I agree with your concerns, however I think the picture being drawn here is generally incomplete. The whole discussion goes around the issues of consumer vs. industry/corporate interest. Obviously this is a major part of the games industry and this is what most people buying games, lobbyists and ...

I wholly agree with the intent of what this initiative is trying to accomplish and the resaon for their cause. However the way they are going about it seems very superficial and not well thought through. I wouldn't blindly give them my signature just because what they want to achieve is great. They ...

The plans were rejected, looks like we can breathe easily for a moment.

Quite a while back I saw some kind of video where someone was using a hat with some sort of IR emitter built into it (might have been fiction) and since then this idea has kept coming up in the back of my head.
With facial recognition and cameras everywhere becoming more normalised and more and more ...

When you travel around a store with your bluetooth and wifi on the could triangulate your device.


Very important and valid point and it goes far beyond the use case you are describing here. I guess like many of the matters this community considers important to care about, the general public ...

Well I would say we are now well beyond the original "Tech News" I wanted to share, but this is an interesting topic in general.
I am not sure if I got right what you were trying to say, but I have been using Bitlocker on various machines for a long time and I never even made a MS account. I am ...

Good news!

Let me preface this; if you have the option, you should just move away from Windows altogether.

Despite Microsoft removing the "bypassnro.cmd" script from Windows 11 with a recent update, you can still set up the system and create a local user without having a MS account.

Do not ...

The OTF is being run by the US Agency for Global Media, said agency has just been incapacitated as they lost virtually all funding.

Among others the OTF provides funding for:

OpenVPN
Let's Encrypt
Tor
Quad9-DNS
F-Droid
Mailvelope (OpenPGP encryption for Webmail)
Tails (portable OS with ...

So various outlets say different things about this.

Fact is that this is being installed on Android 9+ devices with 2+GB of memory by the Google Play Services and is being classified as a system service.
Here is what Google has to say: Google Security Blog Documentation

I don't want to reiterate ...

Learn about how statistics can be (ab)used to manipulate you and others.

An interactive site by FlowingData showcasing and explaining various ways that charts and publications can mislead you.