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Wickr used to be my favorite E2E messaging app but it disappeared for awhile. Then it got bought by Amazon so I distrust it at face value because I don’t trust Amazon in general. How do people feel about this? It seems to have good encryption still and burn on read.

February 5, 2026 - 10:00am to 11:00am PST

You see it. We see it. ICE and CBP are out of control. Many people are exercising their right to say it's unacceptable. But what are the limitations around recording immigration agents? Is it true that ICE is using facial recognition technology? Are you unsure how to protect your privacy while protesting? EFF has called together an online town hall to discuss ways to stay safer and how the digital rights community can help address brutality against immigrants, observers, and all those involved in holding ICE accountable.

Join our panel featuring EFF's Executive Director Cindy Cohn, Senior Staff Attorney Saira Hussain, Security and Privacy Activist Thorin Klosowski, and Senior Staff Technologist William Budington.

Follow the link to RSVP and get the Twitch livestream link

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42670639

There is a federal privacy law from the 1980s that give the cops a giant loophole to access your emails without a search warrant.

In this video, I’ll show you:

What law has that giant loophole
How this loophole works
How police and government agencies have exploited it
Why Congress hasn’t closed it
And most importantly — what you can do right now to protect your email privacy

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No real setting is discussed tho I presume that a savvy user could use pop3 and auto delete later (before the 180 day mark discussed in the video). Still an interesting video on the legal framework of searches around digital services.

I installed this app on my previous phone a long time ago probably from some privacy Reddit thread and never touched it again. I have it on my new phone after transferring data over and it looks like it still works exactly the same way.

Any thoughts from people more informed about privacy than I am? Is it a security risk? I am giving up a ton of access to it.

TL;DR: As Mozilla moves to make Firefox an AI browser, people are looking at other options. Some people are rediscovering Waterfox, a browser that has been around for a decade from independent developer BrowserWorks. In this post, I interview the founder of Waterfox - Alex Kontos, and we discuss Waterfox’s history and look towards its future. We also talk about how Waterfox thinks about AI in the browser.

I've been subscribed to Proton Unlimited for a little while now and enjoying the services, but I also want to know what made other people choose Tutanota or Posteo over Proton. Was it cost? Transparency/security stuff? Location data is held? I'm exploring a lot of things in the privacy space and seeing what else is out there. Wanted to create this thread as a more recent post people could look at as well.

Starlink updated its Global Privacy Policy on January 15, according to the Starlink website. The policy includes new details stating that unless a user opts out, Starlink data may be used “to train our machine learning or artificial intelligence models” and could be shared with the company’s service providers and “third-party collaborators,” without providing further details.

Happy data privacy day,!

To commemorate today's data privacy day, I gave a 60-min talk about data privacy at work, where I covered:

• Defining privacy
• Why privacy matters
• Debunking privacy myths
• Practical privacy tips

It was geared towards an audience with general interest but low technical knowledge about the space, so I kept the contents pretty high-level and only offered tips centered around easy but significant wins (ex: stop using Google Chrome). I also made heavy use of memes for my images to keep the conversation from getting too serious.

A total of around 40 people participated, and I think it was received pretty well and it generated some pretty interesting discussions. I enjoyed sparking conversation about the topic of data privacy, and I hope I achieved my aim to have the listeners come out of the talk with a better idea of why privacy matters, and the small things they can do to protect their data.

If you were to do something similar, what other topics would you cover?

Legal action and renewed public criticism are once again raising questions about WhatsApp’s privacy and end-to-end encryption claims. Recent developments suggest that the way encrypted messaging platforms operate at massive scale may not be as straightforward as many users assume.

The debate gained wider attention after high-profile commentary pushed the issue into the mainstream, highlighting ongoing concerns about transparency, metadata collection, and user trust in closed messaging ecosystems.

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From a privacy standpoint, do Signal or Matrix (via Element) have any advantages over the other?