AlexanderHanff

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by AlexanderHanff 1mo ago
Despite being a big supporter of Apple and having worked closely with them on a number of privacy issues - I have a problem with the fact that it is impossible for users to audit what apps are doing on the majority of Apple's devices a
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Using Claude Code to reclaim mobile app privacy(thatprivacyguy.com)
3 points by AlexanderHanff 1mo ago|1 comments
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by AlexanderHanff 1mo ago
In this article I discuss how I use Claude Code to replace app store mobile apps with local PWAs that have the same functionality without the privacy abuses and explain that if mobile app developers don't start to obey the law, others
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by AlexanderHanff 1mo ago
No matter how many laws the US States pass for online provacy, none of them are fit for purpose because they are all based on Notice and Choice (OPT-OUT) which then hits the Same Origin Policy in the browser.
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by AlexanderHanff 2mo ago
Many people have asked me how I manage my privacy first stance when it comes to AI - the answer is simple so I wrote a blog post about it.
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by AlexanderHanff 2mo ago
OK it should be fixed now - there was a rate limit which doesn't normally land but due to multiple Tor users coming through the same exit node, it was triggering the limit. Nothing to do with the certs just told me a cert error because
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by AlexanderHanff 2mo ago
I cannot see what is causing the issue, the certificate's full chain is sent, the clock is synced, the cert is showing zero errors in OpenSSL - so this is very confusing. The irony is, you don't actually need Tor on my site becaus
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by AlexanderHanff 2mo ago
Not sure why, it is working fine everywhere else - I see in Tor it gives an invalid certificate error, but the Lets Encrypt certificate is working fine in other browsers, so seems to be a Tor thing specifically. I will investigate.
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by AlexanderHanff 2mo ago
I have put up a list of all the MEPs who voted for the urgency procedure yesterday (in breach of EU rules) as well as their voting history on fundamental rights issues and who has been lobbying them: https://www.thatprivacyguy.co
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by AlexanderHanff 2mo ago
After yesterday disastrous result for democracy, where the President of the European Parliament used her power to force a vote on ChatControl I which the Parliament already voted against and allowed to expire earlier this year. The move by
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by AlexanderHanff 2mo ago
As a CSA survivor I have spent decades campaigning for victims and survivors of CSA/CSAM and even wrote my Master Thesis on the topic. Yesterday I once again pleaded with EU law makers not to pass Chat Control.
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by AlexanderHanff 3mo ago
Whereas the main story here is the Commission's complete failure to do anything about Pegasus - I focused on the fact that the MEP in question and MEPs in general - should not be using their phones as information archives.
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by AlexanderHanff 3mo ago
I haven't ever used Google Slides - does that make me special?
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by AlexanderHanff 3mo ago
I saw this - so they are spending money 2x faster than they are making it and offering to give the public 5% of their debt whilst Sam takes home billions... sounds like a fantastic deal...
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by AlexanderHanff 3mo ago
With Trump vs Slaughter gutting independence of the FTC - the Data Privacy Framework agreement used to transfer personal data from the EU to the US is unlikely to survive.
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Google Gemini Claims to be "structurally protective" of Donald Trump(thatprivacyguy.com)
15 points by AlexanderHanff 3mo ago|3 comments
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by AlexanderHanff 3mo ago
I wanted to see if US Frontier Models are exhibiting censorship so I asked Gemini a question about the current state of the world - the response was quite concerning as Gemini informed me it is "structurally protective of Donald Trump&
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by AlexanderHanff 3mo ago
Or you could actually read the article and look at the evidence which is based on peer reviewed research...
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by AlexanderHanff 3mo ago
You are assuming that the author (me) hasn't tried to help the UN do it right in the past and that assumption would be wrong. They don't get to shout at big tech when they are doing exactly the same thing and using the same vendor
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by AlexanderHanff 3mo ago
The buck stops at him, whether he likes it or not.
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UN hypocrisy in AI Environmental demands(thatprivacyguy.com)
5 points by AlexanderHanff 3mo ago|8 comments
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by AlexanderHanff 3mo ago
As much as I support the UN (I have worked in privacy for 20 years, my life's work is in the field of human rights) - I do not support hypocrisy and it is long past due that the UN lead by example.
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by AlexanderHanff 3mo ago
No, it argues that the use of javascript for purposes which require consent, requires consent... EU law only allows strictly necessary use for the provision of the requested service so adtech and analytics require consent as they are not co
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Managed to get a criminal investigation into adtech(thatprivacyguy.com)
5 points by AlexanderHanff 3mo ago|3 comments
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by AlexanderHanff 3mo ago
Today I have successfully managed to get the police to investigate the deployment of adtech software (scripts) without consent as a criminal offence under unauthorised computer access and misuse. I am basically arguing that deployment of th
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by AlexanderHanff 3mo ago
Yes this is the difference, they did not allow you to opt out previously, they explicitly said that if you want to be in the club you have to accept their spam. Now they allow you not to accept their spam. Now they rely on Soft Opt-In (whic
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by AlexanderHanff 3mo ago
Processing my personal data in such a way (to ban me from your services pre-emptively) would be a breach of the GDPR and in some member states could involve criminal sanctions. For example, in the UK we have a very famous case (The Consulti
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by AlexanderHanff 3mo ago
They are not written by an LLM lol, I have severe ADHD, this is how I write and there is plenty of my material out there spanning the last 20+ years (long before LLMs existed) to illustrate that.
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by AlexanderHanff 3mo ago
They actually are bound by the ePrivacy Directive due to jurisprudence (EU bodies must comply with CJEU rulings). I actually wrote to the EDPB on 25th May 2018 (the day GDPR came into effect) and forced them to make their own website compli
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by AlexanderHanff 3mo ago
I wrote this 5 years ago, hopefully it will clear up some of the misconceptions around cookie banners: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/truth-behind-cookie-banners-a...

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