#privacy

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I've never heard of surveillance pricing, but it tracks.

“Surveillance pricing analyzes massive troves of your personal information to predict the price you would be willing to pay for an item—and charge you accordingly. Retailers can charge a higher price when it thinks you can afford to spend more—on payday, for example. Or when you need something the most, such as in an emergency.”

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/fight-surveillance-pricing-we-need-privacy-first

You've probably heard that Paypal will start selling your personal data in November. Opt-out by turning it off:

In the EU, I found it under Settings > Data & Privacy > Interest-based marketing.

Elsewhere it has been found under Settings > Data & Privacy > PayPal Shopping or Settings > Data & Privacy > Manage shared info > Personalized shopping.

(Copypasted from someone's non boostable post with their permission.)

At least a dozen employees at the Dept of improperly accessed the of VP nominees & this summer, VA investigators found, in a violation of federal that is under investigation.

VA ofcls notified the & campaigns about the breaches after discovering the unauthorized viewing by employees at the agency’s massive health-care arm, the Health Admin….


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/30/vance-walz-medical-records-breach-va/

Mijn man wilde iets regelen op de site van de belastingdienst en dat kon opeens niet meer. Na lang in de wacht en iemand aan de telefoon vertelde die medewerker dat de site alleen in Chrome werkt.

Dus de belastingdienst en de overheid dwingt mensen om een browser te installeren en te gebruiken die door bijvoorbeeld @bitsoffreedom als meest privacy-onvriendelijke wordt omschreven?

@financien

I received not one but TWO notices of data breach this week, and one of them involved my kid’s health records. They offered me free credit monitoring in exchange for someone potentially weaponizing my child’s health information in the future.

WHAT THE FUCK. How is this acceptable in a modern civilization? How are we accepting this as just business as usual?

PayPal is updating their Terms of Service to automatically give merchants access to your data starting in November and they've already opted you into it.

The EU has better privacy laws than North America, so if you're there you won't even have these settings.

OPT OUT BEFORE THEY START:

Go to Settings > Data & Privacy > PayPal Shopping and toggle it to off.

"Amendments to the PayPal Privacy Statement Effective November 27, 2024: • We are updating our Privacy Statement to explain how, starting early Summer 2025, we will share information to help improve your shopping experience and make it more personalized for you. The key update to the Privacy Statement explains how we will share information with merchants to personalize your shopping experience and recommend our services to you. Personal information we disclose includes, for example, products, preferences, sizes, and styles we think you'll like. Information gathered about you after the effective date of our updated Privacy Statement, November 27, 2024, will be shared with participating stores where you shop, unless you live in California, North Dakota, or Vermont. For PayPal customers in California, North Dakota, or Vermont, we'll only share your information with those merchants if you tell us to do so. No matter where you live, you'll always be able to exercise your right to opt out of this data sharing by updating your preference settings in your account under "Data and Privacy." • We are also making other updates to our Privacy Statement including some additional disclosures related to your right, depending on the jurisdiction in which you reside, to ask us for a list of the third parties to which we have disclosed personal information, and to provide other clarifying information."

Auditor app version 86 released:

https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Auditor/releases/tag/86

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release and a link to the full changelog.

Forum discussion thread:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/16094-auditor-app-version-86-released

See https://attestation.app/about and https://attestation.app/tutorial for info about the app and optional monitoring service.