bbSes, Door Games and retro software like its 1989?! (beehaw.org)
What is a BBS?...
US authorities charge Amazon with violating children’s privacy law by undermining parents’ deletion requests (web.archive.org)
The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice will require Amazon to overhaul its deletion practices and implement stringent privacy safeguards to settle charges the company violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Rule (COPPA Rule).
Two-thirds of all online shopping scams in the UK start on Facebook and Instagram, Lloyds Banking Group says (web.archive.org)
VID: How TV stations join together for Eurovision [spoilers] (www.youtube.com)
Lawyer "greatly regrets" use of ChatGPT in court, says he was "unaware of the possibility that its content could be false" (web.archive.org)
The court dismissed the claim and used the word “bogus” to describe the quotes and citations the US attorney provided, which were sourced from ChatGPT. “Six of the submitted cases appear to be bogus judicial decisions with bogus quotes and bogus internal citations.” The judge further claimed that certain cases referenced...
"Colonial racial capitalism": China's mass surveillance in Xinjiang made the country a leading exporter of digital forensics, superseded only by Israel and the US (web.archive.org)
The hundreds of millions of dollars invested in Xinjiang surveillance created a system of digital enclosure that is part of the structure of dispossession that confronts Uyghurs, but the regime in Beijing wants the data of the colonized, too, a researcher says. This collection of data has significant consequences for the...
Vulnerability in Telegram on mac OS can grant access to your camera and microphone (danrevah.github.io)
The weakness was allegedly discovered in February by a Google engineer, but “despite attempts to alert Telegram’s security team, the issue remains unresolved”, Matt Johanson, a security expert, writes on Twitter....
Digital war: Social media data reveal how hate speech is used to dehumanise, call for violence against, and celebrate the death of Ukrainians (www.info-res.org)
Data collected from Twitter and Telegram shows that there is increased use of slurs against Ukrainians, calling for violence and celebrating the death of Ukrainians, despite platform policies that are meant to stop, or at least mitigate this activity, the Centre for Information Resilience says. The dataset collected and analysed...
Clearview fined again in France for failing to comply with privacy orders (techcrunch.com)
The overdue penalty payment of €5.2 million has been issued by the French regulator, the CNIL — on top of a €20 million sanction it slapped the company with last year for breaching regional privacy rules. Clearview refuses payment as it “is not subject to the GDPR [General Data Protection Regulation]”, the company...
What Matrix client is most like Signal?
I like the look of Syphon, but it’s in alpha
DivestOS - March 22nd 2023 Update, Tad (SkewedZeppelin) was granted the 2022 'Outstanding New Free Software Contributor' award by the Free Software Foundation, and many more (divestos.org)
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Universal Android Debloater GUI - an open source low-level app for debloating Android phones (github.com)
This is a complete rewrite in Rust of the UAD project, which aims to improve privacy and battery performance by removing unnecessary and obscure system apps. This can also contribute to improve security by reducing the attack surface....
Google Camera Port Hub: Get the best GCam APK for Samsung, Xiaomi, Redmi, and other phones! (www.xda-developers.com)
Google Camera and its post-processing algorithms undoubtedly changed the game in terms of what we expect from smartphone cameras, elevating the Google Pixels to some of the best Android phones you can buy for the camera. That’s the exact reason why Google Camera ports are so highly requested for non-Google devices. With the...
GlucoCheck - Sensor breakthrough brings us closer to blood glucose monitoring on wearables (www.digitaltrends.com)
Blood glucose monitoring is touted to be the next big breakthrough for wearable devices like the Apple Watch. However, the hardware is yet to be seen on a commercially available, mass-market device. That might change soon....