ECP NetHappenings How to Increase Your Privacy on the Net

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I deleted my entire digital footprint. You can too. Here’s how I did it:
https://x.com/AIBuzzNews/status/2002020994643370033

Step 1: Erase Your Traces

Visit: https://myactivity.google.com/?continue=https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity

Click on ‘Delete’.

Use the “Filter by Google product” option to pinpoint areas like Google Maps or Video Search.

Step 2: Go Invisible

Want to clear your entire internet history? It’s just one option away. Pick your option Choose your time period, then hit delete whatever amount of time you want. 

Step 3: Stay Private

Disable Google Activity tracking to stop Web and App Activity, Location History, and YouTube History from being recorded.

Step 4: Automate Privacy

Navigate to https://myactivity.google.com/?continue=https://myactivity.google.com/activitycontrols

Set an auto-delete for your data to regularly clear out old entries.

Step 5: Secure Your Connection

Use a VPN for secure, private browsing in public.
Combine it with DuckDuckGo for the ultimate privacy setup.
Good free version: ProtonVPN
Good paid version: NordVPN

Your Passwords
Keep existing accounts safe. Make it a habit to change your passwords for services every 3-6 months.

Why?

New hackers gain access to databases daily, and they might use that information to attempt hacking into your accounts or target you personally in the future.

ECP NetHappenings READ THIS Your absolute need for Privacy Online

ECP NetHappenings Your absolute need for Privacy Online

It is the Policy of NetHappenings to remind the public of their absolute need to protect their privacy online!!! It will can and will save your life.

SO SAD YESTERDAY
Abdul “Duke” Fakir, the last surviving original member of the beloved Motown group the Four Tops that was known for such hits as “Reach Out, I’ll Be There” and “Standing in the Shadows of Love,” has died at age 88.
Fakir died Monday of heart failure.
Watch my Movie Standing In The Shadows of Motown to learn about The Funk Brothers who were the band that arranged and played all the Four Tops songs they sang.
Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL9fF4Jtovc
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Standing-Shadows-Motown-Jack-Ashford/dp/B08QD2BB2C

Does Biden want to make the Democrats Happy?
Does Biden want to get the party energy up?
Fun facts:

If President Biden wanted to, before leaving office,  he could legally,… release the tax returns of Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, John Roberts, and Ted Cruz.

Kamala

With his New Executive Power Biden can:
1) Pardon his son;
2) Expand the Supreme Court;
3) Get rid of the Electoral College;
4) Codify Roe v. Wade.
5) IMPEACH Thomas and Alito
6) IMPRISON Trump.
7. Make Election Day a National Holiday
8) Get rid of the filibuster

ECP NetHappenings Your absolute need for Privacy Online

WEBXRAY IS A TOOL FOR LEGAL AND COMPLIANCE PROFESSIONALS TO FIND PRIVACY VIOLATIONS ON THE WEB.

This Machine Exposes Privacy Violations

This, Libert says, is why he developed webXray, a crude prototype of which he’s demoing for me right now. It’s a search engine for rooting out specific privacy violations anywhere on the web. By searching for a specific term or website, you can use webXray to see which sites are tracking you, and where all that data goes. Its mission, he says, is simple; “I want to give privacy enforcers equal technology as privacy violators.” To level the playing field.
A former Google engineer has built a search engine, webXray, that aims to find illicit online data collection and tracking—with the goal of becoming “the Henry Ford of tech lawsuits.” When you search online, is Big Tech watching? Absolutely, Tim Libert, an ex-Google engineer says.
Since 2012, he’s been researching the way the web tracks us. This week, he’s finally launching his own search engine to give power back to the people. What  many don’t know is that a lot of this leaking data is not just harmful, but outright illegal. That’s where Libert’s webXray comes in. Its mission, he says, is simple; “I want to give privacy enforcers equal technology as privacy violators.” With webXray, Libert says anyone can get a sense of how sprawling the web of privacy violations being made every day really is, along with a premium tier for regulators and attorneys, who can use the tool to assess those violations and address them.

