The email also has my first name and tells me how to find the same details that are in the email! Surely this is a massive security risk for customers.

“Whether you need the details to receive your salary, or for bank transfers from friends, your account information is always available and easy to find.

We've included your local account details here, for reference. You can find them in-app by tapping Details on the main screen — that's really all there is to it.”

When I'm sending files/folders between computers, I typically use Magic Wormhole. A phone entering the equation changes that. Are there any solid, privacy-friendly alternatives to use in place of AirDrop and if so, what are their limitations?

Currently to click the on/off button you:

1. Open the app
2. Tap Settings
3. Tap location sharing
4. Tap the on/off switch

It is relatively easy, however, I think maybe they should promote privacy options more for users who want it. give users the option to make the on/off button more prominent.

One way would be to give users an option to have the on/off button be the first thing they see when opening the app

Another way would be to actually promote only sharing for a few seconds to minutes at a time. Yes, we can tap on and then off immediately, but I think it could give some peace of mind if there were options below the on off switch that specifically say "enable location sharing for 10 seconds only, 30 seconds, and one minute only" or something to that effect. This way, family members could get the notifications of where fellow family members are, and then if the user want privacy, they wouldn't even have to click an off button. Instead they could just get used to occasionally pressing the "on for 10 seconds" button to send out location notifications for family.

This might help sway users who are hesitant to actually download and install the app, seeing that the app respects users privacy from the get go.

They could also have a 1x2/ resizable home screen widget that says something like life360 location sharing ON or OFF etc. And then tapping that would open the app to change settings etc.

Update - a commenter mentioned

"> seeing that the app respects users privacy from the get go

You haven't read their Privacy Policy, have you?"

First off, the "privacy" I'm referring to is more about like, personal privacy of the ability to quickly turn off the "share location" button. If you're referring to the privacy policy, well, actually, now that I think of it, I'll go check it out just the be better informed. BRB.

Ok so maybe I should have called it "user consent" instead of privacy.

I have one bank account linked with Plaid, sort of my "dirty" account for cases where there is no alternative.

As I understand it, Plaid may or may not keep my password depending on the bank. Is there a way to tell?

Here are my guesses, do they make sense?

1. If I need to re-link when my password is changed, it's more likely that Plaid has my password rather than using some other kind of connection to my bank.
2. If it's a smaller bank, it's more likely that Plaid has my password.

My bank is Chime. If anyone knows the answer specifically for Chime, I'd appreciate it.

Based on my very uninformed research, I think Chime uses OAuth and therefore Plaid does not keep my credentials. https://developer.mastercard.com/open-banking-us/documentation/financial-institution/oauth-connections/

Title. Thanks.

what strategies do you recommend for online shopping. For some reason this is throwing me.

I can use an email aliases on each site and create a different identity, but I still need delivery and to pay (though I'm going to look into credit card masking through my bank).

That's right, I've given up on privacy because it's a useless battle in the long run, for me, life is just too short to worry and I now feel free to enjoy life and enjoy communicating and getting close with my family and friends.

For years, I have avoided Facebook, that was until I truly needed it.

My father died last year, and on the urging of my brother, I created my first Facebook account and with that account, I coordinated my dad's funeral, spoke to my father's friends, my relatives and family and I sent invitations to my father's funeral through Facebook.

I also opened my own YouTube account to upload the video of my father's funeral and shared the link via Facebook to all my father's overseas friends.

Without Facebook and YouTube, coordinating my father's funeral, mass and inurnment would have been harder.

And now, I've just given up on worrying about privacy and I'm just relaxing, I'm getting updates from my friends and family and have grown more close to them by lifting all the limits that I imposed on myself for worrying, life's too short to worry and I'm now free and happy. At this point in my life, communicating with my family, relatives and friends became too important than privacy.

You guys can downvote this post all you want, but I'm lifting my tinfoil hat and enjoying my life.

