Google's search preference menu auction, as we predicted, has resulted in DuckDuckGo being eliminated, making it harder for people to get simple privacy.

A few weeks ago, I found myself in need of a repair for a borked camera lens on my iPhone 11. I do everything in my power to essentially encase my Apple products in bubble wrap, but a nearly imperceptible fracture in one lens had greatly impacted the functionality of my phone’s camera. I hadn’t anticipated that repairing it was going to be a whole thing, but finding a way to get it repaired quickly in my area turned out to be futile. And repairing it myself? Pfft, forget it.

L’article 55 de la loi du 10 février 2020 relative à la lutte contre le gaspillage et à l’économie circulaire dispose qu’en matière de réduction des

Télécharger ClearURLs pour Firefox. Supprime les éléments de suivi des URL

Pour Étienne Gonnu, chargé de mission affaires publiques pour l’April (association de promotion et de défense du logiciel libre), l’obsolescence logicielle doit être combattue si l’on veut réduire l’empreinte environnementale de l’informatique et, plus largement la pollution numérique. Les sénateurs viennent de s’emparer du sujet. Entretien.

A review of 3 automated systems in use by the Swiss police and judiciary reveals serious issues. Real-world effects are impossible to assess due to a lack of transparency.

You've possibly just found out you're in a data breach. The organisation involved may have contacted you and advised your password was exposed but fortunately, they encrypted it. But you should change it anyway. Huh? Isn't the whole point of encryption that it protects data when exposed to unintended parties?

The lawsuit accuses the search engine giant of violating wiretap law and California privacy law by recording what users are looking at in apps.

Rite Aid used facial recognition in largely lower-income, non-white neighborhoods. The systems included one from a firm with links to China and its government

The ads appeared sometime in 2016 but it is now escalating

Mozilla is in an absolute state: high overheads, falling usage of Firefox, questionable sources of revenue and now making big cuts to engineering as their income falls.

A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector

Brands are seeking new ways to customize messages. A startup that gathers data on when you pick up your phone, or when you go out on a run, can help.

Facebook is moving to curb internal debate around divisive political and social topics, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said, after a spate of disputes and criticism that has fueled discord among staffers.

TL;DR Landmark case Entr’ouvert vs Orange, after 9 years of legal battle, the copyright court (TGI Paris) found the GPL license to be inapplicable and dismissed the case. Read the judgment as…

The tech giant is facing criticism over its appointment of a former NSA director.

Download Wiper for Firefox. Black-list websites on Google to weed out low quality search results.

Illegitimate reviews can hurt business for legitimate sellers, causing brands like Nike to sever ties with Amazon. Here's how to spot fake reviews and Amazon's plan to prevent them.

Contribute to yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List development by creating an account on GitHub.

But the controversial phone metadata program played little role in the terror-fundraising case at issue, the long-awaited ruling says.

The FBI has reportedly used a massive repository of travel data from Sabre to surveil people worldwide, including at least one in real time.

Online advertisers don't need huge lists of the sites we access. Just 50-150 of our favorite sites are enough.

European regulators are cracking down on Facebook's ability to transfer data across the Atlantic. Now the tech giant is threatening to pull its services from more than 400 million European users.

Download Auto Tab Discard for Firefox. Increase browser speed and reduce memory load and when you have numerous open tabs.

Facebook Inc. is again being sued for allegedly spying on Instagram users, this time through the unauthorized use of their mobile phone cameras.The lawsuit springs from media reports in July that the photo-sharing app appeared to be accessing iPhone cameras even when they weren’t actively being used.Facebook denied the reports and blamed a bug, which it said it was correcting, for triggering what it described as false notifications that Instagram was accessing iPhone cameras.

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Dutch smartphone maker launches camera upgrade for older handsets, also available as new device

A l'occasion du Congrès des Maires qui se tient à Paris, l'Adullact a remis ses labels "Territoire numérique libre" aux collectivités les plus engagées dans le mouvement du logiciel libre.

How to use Rust and BPF to intercept the data sent and received by programs that use OpenSSL.

Some companies regret sharing information with the tech giant and its Alexa Fund. “We may have been naive in believing they weren’t competitive with us,” said one executive.

Threema Goes Open Source, Welcomes New Partner

It’s possible that you posted something online 10 years ago, and it was fine back then, but 20 years from now you will hope that no one finds it. My message is: the Internet never forgets, cultures change, and retroactive laws exist. People can get screwed over digital data.