The Mary Sue: ‘That just made me realize how easy it is…to read people’s cards numbers’: Cracker Barrel worker wears Ray-Ban Meta glasses while serving. Then the customer notices. “In a video with over 163,000 views, Payton (@crackerbarrelserver) shows what it’s like to work as a server at Cracker Barrel. He hands some customers their check, but they soon notice he’s wearing Ray-Ban […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/31/the-mary-sue-that-just-made-me-realize-how-easy-it-isto-read-peoples-cards-numbers-cracker-barrel-worker-wears-ray-ban-meta-glasses-while-serving-then-the-custom/

A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data • Techreview

｢ The researchers found thousands of instances of validated identity documents—including images of credit cards, driver’s licenses, passports, and birth certificates—as well as over 800 validated job application documents (including résumés and cover letters), which were confirmed through LinkedIn and other web searches as being associated with real people ｣

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/18/1120466/a-major-ai-training-data-set-contains-millions-of-examples-of-personal-data/

Journalist Discovers #Google Vulnerability That Allowed People to Disappear Specific Pages From Search

https://www.404media.co/journalist-discovers-google-vulnerability-that-allowed-people-to-disappear-specific-pages-from-search/

Fast Company: Exclusive: Google could be reading your ChatGPT conversations. Concerned? You should be. “Google is indexing conversations with ChatGPT that users have sent to friends, families, or colleagues—turning private exchanges intended for small groups into search results visible to millions.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/31/exclusive-google-could-be-reading-your-chatgpt-conversations-concerned-you-should-be-fast-company/

Delta’s AI-based price-gouging

“It’s a scam. AI agents aren’t going to replace human labor. The only way we’ll replace human labor with software agents is by redesigning all these heterogeneous, competing systems owned by people who benefit from the status quo and have every motivation to obstruct this project. Good luck with that.”

Cory Doctorow reviews the ways in which companies such as Delta Air Lines, British Airways, Uber, McDonald’s and many others around the world are using nonconsensually harvested personal data and AI to further increase your costs.

pluralistic.net

Jeg vil ikke så gerne leve i stasiland.

Så nej tak til bagdøre, skanning af chat, mail osv.

Ja tak til et demokratisk retssystem, security by design, demokratiske rettigheder, ... Og til oplysning, uddanelse, dannelse, tolerance, foreningsliv, fællesskab, samtale, ...

https://stopscanningme.eu/en/

if you think every Windows10 user deserves an upgrade to Linux to improve CyberSecurity and user experience.

https://anonsys.net/display/bf69967c-1568-8b26-54ea-9a8011989284

I'm your (not so) private dancer

Spotify users in the UK have to verify their age to listen to Parental Advisory music due to the Online Safety Act.

We're being infantalised for something that's already manageable by parental controls.

It could even end up in accounts being deactivated

Bad law makes for bad, incoherent outcomes. That's the #OSA for you.

https://www.404media.co/spotify-uk-age-check-verification-yoti/

MyGNUHealth is a Personal Health Record application.

OPTIONS

Do not share information.
Share information with health professionals via GNU Health Federation.

FEATURES

Record Biologics: Blood Pressure/Heart Rate/Weight
Record Lifestyle: Physical Activity/Nutrition/Sleep
Record Psychology: Energy/Mood

SUPPORTS

Bluetooth connection with medical/health devices.

Website: https://www.gnuhealth.org
Mastodon: @gnuhealth

#Business #Analyses
Age verification is rolling out internet-wide · “Everyone’s privacy is going to be at risk.” https://ilo.im/165ric

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#User #Verification #Legislation #Privacy #Security #Website #Design #ProductDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign

Innenministrant #Dobrindt (CSU): Mia brauchen bundesweit #Palantir, um euch alle zu überwachen und zu knechten und den #Faschismus besser einführen zu können!

#CCC: No way! #Überwachungsstaat, #Menschenrechte, #Privacy, #KI-Schrott, #US-#Trumptech-Faschist #Thiel… Lösch dich, Dobrindt!

Zivilgesellschaft: Das ist wirklich keine gute Idee!

#BITKOM: Wir brauchen ein europäisches Palantir!

Thema verfehlt, Setzen, 6.

Is ClamAV the open source antivirus useful?

GrapheneOS version 2025073000 released:

https://grapheneos.org/releases#2025073000

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release.

Forum discussion thread:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/24541-grapheneos-version-2025073000-released

How to #Mute Your #IPhone or #Android During #Vacations
#privacy

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/technology/personaltech/vacation-mode-iphone-android.html

How Edward ‘Big Balls’ #Coristine and #DOGE Got Access to a Federal #Payroll System That Serves the #FBI

Hundreds of pages of records reviewed by WIRED show just how quickly DOGE gained access to systems at the Small Business Administration—and through it, a #USDA system that handles payroll for federal law enforcement.
#security #privacy #bigballs

https://www.wired.com/story/edward-coristine-big-balls-doge-federal-pay-roll-system/

#Google is Using #AI #Age Checks To Lock Down User Accounts - Slashdot
#ageverification #artificialintelligence #privacy #security

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/30/1731256/google-is-using-ai-age-checks-to-lock-down-user-accounts?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

#Google tool misused to scrub tech CEO’s shady past from search
#security #privacy

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/07/google-tool-misused-to-scrub-tech-ceos-shady-past-from-search/

In search of riches, #hackers plant 4G-enabled #RaspberryPi in bank network

The researchers with security firm Group-IB said the “unprecedented tactic allowed the attackers to bypass perimeter defenses entirely.” The hackers combined the physical #intrusion with remote access #malware that used another novel technique to conceal itself, even from sophisticated #forensic tools.
#4g #security #privacy #GroupIB

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/in-search-of-riches-hackers-plant-4g-enabled-raspberry-pi-in-bank-network/