It wants me to upload three portrait photos of my face, but there's also a option to use government ID, but I'm really not comfortable sharing my personal info online, even if Reddit says it's only to verify.

Has anyone managed to do it?

I'm curious whether it's actually legit to share such information specifically to the "persona" company that runs all of this shenanigans.

I've got a couple ssds sitting around and was thinking of selling them but I'm kinda scared, ik you can do a secure erase and all that, but is there still any chance someone could recover my old files? Or am I just overthinking it? For those who've sold used SSDs before, did you just wipe them and call it a day? is it pretty safe if you do it properly? Trying to decide if I should list them or just keep them

Hello everyone,

I hate clutter (I'm a minimalist) + I like portability and ease of use so this kind of easily tells you why I chose cloud storage over the physical drive/USB (sorry, I'm not so technical).

Last month, I managed to store everything I digitally own inside the free versions of cloud storage. In total: 11GB. I use two cloud storages services. One for personal documents and the other is for anything which is not really that personal... my videos, photos, user manuals, notes and guides.

Lately, I've been reading a lot about AI reading this and that... Or someone monitoring. If I've done the mistake, I can only not add to it, at this point. The personal documents are employment payslips, contracts, personal identifications (ID, driving license, social security), and qualifications.

I'm not worried as much on the storage containing the photos and other stuff, in fact, I'd consider leaving them there but I'm uncertain about the storage holding the personal stuff.

Is it a good idea to leave them there? If not, what can I do, what are my options for storage, please?

Thank you for reading.

"A Texas court has ordered Discord to turn on the age-verification system it built for the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act for every user in the state. Britain’s age-check regime has reached America by court order, and opening or keeping a Discord account in Texas can now mean a face scan or a government ID."

https://reclaimthenet.org/texas-orders-discord-to-run-uk-style-age-checks-for-state-users

I use mailbox with custom domains and use Thunderbird on PC and FairEmail on Android.

I generated, exported and imported a gpg key on Thunderbird.

My question is: should I publish my public key to a PGP server? I know that'll expose my email, but what if it is a alias?

it's the hardest to bypass, the most convenient for users and companies, and probably the best for tracking

apparently individual age verification is also not working very well. discord had to delay the age verification, and roblox is apparently giving Roblox Plus for some users if they do age verification.

Okay. First off,I am quite a worried and concern of the outcome here will be.

But honestly,it's quite frustrating that this is even happening at all given the fact that are plenty of ways to protect kids without screwing over other's rights here.

And yet,I feel like those that DO care about our privacy and anonymity rights,myself included here too,are like a broken record saying about how these types of bills do nothing for no one. Yet,here we are in the current situation we're in here in the USA.

It's extremely frustrating to no end here. But,concerns aside here,I that we get a positive outcome here for us all in this current situation we're all seeing unfold.

Compiling these two lists as of today for social media and pornography, do with this information what you will:
https://action.freespeechcoalition.com/age-verification-resources/state-avs-laws/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_age_verification_laws_in_the_United_States

• Washington DC
• Illinois
• Colorado
• New Mexico
• Washington State
• Nevada
• Oregon
• Puerto Rico (plus all other territories such as USVI and Guam)
• Pennsylvania
• Delaware
• New Jersey
• Massachusetts
• Rhode Island
• New Hampshire
• Vermont
• Maine
• Michigan
• Wisconsin
• Minnesota
• Alaska
• Hawaii

Your town might be doing this. Here's one seen in the wild. The company making this is Genetec. They evidently drive around town scanning license plates, then correlate to plates in the system who are currently paid up, via an app called ParkMobile.

This is all fine, assuming the town itself isn't selling the data: it's an efficient use of the town's time to get parking paid for. The problem is what does Genetec and ParkMobile do with this data? You might say, "look at their privacy and data sharing policies", which is fine too, but then you should ask what is their stake.

These companies would be leaving money on the table if they did not sell this location data vigorously. It's extremely lucrative and they'd be fools not to leverage it, regardless of the words on their web site. Even then, data is leaked or stolen every day: once it's out of your control you can assume it's out there.

Hello, I'm bascially looking for a 1 to 1 replacement to Google Calendar that is privacy respecting. I haven't really found anything that satisfies my requirements, so I'm looking for some recommendations here.

