Thorin Klosowski
@thorinklosowski.com
Security and privacy activist at EFF, I work mostly on SSD | this account is mostly shitposts, auto-deletes posts every 30 or so days
our defcon shirt is cool as hell this year (it's always cool, but like, this year is *very* cool) supporters.eff.org/donate/Virtu...
Many Hands Make Light Work
Take back digital privacy and free speech. Donate this week and get a DEF CON 34 puzzle t-shirt.
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every def con someone asks me how to get these because they’re very cool (but we do not make them), don’t miss out
Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · 2w agoNow for a limited time, the Privacy Badger badge from DEF CON 32 is back! Place your order by July 24 to get the badge by the con, and support the cookie destroying badger: badgelife.eventbrite.com
playing around with the public beta of ios 27, i am once again extremely annoyed that apple requires siri--which is vastly expanded and deeply ingrained with ai now--in order to use carplay. let me use carplay without talking to it!!! i do not care!!!
After reading @zackwhittaker.com’s articles poking at Oura I was curious if the industry had improved at all since I last looked and… the answer was a flashing “lol no“ sign www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Most Smart Watches, Rings, and Bands Lack Basic Transparency Reports and Key Privacy Features
Oura Rings, Garmin GPS fitness watches, Apple Watches, Whoop bands—every year, more and more tech devices are promising to monitor our health and fitness, guide us toward healthier living, and provide...
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hell ya, this dumb feature is already dead (for now?) www.theverge.com/tech/964416/...
Meta turns off the Instagram feature that let users make AI deepfakes of public accounts
“We’ve heard the feedback that this feature missed the mark.”
theverge.com
Thorin Klosowski@thorinklosowski.com · 4w agowhat a choice to make this *opt out* BUT i do think it's very funny they think people might disable it in posts but not reels to disable: tap profile > ☰ > Sharing and reuse, then disable the Posts and Reels toggles for "Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta"
what a choice to make this *opt out* BUT i do think it's very funny they think people might disable it in posts but not reels to disable: tap profile > ☰ > Sharing and reuse, then disable the Posts and Reels toggles for "Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta"
Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out
As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.
wired.com
had a monumentally dumb idea enter my brain and let it stew there long enough to actually get some stickers made up
I've been bad about publicizing a number of updates in SSD this year, so I'm just going to thread a few important ones. First off, we now have a guide on creating and managing Signal groups ssd.eff.org/module/creat...
Creating and Managing Signal Groups
Signal is one of the best encrypted chat apps for communicating online because it focuses on usability and simplicity, while still retaining strong default settings that protect privacy. Because of th...
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sandwiched between google i/o and wwdc, wrote a dumb little blog about the tiny little mostly inconsequential AI hill i will die on thorinklosowski.com/your-vacatio...
Your Vacation Photos Don’t Need To Be Touched Up by AI
It has become a tradition in the big products demos from Google and Apple to show how their “artificial intelligence” features can easily touch up photos, removing unwanted elements or visual cruft. I...
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Today we're launching a new campaign, Encrypt It Already, pushing companies to offer stronger privacy protections across a variety of products. Including the one you're reading this post (skeet) on 🤐 encryptitalready.org
Encrypt It Already
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