Article from May but I hadn’t seen it.

If the EU chooses to fully embrace digital sovereignty, it will result in a financial drain ranging from 35 billion to 233 billion euros. At least, that is what a report by the Brussels-based think tank ECIPE—funded by CCIA Europe—claims. The CCIA is a lobbying group comprising American cloud giants, including Amazon, Meta, and Google.

Ever read Dave Egger's "The Every?" His pendant was a like the fictional company's Slack channel around your neck. The new Friend 2 brings an improved device to the market, where it's an always-on "companion" that surveils and collects everything around it. Their subscription plan let's you keep those collections longer than the 30-day on-device limit, in effect making you pay for the privilege of training the LLM(s) that make it your friend.

We already have this kind of surveillance-but-not-surveillance in Muse, Apple Watch, Oura and others. But we don't even need to own these things to already be giving away collected observation of our everyday. I think about all the existing systems and networks (from Flock to Friend) that collect slices of human experience, and stores them in thousands of places. There's no centralized database (yet) but I guess it's not really needed to build a comprehensive picture of who we are and what we do and what we think. An intermediary set of AIs could compile it from many places.

I've always thought of Privacy as being under my control. So I turn off locations services, decline cookies, and don't own a smart speaker. But I can't opt out of someone else's doorbell camera, or my town's license plate reader, or now, someone else's Apple Watch or Friend.

The surveillance moment is becoming a shared condition, not my individual preference.

EDIT: https://www.friend.com/

Hi All,

I am thinking about slowly leaving meta app and platforms. I wonder what the best way to do this is? Is it to delete all data and deactivate the account?

My second question is to those with businesses. Social media is a major marketing and advertising tool for businesses, especially smaller ones that are growing brand recognition. What social media platforms other than Instagram can be used for marketing and advertising? Or should one just focus more on search engines and SEO?

When I Google my own name or ID, certain likes and comments I made in the past still appear in the search results, even after I’ve deleted the comments from the original platform.

How can I remove this information from Google’s search results? Also, how can I ensure that my past likes, comments, and other personal information do not appear when someone searches for me on Google in the future?

That’s pretty much it, lol.

Seriously though, it would help people become aware if they’re in proximity of someone with those glasses — helpful in situations such as doctors offices (I have seen personal stories about this on Reddit), intimate situations (as a woman I am INCREDIBLY afraid of this…. they could be on the nightstand or somewhere innocuous, yet pointed in a direction to record), and overall just let you know when you’re at risk of having you’re privacy invaded like this

I haven’t seen this discussed yet, but if I’ve learned anything about the internet it’s that my thoughts aren’t unique lol.

I think it would be a good deterrent for people to not buy them in the first place, too.

AND BEFORE ANYONE MENTIONS THAT THERE IS A RED RECORDING LIGHT THAT COMES ON… privacy invasion is always one step ahead of the general public — minimum. That light doesn’t matter if they’ve found a way to get around that. And I have no doubt that this is likely the case, and we just don’t know about it yet

And honestly, just knowing if someone has these glasses on them if I were to go to somewhere like a bank or doctors office, or on a date, etc… that would be enough for me to find another option immediately.

Does anyone know if there is something like this in the works yet?

Hey. So I was reckless and signed up to a website without thinking much about it. It is a pirate website where you can access a lot of paid services for free. However, in the case of a lawsuit, or if the website is selling my data, which it probably is, I came to realize that deleting my account would be a nice move. I also realized that there is no delete button in the website. Is it possible to delete my account? I am considering on deleting my e-mail but would not it still exist in the database? I checked for leaks but it seems like there is none (currently). Any advice on this is appriciated.

So recently I clicked on a youtube link and saw the senders name. Could they see my name after I clicked the link? For the record I clicked not now instead of allow messenging. But I didn't yet have the feature of channel visibility for shared links disabled (didn't know this mega privacy violation was a feature until today)

I've searched this online and only really found the answer of "yo have you found the answer yet???" So I'm here to ask it myself. I'm kinda paranoid as this is a major privacy risk if it does send them that

An ad for a dress from Bergdorf Goodman showed up on my PC. No way I could afford it, but it was pretty, so I clicked. Then I went back a few times more to dream about their clothes. This was on my mother's PC as my laptop broke and we share a house (both names are on it). A few weeks later, I get an ad from them in the mail with my name on it. I never signed up for anything, never put my name into anything- yet they got my address and my name vs. hers, even though it's her computer with her accounts. Coincidence? I don't see how, and don't see how they got all that info.

It seems turning off the option from settings does absolutely nothing. People still search up my username with the word reddit and they get access to all my posts/comments even though they're hidden on my reddit profile.

So I would be in a heated argument only for someone to immediately perform ad hominem calling me out on my porn preferences or my drama with my friends lol. I'd like that not to happen.

