Privacy

Apple has warned that it will shut down services such as FaceTime and iMessage in the U.K. if the government goes ahead with controversial legislation.

A proposed update to the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 is currently in open consultation. Members of the public are invited to offer feedback on the amendments, which include a requirement for messaging services to notify the Home Office, a department of the British Government that handles immigration, security, and law and order, of new security features before they are rolled out, and the right for the Home Office to privately demand that security features be disabled immediately. Under current legislation, the latter can be requested, but there is an independent oversight process and room for appeal before action is taken.

One of my go to list when I am searching for privacy respecting alternatives.

Hi, so I stumbled on some videos and decided to change my browser and search engine for more privacy. I wrote about it in my blog, hope u find it useful.

Before the API changes Teddit was one of my favorite ways to browse Reddit. It seems like more and more that companies make changes that reduce privacy.

A new deal on data transfers between the EU and US has alarmed businesses and privacy campaigners.

The pact, known as the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, was announced on Monday by the European Commission. The EU’s executive body concluded that the US offered an “adequate level of protection” for data transfers under the new arrangements.

The framework replaces the Privacy Shield, which the EU’s top court had struck down in July 2020 over concerns that the US didn’t provide sufficient protection against government surveillance.

Hey all, I've been taking my digital privacy and security much more seriously this year, but the one thing I've been stuck on and feels overwhelming to me is email. So I wanted to know what do you guys use or what practices do you follow? Do you keep a separate email or alias for every single account, or just compartmentalize, like one email address for online shopping, one for business, one personal correspondence, and etc.

What services do you use? Right now I have a free Tutanota and ProtonMail account but haven't decided which one to pay for, if either. ProtonMail makes me iffy with the amount of controversy and debate that has come out of them in recent years even though it comes with a lot of other nice stuff like cloud storage and a vpn. Tutanota I just dislike the fact I can't add it to third party mail apps like Thunderbird, but this might not be a deal breaker. I know there are others, so what do you guys use? I don't need something to protect my emails from the NSA or organizations like that but definitely something more private and secure than gmail. Thanks.

It is important to note that although this may be a result of Reddit's UI not displaying the content users posted to now-private subreddits, it remains a problem. Additionally, I agree with the author's comments in the video description, as it appears strategically unrealistic for Reddit to ask that users manually delete the content themselves.

This is particularly true when considering that many automated methods to accomplish this task will be hindered by Reddit's upcoming API pricing changes. Furthermore, Reddit has demonstrated a recurring pattern of rolling back databases using historical backups, thereby disregarding user deletion requests that were submitted prior to the database rollback.

See similar discussion of this video on Hacker News:

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36482168

In my opinion, considering both usability and privacy:

1. SearxNG/Searx (Selfhosted) +++++
2. SearxNG (Trusted instances: searx.be, paulgo.io) ++++
3. Brave Search +++
4. DuckDuckGo +++
5. Whoogle (Selfhosted) +++
6. Kagi (credit card and name required) ++
7. MetaGer ++
8. Swisscows +
9. StartPage +
10. Qwant +
11. Ecosia +
12. Presearch +
13. You . com +
14. etools .ch ?

Avoid:

• Google
• Bing/Yahoo
• ¿Phind?

More info:

• https://www.searchenginemap.com/
• https://www.privacyguides.org/en/search-engines/

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