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Summary: It would appear while many people are enjoying Zoom for the free meeting functionality there are now surfacing reports that perhaps it might not be all rainbows and sunshine for the "free" portion of the app. Just recently reports have started to surface that, when you dig into the privacy policy, you'll see something that leaves a lot to be desired in terms of user privacy. It would seem that Zoom is in the business of selling information to advertisers for users for their free products which includes all sorts of identifying information. Thoughts: They say when something is free that YOU are the product but this could spell a lot of trouble for Zoom in terms of privacy regulations such as HIPPA since they don't seem to discriminate between calls. If they are indeed collecting and selling off this kind of information there could be some huge implications just based on HIPPA alone, not to mention all the school calls/reports/etc and private business meetings that could have information collected from them as well. What the reports don't mention however is what about the paid users of Zoom and if they are subject to the same collections or not. URLs: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/27/doc_searls_zoom_privacy/ https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2020/03/27/zoom/ https://www.consumerreports.org/video-conferencing-services/zoom-teleconferencing-privacy-concerns/ https://zoom.us/privacy Edit: As of March 27th the Facebook SDK has been removed but the question remains is there other data collection going on on the background to sell data to advertisers and how that data is being handled as well. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3b745/zoom-removes-code-that-sends-data-to-facebook
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Summary: Huawei, along with the state-run companies China Unicom and China Telecom, and China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, together proposed a new standard for networking technology, called "New IP", at the UN's International Telecommunication Union. The proposal claims to enable cutting-edge technologies, but has caused concern among western countries, such as the UK, Sweden, and the US, who believe that the system would give state-run ISPs granular control over the citizens' internet use. However, it has gained the support of some countries, such as Russia, and potentially Saudi Arabia, according to representatives at the ITU. If this new standard can do what it claims, it would certainly be an interesting thing to explore, but on the other hand, I question the risk for implications on security and human rights because of the top-down control it could have. It will be interesting to see how this continues, and as more countries voice their thoughts about the new standard. What are your thoughts about a new networking standard? View the Article: https://www.ft.com/content/c78be2cf-a1a1-40b1-8ab7-904d7095e0f2 (if stuck behind paywall, try in incognito) View the Proposal: http://prod-upp-image-read.ft.com/e8dd8c46-70e6-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca UPDATE: A follow-up article providing an in-depth look at "New IP" was just posted. Pretty long, but interesting. Take a read.
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duckduckgo is not working on india for the last 24 hours in india,anyone in india having any solution.
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source1 source2:video source3:whatsapp - source 1 So Facebook invested heavily in India which is really getting really scary now. For those of you who aren't from India let me clear the situation up. Jio (4g LTE cellular network) is owned by Reliance industries and the man at the top is Mukesh Ambani (guy in the video in source 2 )who's one of Asia's richest people. He started Jio publicly in September 2016 and in 4 years already is India largest network operator with 370 million plus subscribers (3rd largest in the world) He did this by basically destroying the competition by giving away totally free sim cards and charged nothing for LTE for around a year or more. Because of him alone the LTE rates in India are cheap. for eg. heres a monthly plan for jio 2.61 USD gives you 1.5 GB data/day after that slower speed i.e 42GB/month unlimited jio to jio calling 1000 minutes free 100 sms/day free jio apps - free streaming apps with quite a lot of content. tv shows, music, among other things. Back to Facebook now. Facebook bought whatsapp a while back which currently has around 2 billion users and of those more than 400 million just in India. - data from source 3 Whatsapp is everywhere in India. Even the local grocery seller (not a shop) Whatsapps the price of veggies and you can buy them by replying. he will deliver those to your doorstep. Facebook already tried digital payments with Whatsapp which failed badly. The video in source 2 talks about integrating Whatsapp with Jio and allowing digital payments. This has a HUGE potential. Jio is already at a position where it will dominate the network operator market. There are only 3 major players out of which one is on the verge of collapse (Vodafone India) the combination of both Whatsapp and Jio is deadly as the customer base is already quite huge and may not even have many options to choose otherwise. We all know Facebook cant be trusted at all. I really fear giving such sensitive data to Facebook. (This could be a wan show topic i don't know if there's a thread to post these topics somewhere so correct me if i'm wrong.)
