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  • I didn't set a cookie.

  • the really big players contract that out to companies whose entire purpose is data-harvesting

    For sure, blocking those scripts goes a LONG way. But that'll only work until lots of ppl do it. If it ever catches on big, the Identity Brokers will adapt. They'll integrate their shit into sites in ways that are hard or impossible to separate this easily without totally breaking the site you were trying to visit.

    IDK for sure, but I fear we could be living on borrowed time.

  • I didn't set a cookie.

  • Yah. I agree. Which is why I think, it is often better to randomize the fingerprint every time, than TBB's approach. Tor is still good for the onion routing, ofc. But I'd like a semi random return on screen res, timezones, and w/e.

  • I didn't set a cookie.

  • What it got right,

    • My OS. It's in the user agent header, which I hate.
    • I read the page methodically at a human reading pace.
    • I am using a VPN.

    What it got wrong,

    • Location.
    • Screen res.
    • Num of CPU cores.

    It's good for ppl to think about fingeprinting. So demo pages like this are good. But I'm sure the identity resolution industry is MUCH better at it. They have capabilities like TLS fingerprinting, outside the browser. For most ppl, not the privacy crowd so mcuh but normal ppl, they fingerprint resource fetches to diff geographic servers. They can run 100's of scripts on a single page from every identity broker. They employ the best data scientists, to figure out every possible way.

    I'm pretty careful. More than 99.999% will ever do. Can commercial fingerprinters still ID me? IDK. But like Skywalker, I have a bad feeling about it.

  • Illinois Just Told Every Operating System to Start Reporting Your Kid's Age

  • What scares me is the future of this push.

    In Australia, after their U16 social media ban, 4 in 5 U16's still accessed social media they were banned from.

    When these bills have little impact b/c minors figure out how to get past age gates, there will be pressure for more draconian measures. It isn't like the ppl pushing these will shrug and give up. They will demand more and more erosion of local control. More and more corporate lockdown.

  • Illinois Just Told Every Operating System to Start Reporting Your Kid's Age

  • That's epoch!

  • Illinois Just Told Every Operating System to Start Reporting Your Kid's Age

  • It is terrible. But there is a ray of good news in there too. Not for IL sadly, but for other states that went on this path,

    The bill picked up language exempting operating systems and developers distributing software under terms that let anyone copy, redistribute, and modify it freely. It also added a clause blocking platforms from locking down modified versions.

    California's AB-1043 had the same gap. Assembly Member Buffy Wicks, the same lawmaker who wrote AB-1043, introduced AB-1856 to fix it. After several rounds of edits, the amended bill redefines "operating system provider" to exclude anyone distributing software under those same open license terms.

    The IL law does not have those carve outs. So ti's way more draconian than the other states listed.

  • Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Follow Years of Warnings and Neglect

  • Unable to read article b/c,

    You have been blocked from The New York Times because we suspect that you're a robot.

    I am not, in fact, a robot.

    Anyway I will add that CISA in the US is charged with securing our critical ifnrastructure. CISA has been hit with major budget cuts and layoffs, tho. That has compromised their effectiveness at that charge.

    https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/us-cybersecurity-agency-cisa-reportedly-in-dire-shape-amid-trump-cuts-and-layoffs/

    Maybe the fine article mentioned that. I wouldn't know.

  • EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation

  • IDK, I'm less sold on your proposed solution, than on your proposed problem existing. :)

  • EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation

  • It's a legit idea, and there's a thing like that, called Zero Knowledge Proofs (ZKP).

    IMO it's possible in theory. Like set up and managed in good faith, it can work mathematically, and you can prove it does.

    My worry tho is that it wouldn't be in good faith. It'll be corrupted somehow. Or it turns out that enough other signals leak that it isn't very effective. Like fingerprinting and stylometry and w/e allow ID'ing despite the ZKP layer.

  • EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation

  • As much as I'm a privacy guy, those are legit concerns IMO. IDK where the future goes, but I see reasons to worry.

    TBH I'm more worried about the overall infopocalypse that's already in progress. But I also can't rule out an AI teaching somebody unhinged how to make a devastating biological weapon. Something only accessible in the past to very highly trained ppl, who were not gonna do that.

    But I also want my privacy! And I believe privacy is essential to a functional democracy. Feels like every choice is a bad choice.

  • Kmart sells out of low-cost rival to Meta camera glasses across Australia amid warnings of ‘privacy nightmare’

  • It's a different company. Used to be a joint venture with the owner of the US brand, but it split off, and it's completely separate now.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kmart_Australia

    But in looking that up, I learned that Anko, the brand in the story, is K-Mart Australia's house brand, I guess kinda like Great Value for US based Walmart.

  • EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation

  • EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation

  • The reason they placed federal charges against that guy was because he allegedly deleted incriminatory evidence.

    NAL, but it may be important that there was no legal case pending at the time he gave the duress code. And like you said, he didn't even enter the code himself. But it's tricky since there's also some clause in the law about reasonable cause to believe there could soon be a case.

