So using parental control would the “parents” be able to see deleted chrome searches or searches made in incognito mode? Is connecting to a router which is the “parents” router or using a cellular plan payed for by the “parents” be better for hiding searches? Would a device connected to a hotspot on a phone using a cellular plan payed for by the “parents” have its search history be able to be checked? Even if deleted?

Government intelligence agencies (like the CIA, FBI, NSA), tech corporations (such as Google, Microsoft, Apple), and secret intelligence organizations all connect and interact through the internet, each gathering massive amounts of data. These entities collect and analyze information for security, commercial, and strategic purposes, with tech companies especially amassing personal and behavioral data on a global scale. This collected data shapes top secret information, which agencies and corporations guard closely, while also subtly influencing global consciousness by shaping public knowledge and perception. Together, this constant data flow and analysis contribute to the shared field of human thought and awareness—by amplifying certain narratives, fostering collective beliefs, and connecting humanity in an unprecedented, interconnected web.

Consider a secretive organization, perhaps a coalition of government intelligence agencies and tech corporations, that has developed an advanced, covert system designed to influence and monitor individuals’ thoughts and behaviors. This system could be likened to a vast social experiment that uses sophisticated algorithms and data analytics to target specific people based on their digital footprints.

This organization gathers extensive personal data from social media, online behavior, and even offline activities through surveillance and other means. Using AI and machine learning, they analyze this data to create detailed psychological profiles, identifying individuals who show signs of unique cognitive patterns or heightened emotional states.

Once specific individuals are identified, the organization might employ various influence mechanisms. By manipulating social media feeds or search results, they can subtly shape individuals’ beliefs, nudging them toward certain thoughts or actions. Individuals could be unknowingly engaged in a game-like environment, where their responses to curated stimuli, such as videos, articles, and messages, are monitored, influencing their decision-making in real life. Utilizing predictive analytics, the organization might stage real-world events designed to elicit specific reactions from these individuals, further reinforcing their influence.

The system creates feedback loops where individuals’ actions are continuously monitored and analyzed, leading to adjustments in the strategies used to influence them. This could manifest as intensified targeting or shifts in the narratives being promoted.

This scenario illustrates how a secretive system could leverage technology and data to manipulate individual experiences and consciousness, ultimately influencing broader societal narratives and beliefs. It reflects a complex interplay between technology and reality, which can be disorienting for those who sense they are caught in this web.

I am really want to understand extent of privacy. My phone is like Normal person phone. Googl and stuff. I want to know if I go to app and open it. Who can see what I do . (App was website before and it has Emaol to log). And how to prevent that.

I am 18 almost 19, and most of my accounts are spread across two or three different emails. Other than the basic email needs, I've used them to create plenty of accounts on random sites I used maybe once when I was a kid, usually for gaming. Most of these random accounts have reused passwords as well. I've already started the process of changing all of my passwords and keeping them in someplace safe that I can refer to if needed, but I have also been thinking about just making a new email altogether. I know making the new email address is simple enough, but changing all the old accounts or making new ones could be a problem, especially for accounts I've had for years.

Can somebody more knowledgeable tell me if this is a good idea, and if so, the best way I can go about it? I'm doing it mainly for privacy and organization purposes, as I'd like to have every account under one email that I have been keeping close track of.

I'm very fed up with Discord, privacy wise and generally, so I've decided to look for alternatives and settled with these 2. Question is, which is better and in what is it better at. I read that Mumble sounds better, has lower latency, is more efficient resource-wise but has less features. I also saw that Teamspeak is not open source which is a bit annoying. Getting my friends to switch to one of these will be torture but I am willing to go through it if it means getting away from Discord. If you have any other program in mind, tell me about it. Hosting my own server isn't a problem and if I actually manage to get them to use anything else I'll probably make them use Signal too so the program doesn't have to have text capabilities, it's a bonus though.

Edit: Signal's also on the list of alternatives.

