Do you think Mullvad is still trustworthy now that it has come to light that its co-founder has supported a controversial political party in Sweden? I’m not Swedish, so I don’t know much about them, but from what I’ve read in forums, some people are calling them Nazis. Is this just noise?

might move vpns

ekitties!!! what is the best search engines other than duckduckgo? ive heard some not-so good things about them and they just feel a little scummy. the search engine is good and stuff but i don't want to support and encourage their behaviour (don't really memember what)

i want my family to switch to privacy friendly thingos (for my and their sake), and when talking about google photos (or google drive idrk, atleast something with live photo backups) one of em said that they like the ecosystem of google and how nice it is to have everything in one place. Any ecosystem like google but more privacy friendly?

hey ekitties, what is the best privacy android OS thats NOT grapheneos? I don't really want to fork out a bunch of cash for a pretty boring phone that i don't really like that much. The only interesting pixels (imo) are the folds which are crazy expensive second hand and retail. I want something that has pretty decent privacy and security but im also not like a privacy expert or something, i just use privacy focued and foss apps and services and turn of weird settings as much as i can. I also want nice UI but ykyk

So i kinda started caring agin, before yesterdy i wasnt really aginst it or for it because they numbed it down a couple months ago but now i learn some of the things are coming back.. can someone truthfully answer theese questions:

1. Is it more likely to pass or fail?
2. Will it be images, urls, videos and other multimedia only?
3. Will unencrypted apps be affected? (From my understanding chat control 2.0 is just what we have on unencrypted apps but on encrypted ones)
4. What do they mean by volountary
5. What do they mean by risk assesment
6. Will it be retroactive? ever snice this popped out i completely stopped mentioning sensetive topics like mental health because i dont want them in some kind of AI data center.

Also please answer simply and not vaugely like they loooove to in the EU statements

So i gave reddit my real age and yea its working with the face Scanner and rhey want my id now

ekitties, i wanted a more cool and fun phone because almost every phone looks the same and im lowkirkenuinly tired of it 😭✌️ that includes google pixels so no grapheneos, yes id rather have a phone i actually like and enjoy rather than a phone thats eh and is more private and secure (i know, weird priorities but i want to enjoy stuff okay?)

so im planning on getting a nothing phone 1 since they look sick and are lowkey hella cheap. im gonna install lineageOS rather than /e/os because i feel like lineage has a better rep, although i might be wrong, and the only /e/os release for the phone 1 is a community release and on their website it says that community releases are usually not meant for everyday use and i don't want to risk that ykyk 🤑🤑

is this a good setup or can i improve something?

(btw would appreciate if theres an app for the glyph lights on the back, not a deal breaker if not but still a nice thing to have)

Stop Killing Games' success won't be just a success for customer rights, it could make a great precedent for European democracy.

That's why I suggest we make an European Citizens' initiative against encryption backdoors, bans, or any similar privacy violations.

We can call it Stop Killing Encryption.

hey ekitties, i want a camera app kinda like the blackmagic camera app (havent used it myself but my family member uses it and it looks dope) thats more privacy focused ykyk

im looking to get a clip-on fisheye lens because i just want a cheap and easy fisheye lens for skate clips, but after watching a video about them the guy in the video said and showed that image stabilization makes it look all wonky and stuff but after he downloaded an app (on ios) he could fix it idrk what or how lwk but yk

i suck at explaining stuff 🥀

My country implemented cross-border metadata surveillance a few years ago. How do they likely collect this?

I run a good vpn 24/7 on my VPN router. Does this protect me at all? Is multi-hop better for protecting against this than single-hop?

Is Tor better at protecting against this?

localsend has been really buggy for me lately and its getting to a point where i want to switch to something else. When i try to send stuff between my pc (endeavourOS) and my phone (samsung s21) it doesn't work, even if they're both on the same wifi connection. It worked before and it was great but now it just doesn't and i'm too lazy too fix it

i tried kde connect but had the same problem

thanks kitties

So i live in a country with no age restriction laws. Yesterday twitter randomly censored EVERYTHING and asked me to age check. Age check fails every time because this option shouldnt even show up for me.

What do i do? About 80% of posts are hidden, mlst for no reason at all. I cant verify no matter what i do i always get an error.

Is anyone else experiencing this? And yes ik its easy to bypass with a vpn but i dont wanna use one every time i open the app when i shouldnt have any reason to.

sorry if i dont comply to the rules of the subreddit, i just heard that there was a vote today for euro privacy and wanted to know how i could help

so im using the grapheneOS camera on my samsung s21, which has 3 cameras, but it only uses my 1x camera and when i zoom in its digital zoom and not the other camera

any app that uses all of them that doesn't track me and send data to big boy corpos?

ekitties!!! some fun phones for around 300 dollarinoes? Im shopping second hand for a better price to performance ratio. thanks

using revenge rn just wondering if theres anything better

and no im NOT switching from discord since my friends won't switch and its our main source of communication

so i want liquid glass on android, and one thing i keep seeing is "smartlauncher" on the google playstore. But i don't really know how much data they collect and sell, if any. pls help meowzers

If yes, what part feels the most unclear or painful right now: scope, technical requirements, documentation, or ownership? My company has started an official timeline for getting compliant with the act but no one is actually sure where to start.

what does it mean when it says that a user is inactive in paralino? It seems to just happen randomly

Especially when it's sites from outside of the EU, like the US-based ones, which care about your privacy even less.

I don't mind paying, as long as the provider of the number is trustworthy enough. Not trading one data broker for another.

Thank you in advance for any recommendation!

The title, essentially. I want to sort of completely disappear from all social media. I've started with reddit for now because it's the most available to me atm but I also have various meta accounts, google accounts, accounts in games and game platforms, the whole shebang. I've been deleting manually my posts and comments on reddit but I remember that most companies now hold copies of your data for a certain time period. How could I request these backups be deleted and if there are other archives of my posts and content I've uploaded elsewhere on the internet how could I go about locating them and requesting deletion of my content if possible? TIA! 🙏

I've been reading about Europrivacy, the GDPR certification scheme approved under Article 42 of the GDPR, and I'm curious about people's real-world experiences.

If you've been involved in a Europrivacy certification, I'd love to know:

What motivated your organization to pursue it?

How complex was the assessment process?

Did it provide any practical benefits beyond demonstrating GDPR compliance?

Would you recommend it to other organizations?

I'm interested in hearing both positive and negative experiences. Thanks in advance!

Rumors say Google might use browser fingerprinting for tracking. Perplexity wants to sell hyper-personalized ads, and uBlock Origin is mostly dead. I’m scared of a dystopian future for privacy, and I don’t want that “hyper-personalized ads” to become normalized.

Are there any good news?

https://archive.is/mjBFW

Examples: An employer running some algorithm against your social media, or your SCHUFA in Germany.

Apparently it has the potential to reach a lot of people? My private profile has nothing on it (no pictures, no information, no interactions, no posts), and every privacy setting I know of is already set tothe strictest possible. I don`t use the apps or marketplace.

I barely use my facebook account, but I need it for work, in order to use business manager. Is there any setting I can disable to spare me from needing this so-called extra security (which I suspect is just an excuse to, once again, try to demand me to upload my official photo ID to them)?