I’ve decided to build a new email system that lasts a lifetime. (M, 25)

Domain: lastname.email

Mailbox: firstname@lastname.email -> Shared with family and friends -> add wife and kids should I ever have

Aliases: tax@lastname.email -> For taxes only gov@lastname.email -> All things related to government fin@lastname.email -> Banking, finance and investing insu@lastname.email -> Insurances health@lastname.email -> Doctor, dentist and other health related services like gym membership service@lastname.email -> Services e. g. car maintenance

Up until here are the addresses I will be giving out to contact me/send me information. They should not be tied to an account. Does that make sense?

Whenever possible I will order online as a guest.

For all online accounts and shopping I will use eithher Proton Pass w/ SimpleLogin or Firefox Relay. I’m not sure whether I wanna host on Proton Mail or M365.

So I need to have about 15-20 different profiles in a browser that should appear as coming from different PCs/Laptops. So I'd like “each profile to have its own unique fingerprint” but it should be constant (saved between sessions- so when opened tomorrow- profile A's fingerprint shd. be same as today but each profile shd. be very different from one another). Cookies will be saved in each these profiles. And I'll be running these profiles from a virtual machine with Win 10, on a host Win 10 PC to keep all isolated as well.  And I'm using good proxies for diff. IPs. For each of these profiles.

I moved to this setup after using a major Anti Detect browser, as its costs were not justified. So I'm basically trying to replicate the fingerprinting and other defenses that AD browsers have with this setup.

I’ve tested Brave and Vivaldi with some extensions but still not getting there. After many hours of research on various forums, I’m still not on a clear path! There is just 1 issue that is stumping:

1.    Each of the profiles, must have a different fingerprint (main components I think being- Navigator, Canvas, Fonts, Port scan etc.) – so I need an extension to generate that unique fingerprint and then SAVE it in that profile forever (NOT Randomized ever so often, as most extensions do).

I’ll also use extensions for WebRTC and Geolocation by Proxy- those are not an issue for chrome, e.g I could use WebRTC network limiter extn (by Google) and for timezone spoofing     link

Regardless of whether I go with Firefox or Vivaldi (or any Chrome fork)- I’d like user-agent to spoof as “Chrome on Windows”- as for every 1 other browser user, there are 60 Chrome users and I want the profiles to blend in crowd. That also is doable with extensions.

I heard that Arkenfox on Firefox  can serve – but not sure if it deals with this and if so, how? And I can test profiles using  browserleaks.com;  amiunique.org or  Bromite.org

So big issue is really – any tool/extension to generate a unique fingerprint for each of these profiles and then SAVE it in profile forever (NOT Randomly change it ever so often).

I'm surprised that in various forums I still dont see any light for this “rather simple use case” – to generate “completely new fingerprint for each browser profiles” and save it until profile is deleted.

And just FYI- I’m a “below Noob” at coding.  So sincerely hope the experts here can chime in with some direction, in language I can follow!  Thanks and looking forward. Cross-psted

Some here that is using or used https://black.com ?

Im looking for a provider with good aviable names + Domain

So I visited a website on my phone that asked me to disable my ad blocker, etc, but I do NOT have an ad blocker installed on my phone, because I'm getting absolutely swamped by ads on just about every other website. Any suggestions?

So , I received a pop from some software which was not even installed in my phone , I was getting Pop-ads to play games on random sites but today I got from somewhere which was not even on my phone , I tried going to the app through system settings but didn't find it,

I quickly factory reset my phone because I was scared, is it possible that my pictures and other similar data could've been compromised.?

A friend from uni is working on a project and I'd like to help. However, he's using a Google Survey (class requirement), and I'd rather my responses aren't tied to my existing Google identity.

Is there any way to contribute to the survey anonymously? Like with a burner gmail account and a VPN?

I am new to digital privacy and de-googling, so sorry if this is a dumb question.

How secure are digital phone number services like TextFree which provide digital phone numbers?

Edit: Im looking for a free solution, forgot to mention that .

This probably is a somewhat recurrent topic but I haven't found any relevant resources for what i need, specially recent posts , so i hope i can find the solution here.

