🚨 OPT OUT & say NO to #GitHub using your interaction data to train & improve its AI models. 🚨 

GitHub is the next company to choose to opt you into having your data used - by default. 🚩

Opt out in Settings --> Copilot --> Features.

Under "Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training" -→ Disabled.

It recently announced that if you do not opt out before April 24th, it will use your interaction data when using Copilot.

We've a new address: https://ente.com

Thank you for being with us on this journey!

https://ente.com/blog/ente-dot-com/

In our latest release, we've integrated a vector database into our on-device machine learning infrastructure, making search noticeably faster and people suggestions more accurate.

All of our work is open source @ https://github.com/ente-io/ente

How do you create a world of paranoia, distrust, and adverse behaviors?

#Surveillance.
Smart phones, smart appliances, smart televisions, smart cars, software you no longer own or control, renting entertainment, targeted ads, data brokers, algorithms. The atrocities continue and there isn''t enough character space to list them all.

Your neighbors participate. Your family participates. Your friends participate. All of us participate.

Stop the surveillance. #Privacymatters

Geek tip from the Tuta Team: How NOT to see AI images.

Use this HUGE AI BLOCKLIST for uBlock Origin: https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

Enjoy your Sunday 🎉

Chat Control 1.0 lets Big Tech scan ALL your messages. 👀 

And the EU wants this to continue. Decision is this WEDNESDAY.

⚡  Call your MEPs now! ⚡ 
➡️ https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

Every app claims to be "private."

Most are lying.

How to tell the difference:

🚩 RED FLAG: Won't show you code
✅ GREEN FLAG: Open source on GitHub

🚩 RED FLAG: No security audit
✅ GREEN FLAG: Published audit from Trail of Bits/NCC Group/Cure53

🚩 RED FLAG: Just says "encrypted"
✅ GREEN FLAG: Says "end-to-end encrypted"

You don't need to be technical. You need to know what questions to ask.

Full guide: https://snugg.social/en/blog/how-to-verify-encryption-claims

#Privacy #Security #OpenSource #E2EEncryption #PrivacyMatters