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> which is deplorable. But

There is always a but


The period is important. Lying to homeless is deplorable, full stop. But incorporating homeless faces into your training data is not objectionable.


> “They [Google contractor] said to target homeless people because they’re the least likely to say anything to the media,” the ex-staffer said. “The homeless people didn’t know what was going on at all.”


> When you turn on Incognito mode in Maps, your Maps activity on that device [...] won’t be saved to your Google Account and won’t be used to personalize your Maps experience.

This doesn't state that it won't be used to profile you on Google. Dose it?

Is Incognito Mode real privacy browsing? Doesn't it just don't save history abs cookies after all tabs are closed ?


So if police or someone can get your phone they can just point the phone to your face and get access to all info ?


No, the app just compare the face in front of the camera with the photo saved in the NFC chip in your passport. So that the government agrees that the user of the phone and the passport are the same person. Once this is done, the photo is destroyed as well as the comparaison. It's an app that does what every custom officer do when you cross a border.


After this and this [1] I must say I'm in favor of DoH.

I know for sure every major application/game on every device/platform will also hijack DNS queries with their own DoH client and redirect them to their own DNS resolver.

I know for sure that by the time OS implementations are here every application will already have their DoH client built-in up and running for so long nobody will no care anymore.

I know IPSs are just being lazy. I know they will bypass DoH in a couple of months by filtering IPs or deep package inspection or something else.

But is good to see them pissed of once in a while.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20358300


SIM Swap [1] is not covered by this. SIM Swap is a social engineering attack powered by PII leaking from everywhere and for long time. Today, SIM Swap attackers don't even need to use phishing or buy PII from ilegal sources. After so many leaks, peoples full name, mother name, addresses, credit cards, SSNs are all over the internet. Just Google it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_swap_scam


Yeah, since that is NOT an attack against the SIM card (and code stored / running on the SIM card) but different issue completely.


ISPs will quickly move from domain names tracking to IPs tracking. How many times pornhub changes their IP? Never?


> Smartphone ads at least give the perception of being personal.

Ads maybe but phones are personal as much as your contacts list and metadata leaks.

> I'd like to think that alternatives to advertising finance are on the horizon,

It will never happened because alternatives wont scale.


Microsoft just came late to the behavioral profiling party


> In some cases, your ability to access or control your personal data will be limited, as required or permitted by applicable law. How you can access or control your personal data will also depend on which products you use.

> Not all personal data processed by Microsoft can be accessed or controlled via the tools above. If you want to access or control personal data processed by Microsoft that is not available via the tools above or directly through the Microsoft products you use, you can always contact Microsoft at the address in the How to contact us section or by using our web form.

Same source.


It isn't a trustworthy company. I uninstalled VS Code and am going to start recommending Spacemacs, Sublime Text, Doom Emacs, Vim, or anything else. That page is also VS Code's privacy statement.

Linked here:

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/FAQ


https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/ is being actively kept up-to-date with VSCode's rolling releases and takes care to remove "the corporate/privacy nasties" while still retaining the (rather useful) extensions marketplace. Not a fork or port, just a "filtered build" (or build script if you want to diy). Worked without hiccups for me for over a year now (Linux). Updates come in a few days to a week after the original.


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