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Hi, I have a QNAP NAS which I would like to download some torrents on. I understand that I would probably need a VPN to download safely so my ISP doesn't get too suspicious. I would like to know what the fastest VPN would be for this? My location is Toronto, ON as I understand that server locations have something to do with speed. Also, if anyone comment on their opinions/experiences any of the below VPNs: NordVPN Surfshark Norton VPN Thank you.
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Vanguard is the anti cheat of a game called valorant which runs on kernel level (ring 0). I have privacy concerns regarding it as it runs right from the boot. I use windows only for gaming and linux for everything else. Can vanguard access anything from the linux partition? relevant reddit thread:- https://redd.it/g2zu1c
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And all other ad blockers as well, because not only does it block advertisements just like others, but it also blocks Ad Trackers, potential tech support scams and malware attacks. Its basically just like the malwarebytes software you installed on your computer, except its in the browser itself as an extra layer of security, and its free forever. Link: Malwarebytes Browser Guard -
Peekaboo WikiLeaks releases a new batch of leaked CIA projects that target Apple products that is code named Dark Mater, The second release in the series details the techniques that WikiLeaks claims are employed by CIA assets to compromise Apple devices between the manufacturing line and the end user. The new released files contains documentation for several CIA projects that infect Apple Mac firmware Among others, these documents reveal the "Sonic Screwdriver" project which, as explained by the CIA, is a "mechanism for executing code on peripheral devices while a Mac laptop or desktop is booting" allowing an attacker to boot its attack software for example from a USB stick "even when a firmware password is enabled". The CIA's "Sonic Screwdriver" infector is stored on the modified firmware of an Apple Thunderbolt-to-Ethernet adapter. Another documentation being NightSkies tool made specifically for iPhone. NightSkies version 1.2 had been out since 2008 and according to WikiLeaks was specifically designed to be installed on factory fresh iPhones. Apple later claimed that they fixed the issue ,but Wikileaks counteracted that this is not a zero day exploit & it is still vulnerable , In other note Assange offered the affected companies around 3 months (90 days) for them to provide encryption keys to WikiLeaks in order for them to communicate details of the exploits. But so far most of em contacted him via another secure channel , so far the details havent been shared unless they agree with Assanges terms of communication , Microsoft , google have made contact with him on this , But so far no real info was exchanged Source: https://wikileaks.org/vault7/darkmatter/releases/ News Sources: (details are muddy , be careful) https://9to5mac.com/2017/03/23/wikileaks-vault-7-cia-exploits-mac-iphone/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/03/23/wikileaks-claims-cia-could-bug-reset-iphones/99529206/ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/23/technology/cia-spying-mac-computers-wikileaks.html?_r=0 -
Hi LTT forum, I had recently at school a lesson about Facebook. That guy said that facebook is recording everything you do. FB posts, Instagram posts, sites that you visit that has a Facebook link, private messages in messenger,.. etc So I went as soon as possible online to search for my personal Facebook archive. and I found it and literally everything is there! I don't think a lot of people know this.. so a just wanted to let you know ? (I found it here: http://www.zdnet.be/article/127327/download-heel-je-facebook-geschiedenis/ )
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wich of the three companies have best privacy policy and handles your data better
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Vizio will pay $2.2 million to settle a lawsuit alleging it collected customers’ TV-watching habits without their permission. The lawsuit was filed by the Federal Trade Commission and the state of New Jersey. It alleged that, in 2014, Vizio began using software built into over 11 million smart TVs to capture “highly-specific, second-by-second information about television viewing.” Vizio was then said to have worked with another company to associate demographic information with each household, so that viewing habits could be paired with information like a viewer’s “sex, age, income, marital status,” and more. ... http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/6/14522582/vizio-ftc-lawsuit-tv-viewing-habits-tracking-privacy -
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According to TechCrunch, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) head, John Kelly, suggested that some travelers may be required to provide their social media passwords prior to being granted entry into the United States. Shortly after the new Administration took office, President Trump issued a hotly contested Executive Order which prohibits entry to residents of seven Muslim majority-countries. The Executive Order is currently on hold as judges debate its legality. In a broad sense, I find Kelly's statement to be troubling. The sentiment seems to be that if you travel to the United States, you forfeit your privacy altogether. While the Obama Administration had a similar policy, providing the information was optional. Update: This appears to already be happening. A woman named Fadwa Alaoui, a Moroccan-born Canadian citizen of the Muslim faith, was denied entry after border agents saw pictures of mosques on her phone. She had been traveling with her cousin and the two were asked to hand over their phones. According to Alaoui, they were grilled for 45 minutes each before ultimately being turned away. Update: Whether or not this will affect the password forfeiture policy, I do not know. -
