yoooo you can see your Farcaster chats in Comm now
Comm support for Farcaster DCs is now LIVE
you'll see all of your Farcaster chats and message history in the app, PLUS:
1) indefinite full message backup
2) Markdown support
3) Comm also supports DMs (similar to Signal, but with threads) and communities (similar to a federated Discord)
check it out here: https://comm
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tg is not secure
in other news: telegram was confirmed to work with russian intelligence agencies and openly sharing data with them by ANOTHER independent journalist agency
telegram does NOT use e2ee, and even when it does (in secret chats that no one uses) it attaches unencrypted device id to every message
tg is NOT secure
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EU is set to ban privacy coins and anon accounts by 2027
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The CFPB is killing planned rules that would have shielded American consumer data from data brokers that profit off its sale.
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Google will pay $1.375 billion to settle privacy violation lawsuits filed by Texas over how it tracked users’ location, incognito searches, and biometric data.
this is the largest privacy settlement ever secured by a single state against Google, far surpassing previous deals.
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big win: a US jury has ordered NSO group, the Israeli company behind Pegasus spyware, to pay WhatsApp $168 million for a 2019 hack that targeted journalists, activists, and political dissidents.
it's the first time a spyware maker has been held legally responsible for exploiting smartphone platforms like WhatsApp, set...
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telemessage, a compliance‑friendly fork of signal used by government and financial outfits, has been breached. an attacker exploited its backend to pull archived chats, contact lists, and login credentials.
telemessage modified signal to store “for‑the‑record” copies, making that data a new attack surface. the officia...
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TikTok has been fined €530 million ($600 million) by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission for unlawfully transferring European user data to China and failing to adequately protect it under GDPR rules.
the investigation revealed that TikTok did not sufficiently safeguard user data accessed by employees in China and fai...
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meta just changed the privacy policy for its ray-ban smart glasses, removing the option to stop voice recordings from being stored. users can still delete recordings manually, but voice data may now be kept for up to a year to help train meta’s ai models.
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new records show that automakers like GM and Ford are collecting and transmitting large amounts of vehicle data from cars with active subscriptions to features like emergency dashcam and hands-free driving systems, and law enforcement agencies are actively training to access this information during investigations witho...
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Google is officially abandoning its plan to phase out third-party cookies in Chrome. after years of delays, the company says it will stick with the current system and won’t roll out a new prompt for cookie choices even despite pushback from privacy advocates, regulators, and advertisers.
Google now says there’s no con...
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