#pii

I hate the internet in 2026. No, I don't want to #verify #signup join your "community" #fingerprint my devices #register #subscribe to your platform, click your #ads download your #malware app or pay you via #patreon to "support" your business with donations! And I certainly don't want to provide #PII or #ageverify because some karen screams. Just leave people the fuck alone! Our #data is NOT yours to sell! #privacy #security #itsecurity #bigtech

How I found that anyone can pull the email address, name, country, and date of birth of any of the 719,517 users on Click To Pray, the Pope's official prayer app, with a single GET request. Reported January 3rd. Still live six months later. Nobody has ever responded.

RE: https://toot.majorshouse.com/@majorlinux/116525354368926280 ““It’s using that… to get information that otherwise would be totally outside of its #jurisdiction … we’re talking about the physical movements of a person who lives in #Canada… The demand for the man’s location data was included in a request #DHS issued to Google called a customs summons, which is supposed to be used to investigate issues related to importing goods and collecting customs duties.” DO NOT SKIP THIS Absolute #MustRead#Canadians #Privacy#PersonalData#PII#InternationalLaw

#OpenAI releases #PrivacyFilter — an open-weight #AI model for detecting & redacting #PII in text. Runs fully locally, no data ever leaves your machine. Apache 2.0 licensed. #opensource 🧵👇#privacy 🔍 Detects 8 PII categories in a single forward pass: names, email addresses, phone numbers, physical addresses, URLs, dates, account numbers & secrets (passwords, API keys) — covering virtually all common sensitive data types

@foxyloon@blimps.xyz @joelle@social.joelle.us I'd only assume that if they want to collect #PII of any kind or ask too detailed questions that would make it statistically trivial to identify individual participants...

@signalapp@mastodon.world THERE IS NO LEGITIMATE REASON FOR #Signal TO DEMAND A #PhoneNumber (= #PII by circumstances if not mandatory doxxing to the governments aka. "#KYC")… so yes I do blame Signal because this attack vector is unique to #Signal's shittyness and would not exist with @monocles@monocles.social / #monoclesChat or even cock.li of all places…

We all need a personal #AI that has access to a handful of shopping, social media, youtube and other accounts. The AI needs to be set to act like multiple people with many differing data points, ages, locations, preferences etc. If the #databrokers are going to watch us, create a ton of garbage data for them. AI agents can even buy things for us, give them prepaid credit cards to use and make your purchases through them. The more they watch, the more garbage I create. #privacy #PII