I was browsing through reddit, someone was saying that his apple ID had been leaked, (email as well as password) and the "hacker" logged into his account (in china). Another redditor suggested there was a site that can help you check whether your email had been pwned or not... I tried it, and two of my main account all had been pwned. One Gmail account and the other is an outlook account. The gmail account was leaked because of a data breach @ adobe. (October 2013) and the outlook account was leaked @ unreal engine forum (August 2016). Just to give you guys a heads up. Check yours asap. https://haveibeenpwned.com/ -
In a not so remote past, we thought they were seeing our e-mails. Then, they could know our searches on the net. Now, "they are the cloud", they host our personal and family photos, our favorite channels selections, our chat conversations, and our text documents. This so-called innocent cloud can make our lives easier by saving our passwords and taking care of our calendar. Today, they are also ISPs, been able to trace just anything we do online. Even if you're not their customer, you may use their browser, which is awesome, but I can't say the same about its privacy. They sell machines we put in our homes to ask anything, while the device hears every word we say. They can check our phone's GPS. They have the largest map and satellite image service, seen every single place on the globe, many times with a camera passing by car in front of our homes. They are mobile networks, so it's possible to hear our conversations. They run the keyboard of our phones to know what we type. They sell routers to make home wireless easier and to collect data. They own data centers that host a big number of information from big companies. They have autonomous cars. They commercialize domains and provide reCAPTCHA. They translate anything to anything and, most important, they know what we do translate. We can pay things with their services... They.............
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A five-day plan to help solve the digital dilemma (which is now past, however, the information is still relevant). This is called the privacy paradox to researchers at Harvard University who would understand why I like using Facebook messenger but every time I install it to have a conversation I uninstall it as soon as I finish. Then reinstall the application on my phone again the very next time I need to use it. But again, because I am so uneasy with how much personal information data it gives to Facebook for free, the messenger application gets uninstalled again right away! Is it my immediate gratification bias or knowing that my personal data is spread out so that those who do have access to it can cherry pick out the bits they want and sell off the what they do not need. Is it that we should really read every End User License Agreement (EULA) but we do not and that is "...just a fact of digital life...[or]how it starts with you" at 11:23? Take the Quiz to find out your "Personal Privacy Persona" and whether you are the shrugger the realist or the believer then maybe list your persona (answer) in the poll? Links: Produced by WNYC (and Manoush Zomorodi). The "Personal Privacy Persona" quiz The five-day plan podcasts Day 1: What your phone knows - 11 minutes Day 2: The search for your identity - 15 minutes Day 3: Something to hide - 11 minutes Day 4: Fifteen minutes of anonymity - 11 minutes Day 5: Your personal terms of service - 12 minutes -
Original ArsTechnica article The summary of it is that Republicans want to overturn a privacy rule that requires "home and mobile ISPs to get opt-in consent from consumers before sharing Web browsing data and other private information with advertisers and other third parties." The argument behind the push to overturn is that it will confuse consumers and make it harder for them to receive customized services. Overturning this could let ISP share your information by default and make opt-out a challenging task. It us unknown what would happen if the rule were to be overturned. The full article is definitely worth a read.
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Source Friday, January 27, 2017 | By Elizabeth Banker (@elizabethbanker), Associate General Counsel, Global Law Enforcement [21:48 UTC] https://blog.twitter.com/2017/transparency-update-twitter-discloses-national-security-letters Transparency is important, this is too little too late. It's important to keep in mind these are just gag orders were lifted on expiration, not by new administration. -
So, i don't know if something like this already exists or not but today i got an idea how nice it would be if i could plug a USB flash drive in my PC while waiting on the log on screen and log in as a user that is saved on that flash drive, then after i log out from the PC i could take the flash drive and plug it in another PC and continue the same work on this other PC. I know something like this already exists with online users on Windows and Mac, but i don't trust online storage services a lot, i use them for data i don't care if someone would read or see. I would rather have my user data (music, pictures, custom themes , programs ...) that i can set up on one computer an use it on others without needing to rely a online account or any kind of internet connectivity. It would be also great if the flash drive would be somehow encrypted. And i bet im not the only one who needs something like this. Im a student and we have windows user accounts that we can use on the PC's in our university, the problem is that the log in process is very slow and the disk space we have available is only about 50 MB, so i think schools could use something like this to let students bring their own flash drives and do the work they need to and after they log off all their temp data gets deleted off the PC and everything else stays on the flash drive. I guess it would be more affordable for them and it wouldn't use as much disk space since a version of the os could be somewhere saved on a server and they could use some kind of copy on write to share it between all PCs in the school. My question for you now is does anyone know if something like this exists or if not if someone could recommend it to a software company so they develop it?
