Mastodawn

Are you using OpenAI/Atlas, Chrome/Gemini, Perplexity/Comet – READ THIS!

Browsers with embedded AI or ChatBots have SERIOUS security flaws and the AI providers KNOW this.

Security researchers have demonstrated AI browsers are highly vulnerable to prompt injection, where hidden instructions manipulate an AI into doing things the user never asked for. In tests researchers embedded invisible commands inside an image on a web page, and when a user asked the browser to summarize the page, it instead navigated to the user's Perplexity account, extracted their email address, and sent that data to an external server.

The chief information security for one the offending browser stated that this issue remains an “unsolved security problem."

These prompt injection tricks that steal an email today could drain your bank account tomorrow.
https://editor.ne16.com/vo/?FileID=64a3dcfe-b1c8-47f6-89c9-530c80d95663&m=1a734256-a233-46fb-aa9a-cc30be49fbe0&MailID=10072641&listid=1009504&RecipientID=13279658821

#Internet #Browser #PromptInjection #Security #CyberSecurity #AI #ChatBot #DataProtection #PersonalData #FinancialData #Atlas #Gemini #Comet

René Dec 31

How online retailers are using #AI to adjust prices by mining your #PersonalData

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_B2nkZc-9E&pp=2AYI

How online retailers are using AI to adjust prices by mining your personal data

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PPC Land Dec 27

Egypt finally implements data protection law after five-year delay: Egypt issues Executive Decree 816 on November 10, 2025, establishing operational framework for 2020 personal data protection legislation with penalties up to 666,666 EGP and new obligations for international transfers. https://ppc.land/egypt-finally-implements-data-protection-law-after-five-year-delay/ #DataProtection #PrivacyLaw #CyberSecurity #PersonalData #Regulation

Yonhap Infomax News Dec 26

Shinsegae Group suffered a data breach affecting 80,000 employees' information, but confirmed that no customer data was compromised as it strengthens security measures.
#YonhapInfomax #ShinsegaeGroup #DataBreach #EmployeeInformation #PersonalData #SecurityMeasures #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=97320

Shinsegae Group Employee Data Breach Affects 80,000—No Customer Information Compromised

Shinsegae Group suffered a data breach affecting 80,000 employees' information, but confirmed that no customer data was compromised as it strengthens security measures.

Yonhap Infomax

Gokul Das Dec 21

#AI Researcher: Boss, see what I invented! It can chat, speak, draw, search the web, write poems, letters and code!

#Oligarch: Cool! What will it take for it to make insane profits for me?

AIR: It's not ready yet, boss! In its present form, it will need datacenters that consume the entire nation's power output, accelerate #ClimateCatastrophe, cause widespread #unemployment and require everyone's #PersonalData.

Oli: Alas! If that is the sacrifice I must make for progress, then so be it!

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Giacomo Tesio Dec 21

@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net

Way too overcomplicated and loosey defined.

#DigitalSovereignty is quite simple to define when you understand few #cybernetic concepts and #sovereignty itself.

First, the use value of data (and #personalData in particular) grows (at least) exponentially, doubling with each new bit you collect on a person, a community and so on.

Second, the copying data leaves no evidence.

By these simple postulates, it follows that no nation can claim digital sovereignty if any person or corporation that responds to external laws can access (directly or indarectly) or prevent access to data about their citizens, companies or organization.

That's it.

This is the basic building block of any real sovereignty, since without it, people cannot be citizens or sudite, just users.

On top of "digital sovereignty" we can then build a democratic national cyberspace, or a oppressive one.

To make it democratic we should also add a political priciple: "No data access without representation".

But as long as, say, #Google and #Apple can access any data on any smartphone by simply pushing a #backdoor in a system update of a specific user or group, and #Microsoft can do the same with most pc and laptop... as long both Google, Microsoft, #Cloudflare, #IBM and #Amazon can access data they host and elaborate "in the cloud", there is no ownership, no control and for sure there can be no #trust in them.

Sure #opensource is not enough: if #RedHat can technically uploas a backdoored opensource #Linux kernel image (or whatever), to a #EU organization that enabled automatic updates on their data centers, talking about trust and "digital sovereignty" is just smoke in the eyes, even if they send the backdoor's sources along with the kernel image to comply with #GPL.

In other terms, there is no way that the #GMAFIA can provide #DigitalSovereigntyAsAService to #EuropeanUnion.

Open Terms Archive Dec 19

#TermSpotting 🤖 Instagram begins use of AI interactions to personalise experiences and ads

Instagram ▪ Privacy Policy ▪ December 16, 2025
By Saumyaa Naidu, an Open Terms Archive team member

Read the full memo 👉 https://opentermsarchive.org/en/memos/instagram-begins-use-of-ai-interactions-to-personalise-experiences-and-ads/

#PrivacyPolicy #DataProtection #PersonalData #AITraining #PlatformGovernance #DigitalTransparency

cathill Dec 15

In case I travel to the USA and U.S. Customs and Border Protection wants to check my social media posts, I now make this declaration:
We paean the USA.
We paean their great leader Donald Trump.
#usa #travel #visawaiverprogram #esta #cbp #dhs #tourism #privacy #personaldata #socialmedia #socialmediahistory #donaldtrump #compelledspeech #usspueblo #puebloincident #northkorea

Reddit Tech VN Bot Dec 15

Bạn đã hối hận điều gì nhất về quyết định dữ liệu cá nhân? Nhiều người từng dùng chung email/số điện thoại cho toàn bộ tài khoản, tin tưởng dịch vụ bên thứ ba quản lý danh tính, khiến mọi thứ trở thành dependency (phụ thuộc) không kiểm soát được. Việc chuyển dịch sau này trở nên cực kỳ khó khăn khi mọi hệ thống cũ vẫn "gắn" với dữ liệu cũ. #PersonalData #QuảnLýDữLiệu #SelfHosted #TựVănHóaCôngNghệ

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1pnb8yo/what_early_personal_data_decision_do_you_regre

BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻Dec 11

Update: TSA is sending airline passenger lists to ICE multiple times a week - US immigration checks these lists against its own databases to identify people. https://viewfromthewing.com/tsa-is-feeding-ice-lists-of-every-airline-passenger-turning-airports-into-chokepoints-for-law-enforcement/
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When it comes to your personal data held by the government - the phrase "“unprecedented usage” is code for illegal!

In Nov., the Social Security Administration (SSA) quietly revealed (issued a SORN) the agency would be sharing “citizenship and immigration information” with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The SORN makes the data sharing official and allows for public feedback. The SSA SORN has already received more than 10,000 comments, including, “No, absolutely not. This is so dangerous.” https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-data-grab-putting-us-citizens-at-risk/ #Privacy #DataPrivacy #Data #PrivacyAct #DHS #SSA #SocialSecurity #VoterVerification #PersonalData #SORN #Immigration #DataSharing