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Meta(Facebook) and Yandex apps silently de-anonymize users’ browsing habits without consent.

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pro@programming.dev

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This kind of cross-platform tracking is unprecedented - and it’s especially surprising coming from two companies that serve billions of users worldwide

New research highlights privacy abuse involving Meta and Yandex | Radboud University

An international research collaboration discovered a potential privacy abuse involving Meta and Yandex bridging persistent identifiers to browsing histories. Native Android apps, such as Facebook or Instagram, silently listen on fixed local ports.

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This kind of cross-platform tracking is unprecedented - and it’s especially surprising coming from two companies that serve billions of users worldwide

New research highlights privacy abuse involving Meta and Yandex | Radboud University

An international research collaboration discovered a potential privacy abuse involving Meta and Yandex bridging persistent identifiers to browsing histories. Native Android apps, such as Facebook or Instagram, silently listen on fixed local ports.

(www.ru.nl)
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If you are using facebook at this point, you deserve anything that happens.
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This kind of cross-platform tracking is unprecedented - and it’s especially surprising coming from two companies that serve billions of users worldwide

New research highlights privacy abuse involving Meta and Yandex | Radboud University

An international research collaboration discovered a potential privacy abuse involving Meta and Yandex bridging persistent identifiers to browsing histories. Native Android apps, such as Facebook or Instagram, silently listen on fixed local ports.

(www.ru.nl)
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This kind of cross-platform tracking is unprecedented - and it’s especially surprising coming from two companies that serve billions of users worldwide

New research highlights privacy abuse involving Meta and Yandex | Radboud University

An international research collaboration discovered a potential privacy abuse involving Meta and Yandex bridging persistent identifiers to browsing histories. Native Android apps, such as Facebook or Instagram, silently listen on fixed local ports.

(www.ru.nl)
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cocopanda@lemmy.world

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Well. Fuck them. They banned me for calling out racists. Glad they don’t have my data anymore.
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This kind of cross-platform tracking is unprecedented - and it’s especially surprising coming from two companies that serve billions of users worldwide

New research highlights privacy abuse involving Meta and Yandex | Radboud University

An international research collaboration discovered a potential privacy abuse involving Meta and Yandex bridging persistent identifiers to browsing histories. Native Android apps, such as Facebook or Instagram, silently listen on fixed local ports.

(www.ru.nl)
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tal@lemmy.today

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and it’s especially surprising coming from two companies that serve billions of users worldwide

I mean, deanonymization and data-mining costs are gonna be R&D, so they're a fixed cost that doesn't really scale up with the size of the userbase, so it makes more sense, financially, for a company with a larger userbase to be putting resources into it.
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and it’s especially surprising coming from two companies that serve billions of users worldwide

I mean, deanonymization and data-mining costs are gonna be R&D, so they're a fixed cost that doesn't really scale up with the size of the userbase, so it makes more sense, financially, for a company with a larger userbase to be putting resources into it.
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colloidal@programming.dev

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One could say it's their fiduciary duty.
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How LLMs could be insider threats
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Of course they're not "three laws safe". They're black boxes that spit out text. We don't have enough understanding and control over how they work to force them to comply with the three laws of robotics, and the LLMs themselves do not have the reasoning capability or the consistency to enforce them even if we prompt them to.
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Government May Reclassify UK Broadband as Defence Spending - ISPreview UK
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On the one hand, this is possibly dubious in that things that aren't generally considered to be part of defence will be used to inflate our defence spending numbers without actually spending more than previous (i.e. it's just a PR move) But on the other hand, this could be immensely useful in telling the NIMBYs to fuck right off. What's that, you're opposing infrastructure improvements, new housing, or wind turbines? Aw, diddums, that's too bad. This is deemed critical for national security, and thus the government can give it approval regardless. Sorry Bernard, sorry Mary, your petition against any change in the area is going nowhere.
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Do you trust Xi with your 'private' browsing data? Apple and Google app stores still offer China-based VPNs.
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Same as American companies. Send you targeted ads and news articles to influence your world view as a form of new soft power.
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This will be a privacy nightmare.
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VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website.
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I have a perfectly fine moral framework According to what? Not everyone has the same beliefs and negative attitude toward it Not everyone thinks female circumcision is bad either. for some it can even have a positive impact. Lol I don’t believe in absolutist terms. Do you absolutely believe that? While your continued failure to comprehend my initial comment is astonishing Your initial comment is indicative of somebody who hasn't thought seriously about their worldview but feels confident about critiquing others.
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Hm. Checking my glasses I think there is something on the top too. I can see distance ever so slightly clearer looking out the top. If I remember right, I have a minus .25 in one eye. Always been told it didn't need correction, but maybe it is in this pair. I should go get some off the shelf progressive readers and try those.
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Isn't the most common failure modes of electronics capacitors dying, followed closely by heat in chips? This research sounds cool and all.
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Online group started by a 15 year old in Texas playing Minecraft and watching extreme gore they said in this article. Were they also involved in said sexual exploiting of other kids, or was that just the spin offs that came from other people/countries? It all sounds terrible but I wonder if this was just a kid who did something for attention and then other perpetrators got involved and kept taking it further and down other rabbit holes. Definitely seems like a know what your kid is doing online scenario, but also yikes on all the 18+ members who joined and participated in such.