🚨 Meta announced today that it will introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This move further consolidates Meta's social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this.

https://noyb.eu/en/whatsapp-getting-ads-using-personal-data-instagram-and-facebook

🇬🇧I can't recommend the EU-funded DNS service #DNS4EU because access is logged. When you override warnings to access "harmful websites" they even log your IP address. https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/the-eu-challenges-google-and-cloudflare-with-its-very-own-dns-resolver-that-can-filter-dangerous-traffic

There are government-free services that do not log: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/dns

Update: I understand now the IP address is kept for 24 hours to prevent the confirmation prompt from showing again.

🏛️ Das Sozialministerium Österreich veröffentlicht einen Artikel über das intransparente Scoring der CRIF:

📰 "[…] noyb.eu untersucht derzeit die Praktiken der Kreditauskunftei CRIF. Im Rahmen einer groß angelegten Aktion können Betroffene jetzt herausfinden, welche Daten CRIF über sie gespeichert hat und ob diese korrekt sind. Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos."

👉 Lies hier weiter: https://www.konsumentenfragen.at/konsumentenfragen/Aktuelles/Konsumentenfragen/noyb-prueft-intransparentes-Scoring-der-CRIF-Betroffene-k.html#

It should be possible to claim compensation for intellectual pain caused by being forced to read the legal submissions of opponents who are obviously clueless and unable to produce any argument other than "We have done nothing wrong! Believe us, pretty please?"

>employee 1 writes one line and tells an LLM to create a smart looking email
>employee 2 uses an LLM to convert the email into one line
>both feel accomplished
>openAI makes $40 and stores their info permanently

#ai #openai #enshittification #work #privacy #infosec

Apparently, if you have facebook or Instagram installed on your phone, #Meta was able to track your browsing habits and link them to your real identity even if you never logged in on the web, used incognito mode or a VPN. I hope Meta gets hit with every fine in the book.

https://www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-tracking-explained-it-could

AI isn’t replacing anyone. Greedy bosses are.

#AI #ethics

Meta is still "certified" under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework although they
- violated the GDPR by circumventing browser sandboxing to link browsing histories to individuals,
- falsely claim to have a legitimate interest in training their simulated intelligence on user data, which renders all data subject rights ineffective, and
- are facing numerous lawsuits because of other alleged GDPR-violations.

Self-certification works great, right?
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#privacy #DataProtection #GDPR #Meta

@debacle
Wenn man sich keine Gedanken darüber machen möchte, wie Extremismus verhindert werden kann, beklagt man sich stattdessen lieber darüber, dass das Grundrecht (!) auf digitale Privatsphäre ständig den eigenen dystopischen Überwachungsfantasien im Weg steht.
Klar, den Menschen 24/7 über die Schulter zu schauen ist dank Palantir & Co. ja auch viel einfacher als echte Ursachenforschung. 🙄

Tired of software tracking you, and using your content to feed AI services? Switch to free and open source software – like #LibreOffice, which is backed by a non-profit (@tdforg) and has zero interest in your data: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/06/10/libreoffice-for-end-user-privacy-tdfs-annual-report-2024/ #foss #OpenSource #privacy

Please do not use Facebook as your business website.

You know you can just not use AI, right?

You can make a choice not to be part of this.

Even if your job uses it, YOU don’t have to in your normal life. You don’t have to let your kids use it.

You didn’t have it three years ago. You can just…be on Team Human. You can choose.

We've had the GDPR for seven years now and I still could file at least two complaints per week if I had the time. And I'm not even counting the likes of Meta and its oligopolist big tech ilk, who are hellbent on violating my privacy even though I'm not using their services.

This is so wrong.

🎉 The Swedish Administrative Court of Appeals has upheld a €5 million fine against Spotify.

🕰️ The decision is the result of a noyb complaint from 2019.

👉 IMY's update here: https://www.imy.se/tillsyner/spotify-ratten-till-tillgang/

👉 noyb press release for the original decision: https://noyb.eu/en/spotify-fined-eu-5-million-gdpr-violation

The data broker industry proves again and again that they're among the worst when it comes to privacy!

Data broker CRIF has phone numbers from contracts I cancelled before 2011 on file. Those numbers have been inaccurate for 14 years now, yet they apparently saw no need to delete them. And I'm not even beginning to ask why they ever needed them.

Needless to say that I knew nothing about which of my data they had until I filed an access request.
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#DataBrokers #CRIF #privacy #GDPR

🧐 Wie kann das sein? Die Kreditauskunftei #CRIF erstellt einen Score anhand deiner persönlichen Daten - oftmals nur anhand von Geschlecht, Alter und Anschrift!

⚖️ Das verstößt aus unserer Sicht wahrscheinlich gegen die #DSGVO. Deshalb wollen wir den Score jetzt für eine mögliche #Sammelklage wissenschaftlich unter die Lupe nehmen.🔍

📊 Mach mit und finde deinen Score heraus: https://crif.noyb.eu/?mtm_campaign=md

Data privacy is important for everyone. But for some marginalized populations, data privacy is indispensable for social connection, access to information, and physical safety.

This article is part one of a series for Pride month, focusing on topics at the intersection of data privacy and LGBTQ+ experiences.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/03/importance-of-privacy-for-the-queer-community/

#Privacy #PrideMonth #DigitalSafety #Pride #Pride25 #DataPrivacy #PrivacyGuides #Pride2025 #Article

Hahaha I just saw someone call ChatGPT “Grand Theft Autocorrect” 😆

Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers
Abuse allows Meta and Yandex to attach persistent identifiers to detailed browsing histories.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/headline-to-come/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Any computer can be a server if it is insufficiently secure.