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In the digital age, protecting your personal information might seem like an impossible task. We’re here to help.

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By occupying or operating a Nissan vehicle you automatically agree to their dogshit ToS and privacy policy. You give Nissan the right to collect and sell the following data:

"Name, email address, phone number, mailing address, geolocation, zip code, age, date of birth, driver’s license number, national or state identification number, citizenship status, immigration status, race, national origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation, sexual activity, precise geolocation, health diagnosis data, and genetic information, social security number as an employee, service or warranty information regarding vehicles, employment and related information, such as employee identification number National or State Identification Numbers, and dependent information for the administration of certain employee benefits or programs.. Also: Inferences drawn from any Personal Data collected to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes Vehicle- and driving-related information: the vehicle’s operation including, without limitation, Vehicle Identification Number (VIN), geolocation and navigation information, speed and distance information, driving habit and style, battery use management information (for electric vehicles), battery charging history (for electric vehicles), battery deterioration information (for electric vehicles), electrical system functions, diagnostic trouble codes, maintenance conditions, software version information, and other data, your use of the vehicle and any corresponding services, websites and smartphone applications, vehicle status information (e.g., information about door locks, open doors, engine status, etc.), data about accidents involving the vehicle (e.g., the direction from which the vehicle was hit, and which air bags have deployed)."

And that's just Nissan. Privacy Not Included* reviewed many other car brands in their report

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Nowadays, our cars are anything but a private space — they are full blown data collection nightmares on wheels.

New Mozilla research has revealed that popular global car brands — like Chevrolet, Nissan, Toyota, Kia, Audi, Jeep, Honda, Volkswagen, and more — are collecting your deeply personal data, like your genetic information and sexual activity. This invasive harvesting of information is collected via a web of sensors, microphones, cameras and the phones, apps, and connected services you use in your vehicle.

Car companies are brazenly collecting deeply personal information about people the moment they get into a car, often without explicit consent to do so. And that’s why the Mozilla community is now coming together to force car companies to respect our right to privacy. Add your name to ask car companies to stop collecting, sharing and selling our very personal information.

Find out more about our research on cars in the official launch blog post.

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For example, ones that implement these guidelines? https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/guides/linux-hardening.html

Alternatively, packages for Fedora that would set this up automatically

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Saw a youtuber saying Apple doesn't sell data to third party organizations. Is this true? And what about google's android on pixel devices?

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Maybe I'm going to change my phone with a pixel one and I'm thinking to instal Graphene OS. There is somebody that can try to instal my bank app and tell me if it works? Searching online I did not find any way to check. Thanks.

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The Justice Department makes the accusation in its response to motion from X asking that the consent decree be dismissed

WP gift article expires in 14 days.

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/BovSX

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What would i lose or gain?

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It’s your data. Do you know what Big Tech is doing with it? Our tech columnist found Google, Meta and Microsoft are taking your conversations, photos or documents to teach their their AI.

WP gift article expires in 14 days.

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/YernV

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Test Messages Will be Sent to All TVs, Radios and Cell Phones

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I'm currently in the process of switching from YouTube to Piped and was getting fed up with rewriting YouTube links myself. I finally found an extension that can do this with a relatively easy setup:

Redirector Firefox

Redirector Chrome

Thought maybe more people might find this interesting. My setup is in the pic.

Edit: @[email protected] Just suggested using LibRedirect which is even better than Redirector. Also since Redirector isn't really maintained anymore.

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when not connected, i get 400mbps. connected to mullvad, i only get 150mbps

the server isnt very far from me physically (sub 100miles) and says it can support 1gbps. any way to fix or is this just an inherent flaw with vpns? using wireguard

on windows 11

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Tried to use OSMAnd last week to navigate around on vacation. For some reason it seems to be incapable of searching for house numbers, which is an instant dealbreaker. I'm very confused as to how or why this is a thing on such a mature product.

I was able to share a location from GMaps WV over to it to get navigation working, and from there the navigation was awesome!

Currently also testing Magic Earth and Organic Maps but I'm very interested to hear from those with more experience.

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I have been switching from Brave to Mullvad Browser and one odd issue I am running into is that I am not able to use my yubikey to login to sites such as simplelogin or protonmail anymore.

My guess is its something with noscript as the other addons I used on Brave but, even if I mark an entire site as trusted the yubikey prompt still seems to be blocked.

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We encourage all users to immediately update their devices.

We urge all at-risk users to consider enabling Lockdown Mode as we believe it blocks this attack.

Related article: https://wapo.st/3r3HH3u

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Anyone tried Technitium DNS? Looks better than Pi-hole.

https://technitium.com/dns/

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When I get a message in signal that that it has specific wording that would make someone think that it's a task then I get a notification to save it to keep how is Google doing this are they reading my signal my messages

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So, let's say you created a ProtonMail account entirely on your Tor Browser through the Tor mirror the entire time and then also signed up to SimpleLogin/AnonAddy to have an e-mail alias/cloak for each account that you have (for example, say you have make an Reddit account and you go and create an alias for the Reddit account and that alias will be used ONLY for that account and nothing else)

Would it be a bad idea to make aliases and use them for stuff tied to your personal identity (such as banks or stuff you've previously used payment options tied to your name etc) or it wouldn't matter?

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I still use reddit for purposes ranging from getting solutions to pastimes. Same for discord. There are a few communities on it that I need to be connected, most notably dev related.

What suggestions would you guys make? Are there any bridges/frontend I could use to get more privacy?

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cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/1181564

Did you try all of them?

What made you stick with the one you are currently using?

I became fully aware of Control D only yesterday as the name was vaguely familiar to me when I heard it and for Adguard DNS well I thought it was a normal-ish DNS service like 1 1 1 1, quad9, Google, etc... (not that user configurable).

I tried looking for some reviews and discussions comparing the 3 but found almost nothing about Control D and Adguard DNS but I did stumble upon Control D CEO 2 blog posts comparing Adguard DNS and NextDNS to Control D.

There seems to be not that much talk about these 2 unlike NextDNS which seems way more popular, if I'm correct then what made it way more popular and known?

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