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- WhatsApp Help Center – We’re Updating Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/security-and-privacy/were-updating-our-terms-and-privacy-policy?eea=0&lc=US&lg=en 22 comments
- Privacy-centered website analytics solution https://123metrics.com/ 7 comments software
- More awesome news for BAT! Brave is adding a privacy centered video calling feature to their browser! Very bullish for BAT! https://www.ghacks.net/2021/09/23/brave-talk-brings-video-conferencing-to-brave-browser/ 29 comments cryptocurrency
- The reason why BAT and Brave have a awesome future! The time for a privacy centered browser and search engine is now! https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fed-govt-secretly-orders-google-track-anyone-searched-certain-names-addresses-phone-numbers 74 comments cryptocurrency
- PSA: there's an active privacy-centered Matrix room with ~1000 users that can be useful for the moments when you need a quick answer to a question https://riot.im/app/#/room/#nothing_to_hide:librem.one 6 comments privacy
- Greitens' invasion of privacy trial to center on accuser's testimony http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/greitens-invasion-of-privacy-trial-to-center-on-accuser-s/article_c6a78d3d-1545-5a9e-8db4-ad7da4f2e7d7.html#tracking-source=home-top-story 4 comments politics
- Privacy and security-centered alternatives to Google Docs? https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/75j2pa/privacy_and_securitycentered_alternatives_to/ 4 comments privacy
- Meta is introducing a privacy center - do you see the irony, too? https://about.fb.com/news/2022/01/introducing-privacy-center/ 7 comments privacy
- It appears that Facebook at the center of yet another issue involving privacy. https://thehackernews.com/2019/11/facebook-ios-camera.html 3 comments privacy
- Mozilla is putting tracking protection front and center so you'll have more privacy online https://www.cnet.com/news/firefox-will-stop-hiding-important-privacy-feature-tracking-protection/ 6 comments firefox
- Security Bite: Apple addresses privacy concerns around Notification Center database in macOS Sequoia https://9to5mac.com/2024/07/14/security-bite-apple-addresses-privacy-concerns-around-notification-center-database-in-macos-sequoia/ 20 comments apple
- Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center Letting You Track the Trackers https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/10/22/latest-firefox-brings-privacy-protections-front-and-center-letting-you-track-the-trackers/ 5 comments privacy
- Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center Letting You Track the Trackers https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/10/22/latest-firefox-brings-privacy-protections-front-and-center-letting-you-track-the-trackers/ 20 comments technology
- We are the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). Ask Us Anything! We'll be here from 2-4PM https://www.epic.org 54 comments privacy
- NSA Petition - Electronic Privacy Information Center http://epic.org/nsapetition/ 3 comments politics
- Fusion centers don't find terrorists, filled with 'crap' that violates privacy http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/fusion-centers-dont-find-terrorists-filled-crap-violates-privacy 4 comments technology
- What to Know About Facebook’s New ‘Privacy Center’. This can be helpful for those who continue to use Facebook in 2022 and beyond. https://lifehacker.com/what-to-know-about-facebook-s-new-privacy-center-1848378600 3 comments privacy
- Positive early impression of Librem 5 open source, security + privacy centered smartphone https://azdle.net/2019/11/comparing-apples-and-gnomes/ 12 comments linux
- Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center Letting You Track the Trackers – The Mozilla Blog https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/10/22/latest-firefox-brings-privacy-protections-front-and-center-letting-you-track-the-trackers/ 18 comments firefox
- Apple plasters privacy ad on billboard near Las Vegas Convention Center ahead of CES https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/acvmy9/apple_plasters_privacy_ad_on_billboard_near_las/ 12 comments investing
- Panama lawyer at center of data leak denounces attack on privacy http://www.reuters.com/article/us-panama-tax-firm-iduskcn0x104f 19 comments worldnews
- Electronic Privacy Information Center submits challenge to global phone taps (SCOTUSblog) http://www.scotusblog.com/2013/07/challenge-to-global-phone-taps/ 3 comments law
- NSA data center front and center in debate over liberty, security and privacy http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/04/12/nsa-data-center-front-and-center-in-debate-over-liberty-security-and-privacy/?test=latestnews 12 comments technology
- Mozilla's new privacy centered, ad-free network initiative, in partnership with Scroll: "Firefox Better Web" https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/03/24/try-our-latest-test-pilot-firefox-for-a-better-web-offering-privacy-and-faster-access-to-great-content/ 12 comments privacy
- Brave switches to Qwant (French and privacy-centered) as default search engine in France and Germany instead of Google https://www.cnet.com/news/brave-browser-dumps-google-search-in-france-germany/ 7 comments browsers
