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Phantom Voice

Do you actually care that your data is being sent to the cloud from your apps?

Are you totally against sharing your personal data to companies? or are you neutral and think your info doesn't matter that much? Not just words from dictation apps, but other personal details like schedules from a productivity app, or computer details from coding agents. Asking this cause I personally don't mind my app data being sent to companies, as long as they're not passwords, or important personal info. But this brings us to another question, where is the line?

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2mo ago

AI Context Flow

Your AI is building a profile on you - and you can barely see it

OpenAI just made AI memory automatic.
The problem? you can no longer fully audit what it remembers about you.

Dreaming V3 (launched June 4) doesn't ask you to save memories anymore. It runs in the background, reads across years of your conversations, and synthesizes a profile of you, and automatically updating as your life changes.
It remembered your Singapore trip was in the future. Now it knows you went. You didn't tell it that. It figured it out.

The audit trail problem: TechTimes reported the update "limits" what users can actually see. You used to have a list of saved memories you could read and delete. Now you have a synthesized profile that's broader than that list, and you can only partially inspect it.
A CHI 2026 study called it the "personalization-convenience paradox": the feature users value most is also the one they can least control.

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3mo ago

Malloc VPN: Privacy & Security

What apps do you use for protecting your online privacy?Today we launched Malloc : Malloc VPN: Privacy & Security. What else do you use, what do you look in a privacy and data security app?

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4yr ago

minimalist phone: reduce your screentime

Which services have you stopped using because of their data collection and privacy practices?

Today, I came across an article reporting a rise in DuckDuckGo usage as more people boycott Google services.

Sometimes, while working in tech support, I also come across people who buy de-Googled phones because they want nothing to do with this giant anymore.

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4mo ago

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