Olives @olives@qoto.org

Even if the government isn't telling you to do it (lol), it can still be helpful from a security / privacy / user experience perspective to do when writing code.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/30/att-dark-web-leak/
"Information from 73 million current and former AT&T accounts appears to have been leaked onto the dark web, the communications company said Saturday."
#privacy

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/30/conservatives-set-for-worst-election-result-yet-research-shows Tories likely to face bloodbath.

While I wouldn't say it applies in every case, I've seen quite a few cases where it could be attributed to that, perhaps in combination with other factors.

https://www.notus.org/technology/dhs-access-phone-movements-data
"The Department of Homeland Security is expected to stop buying access to data showing the movement of phones — a controversial practice that has allowed it to warrantlessly track hundreds of millions of people for years.

Since 2018, agencies within the department — including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Secret Service — have been buying access to commercially available data that revealed the movement patterns of devices, many inside the United States. Commercially available phone data can be bought and searched without judicial oversight."
#privacy #FourthAmendment

I have a suspicion that quite a bit of bigotry comes down to ableism.

I don't have a lot to say but free expression is cool.

Mark Zuckerberg: I had a terrible nightmare. I couldn't collect anyone's data.

lol
#privacy

Data minimization is a big one. If you think about it, companies collect far too much data which they don't even need. That data is then vulnerable to being leaked.

In fact, even if it isn't leaked, sucking up a ridiculous amount of data you don't need can still be troublesome.

https://therecord.media/lawmakers-set-sights-on-data-minimization-with-new-bills
"A comprehensive data privacy bill that includes the country’s toughest data minimization standards is on the cusp of passing the Maryland state legislature, giving advocates hope that similar bills will follow nationwide.

The Maryland Online Data Privacy Act has passed both the state’s House and Senate, and will soon go to a conference committee where small differences between the versions will be ironed out. It is expected to pass by April 8, the bill’s sponsor, Maryland State Delegate Sara Love, told Recorded Future News in an interview.

The bill stands out because of its requirement that the gathering, processing or sharing of sensitive information be “strictly necessary” when a vendor is completing a consumer’s service request. Under so-called data minimization laws, vendors typically must collect or use a minimal amount of information — only what’s needed to deliver a service — and may only retain the data they collect for as long as it takes to render the service."
#privacy

Oh, is Ross Anderson dead? That's a shame.

He was very outspoken in opposing the chat control.

I'm thinking of writing something but it's hard to properly contextualize it.

Character customisability options can be cool but this one is more about constraining player freedom than that.

https://theintercept.com/2024/03/16/safe-deposit-boxes-fbi-warrantless-raid-fourth-amendment/
"Two lawsuits will move forward against the federal government over the FBI’s warrantless search of hundreds of safe deposit boxes, a court ruled this week. Last year, in a related case, a federal appellate judge called the FBI’s raid “egregious” and “outrageous.”"

Warning: Site might contain images of injured people in Gaza. These are for a different article.
#privacy #FourthAmendment