!privacy
@links.hackliberty.orghttps://web.archive.org/web/20240822131229/https://reclaimthenet.org/google-faces-court-showdown-over-alleged-secret-chrome-data-harvesting
Google faces renewed legal scrutiny as the Ninth Circuit Court revives a class-action lawsuit alleging secret data collection from Chrome users.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240822125246/https://reclaimthenet.org/big-brother-goes-digital-the-feds-race-to-integrate-mobile-ids-in-america
Critics warn the initiative could deepen surveillance concerns, as digital IDs increasingly intertwine with everyday life.
This email provider gives onion email addresses:
pflujznptk5lmuf6xwadfqy6nffykdvahfbljh7liljailjbxrgvhfid.onion
Take care when creating the username to pull down the domain list and choose the onion domain. That address you get can then be used to receive messages. Unlike other onion email providers, this is possibly the only provider who offers addresses with no clearnet variations. So if a recipient figures out the clearnet domain it apparently cannot be used to reach you. This forces Google and MS out of the loop.
It’s narrowly useful for some situations where you are forced to provide an email address against your will (which is increasingly a problem with European governments). Though of course there are situations where it will not work, such as if it’s a part of a procedure that requires confirmation codes.
Warning: be wary of the fact that this ESP’s clearnet site is on Cloudflare. Just don’t use the clearnet site and keep CF out of the loop.
I have lots of whistles to blow. Things where if I expose them then the report itself will be instantly attributable to me by insiders who can correlate details. That’s often worth the risks if the corporate baddy who can ID the whistle blower is in a GDPR region (they have to keep it to themselves.. cannot doxx in the EU, Brazil, or California, IIUC).
But risk heightens when many such reports are attributable under the same handle. Defensive corps can learn more about their adversary (me) through reports against other shitty corps due to the aggregation under one handle.
So each report should really be under a unique one-time-use handle (or no handle at all). Lemmy nodes have made it increasingly painful to create burner accounts (CAPTCHA, interviews, fussy email domain criteria, waiting for approval followed by denial). It’s understandable that unpaid charitable admins need to resist abusers.
Couldn’t this be solved by allowing anonymous posts? The anonymous post would be untrusted and hidden from normal view. Something like Spamassassin could score it. If the score is favorable enough it could go to a moderation queue where a registered account (not just mods) could vote it up or down if the voting account has a certain reputation level, so that an anonymous msg could then possibly reach a stage of general publication.
It could even be someone up voting their own msg. E.g. if soloActivist is has established a history of civil conduct and thus has a reputation fit for voting, soloActivist could rightfully vote on their own anonymous posts that were submitted when logged-out. The (pseudo)anonymous posts would only be attributable to soloActivist by the admin (I think).
A spammer blasting their firehose of sewage could be mitigated by a tar pit -- one msg at a time policy, so you cannot submit an anonymous msg until SA finishes scoring the previous msg. SA could be artificially slowed down as volume increases.
As it stands, I just don’t report a lot of things because it’s not worth the effort that the current design imposes.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240809101042/https://reclaimthenet.org/landmark-ruling-strikes-down-warrantless-device-searches-of-us-citizens-borders
A win for privacy.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240807054920/https://reclaimthenet.org/biden-harris-task-force-urges-online-age-verification-digital-id-tool-development
The Biden administration's push for age verification tools raises concerns over privacy and identity verification methods.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240809042713/https://reclaimthenet.org/odysee-shakes-up-video-sharing-by-removing-ads
Confident in innovative monetization, Odysee claims it doesn't need ads to sustain itself.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240810013437/https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-riots-are-used-to-call-for-end-to-online-anonymity
Anonymity on platforms fuels chaos, lawmaker calls for accountability and annual fees.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240811122518/https://reclaimthenet.org/russias-biometric-boom-faces-rising-data-security-fears
Despite fears of data breaches, Russia escalates its biometric data collection, now covering millions of citizens.