David Gerardshel silverstein on the LLM, 1981
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The Privacy Dad
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I write a digital diary of my privacy journey as a non-IT person and parent.
Electronic Frontier FoundationThe EU is pushing a plan to give police "lawful access" to encrypted messages. But there’s no such thing—without breaking the encryption. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/eus-encryption-roadmap-makes-everyone-less-safe
The EU’s “Encryption Roadmap” Makes Everyone Less Safe
EFF has joined more than 80 civil society organizations, companies, and cybersecurity experts in signing a letter urging the European Commission to change course on its recently announced “Technology Roadmap on Encryption.” The roadmap, part of the EU’s ProtectEU strategy, discusses new ways for...
Privacy GuidesMicrosoft is rolling out its controversial Recall feature to Windows users with Copilot+ PCs. However, there are still many privacy and security concerns that remain, even after its reworking.
https://www.privacyguides.org/videos/2025/05/22/recall-is-back/
#Recall #Privacy #Security #MicrosoftRecall #WindowsRecall #Microsoft #Windows #PrivacyGuides #Video
Recall Is Back, But You Still Shouldn’t Use It
If groups of parents can band together when deciding on the right age for a smartphone for their younger children, they will stand a better chance to avoid making decisions based on peer pressure at school.
#smartphone #dumbphone #featurephone #school #parenting #privacy
How Parent Chat Groups May Help Reduce Pressure to Buy a Smartphone for Your Child
If parents can band together when deciding on the right age for a smartphone for their younger children, they will stand a better chance to avoid making decisions based on peer pressure at school.
Installing Whoogle on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W in 2025
I had to update the instructions for my 2024 article. Here it is:
https://theprivacydad.com/installing-whoogle-on-a-raspberry-pi-zero-2-w-in-2025/
What is the difference between Microsoft Copilot and a Microsoft Copilot+ laptop??
This article is useful in light of yesterday's news about them bringing back Recall on Copilot+ hardware:
https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-copilot-plus-pc/
There are very few users at the moment that will have to deal with Recall, but it only takes on Copilot+ laptop to start taking automatic and regular screenshots of messages in a private Signal group!
#privacy #privacynightmare #windows #microsoft #signal #ai #screenshot
Forbes article yesterday:
"Microsoft’s AI Starts Reading All Your WhatsApp, Signal Messages"
"Microsoft has decided to release its controversial Recall to Copilot PCs, which then continually screenshots and optically reads everything on screen to be saved behind a simple PIN."
#privacy #privacynightmare #windows #microsoft #signal #ai #screenshot
Interesting article on Cornell research:
"AI suggestions make writing more generic, Western"
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/04/ai-suggestions-make-writing-more-generic-western
AI suggestions make writing more generic, Western | Cornell Chronicle
A new study from Cornell on AI writing assistants finds these tools have the potential to function poorly for billions of users in the Global South by generating generic language that makes them sound more like Americans.
The term 'metadata' is an inaccurate description of behavioural surplus and helps to downplay the severity of the large-scale incursion on our privacy.
https://theprivacydad.com/why-the-term-metadata-is-not-helpful-in-discussions-around-privacy/
#metadata #behaviouralsurplus #ShoshanaZuboff #privacy #digitalprivacy #surveillancecapitalism
Behavioural surplus is the extra information that can be processed when we interact with an app, website or device, in order to be repackaged and sold as accurate predictions about us.
https://theprivacydad.com/what-is-behavioural-surplus/
#surveillancecapitalism #behavioralsurplus #behaviouralsurplus, #shoshanazuboff #dataprivacy
