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It's odd that of the two replies referencing people, both got their names obviously wrong. Is that a new phishing tactic?
New AI tactic.
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>One big privacy issue is that there is no sane way to protect your contact details from being sold, regardless of what you do. >As soon as your cousin clicks "Yes, I would like to share the entire contents of my contacts with you" when they launch TikTok your name, phone number, email etc are all in the crowd. Fortunately this is changing with iOS 18 with "limited contacts" sharing. https://mobiledevmemo.com/wp-cont…
How about a no/limited internet setting? So many apps spy on you and they don’t need network at all to function.
But it's only available in China.
https://tinyapps.org/blog/202209100700_ios_disable_wifi_per_...
It's a bit ironic that Privacy Badger extension finds 7 trackers on the article's page.
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Is there any documentation on this to read further? I.e. what the different levels contain and how much on average is the cost reduction for the merchant.
Here is implementation documentation from Mastercard about l3: https://na-gateway.mastercard.com/api/documentation/integrat... The cost reduction is very small, it’s applied to interchange fees. I’ve been directly responsible for implementing this functionality on payment gateways for multiple processors because it helps reduce fraud holds as well.
searching for “mastercard level 3 data takeout” and such bring up the same 5 pages that are not relevant.
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>One big privacy issue is that there is no sane way to protect your contact details from being sold, regardless of what you do. >As soon as your cousin clicks "Yes, I would like to share the entire contents of my contacts with you" when they launch TikTok your name, phone number, email etc are all in the crowd. Fortunately this is changing with iOS 18 with "limited contacts" sharing. https://mobiledevmemo.com/wp-cont…
How about a no/limited internet setting? So many apps spy on you and they don’t need network at all to function.
I find it fascinating reading hacker news, full of IT folk who simultaneously build software that enables and profits from the advertising and personal information selling & tracking industry - are also the same people who complain the loudest about it. Unbelievable.
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(and if you haven't... check out the APIs available to the developers/owners of all the websites you browse: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API )
what should imply checking available web apis? the comments is correct, browser can't access your location without explicit confirmation from the user, the same apply for other web apis, or at least mention a bunch of them which you know don't apply instead of linkin MDN
Good overview about how fingerprinting works: https://www.privacyaffairs.com/browser-fingerprinting/
Browse the source in the following directory to see a plethora of examples of how web APIs are used to fingerprint users -- and this is just one publicly-accessible library we can easily review the source code of (proprietary, obfuscated ones likely use additional methods): https://github.com/fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs/tree/master/s...
One example used in multiple places in the above repo is "matchMedia"[0] which was a Web API method added a while ago (well, many years ago) to give a programmatic result of whether a given CSS media query matches or not. This can be used to detect, for example, user preferences like whether the display is HDR-capable[1], or the Accessibility setting "reduce motion" is enabled[2].
[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/matc...
[1] https://github.com/fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs/blob/master/s...
[2] https://github.com/fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs/blob/master/s...