Privacy

OQB: @spinning_disk_engineer@lemmy.ca

I'm looking into getting some domains for email, so I don't need to use the same few addresses for everything. In doing this, the domain name itself becomes the identity, but it's also entirely arbitrary.

What is a good method to choose domain names so that they look more or less normal? Catch all addresses can of course be detected in SMTP, but the idea is just to not look suspicious. Would anyone be comfortable sharing the constructions they use? (though not the domains themselves, for obvious reasons) Should I use subdomains for the things that can safely be correlated, (as spam defense) or is it better to only use different mailboxes on one domain?

Does anyone know if there are any lemmy instances hosted on i2p or tor?

If not, does it make sense to host one that would potentially be more privacy friendly? I'm also wondering if it should be it's own "fediverse" completely inside of i2p (and/or tor) and not have access to the clearnet?

YouTube announced on Tuesday that it will begin to use artificial intelligence to estimate the ages of users in the US, in order to show them age-appropriate content.

The rollout of the new feature comes one day after Australia’s government announced it would ban children under 16 from using YouTube and less than a week after the UK implemented sweeping age checks on content on social networks.

YouTube’s AI age verification on its home turf indicates it is putting into place a form of compliance with the Australian and UK requirements, despite its persistent opposition to age-check requirements.

“Over the next few weeks, we’ll begin to roll out machine learning to a small set of users in the US to estimate their age, so that teens are treated as teens and adults as adults,” wrote James Beser, director of product management for YouTube Youth, in a blogpost titled Extending our built-in protections to more teens on YouTube.

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Police in the south-western German state of Baden-Württemberg are to be allowed to use the analysis software from US firm Palantir, which is controversial among data protection advocates

The software was specifically developed for security agencies and is used by intelligence services, the military and police.

Palantir was founded in 2003 in the United States, notably by tech billionaire Peter Thiel. He is known for his libertarian and conservative positions, his closeness to US President Donald Trump and his criticism of liberal democracies.

With a rapidly changing political landscape in the United States, Canada must move quickly to safeguard valuable Canadian health data, argue the authors of a commentary published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and its reliance on massive amounts of data has increased the value of these data and created new risks on top of pre-existing concerns about health data being used by other countries for national security purposes.

"Serious privacy, security, and economic risks arise when companies in other countries hold and use Canadian data. Given the rapidly changing political climate in the United States, preserving the sovereignty of Canada's health data—notably, ensuring that the data are subject to Canadian laws and legal systems—requires renewed focus," writes co-author Dr. Michael Geist, a Canada Research Chair in Internet and e-Commerce Law, and professor at the Center for Law, Technology and Society, University of Ottawa.

Canada's health system is largely reliant on US providers that manage electronic medical record systems for hospitals and store encrypted data on servers or cloud servers. Although these servers are located in Canada, they are owned by the US companies Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud.

Europe has expressed similar concerns for their region. For example, the recent Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act in the US that potentially allows US law enforcement to access data held by US companies in other countries could be a threat.