See tagged statuses in the local Rambling Readers community
🚨BREAKING: Google will soon install an app called #AndroidSystemSafetyCore
They say it's a "safety measure" to protect your #privacy, but in fact it's client-side scanning.
Yet, we all know that client-side scanning is bad: https://tuta.com/blog/eu-client-side-scanning
Deinstall the app on your #Android: System -> Apps
Major privacy alert for Android users.
„The British government’s undisclosed order, issued last month, requires blanket capability to view fully encrypted material, not merely assistance in cracking a specific account, and has no known precedent in major democracies.“
#giftArticle #brexit #privacy
I mean what, is this another gift for Musk?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/07/apple-encryption-backdoor-uk/
🚨 The UK Data Bill returns to Parliament next week 🚨
It'll strip back your ability to challenge life-changing decisions made by AI.
Join 980 people who've signed our petition to protect the right to human review of automated decisions. #PeopleNotMachines
#AI #DUABill #DataBill #dataprotection #privacy #GDPR #ukpolitics
Android users: Google has installed without asking permission an app called "Android System SafetyCore" on Android phones that scans all incoming images to "detect suspicious (including naked) content".
The app was not found in the apps installed on my handset. I found it through this link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.safetycore
#surveillance #surveillancecapitalism #google #android #privacy
You remember #Apple scanning all images on your #mobile device?
If you have an #Android #phone, a new app that doesn't appear in your menu has been automatically and silently installed (or soon will be) by #Google. It is called #AndroidSystemSafetyCore and does exactly the same - scan all images on your device as well as all incoming ones (via messaging). The new spin is that it does so "to protect your #privacy".
You can uninstall this app safely via System -> Apps.
https://developers.google.com/android/binary_transparency/google1p/overview
Among the data used by Cambridge Analytica to profile gun owners in the database: income, debt, religious affiliation, whether they liked the paintings of Thomas Kinkade and whether the underwear women had purchased was plus size or petite.
#News #Data #Privacy #Technology #Guns #Tech #USPolitics #Trump
apropos of absolutely nothing here's the #NSA's official best practices on mobile device security. some top tips:
1. restart your device regularly (it's very hard for spyware to survive a restart, especially on an iPhone)
2. avoid public wifi
3. do not use public charging stations
4. disable bluetooth
5. don't install apps
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21018353/nsa-mobile-device-best-practices.pdf
#privacy #journalism #journalists #infosec #cybersecurity #uspol
The Protesters' Guide to Smartphone Security
Lots of useful stuff here even if you're not currently at a protest!
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/01/23/activists-guide-securing-your-smartphone/
Good Privacy News! 🔒🐦✨
Cyd, the desktop app to delete
your social media posts has announced this week it is now open source! 🎉
This is a fantastic news because the code can now be freely audited and anyone can contribute to it!
Check the announcement here: https://cyd.social/cyd-is-now-open-source/
Contribute and look at
the code here 👇👀
https://github.com/lockdown-systems/cyd
Follow the app on Mastodon: @cyd
Thank you for this awesome project @micahflee
I know I'm going to sound biased now,
but this is seriously an amazing article written by @jonah from @privacyguides I would have totally recommended it even 2 months ago.
If you are planning to attend any protests, but especially in the US right now,
Read This First 👇👇👇
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/01/23/activists-guide-securing-your-smartphone/
Earlier today, Google rejected a feature request asking for the option to use DNS-over-HTTPS servers other than Google’s and Cloudflare’s in Android: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/331250145?pli=1#comment7
According to Google’s own testing, DoH is more private, secure, and performant than DoT on Android. There is no reason whatsoever to limit it to a handful of Google-approved servers.
Just like with Manifest V3 in Chrome, this arbitrary restriction on what DNS servers can use the most modern technologies in Android is a clear example of Google abusing their position to campaign against blocking invasive trackers. One of the clearest uses for custom DNS servers is the ability to block privacy-invasive services like Google’s at the DNS level.
Further details & discussion on our forum: https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/google-rejects-feature-request-for-arbitrary-dns-over-https-server-support/24320
Will Trump cause the EU to declare use of US #cloud services illegal for #privacy reasons?
https://noyb.eu/en/us-cloud-soon-illegal-trump-punches-first-hole-eu-us-data-deal