Im looking to implement a digital calendar on my life alongside my physical calendar on a notebook, mainly to have notifications and a widget on my android phone. I also want to be able to access it on my windows computer (web or app).

I need to have different colors on the events so its easy for me what each thing is.. Encryption/privacy is also important for me. Proton has that behind the Plus paid tier, which for now i dont want to pay, maybe in the future tho. Same for Tuta.

I could use Simple Calendar Pro, which has Caldav support but i dont know of a good calendar provider that supports caldav and is encrypted (IDK if this is even possible tbh).

Im not looking to self host for now, so nextcloud is out.

I hope you can help me find good solution :)

Thanks for the help.

I have been thinking about making a social media account on sites like facebook, instagram and bluesky, because nowadays if you are looking for a job not having social media will harm you. how do i go about this while staying privacy orintated? also since i will have to have pictures of my face

Can government access your telegram account (even the deleted ones) once they've got your IP and Mobile number ?

Hi everyone,

Since yesterday, my iPhone XS has been acting strangely. The touchscreen seems to be malfunctioning—I couldn’t press anything, and the apps on my home screen started to wiggle (as if in edit mode). Then, apps were randomly selected and even deleted from the home screen without me doing anything. Restarting the phone temporarily fixed it, but the issue happened again today.

Does anyone know what might be causing this or how to fix it? Thanks!

🌟 Dear Scientists, Researchers, Scholars, and Privacy Enthusiasts, 🌟

I am thrilled to announce the pre-print of my latest research paper, now available on the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) ePrint archive. 📚✨

Goal: To authenticate accurately and securely without revealing both virtual public identifiers (e.g., usernames, user IDs) and real-world identifiers (e.g., passwords, biometrics, or other secrets).

💡 Introducing COCO: A full-consensus, zero-knowledge authentication protocol designed with:

• 🔒 Efficiency
• 🕵️‍♂️ Unlinkability
• ⏳ Asynchrony
• 🌐 Liveness

COCO is built on Coconut credentials—a selective disclosure, re-randomizable credential scheme—and Oblivious Pseudorandom Functions (OPRF) to ensure both privacy and scalability in distributed frameworks.

🎯 This research is part of a larger project under Statecraft Laboratories to create a privacy-first virtual space.

🛠️ Explore the Codebase: Check it out on GitHub.

📩 Let’s Collaborate!

Your expertise and feedback—whether on theoretical foundations, practical implementations, or potential optimizations—are invaluable.

Feel free to reach out via:

• Email: [reiki.yamya14@gmail.com](mailto:reiki.yamya14@gmail.com)
• Or connect on Reddit itself!

Looking forward to insightful discussions and collaborations! 🤝

Warm regards, Yamya Reiki 🌿

I live in a place where criticizing religion is punishable by death, let alone the fact that if i was doxxed it'll also harm my relatives since it'd be a scandal

anyway i just met that online friend who shares me similar thoughts since 3 months and i started to feel safe and comfortable when i talk to them and thought of just letting them know how i look like just as a memory since we live too far from each other

If there's no guarantee I won't send any, so I'm just asking?

Not expecting this post to stay up, but the past 48 hours I’ve noticed a moderate increase in posts/ comments mostly serving to undermine many of the flagship technologies ordinarily recommended to improve privacy and security. I also noticed that none of these are directing people to less safe alternatives, more just blatantly wrong or misrepresented details that on the surface seemed aimed at moving people away from said technologies entirely. It spiking on Christmas and the eve of inspired posing the question. I’m probably just paranoid

I’m not calling it out, but subs I noticed it in were: r\Adblock r\ublock r\VPN r\Piracy r\Privacy

Yes the slash is intentionally backward, but you can figure it out. Again, not a call out and it can be people confused over articles they read regarding new gifts, but it seemed awfully coordinated and all from users with less than 500 collective karma. Is anyone eyeing similar upswings here or elsewhere in subs I’m just not subscribed to?