    In the end, the case is purely politically motivated, and the allegations were made up out of nothing. Hopefully that makes the case fall apart once it reaches the courts. Which has happened in lots of other cases, like Reflecting Pool Olympian Guy. I hope the EFF will get some high powered legal rep spun up for this guy. Protip, donating to the EFF is good, so they can afford to do that for important civil rights cases.

    I'm still NAL, but I'm hopeful that Graphene Guy will be exonerated by a jury. Ofc, it still sucks, b/c he has to spend his time and money dealing with this.

  • EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation

  • EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation

  • so eventually people not using “approved” OSs may be locked out of most of the internet

    Agree 100%. I hope everyone realizes this! I have seen too many ppl who think, "It's OK, open source will save us". But open source can't. This is a legal and social prob, and needs a legal and social solution.

  • EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation

  • Sorry, what is the story about guy in USA with GrapheneOS?

    Someone else linked the story, but do note that he isn't in jail. Or wasn't last I looked a week ago. He IS facing criminal charges, which is very serious. It will most likely become a Big Important Case and could even get appealed up and up until it reaches SCOTUS.

    Current SCOTUS is corrupt. But sometimes they have managed to make good rulings anyway, such as in Carpenter v. United States, and Chatrie v. United States, about GPS location privacy.

    I say this b/c social media leads ppl to believe extreme versions of events. There were allegations in another lemmy thread that this GrapheneOS Guy was in prison. He is not. He was at his own home. But he is facing a very stressful future as a criminal defendant. He may, hopefully, be exonerated. But it remains to be seen, how it will go. Anything could happen.

  • EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation

  • Wasn't there something about the effectiveness of the Australian law to restrict minors on social media? Ah...

    Four in five under-16s in Australia using social media despite ban, study shows

    Experts say law not enough to stop children accessing harmful content online and more ‘convincing strategy is required’ . More than 80% of under-16s in Australia said they were still using social media three months after legislation banning them from it came into force, research shows.

  • Kmart sells out of low-cost rival to Meta camera glasses across Australia amid warnings of ‘privacy nightmare’

  • Yah. TBH, I think it was inevitable once we hit an inflection point in the tech v. price curve.

    In the 1960's, maybe the CIA could build a one off mechanical spy insect. But that was never gonna be a thing at consumer scale. Today, couple hundred dollars, euros, pounds, and every Joe Sixpack can wield surveilence tech 50 times better than the top three letter agencies could back then.

  • Kmart sells out of low-cost rival to Meta camera glasses across Australia amid warnings of ‘privacy nightmare’

  • actually really taxing to try and be fully aware of everyone, everything and yourself

    Sorry you gotta deal with that level of stress.

    The fucked up thing, is it just keeps getting worse. In-store cameras are bad enough. But at least there, the footage will prob never hit the tiktok circuit. When private citizens buy their own mass surveilence, and turn everything into social media content, that just keeps on growing. There are entire sites built around that form of content.

    I heard about some poor guy in the UK. Got detained for "acting suspiciously" since he was avoiding London's cameras. Police stopped him and compelled a photograph for their facial ID. He never did anything wrong! Zero criminal record. Guy just didn't enjoy being on camera. Which they then forced him to be.

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Kmart sells out of low-cost rival to Meta camera glasses across Australia amid warnings of ‘privacy nightmare’

    www.theguardian.com /australia-news/2026/aug/04/kmart-camera-glasses-anko-meta-smartglasses-australia
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    US Air Force Engineer Charged With Sawing Down Flock Surveillance Cameras Receives Thousands of Dollars from Supporters Across the Country

    futurism.com /future-society/air-force-engineer-flock-surveillance-support-legal-gofundme
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    Flock news, mostly good or funny.

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    I de-IOT-ed an appliance!

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    Chatrie v. United States (geofence warrants)

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chatrie_v._United_States
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Prepaid cards

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Firejail network filters

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Firejail
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    discussion

    What do you NOT do, that you would do without privacy violation?

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    Disney sued over facial recognition technology at California parks

    www.nbcnews.com /news/us-news/disney-sued-facial-recognition-technology-california-parks-rcna346062
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    Lawsuit Alleges AI Platform Illegally Recorded Patient-Clinician Conversations

    www.hipaajournal.com /lawsuit-ai-platform-illegally-recorded-patient-clinician-conversations/
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    Challenge over Met Police's use of live facial recognition lost

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/cq59x4vv954o
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Online shopping, privacy and behavior prediction. A rant.

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Closing the Data Broker Loophole

    www.pogo.org /fact-sheets/fact-sheet-closing-the-data-broker-loophole
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs

    arxiv.org /abs/2602.16800
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Moving and keeping home addy private?

  • sh.itjust.works Main Community @sh.itjust.works
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    Is it possible to see only new post replies?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Car (lack of) privacy, and what to do about it. Let's talk about this?

    www.mozillafoundation.org /en/blog/privacy-nightmare-on-wheels-every-car-brand-reviewed-by-mozilla-including-ford-volkswagen-and-toyota-flunks-privacy-test/
  • Books @lemmy.world
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    Lauren Haney, "Right Hand of Amon" etc? Good?

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lauren_Haney