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deeply proud to see the newly passed "click to cancel" FTC rule. it's about time we had legislation that protected our rights to easily stop using services that didn't serve us.

lina khan's doing a damn good job and i hope she stays as ftc chair no matter which presidential nominee is elected.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/10/federal-trade-commission-announces-final-click-cancel-rule-making-it-easier-consumers-end-recurring

comm has public invite links

over 10m chats were stolen from an AI call center based in saudi arabia that served fintech companies. access to 1m users' PII, documents, and chats are being sold for $15k.

as AI gets more widespread, owning it and our data becomes crucial to prevent leaks like this.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/millions-of-conversations-leaked-after-ai-call-center-hacked

the EU just blocked Meta from using sexual orientation info acquired from outside FB to personalize and send targeted advertisements to users...

but didn't block doing so with all personal data acquired off-platform? wonder what caused them to protect sexual orientation and not other info.

https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2024-10-04/austrian-activist-schrems-wins-privacy-case-against-meta-over-personal-data-on-sexual-orientation

comm lets you see and search chat history from before you joined. keyservers make this possible without compromising e2ee.

apple has secretly hosted two global police summits in 2019 and 2023 to help law enforcement use its products like iPhones and Vision Pro for surveillance.

they've come a long way from refusing to work with law enforcement back in 2015

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2024/10/09/apple-sells-privacy-to-consumers-but-its-quietly-helping-police-use-iphones-for-surveillance/

when you join a community on comm, we don't add you to all of the channels by default

you can use the tree view to see all of the channels in a community, and pick which ones you want to join

in contrast, your inbox only shows the channels you've joined

imagine 23andme gets bought out by a company that sells its genomic data to a broker and the data ends up in the hands of a threat actor that can now identify what the potential for health risks like psychosis and heart disease are for ~15 million customers and likely their family members too.

we could live in that world if we don't get this sorted

https://archive.is/zUt88#selection-4857.79-4857.241

“Privacy is valuable not because it empowers us to exercise control over our information,” he argues, “but because it protects against the creation of such information in the first place.”

nothing put the fear of surveillance into me as much as learning what could be done with my online data. this argument is accurate.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/what-is-privacy-for

comm can encrypt backups using a signature from your eth wallet

huge milestone for the comm team

excited to be announcing what we've been working on :)

https://warpcast.com/ashoat.eth/0x427722f7

ICE has signed a $2m contract with paragon, a spyware startup founded by fmr members of Mossad’s Unit 8200 (israel’s equivalent to the NSA)

paragon sells a service that “hacks whatsapp and signal” chats

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-paragon-solutions-contract/

comm can connect to your farcaster account

apple has been allegedly collecting personal data even after users disabled tracking settings, stating that the "Allow Apps to Request to Track" setting applies only to "other companies' apps and websites," not their own apps (App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV).

if true, what hypocrites.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/apple-must-face-narrowed-privacy-lawsuit-over-its-apps-2024-09-27/

comm has light mode

musk has complied with brazil's request to ban 9 twitter accounts in a bid to end twitter's ban in the country. just another reminder that all his talk about 'defending free speech' is for show.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/x-asks-brazils-top-court-allow-it-resume-services-source-says-2024-09-26/

the tor project and tails (linux-based private OS) are merging!

seems like tails was struggling with bizops and fundraising so the merger will let them focus just on building -- a win-win-win :)

https://blog.torproject.org/tor-tails-join-forces/

comm has signal-style group chats and dms

i better not see the words "telegram" and "private" in the same sentence ever again

comm chats have media-specific search

a great example of AI being used to preserve privacy and free journalism

however, you have to wonder if any of the tech companies hosting the videos or assisting with video generation would comply with a government request for personal data. hopefully not.

this is ridiculous. if someone wants snap their friends they aren’t consenting to hand their face over to snap.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/17/24247238/snapchat-ai-my-selfie-feature-face-personalized-ads

comm has keyservers

gonna get some light reading done this week :)

/sovereignty