#privavy

[makoto2600]

Le contrôle du chat est de retour et nous avons un mois pour arrêter les plans de balayage CSAM de l'UE. | Tuta

Le contrôle du chat est de retour et nous avons un mois pour arrêter les plans de balayage CSAM de l'UE. | Tuta

Le règlement de l'UE visant à prévenir et à combattre les abus sexuels sur les enfants, publié pour la première fois en mai 2022, est devenu

[tinyshe]

wow! this doesn’t look creepy ... I took down the two white rubbish bags from the laundry window and proceeded to cover the inside of a few windows with freight wrap (black opaque stretch cling wrap for pallets) to see if it would be some passive solar heat.

Its so dark on the inside. And on the outside, it looks like some tar monster from a B-grade horror flick oozing along ... yeah, nothing creepy about that!

I’ll try it out a few days longer but I think we will move on to the bubble wrap experiment because I can’t stop looking at it and thinking ‘wow! that’s creepy! yeah, that’s creepy!!’ ... 

[itsnathanbachmanstuff-blog]

There is Still a Way to Privately Browse Internet These DaysThe idea of privately browsing internet has become pretty farfetched these days. Multiple entities including government and ads oriented companies keep tabs on what people are doing online at all times. Some do it in the name of national security, while some do it to enhance their business practices. No matter what the reasons are however, this practice is unethical.

[johnkaufeld]

Facebook "graphic app" scam going around... again

In honor of Facebook rolling out the new Graph Search technology, an old, debunked fake privacy warning post started going around again.

Here's a sample of the post so you know what you're looking for:

Hello to all of you who are on my list of contacts of Facebook. I would like to ask a favor of you ... You may not know that Facebook has changed its privacy configuration once again. Thanks to the new “Graphic app,” any person in Facebook anywhere in the world can see our photos, our “likes” and our “comments.” During the next two weeks, I am going to keep this message posted and I ask you to do the following and comment “DONE.”

The instructions are a long-debunked item that started in 2011 but just won't die. Every time Facebook makes a change to anything even vaguely privacy-related, someone resurrects the scam and starts the wheel turning again.

Protecting your privacy (but for real, this time)

What you SHOULD DO is double-check the basic privacy settings on your posts so you know who can see things and who can't. To do that:

Sign into Facebook.

Click the gear in the upper right corner of the window. A menu drops down from the gear.

Click Privacy Settings (near the bottom of the menu). The Privacy Settings and Tools screen appears.

Work through the five entries on the page to limit who can see your stuff.

Close the window when you're done. Your changes are saved automatically.

The Huffington Post has a great step-by-step article that walks you through the privacy settings, with a bonus section on the joy (and value) of untagging yourself from other people's photos. It's worth the read!

[c0wb0yz-blog]

The thing is, by being an exclusively mobile service until now, Instagram was able to tap into something deeply emotional, which was exactly what made it special — there's something far more personal about mobile, to the extent that even as Instagram has ballooned into a service with a 100 million users, there's still largely been a sense that even public profiles are kind of hidden. Or at least somehow safer, not like a wide open Twitter or Facebook profile. It's where you can be yourself. Your real real self, not your social media self. (Though the media's rampant usage of Instagram photos for Sandy coverage may have gone a long way toward bursting that particular bubble as well.) I doubt that people will stop using Instagram, but I suspect there's going to be a general if vague sense that Instagram has lost something. That "something" is a sense of safety, and it's hard to be genuine and emotional when you don't feel safe.

Instagram Is Turning Into Facebook par Matt Buchana sur Buzzfeed (November 5th, 2012)