Privacy

In this Techlore Talks episode, I sit down with Jose Briones to explore whether dumb phones really offer better privacy and how digital minimalism can transform your relationship with technology. Jose breaks down practical strategies for reducing screen time, the importance of device segmentation, and why mindset, not just hardware, matters most. Whether you're considering a dumb phone or looking to reclaim your focus, this conversation will challenge how you think about your devices. > > Techlore empowers individuals with practical digital privacy knowledge, security tools, and advocacy resources to protect your data and reclaim your digital identity. > > 📱 RESOURCES IN VIDEO: > • https://josebriones.org/ > • https://www.dumbphones.org/ > • https://www.youtube.com/c/josebriones > • Jose's interview of Henry: https://josebriones.substack.com/p/building-better-digital-habits > > 🔎 RELATED VIDEOS: > • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyQuwUJgPPY > > ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS: > 00:00:00 INTRO > 00:01:24 DUMBPHONES + PRIVACY & DIGITAL RIGHTS > 00:03:56 WHY ARE DUMBPHONES BETTER FOR PRIVACY? > 00:05:48 DUMBPHONES VS. MINIMAL SMARTPHONES > 00:08:57 ADOPTING THE MINDSET > 00:13:41 ADJUSTING FOR ONLINE WORK > 00:18:21 HANDLING MISMATCHED EMOTIONS > 00:22:40 ARE OFFLINE ACTIVITIES IMPORTANT? > 00:26:12 FINDING A BALANCE WITH ONLINE WORK REQUIREMENTS > 00:30:16 DIGITAL MINIMALISM + HARDWARE > 00:35:21 DEVICES & WHERE TO START > 00:39:42 ENCRYPTED COMMUNICATION > 00:44:19 WHEN OUR CHOICES IMPACT OTHERS > 00:48:33 ARE WE ANTI-TECHNOLOGY? > 00:51:36 HENRY'S IDEAL PHONE > 00:54:41 CONTENT CREATION & CONSUMPTION > 00:57:44 HOW CAN PEOPLE FIND YOU? > 00:59:29 OUTRO > > 🔐 TECHLORE RESOURCES: > • Homepage: https://techlore.tech/ > • Go Incognito Course: https://techlore.tech/goincognito > • Forum: https://discuss.techlore.tech/ > • Privacy Tools: https://techlore.tech/resources > > 🧡 SUPPORT TECHLORE: > • All Methods: https://techlore.tech/support > • Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/techlore > • YouTube Memberships: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs6KfncB4OV6Vug4o_bzijg/join > > 📺 MORE TECHLORE: > • Surveillance Report: https://www.youtube.com/@surveillancereport > • Techlore Clips: https://www.youtube.com/@techloreclips > > 🌐 FOLLOW ELSEWHERE: > • PeerTube: https://techlore.tv/ > • Mastodon: https://social.lol/@techlore > • Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/techlore.tech > • Twitter: https://twitter.com/TechloreInc > • Telegram: https://t.me/techlorefeed

In an open letter to the Irish government on Thursday (23 October), signed by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, noyb, ARTICLE 19, the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom, plus 40 others, highlights the conflict of interest Sweeney brings to a position that is supposed to police the same firms in which she used to work.

Changes to TikTok's policies make it easier for the company to share users’ personal information with governments. TikTok did not respond to questions about the changes.

Concerns over AI surveillance in schools are intensifying after armed officers swarmed a 16-year-old student outside Kenwood High School in Baltimore when an AI gun detection system falsely flagged a Doritos bag as a firearm.

Allen was handcuffed at gunpoint. Police later showed him the AI-captured image that triggered the alert. The crumpled Doritos bag in his pocket had been mistaken for a gun.

The DNS0.EU non-profit public DNS service focused on European users announced its immediate shut down due to time and resource constraints.

When the microcomputer first landed in homes some forty years ago, it came with a simple freedom—you could run whatever software you could get your hands on. Floppy disk from a friend? Pop it in. Shareware demo downloaded from a BBS? Go ahead! Dodgy code you wrote yourself at 2 AM? Absolutely. The computer you bought was yours. It would run whatever you told it to run, and ask no questions.

Today, that freedom is dying. What’s worse, is it’s happening so gradually that most people haven’t noticed we’re already halfway into the coffin.

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Signal's privacy and security are great, but being a centralized app makes it vulnerable. Element explains to TechRadar why we do need decentralized apps more than ever.

An awesome app I just discovered for browsing reddit links. Like the rest of you I've abandoned reddit but a lot of research on the web takes you to reddit. It's unsafe to browse the main site. This app is fully incognito and doesn't require an account. It's also gorgeous. It could potentially go inactive soon due to an API change. Last update was also in June but they fixed a crash this morning so someone's still working on it.

Probably not much.

• AtlasOS: https://atlasos.net/
• Amelabs Privacy+: https://docs.amelabs.net/privacy/_plus.html

I use a Windows VM for apps not available on Linux and just want to cut out all the telemetry possible.

AtlasOS is installed as a Ameliorated Playbook and makes a ton of opinionated changes that aren’t privacy or necessarily performance related. Disabling the Windows 11 right click menus in favor of the legacy one, disabling window shadows, changing the wallpaper, etc. Privacy+ looks appealing, I wanna know if anyone has tried both and can tell me differences, like if one or the other improves privacy more.