatives, and following my thread model, but If I would add ads to my website or a create a youtube channel, I feel everything I have been doing would've been in vane. Currently I block ads because of all the tracking they required, so it feels kind of hypocritical if I started a blog with ads.

Obviously, instead of ads, I could create a support page somewhere, like patreon, ko-fi, and others. But again, I am sure that these platforms in a way or another is doing something I don't feel comfortable with.

Does anyone else feel like because of their care for digital privacy they are missing out and are afraid to do things? I know this is a price you have to pay. Do you have any recommendations or alternatives? or should I still do it, but with more caution? If you make money online with your content, what is you strategy and recommendations to keep your privacy while doing it?

I understand that you cannot obtain absolute privacy, by the way I would not consider myself as paranoiac, and I didn't started by changing everything in one night, it's been two years since I started to care about all of this.