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European Parliament’s version of the CRA threatens cybersecurity and open source development (blog.mozilla.org)
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Recent discussions in the European Parliament can seriously undermine existing cyber security practices and open source development by setting disproportionate obligations and strict requirements for vendors supplying products in Europe. ...

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Demo: Brute-forcing a macOS user’s real name from a browser using mDNS (fingerprint.com)
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Exploring potential privacy vulnerabilities in Apple devices. This article discusses revealing a user's first name without permissions using the mDNS protocol.

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First U.S. Ban on Sale of Cellphone Location Data Might Be Coming (www.wsj.com)
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How Threads’ privacy policy compares to Twitter’s (and its rivals). (arstechnica.com)
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Here’s what is collected by Threads, as well as by Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social.

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Sweden Slaps Spotify With $5.3 Million Fine Over GDPR Violations (www.medianama.com)
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Swedish privacy authority has fined Spotify for violating the Right of Access held under European Union's General Data Protection Regulation.

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Suicide Hotlines Promise Anonymity. Dozens of Their Websites Send Sensitive Data to Facebook – The Markup (themarkup.org)
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The Markup found many sites tied to the national mental health crisis hotline transmitted information on visitors through the Meta Pixel

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Kbin shows the list of your subscriptions to everyone by default. (kbin.social)
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You can turn it off in your options.