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/doj-drops-case-against-child-porn-suspect-rather-than-disclose-fbi-hack/ "Rather than share the now-classified technological means that investigators used to locate a child porn suspect, federal prosecutors in Washington state have dropped all charges against a man accused of accessing Playpen, a notorious and now-shuttered website." The privacy advocate in me wants to call this a win but the parent in me is crying foul. "Defense attorneys have attempted to gain access to some, if not all, of the NIT’s source code as part of the criminal discovery process. In a related case prosecuted in New York, an FBI search warrant affidavit described both the types of child pornography available to Playpen’s 150,000 members and the NIT’s capabilities." What do y'all think about this? -
I work in a place with tons of cameras everywhere. Sometimes when I have a few minutes I'd like to, for instance, check my Facebook on my netbook, but I don't want my boss seeing that for obvious reasons. And yeah, those cameras are good enough to clearly capture screens. Is there a simple way to make my screen invisible/hard to read to a camera? Something that wouldn't raise eyebrows like screen side shields would. I'm considering blasting IR light at my screen but someone would likely eventually ask why I have a flashlight pointed at my screen all the time. The trick with taking off the polarized layer off my screen and using 3D glasses to see what's on the screen won't work either because it's just a simple netbook (Acer Aspire One 722) and it doesn't have 3D support. I read somewhere that I could achieve the desired effect by setting my screen to a <60hz interlaced mode but my screen doesn't support those. Is there some software that would work as a filter on top of the desktop and convert it into interlaced 50hz refresh rate? Is there a different way of achieving this?
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Sources: International Business Times & Free Patents Online For what Facebook? Facebook responded: All I can say if Facebook even attempted to implement this, I can see the backlash of different countries and human rights organizations including the UN Commission on Human Rights, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and privacy activists.
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I know (referring to LMG's recent video regarding ISP's being able to see what you're searching) that all google searches are encrypted but your ISP can see what website you're using. e.g. 'google.com' or 'CatMemes.meme' but they can't see 'CatMemes.meme/CatFallingOutOfWindow' because that parts encrypted, but when using a tor browser is all of it encrypted so your ISP can't even see that your visiting 'CatMemes.meme' just an encrypted connection? So basically when using tor your ISP can't see anything that you're doing? Or can they still see some stuff?
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A survey conducted in the US indicates a remarkable increase in the usage of online privacy tools in the recent months. The survey was done by DuckDuckGo/spreadprivacy.com via SurveyMonkey's "Audience" Platform where sample groups representing the US population demographic were asked about their usage of "Do Not Track"-Settings in browsers, password managers, tracker blockers and VPNs in October 2016 and May 2017. I'm impressed both by the numbers themselves as well as the noteworthy increase thereof. For me personally, I'm using a password manager, tracker blocker and I also have no-tracking-options enabled in the browsers that I use. I'm not using a VPN though, mostly because of the cost. I assume that this is also the reason why VPNs have the lowest number of users among the tools that were studied in this survey. Now I would really like to know what these numbers look like in other areas. I'd make the assumption that all of these have higher percentages here in Germany and many other parts of Europe. Source -
TAILS stands for 'The Anemic Incognito Live System' so basically it runs off a USB, SD CARD, or CD that is completely separate from the rest of your PC with virtually no trace. There is quite a lot you can do with it, biggest thing is that it comes with the Tor browser. Personally I'd like to see if Luke will do a video on it. If anyone is interested in trying it themselves I'll type up a 'how to' and attach it to this post in the morning. -
Before watching the video or posting a reply; please dear readers, hear me out first. I'm posting this because I believe in choice, no matter what it is so please keep an open mind upon continuing. No matter how you personally feel about the uploader, their content, Microsoft or telemetry data. Sign the petition because Burger King was right, we should have it our way. https://www.change.org/p/jerry-berg-microsoft-needs-to-add-an-off-option-to-telemetry-for-windows-10
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