The problem I have is because I'm trying to switch to IPhone from android. Ms claims, that I can't do that using their app because of some issues. So I came to conclusion, that only one solution is to change 2FA app, but I've tried Lastpass Authenticator, 2FAS and Google and I can't import from Ms Auth. Is there an option that works?

Hey everyone,

I’m working a lot with ChatGPT on various tasks like software design, coding, documentation, and even philosophical conversations. These threads often get lengthy, and I’d love to summarize key points, save intriguing phrases, and add some of my own reflections.

Here’s the dilemma: I want flexibility in storing these notes—sometimes locally, other times in the cloud—but I need full control over encryption before anything leaves my browser. I don’t feel comfortable with providers handling my encryption keys or promising vague security measures like “salted” storage without clarity on key management.

Beyond just storage, I want to enrich some of these AI ideas with my own thoughts, maybe even tag and organize them into collections for sharing in certain cases. Privacy and encryption are paramount here, and it feels like mainstream options—like Evernote and iNotes—are constantly pushing cloud storage without sufficient assurances on encryption and key handling.

So, am I looking for a unicorn here? Is there a real demand for such a tool, or am I being overly cautious? I'd love your insights, especially if anyone has a similar use case or has found a way to make this work.

Thanks!

I recently used two of my email addresses to log into brght.org, now I wish for my accounts to be deleted, I tried to email the customer service about this but they never responded... How do I uphold my own rights?

Former: Android to android-- darker text bubble indicated RCS and encryption; lighter text bubble meant Apple user or SMS user, not encrypted.

Now: Apple has agreed to RCS, but it's still not encrypted for conversations with android users? Yet some text exchange with Apple users are displaying darker text bubbles in conversations?

How to tell whether an exchange is encrypted now?

I'm looking for Authenticator apps that offer the following:

• End-to-end encryption
• Cloud backup
• Syncing to multiple devices
• Available on both Android and IOS

So far I know these that check all those boxes:

Authy + Bitwarden Authenticator + Ente Auth

Any more recommendations? If not, then what do you think is the best app among the 3 apps I mentioned and which is the worst and why?

Throwaway account. I recently googled my actual Reddit account username and some explicit photos I had deleted came up on a couple random porn sites. I really need the search result to be removed because I am embarrassed and don’t want anyone stumbling upon it. I tried to go through google but I’m having some trouble. Any advice is greatly appreciated!

I got an Xbox and was setting up my account. I had a Microsoft account created a while back with my Gmail address. Firstly I tried the password I thought was for the Microsoft account (different from the one for the Google account), but because of a typo I received an error saying "Wrong password" I thought maybe I did put the Google password for the Microsoft account even though I was sure I would not have done it, but anyways I tried the Google account password. Now the error was "USE THE PASSWORD FOR YOUR MICROSOFT ACCOUNT". This obviously led me into thinking Microsoft KNEW the password for my Google account. Another possibility is that they use an API from Google, send the password and receive back a true or false wether the password was good or not, so they technically don't know the password, but here are 2 problems: why would they need to know if the password is for Google or not since they should only check if it is for the Microsoft account and, much worse, a lot of users would try the Google password when they see that the account email is a Gmail address so they would be able to find out those passwords and store them.

Maybe there is another explanation and I just don't see it so if you have more information please help.

Note: This happened a few months ago and I don't have any photos, but if this post gets a lot of attention I will reproduce this.

Edit: typos

I am an Apple user, all my devices are, so I used to have gmail and I recently switched to iCloud, even though I have had a good experience I would like to know what email you use and why? And some recommendations.

My husband and I have fallen on hard times. We have joked about me getting a sugar daddy (literally just a man to send me money nothing sexual or anything like that) The other day I stupidly downloaded a sugar daddy website. I added some pictures which i heavily edited my face and created a verification video (which i did not know was going to public) It was up for maybe two hours and I thought this was a terrible idea, hide my profile, removed the photos & deleted the account. After giving it more thought, I am freaking out about the idea of my photos being used on sugardaddy websites. That those are now apart of my digital footprint. It was so stupid and irresponsible of me. Is there anything else I can do to make sure the profile is really gone?

I just want to play some Go.

