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A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account in c/privacy

Google pushing Gmail users to transition to passkeys using biometric data in c/privacy

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Review Checker will shut down tomorrow in c/[email protected]

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Review Checker will shut down tomorrow in c/[email protected]

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Mozilla's AI extension Orbit to shut down on June 26, 2025 in c/[email protected]

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I'm very okay with Mozilla killing this off, considering it had some janky behavior and had more outgoing data requests than was necessary. Initially, it pointed users to FakeSpot, as if it was using the same privacy policy and servers too.

It does explicitly use Google servers.

It was Yet Another AI Chatbot hosted on Yet Another Cloud Server, which is worse for privacy and longevity than anything that runs locally anyway.

I know this is cheating... But banned from all of .ml for posting an article about China in c/yepowertrippinbastards

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Some acronyms you might see.

PTB - Power-Tripping Bastard: The commenter agrees with you this was a PTB mod.
YDI - You Deserved It: The commenter thinks you deserved that mod action.
YDM new - You Deserved More: The commenter thinks you got off too lightly.
BPR - Bait-Provoked Reaction: That mod probably overreacted in charged situation, or due to being baited.
CLM - Clueless Mod: The mod probably just doesn’t understand how their software works.

Mozilla preview new Tab Management UI in the Play Store in c/[email protected]

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Mozilla preview new Tab Management UI in the Play Store in c/[email protected]

OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats in c/privacy

China’s government has announced that people will require IDs to go on the internet. For now this is voluntary, but there are signs it will not remain that way for long. in c/[email protected]

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Ironically, this new China policy would only require them to give you an ID that the government knows is associated with you. In other words, on a technical level, it might be more private than their current system.

In the United States, the concept of a digital ID is reprehensible because it would be far worse than the status quo.

OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats in c/[email protected]

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Note this court order is exclusively for an ongoing case into copyright infringement.

I'm of two minds of this.

On one hand, I don't want to normalize forcing companies to collect data on users and retain it past their stated deletion dates. OpenAI (allegedly) deletes customer data after some time, and I'd like to hold them to that!
On the other hand, I trust OpenAI as far as I can throw them. The only reason they would ever delete data, as they state themselves, is for business interests. They probably want to keep corporate clients more than they want to risk the leakage of sensitive client information.

I know this is cheating... But banned from all of .ml for posting an article about China in c/yepowertrippinbastards

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