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Why Protecting the Fediverse Matters Protecting user privacy is a vital priority for the Fediverse. Many fediverse instances, such as Kolektiva, are focused on serving marginalized communities who are disproportionately targeted by law enforcement. Many were built to serve as a safe haven for those who too often find themselves...

Cigna Sued Over Algorithm Allegedly Used To Deny Coverage To Hundreds Of Thousands Of Patients::The software system allows claim rejections without doctors ever opening patient medical records, according to the lawsuit.

I work for an event on a 60-hectare site with a few hired vehicles (trucks, forklifts etc). The site is a couple of miles/kilometres across....

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Schools Sue Social-Media Platforms Over Alleged Harms to Students::undefined

Well duh you might say but I usually have a policy of no Facebook-related apps at all on my phone. Not long ago however I purchased a Occulus Rift headset for my kids and at some point installed the app for it on my phone. I never logged into it and ran it once but didn’t go further than that, eventually using my daughter’s...

Just declassified: US senator caught up in Section 702 FBI surveillance dragnet::Still, judge finds ‘reason to believe’ Feds are getting better at not abusing snooping powers

Someone posted a few days ago about apple being bad at privacy… Well…

Kevin Mitnick, the world’s ‘most wanted’ hacker before becoming a cybersecurity consultant, dies at 59::Once the world’s “most wanted” hacker, he became a prominent security consultant.

After years of intense standards development, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) officially published today Messaging Layer Security (MLS) as RFC 9420. MLS is the first global open standard for end-to-end encrypted communications and has been jointly developed by industry peers and academic institutions. Wire was an...

On the outside it’s a funny experiment but actually it’s a fantastic tool that proves Stable Diffusion can run on anything, given enough time.

Rival US Lawmakers Mobilize to Stop Police From Buying Phone Data::A bill to prevent cops and spies from buying Americans’ data instead of getting a warrant has a fighting chance in the US Congress as lawmakers team up against surveillance overreach.

Where can you actually use cryptocurrencies to buy stuff in the real world? In our brand new video, we go over some great vendors, gift card websites, regional and map apps, and more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=meFeQzjvFuY

A throwback to remind ourselves that apple is terrible for privacy