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Calling emergency from a private phone
You're hiking in the mountains or forest with your phone's GPS location turned off for privacy reasons. Suddenly, you find yourself in a medical emergency in a remote, unfamiliar location. You don't know where you are. You urgently need to call for help, but you're worried that without a precise location, emergency responders won't be able to reach you in time. What do you do then?
Does What3Words app respect user privacy?
- discuss.privacyguides.net Google's iOS app now injects advertisements for Google Search on third-party websites
Fresh off the news that Google search is a monopoly, they are now using their iOS browser to add links to Google Search on any website visited.
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Why does this instance have kind of a lame data retention policy...?
"We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). No purpose in this notice will require us keeping your personal information for longer than the period of time in which users have an account with us.
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible."
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How do you handle non working apps on DivestOS or MicroG version of LineageOS?
I have an issue with a few apps that do not work at all or work poorly without google play services.
Is there anything a person can do? Eg. use google play services just for those apps or something like that?
So how do you overcome broken app issues?Is there an alternative to just not using those apps? Do you have separate not degoogled phones? Or do you use those apps in mobile browser? What about mobile
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Toggle resist fingerprinting Firefox/librewolf addon
addons.mozilla.org Toggle Resist Fingerprinting – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)Download Toggle Resist Fingerprinting for Firefox. Adds a button to the tab bar to toggle the "resist fingerprinting" setting.
- arstechnica.com Verizon, AT&T tell courts: FCC can’t punish us for selling user location data
Carriers claim location data isn’t protected, say they have right to jury trial.
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Do Google take payments to block results, especially image results?
Google image results are shit on purpose. They used to be better (long before AI). I am guessing that they use the pretence that it's all about porn. But they do it for tools, equipment, stereos etc.. to give bad results. Are they getting paid (yet) to return bad results?
Manipulating search results for profit is something that they already do, and targeted adverts. So it's not that much of a stretch. I was just wondering if it is acknowledged already.
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Can a Unified Push push server see/read notifications?
By "push server" I mean something like Ntfy.sh.
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Cross-posts
- https://sh.itjust.works/post/27577380
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So you want privacy?
The most severe restrictions to the general public are imposed within a 20-mile (32 km) radius of the Green Bank Observatory.[5] The Observatory polices the area actively for devices emitting excessive electromagnetic radiation such as microwave ovens, Wi-Fi access points and faulty electrical equipment and request citizens discontinue their usage. It does not have enforcement power[6] (although the FCC can impose a fine of $50 on violators[7]), but will work with residents to find solutions.
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National Public Data declares bankruptcy after data leak
posteo.de Email green, secure, simple and ad-free - posteo.de - US data broker declares bankruptcy after data leakPosteo is an innovative email provider that is concerned with sustainability and privacy and is completely ad-free. Our email accounts, calendars and address books can be synchronised - we use comprehensive encryption.
Months after a trove of personal data it had collected was stolen, US data broker National Public Data has filed for bankruptcy. In its filing the company admits that the number of people impacted by the data theft is much higher than previously reported.
Earlier this year personal data belonging to “hundreds of millions” of people was stolen from US data broker National Public Data. The company admitted to the scope of the theft in a bankruptcy filing. Several outlets are reporting on the story.
National Public Data indicated that the stolen data included names, addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers and social security numbers. National Public Data’s parent company Jerico Pictures admits that there are “hundreds of millions of potentially impacted individuals.” According to the news site TechCrunch, security experts estimate the number of stolen Social Security numbers to be around 270 million.
Of all the information stolen, the Social Security numbers are considered especially sensitive, because they can be used as proof of identity – meaning criminals could potentially use the information to commit identity theft.
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Ente Auth now available as Flatpak!
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