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Session is a secure messaging app that protects your metadata, encrypts your communications and makes sure your messaging activities leave no digital trail behind.

"Secret messages for Alexa and Co. Researchers can hide secret commands for voice assistants in spoken sentences, birds' twittering, or music. They are not audible to the human ear. The machine recognises them precisely."

EFF's secure messaging score card

"Users of Turkey's equivalent to Reddit received an unsettling message late last night. Across the site, users began complaining that they'd received a mysterious DM from an account named "iamwaldo" that left many people feeling paranoid and anxious. It appears that was the intention of the message, which is actually a viral marketing ploy to promote the new season of Black Mirror."

"Facebook-owned messaging giant WhatsApp has announced a big change to its privacy policy which, once a user accepts its new T&Cs, will see it start to share some user data with its parent company - including for ad-targeting purposes on the latter service."

"Facebook's News Feed-the main list of status updates, messages, and photos you see when you open Facebook on your computer or phone-is not a perfect mirror of the world. But few users expect that Facebook would change their News Feed in order to manipulate their emotional state."

I didn't realize how much data about me Messenger was revealing to the people I chatted with until last week when I began tinkering with my message history.

"Only a couple of weeks ago, there were a lot of news headlines about how Germany had banned an internet-connected doll called "Cayla" over fears hackers could target children. One of their primary concerns was the potential risk to the privacy of children:"

Kazarma is a bridge between two decentralized protocols: Matrix and ActivityPub. Kazarma allows exchange via private messages between Matrix users and users of an ActivityPub platform, such as Mastodon, PeerTube or Funkwhale. Public ActivityPub activities (eg toots threads) are also bridged into Matrix channels. The Kazarma bridge is easy to deploy, secure and easy to scale.

" Officials now admit they shared data because otherwise it would have affected patients' treatment "