Write your local representatives to reject this surveillance and privacy invading bill #colorado
Bill - https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-201
Some messaging that I created if you’d like to copy and paste or use ResistBot - https://resist.bot/petitions/PBQVHG
Is it weird to still be blogging in my 40s? I ponder this … in a blog post: https://oblivionwithbells.com/2026/03/04/wrestling-with-words/
#Blogging #Writing #Words #Text #Internet #Online #Privacy #WordPress
TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption (E2EE) - the controversial privacy feature used by nearly all its rivals - arguing it makes users less safe.
Well, that's scary.
A team of researchers at UC Santa Cruz’s Baskin School of Engineering that included Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Katia Obraczka, Ph.D. student Nayan Bhatia, and high school student and visiting researcher Pranay Kocheta designed a system for accurately measuring heart rate that combines low-cost WiFi devices with a machine learning algorithm.
WiFi devices push out radio frequency waves into physical space around them and toward a receiving device, typically a computer or phone. As the waves pass through objects in space, some of the wave is absorbed into those objects, causing mathematically detectable changes in the wave.
Pulse-Fi uses a WiFi transmitter and receiver, which runs Pulse-Fi’s signal processing and machine learning algorithm. They trained the algorithm to distinguish even the faintest variations in signal caused by a human heart beat by filtering out all other changes to the signal in the environment or caused by activity like movement.
The "machine learning" part probably does not really matter, except possibly for the exploratory and prototyping phases of the work. Once we know tht the low-resolution signal is there, hidden in the high-frequency raw data, the signal can be filtered out by some combination of old-fashioned and fairly cheap DSP techniques. Even if fancy machine learning has detected some sort of useful regulatory patterns in the context of building the prototype, I'm confident that these patterns can be replicated by some sort of much simpler feedback system.
A computer can potentially make a lot of interesting uses of being able to observe its human user's biological processes, particularly including real-time stress response, like that. Some of these interesting uses will be very, very, abusive.
(Source: https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/09/pulse-fi-wifi-heart-rate/.)
TikTok Refuses to Encrypt DMs, Citing Safety Over Privacy
#TikTok #Privacy #Encryption #CyberSecurity #AusNews #DigitalSafety
With developer verification, Google’s Apple envy threatens to dismantle Android’s open legacy
Questions remain as Google prepares to lock down Android app distribution in the name of security.
Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/iifx3
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/with-developer-verification-googles-apple-envy-threatens-to-dismantle-androids-open-legacy/#android #developer-verification #features #google #malware #privacy #security #tech
DATE: March 4, 2026 at 08:55AM
SOURCE: HEALTHCARE INFO SECURITY
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Will proposed privacy and security changes to federal regulations shift burdens from #healthIT developers to #hospitals and other #healthcare providers? https://t.co/21hvbRzqRc
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Articles can be found by scrolling down the page at https://www.healthcareinfosecurity.com/ under the title "Latest"
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Healthcare security & privacy posts not related to IT or infosec are at @HIPAABot . Even so, they mix in some infosec with the legal & regulatory information.
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#security #healthcare #doctors #itsecurity #hacking #doxxing #psychotherapy #securitynews #psychotherapist #mentalhealth #psychiatry #hospital #socialwork #datasecurity #webbeacons #cookies #HIPAA #privacy #datanalytics #healthcaresecurity #healthitsecurity #patientrecords @infosec #telehealth #netneutrality #socialengineering
Hello fellow beings,
my name is Roman and it time for an #Introduction . I earn my living as an IT engineer. Caring much about #opensource, #privacy and independence.
I am still very surprised by the raise and risks of #genAI . Instead of being affected by it, I'd rather understand it. So I put my curiosity and time into creating a completely local AI assistant for #selfhosting .
https://gitlab.com/RmMsr/relagent
Happy tooting!
@markus_netzpolitik Scary stuff about Smart Glasses. #privacy
And as usual the dirty stuff, like physical handwork and inequality is hidden in shiny #techvertising
“It is an uncomfortable truth for tech giants: the AI revolution is to a large extent built on labor in low-income countries. What we call ‘machine learning’ is often the result of human hands.”
"While the [age verification] bill moved through the legislature, the OSI, FSF, Software Freedom Conservancy, and Linux Foundation all sat it out — no testimony, no public analysis, no formal opposition on the record."Are the adults listening?
"While the [age verification] bill moved through the legislature, the OSI, FSF, Software Freedom Conservancy, and Linux Foundation all sat it out — no testimony, no public analysis, no formal opposition on the record."[https://boingboing.net/2026/03/02/californias-age-verification-law-could-regulate-every-linux-command.html]
Cold War Spy Trick Still Haunts Your Laptop, Congress Warns
#Cybersecurity #TEMPEST #Privacy #SideChannelAttack #AusNews #InfoSec
#Meta #SmartGlasses Sending Sensitive Recordings to Workers to Annotate
🙏 Thanks to Marcus Disselkamp for the invite to “Kurz nachgedacht”. 🇩🇪
We discussed Murena & /e/OS, digital sovereignty, decentralization over lock-in & privacy as a fundamental right.
👉 Learn more (DE): https://www.disselkamp.org/podcast/episode/2ca63137/95-datenschutz-beim-smartphone-europaische-losungen-gegen-tracking-und-datenkraken
Inchiesta di Svenska Dagbladet: in Kenya dipendenti rivedono e taggano manualmente i video registrati con gli occhiali Ray‑Ban Meta, anche contenuti intimi, come previsto dai termini. 🕶️🔍
#privacy #meta #wearables
Nicht gut für #Privacy: Politisch Verfolgte,Missbrauchsopfer, Journalisten...brauchen #Datenschutz.
Forscher der ETH Zürich u von Anthropic haben ein Papier veröffentlicht, das zeigt, wie sich die wahren Inhaber pseudonymer Nutzerprofile aufdecken lassen.
Sicherlich: Anhänger der #Klarnamenpflicht und #Altersverifikation wird es freuen.
Wir müssen unsere Gesellschaft medienkompetenter machen. Denn diese Maßnahmen gefährden Menschen, auch wenn sie gut gemeint scheinen.
https://www.linux-magazin.de/news/llms-decken-auf-wer-hinter-anonymisierten-nutzerkonten-steckt/
Activist webmasters and instance owners: consider hosting exclusively on tor (or i2p is better if thats possible for your project)
Server anonymity is as important if not more important than user anonymity
#FLOSS #PSA #Privacy #Anonymity #Tor #I2P #Activism #Censorship
Alexa, why is the CIA interested in knowing when the bins are emptied in #SouthGloucestershire?
