> “They [Google contractor] said to target homeless people because they’re the least likely to say anything to the media,” the ex-staffer said. “The homeless people didn’t know what was going on at all.”
> When you turn on Incognito mode in Maps, your Maps activity on that device [...] won’t be saved to your Google Account and won’t be used to personalize your Maps experience.
This doesn't state that it won't be used to profile you on Google. Dose it?
Is Incognito Mode real privacy browsing? Doesn't it just don't save history abs cookies after all tabs are closed ?
After this and this [1] I must say I'm in favor of DoH.
I know for sure every major application/game on every device/platform will also hijack DNS queries with their own DoH client and redirect them to their own DNS resolver.
I know for sure that by the time OS implementations are here every application will already have their DoH client built-in up and running for so long nobody will no care anymore.
I know IPSs are just being lazy. I know they will bypass DoH in a couple of months by filtering IPs or deep package inspection or something else.
But is good to see them pissed of once in a while.
SIM Swap [1] is not covered by this. SIM Swap is a social engineering attack powered by PII leaking from everywhere and for long time. Today, SIM Swap attackers don't even need to use phishing or buy PII from ilegal sources. After so many leaks, peoples full name, mother name, addresses, credit cards, SSNs are all over the internet. Just Google it.
> In some cases, your ability to access or control your personal data will be limited, as required or permitted by applicable law. How you can access or control your personal data will also depend on which products you use.
> Not all personal data processed by Microsoft can be accessed or controlled via the tools above. If you want to access or control personal data processed by Microsoft that is not available via the tools above or directly through the Microsoft products you use, you can always contact Microsoft at the address in the How to contact us section or by using our web form.
There are really smart and empowered people just waiting for really dumb but empowered people to make the move that opens the path to constant mass surveillance.
For the same reason "user consent" is inaccurate when used as an argument by big tech: big tech can't fully inform people because they have a conflict of interest. Moat of the time, it's not unethical or something, it's just a true, unavoidable, conflict of interest.
Although I don't think Firefox is the Privacy by Default role model, I would like to see people talking more about Privacy by Default.
Developers usualy argue that opt-out is necessary because otherwise people would not opt-in. But IMO this is just disrespecting peoples choice.
Features can be useful, developers can be trustworthy and by not opting-in people may be not using some feature that they would be missing. But still people have their reasons that should be respected even if it's: I will not opt-in because I don't feel comfortable enough or don't understand enough how it works or the consequences of opting-in
Because advertisers would lose tracking people which would make very hard to measure ad effectiveness. Also, ad tech co would lose tracking which would make it harder to profile peoples behavior on line.
There is always a but