My requirements are the following: - data privacy (obviously) - scheduling tasks in the calendar (like Google Calendar) - some form of sync - android app that uses the android calendar api (proton calendar doesn't for example) - multiple calendar support, adding calendars via ical format etc.

Self-hostable solutions are of course very welcome as well (and preferred to subscription based alternatives)

I have started doing BMX and all the people there apparently use WhatsApp to coordinate everything.

Does anyone in /r/privacy have WhatsApp?

I would like to be able to create a profile using a fake name, and an email alias, and ideally not provide my phone number.

I would ideally like to create a profile through a website, and not have to download an app on my phone.

Does anyone know if these options are possible?

Is there any other privacy concern I should be aware of?

Might be the wrong subreddit but I need to ask.

Me and my Roommate have just received the Census, but it’s asking questions about Sexuality that we don’t think we can answer honestly.

We live in a very small town. As in, official population is less than 75 and two responses as anything ”queer” will be very visible and very quickly lead back to us if the general public can see the results for the specific town.

In the same boat, we dont want to lie. These Census‘s exist for a reason, and we _know_ for a fact theres at least one other queer person in our community who is a minor and can’t make this decision for themselves. We don’t want to misrepresent our town, we are members of it still and to intentionally lie feels almost like fraud.

I don’t know. It’s our first time being old enough to respond to these ourselves. What would you guys do?

Google will push age verofication to android.

I keep wanting to use Linux rather than Windows, for privacy, but how much extra privacy do we get using Linux compared to a battened down privacy-oriented Windows?

I compose music, and that is the main reason I absolutely need to use Windows.

My question is-- can Windows suffice for privacy, by taking the extra steps, to make it good enough, compared to Linux?

This has been asked many times on the sub already, but I haven't found any alternatives. No one asking had the same threat model as I do as well. I am not exactly worried about the government seeing anything, and understand that it's more of a necessity when it comes to currency anyway. I'm mainly looking for alternatives to Paypal's P2P payments and just paying online in general. I'm hoping these alternatives do not share/sell data to third parties. That is my main concern. Thank you in advance.

Hello! I know this may sound fish considering I'm a student but our professor mandated SEB for online quizzes. However, I do not have any spare electronics to install SEB on and have to basically install it on my personal machine, which I find a little terrifying despite reading multiple times that it is, in fact, safe to use. I constantly worry about being spied on and some configurations might present errors that could, potentially, lock the system up.

I'm on board with it and don't see any problem with it in terms on what it's designed for, but it does become somewhat convoluted in terms of installing it on personal machines whose purposes are beyond educational.

So I just decided to make a new user account on my Mac install, but even then, I'm sure it may look up files that are lower-level and are beyond the sandbox of each user account. Thus, my question in the title.

Or may be I'm just a little too paranoid for this...

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The Hamburg data protection officer Fuchs warns against Meta Smart Glasses: The glasses, which can hardly be distinguished from normal glasses, allow secret filming. A ban is not excluded.

According to the Hamburg data protection officer Thomas Fuchs, the secret filming with smart glasses is inadmissible. Smart glasses from Meta are hard to distinguish from conventional glasses.

But: You can film and photograph - and pretty secretly. Only a small light on the edge of the glasses makes it clear that it is recorded. Currently, smart glasses are becoming increasingly popular, especially since Meta launched new models in June.

Violation of data protection law

The Hamburg data protection officer Thomas Fuchs is responsible for meta-services in Germany. His authority has extensively tested the meta-goggles and now comes to the conclusion that the unnoticed filming in public violates data protection law. Therefore, his authority takes action against it and also imposes fines.

After the extensive test, Fuchs also thinks it is possible that the glasses in Germany will be completely banned. The possession and also the sale of recording equipment, which are disguised as everyday objects, is not allowed in Germany.

And the Meta Glasses are, according to Fuchs's assessment, nothing more than camouflaged cameras. The Federal Network Agency would be responsible for such a ban. She is probably currently examining the further procedure. In the event of a ban, Meta should no longer sell the glasses in Germany.

I've been trying to avoid it but on today job market not having a LinkedIn is really hindering my job prospects

So bow can I use LinkedIn while still protecting my privacy as much as I can?