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NVidia tries to silence free press – archived source

NVIDIA u-turns on its decision to block Hardware Unboxed from receiving GPU review units Much was made of NVIDIA’s apparent decision to block Hardware Unboxed from having access to GPU review samples. The company has already done an about-turn on the matter though, possibly because of the outcry from reviewers and fans. Alex Alderson, 12/13/2020 Complaints […]
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Facebook exploits EXIF photo data to track users – archived source

Facebook ‘Secretly’ Tracks Your iPhone Location—This Is How To Stop It Zak Doffman Dec 13, 2020,06:30am EST Facebook has a data addiction—it can’t help itself. The social media giant’s entire business model is built around collecting, processing and then monetizing our personal information. Facebook seemingly can’t contemplate user information that crosses its path which it […]
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Apple sends information about every binary file on MacOS to their central servers – archived source #2

Your Computer Isn’t Yours Jeffrey Paul – 12 November 2020 It’s here. It happened. Did you notice? I’m speaking, of course, of the world that Richard Stallman predicted in 1997. The one Cory Doctorow also warned us about. On modern versions of macOS, you simply can’t power on your computer, launch a text editor or eBook reader, […]
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Apple gave the FBI access to the iCloud account of a protester – archived source

Apple gave the FBI access to the iCloud account of a protester accused of setting police cars on fire Aaron Holmes – Sep 16, 2020, 5:52 PM Apple granted the FBI access to the iCloud account of a protester accused of setting police cars on fire in Seattle this summer, according to court documents. Once it […]
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Google continues to track users despite opt-out in settings – archived source

Google faces lawsuit over tracking in apps even when users opted out By Paresh Dave – JULY 14, 2020 9:39 PM OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s GOOGL.O Google records what people are doing on hundreds of thousands of mobile apps even when they follow the company’s recommended settings for stopping such monitoring, a lawsuit seeking class action […]
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Reddit website uses DRM for fingerprinting – archived source

Reddit’s website uses DRM for fingerprinting By  Smitop · Jul 8, 2020 Recently, I was using a page on Reddit (i.e. the main redesign domain, not old.reddit.com), when I saw a yellow bar from Firefox: Why did Reddit want to use DRM? This pop-up was appearing on all pages, even on pages with no audio or video. To find […]
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Apple sends information about every binary file on MacOS to their central servers – archived source #1

Catalina is checking notarization of unsigned executables May 22 2020 by Jeff Johnson Support this blog: Link Unshortener, StopTheMadness, Underpass, PayPal.Me This is a follow-up to Allan Odgaard’s excellent article macOS 10.15: Slow by Design. I want to talk specifically about the first section “Spawning a new Process”, because there has been widespread misunderstanding of this. Odgaard provides a simple […]
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Xiaomi browsers are spyware – archived source

Are Xiaomi browsers spyware? Yes, they are… 2020-05-04 n case you missed it, there was a Forbes article on Mi Browser Pro and Mint Browser which are preinstalled on Xiaomi phones. The article accuses Xiaomi of exfiltrating a history of all visited websites. Xiaomi on the other hand accuses Forbes of misrepresenting the facts. They claim that […]
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Microsoft forces the use of online accounts on Windows – archived source

Confirmed: Windows 10 Setup Now Prevents Local Account Creation CHRIS HOFFMAN – UPDATED DEC 16, 2019, 5:41 PM EDT Windows 10 Home now forces you to sign in with a Microsoft account—unless you disconnect from the internet first. Microsoft has always wanted you to sign in with a Microsoft account, but now it’s going even further. […]
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Apple’s nonfree Safari browser spies on users for the Chinese company Tencent – archived source

Apple Safari browser sends some user IP addresses to Chinese conglomerate Tencent by default It’s unclear when Apple started allowing Tencent and Google to log some user IP addresses By Tom Parker – October 10, 2019 Posted 9:25 pm During the last week, the reality that US companies often bend the knee to China has been thrown […]
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