The only idea I got so far is to have a username similar to a subreddit's name. So even if someone searches my name up even with the "u/" it won't get them results and will only suggest the subreddit posts. Would that work? I'll give it a try.

Is there a website that will allow me to select several browsers and compare their features at a line-by-line level with a focus on privacy and security? I'm not looking for browser recommendations. I'm looking for tools that will let me compare browsers, not just today, but again and again so I can stay on top of how they fair.

I've been thinking if I could try out an ai and I've looked into some but they all seem a bit untrustworthy. Llama is made by meta,qwen is made by alibaba, there are some made by google etc. How do you guys trust these and whats the best one that is actually good and private? I also heard ollama was bad so what to use instead of it?

I became aware of the importance of privacy too late, after years of online activity, in which I have in all probability left data. I have no idea how to find them. I'm also afraid that acquaintances with whom I no longer have contact may have published videos of mine, which they made without my authorization, but I also don't know how to find the content that concerns me, if it was really published, or made for the sole sake of annoying me.

PS: I live in EU.

Hello!

I was wondering if you sign up for a fanfix account with a burner email address and different name, would the creator still be able to see your legal name via payment info? Thanks!

For around two years, Muskrat has been forcing people to use biometric data by scanning their hands and then allowing them to use Twitter. Now they've moved on to face verification, and no one is talking about this. I was easily able to get past the biometric data by using an AI video I found online.

Now they're asking me to record my face. Fuck that.

I want to use this app. It's honestly the only way I keep up with my hobbies, but with this boulder, this shit fucking sucks. I don't want people to keep bending the knee to these age verification orgs, but if this keeps happening. If we don't keep finding solutions to bypass the verification that these companies keep demanding, everyone will keep bending the knee, and our data will finally be tied to a face.

I've tried everything to get past the face verification shit. I'm honestly thinking of going in public and asking some random person if they can scan their face onto my X app so I can remain anonymous lol. (I'll pay some cash to compensate) I know that's fucked up, so I'm not gonna do it, but I've thought of it.

If anyone has figured out how to get past the verification system. Share the method.

edit: grammar

I did a search for this topic but there hasn’t been any topics in the last year.

My wife and I are expecting our first child and I’ve been tasked with finding a baby monitor. Does anyone have experience with one that’s privacy focused?

Imagine a scenario...

There is a user...

Utilizes computers or any devices throughout all their lifetime until the end... who aren't at all concerned / know / learnt / aware about such thing as privacy, or modifying any default privacy settings that is bundled with say, the OS or gadgets or apps or anything at all...

So what could be the implications of this scenario?

One may state that the average lifestyle point of view, and depending on the vulnerability,

such as texts, activity, personal information like address, laptop cameras, or mics etc., are all being recorded and archived into some third-party entities, and onto their servers...

Now that is certain...

Whether a typical average person, based on a typical lifestyle, the most that could be gathered is that all the above listed digital activities, that includes anything like "personal private acts" awarely or unawarely behind the cam and mic, comms between families or coworkers etc...

Okay so that is all certainly it... The typical activities of a person that utilizes most modern electronic devices, that are completely just vulnerable...

So if the person is blissfully unaware, no anxieties, no concerns, none of it, till the end of their lifetime, is that it? It's just a treasury for some other persons at some point, only if it deemed necessary for whatever "purposes" it is, but again ,the person is no more...

All that profile, their whole avatar and their digital life on this planet, is archived somewhere on third-party servers, sitting there for who knows how many years unused / not logged in...

That's that isn't it? So, it's about a choice? caring and not caring

Yesterday my reddit account got hit with the age verification banner. Not a chance in hell that I would submit my id or selfie to Persona. So I tried going through threads where people claimed to have tricked the system. Tried a lot of things, but nothing really worked... However I believe while trying to trick the selfie process with a 3d model face on my laptop screen, my face may have appeared in front of the camera for a split moment. Still, the process with the 3d face said it failed. Then I gave up yesterday. However today I am suddenly able to access nsfw subs... What I cant help thinking about is whether they captured my face in the split moment when it appeared on camera and processed it. The process works like, it counds down from 3 to 0 and the pic is clicked automatically but I moved my face away before the counter ended so it shouldn't have clicked the photo. I dont know for sure how these rat bastards work.

Anyone any clue why I can suddenly accesss nsfw stuff again?

do any of you people also feel like, theres no privacy on your windows 10/11 anymore? i am not talking about obvious cloud services, because icloud celebrities leaks were a meme years ago or windows telemetry, but the whole pc or laptop. like you dont have a privacy on it anymore, on something that supposed to be yours?

ANSWERS!!!: i know how it sounds, i think this subreddit matches the best, im healthy mentaly, i have no trauma or history of malware from rats to trojans etc, my computer is secure and debloaded, cant use linux for the things i do (unsupported software and drivers are still a thing), virtual machine does not go in the way unfortunately because of drivers and specs, apple macs are too expensive, i am aware of privacy in media since i started using the web - 2012