- Brave switches to Qwant (French and privacy-centered) as default search engine in France and Germany instead of Google https://www.cnet.com/news/brave-browser-dumps-google-search-in-france-germany/ 45 comments privacy
- Could the Supreme Court stop the NSA? The Electronic Privacy Information Center argues for a Writ of Mandamus http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/09/nsa-litigation-could-go-straight-to-the-supreme-court/?wprss=rss_social-postbusinessonly&Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost&clsrd 30 comments law
- Alright r/Firefox, let's have it. What are you must-have privacy-centered addons, userscripts, tips and tricks for safeguarding yourself online? I'll go first. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/ 72 comments firefox
- T-Mobile's "Do Not Sell" page only references your information in regards to their website. They have updated their privacy center which I've been looking through, but I still don't see a way to opt-out of sale of my all my personal information. https://www.t-mobile.com/dns 5 comments privacy
- Idiotic titles of articles are more harm then help to privacy movement. Only reported chats goes to whatsapp "human" process center to pass judgement on that. It is like directly forwarding that message to facebook. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/gadgets-news/heres-when-whatsapp-may-read-your-chats-despite-e2e-encryption/articleshow/86033998.cms 10 comments privacy
- H&M has been fined $41 million for violating its workers' privacy. The company's service center in Germany recorded private information about 'several hundred employees,' an investigation found. https://www.businessinsider.com/hm-fined-41-million-for-staff-privacy-breaches-in-germany-2020-10?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+typepad%2Falleyinsider%2Fsilicon_alley_insider+%28silicon+alley+insider%29 38 comments worldnews
- AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile Hit With FCC Complaint Over Sale of Phone Location Data - The Open Technology Institute, Free Press, and the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy & Technology filed the complaint Friday after multiple Motherboard and New York Times investigations. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3xaez/fcc-complaint-against-att-verizon-tmobile-sprint-location-data-selling 190 comments technology
- According to a new study by the Pew Research Center, 54 percent of Facebook users ages 18 and older have adjusted their privacy settings in the wake of revelations that Facebook repeatedly failed to protect consumer data as it was shared and abused by a myriad of Facebook partners https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3q5nk/44-percent-of-americans-18-27-have-deleted-the-facebook-app-this-year-poll-finds 4 comments science
- Mozilla is putting tracking protection front and center so you'll have more privacy online - The browser makes it easier to find and use tracking protection, which stops website publishers and advertisers from following you around online. https://www.cnet.com/news/firefox-will-stop-hiding-important-privacy-feature-tracking-protection/ 11 comments technology
- German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal because the company did not adequately secure the informed consent of its users. "Facebook hides default settings that are not privacy-friendly in its privacy center and does not provide sufficient information about it when users register." https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-facebook/german-court-rules-facebook-use-of-personal-data-illegal-iduskbn1fw1fi 4 comments technology
- I am Max Schrems, a privacy activist and founder of noyb.eu - European Center for Digital Rights. I successfully campaigned to stop Facebook's violations of EU privacy laws and had the EU Court of Justice invalidate the Safe Harbor agreement between the EU and the US. AMA! https://noyb.eu 106 comments europe
- The Electronic Privacy Information Center, in a complaint filed Monday at a U.S. court in Washington, said the Advisory Commission on Election Integrity failed to first conduct a mandatory privacy impact assessment, without which its actions are unlawful and unconstitutional https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-03/privacy-rights-group-sues-trump-s-election-integrity-commission 12 comments law
- NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has urged the world's leading group of internet engineers to design a future 'net that puts the user in the center, and so protects people's privacy. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/20/edward_snowden_to_the_ietf_please_design_an_internet_for_the_user_not_the_spy/ 291 comments worldnews
- Privacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center to file an emergency petition with the Supreme Court on Monday asking it to stop the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program that collects the telephone records of millions of Americans. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/08/us/privacy-group-to-ask-supreme-court-to-stop-nsas-phone-spying-program.html?_r=0 13 comments politics
- The Two Centers of Unaccountable Power in America, and Their Consequences | Both the political left and right are worried about the encroachments of the NSA on the privacy and civil liberties of Americans, as well as the depredations of “too big to fail or jail” Wall Street banks on our economy. http://robertreich.org/post/52892886714 5 comments politics