As Google gives you the choice to opt out of cookie tracking, it silently starts collecting your online habits with fingerprinting.

Here’s an easy system for two humans to remotely authenticate to each other, so they can be sure that neither are digital impersonations. To mitigate that risk, I have developed this simple solution where you can setup a unique time-based one-time passcode (TOTP) between any pair of persons. This is how it works: Two people, Person A and Person B, sit in front of the same computer and open this page; They input their respective names (e.g. Alice and Bob) onto the same page, and click “Generate”; The page will generate two TOTP QR codes, one for Alice and one for Bob; ...

Avec le soutien de Musk à Trump et aux extrêmes droites européennes, un mouvement se forme pour quitter X/Twitter. Mastodon, réseau social non lucratif et respectueux des données, est la première alternative. Rencontre avec son responsable technique.

Le Bon Coin, Candy Crush, Vinted, Grindr… Des données localisées issues d’applications populaires apparaissent dans un échantillon de données obtenu et analysé par « Le Monde » et ses partenaires. Elles permettent de suivre à la trace les habitudes et déplacements des utilisateurs.

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This great website privacy inspector is useful to see if a website is tracking you. Test it on my website to see I don't have any tracking

« On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engineers very well. And it’s a go-to app for hundreds of millions of people. »

As a Signal user, I never learned more deeply about which individuals were leading Signal the past couple of years. This interview with Meredith Whittaker was a great way to learn more about her, her path to join Signal, and what is the future of Signal.

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Privacy Guides is a useful non-profit website to find privacy tools and learn about protecting your digital life.

Open-source tool made by the French National Education minister to blur people's faces for privacy