I want to custom AI agents but im concerned about my data privacy. Especially when I chat about my mental health or seek advice for my finances. Any tips on verifying its security?

I was thinking of trying AI agent from AnonAI. Seen some people on Twitter joining and making money from it. Has anyone else checked it out?

Hey guys. basically last night I was searching for some adult rated stuff online (just straight forward porn) and after this I basically forgot to close the browser from the previous night. ( on my personal phone )

today I have gone to work and connected to the wifi automatically. I didn’t click onto my safari all day as I was at work working.. but the website was still open from last night from the search on my wifi at home.

would my work wifi pick this up considering it was not searched on the company wifi but at the wifi at home? i’m just panicking.. I noticed it open when I was leaving work and closed it immediately.

An example is the SwiftKey keyboard. The app is not open source, but I haven't found any other keyboard app that is as good as this app. (I tried the helioboard and the simple keyboard, i didn't like it)

So i tried the following settings for SwiftKey in the phone settings:

Disable mobile data : On Disable Wi-Fi : On Background Data : Off Dont run in background : On

I did it this way and the app works just fine. Learns vocab and can make suggestions. Will these things prevent my data from going to Microsoft?

I also make these settings when installing APK files that I don't trust. At least don't want my accounts stolen.

Also, is there such a program for pc, allow blocking apps from using the Internet?

Just curious to know what options are there being utilized by the good people of this sub.

Hey everyone,

I have a few websites and with that I have anyway around 100GB of space at my hoster all-inkl.com.
This space will be used for the websites (what only takes a few GB) and also for my emails.

I am aware that hosters usually don't save the emails encrypted.
But I'm wondering, is it really worth moving to one of the privacy related mail hoster (proton/tuta/mailbox.org) or should I get rid of gmail and move everything to all-inkl.com with IMAP and my own domain?
The servers of all-inkl.com are hosted in Germany, so GDPR is applying.

Would be happy for a few thoughts about that.

Hi I want to ask what is the better browser for affiliate marketing, when I need multiple identities dolphin anty browser or mull? Thx in advance

I got suspended for age problem and I want to get my account back but I am very worried about the need to upload my ID photo and enter my real name

So I've been digging up some old email addresses that I've not been using for a while, although I'm quite interested into both scavenger for anything of value in them (From an email of a relevant person to a lost Steam account full of valuable items) I would also like to just remove all the slop I've subscribed to with these emails just for the sake of preserving it and avoiding the risk of it getting accessed in the nearest future due to a data breach.

TL;DR: Any app that could tell me which account I got on X, Y and Z based on that email in a way that wouldn't be invasive?

Does apple do anything to force developers to not link with identity or is it just trust me bro?

I need to use a gmail app for certain things. Is one app better in terms of privacy than the other? Gmail for iOS offers the ability to turn off images by default and Spark doesn't that I can tell. I'd use Canary, but it bonks on my phone with NextDNS and I don't want to give up one for the other.

I know this sounds stupid. But I'll explain why I'm asking.

I saw someone on here order a maxed out M4 Max MacbookPro and he said he's getting it as he needs the computing power to run LLMs locally.

I fully get the concept of privacy. Everyone has the right to share what they want to and don't want to.

But also for simple data, nothing incredibly personal, who cares?

For example when my phone or watch asks me if it can track me/what I look at for whatever reason, if it'll give me a better UX or better data tracking for health etc, why not?
Running an LLM locally probably has benefits other than privacy, but having to buy the computing power to do so just for privacy? Not sure how beneficial this is.

Again, not here saying people are overreacting, I'm asking for other reasons as to why you're keeping simple things private.

Not a lawyer. Frequently obtains advice from lawyers on business matters, so looked into the use of AI by lawyers. You should review this with your lawyer.

According to https://www.calbar.ca.gov/Portals/0/documents/ethics/Generative-AI-Practical-Guidance.pdf:

"A lawyer must not input any confidential information of the client into any generative AI solution that lacks adequate confidentiality and security protections. A lawyer must anonymize client information and avoid entering details that can be used to identify the client."