The ways the web tracks us.

Every day, the companies that operate our most expansive and vital web infrastructure—Google, Microsoft, Facebook—track our browsing habits and gather extensive troves of data on us, based on what we search for and which pages we visit.  When you search for where to get an abortion, is sensitive data being tracked and collected? Unfortunately, very possibly so. Is an addiction treatment page or trans porn site exposing your IP address? Quite likely. Every day, tech companies may violate those laws when, say, search engines and medical websites trample HIPAA by allowing search logs of users’ ailments to be tracked, documented, and sometimes monetized by companies like Google, or running roughshod over consent rules by turning a blind eye to advertising cookies embedded in publishers’ websites.

Tech Bros authoritarianism / fascism

strange ideologies behind Silicon Valley’s far-right turn is a must-read!
« Each patchwork would be ruled by a “realm”: a corporation with absolute power. Citizens would be free to move, but every other realm would also be ruled by corporate governments with chilling impunity. »

Tech bro geniuses just reinvented feudalism and think it’s the future

Peter Thiel has implied that giving women the right to vote was a mistake.
He’s also a billionaire, self-professed “Christian,” & longtime critic of “multiculturalism” who bankrolled JD Vance in 2022.
Some Christian extremists thus embrace him despite his homosexuality (he was outed by Gawker).

Since 1920, the vast increase
in welfare beneficiaries and the
extension of the franchise to
women — two constituencies
that are notoriously tough for
libertarians – have rendered the
notion of “capitalist democracy”
into an oxymoron.
— Peter Thiel
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Jason Klint says Google is royally screwed

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The United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division is locked in on Google. The press conference could not have been tighter.

Starting at the very top. This is a very big deal.
AAG Gupta: “…and punished publishers who sought out alternatives. Those actions have weakened the free and open internet.”

Ok, let’s do this. I’ve now read all 153 pages of United States vs Google filed earlier today.
As I’ve said earlier, Google is royally screwed. The suit is super well-written building on prior work investigating Google’s market power abuse leveraging advertising technologies. /1

 

Scammers convince Google owned Youtube and steals your music.

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Scammers convince Google owned Youtube and steals your music

Scammers were able to convince YouTube that other people’s music was their own. They successfully stole $23 million [https://mashable.com/article/youtube-copyright-royalties-heist] before they were caught.

No one knows how common this scam is, and how much money total is being stolen in this way. Presumably this is not an uncommon fraud.

While the size of the heist and the breadth of the scheme may be very unique, it’s certainly a situation that many YouTube content creators have faced before. YouTube’s Content ID system, meant to help creators, has been weaponized by bad faith actors in order to make money off content that isn’t theirs. While some false claims are just mistakes caused by automated systems, the MediaMuv case is a perfect example of how fraudsters are also purposefully taking advantage of digital copyright rules.

GOOGLE OWNS YOUTUBE!
the largest royalty theft in YouTube’s history

MediaMuv Principals Charged with Stealing Millions in Music Royalties from 2016 to the present, Teran and Batista used fraudulent pretenses and made false representations to collect over $20 million in royalty payments for music that was monetized through a third-party company. Through their company MediaMuv, Teran and Batista allegedly first claimed they had the legal right to monetize over 50,000+ songs on February 13, 2017.

YouTube attempts to be cautious with who it provides CMS and Content ID tool access because of how powerful these systems are. As a result, independent creators and artists cannot check for these false copyright claims nor do they have the power to directly act on them. They need to go through a digital rights management company that does have access. And it seems like thieves are doing the same, falsifying documents to gain access to these YouTube tools through these third parties that are “trusted” with these tools by YouTube.

youTube previously said that it paid $5.5 billion in ad revenue to rightsholders from content claimed and monetized through Content ID

but the system doesn’t always work exactly as planned.

THAT’S THE UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE YEAR@!!@!@