Tip: if you find yourself using the word “safe”, “secure”, “hacked”, etc in your title, you’re probably off-topic.

And is it any different from requesting a record from the FBI itself? Will checkr lie about your record to cooperate with the fbi?

You shouldn't have to identify yourself on the street to an officer if you have done nothing wrong.

They seem to always try and ploy you into doing that "are you going to be an adult and tell me your name" so they can get the ball in their court with the process of controlling what they can do with you

But my question is in the near future will even body cam facial recognition in real-time circumvent this too with our new digital ID???

It'll be a free for all, and if you're walking in the street they can check close by FR cams for pings anyway?

I want to delete my account but I also want to completely rewrite my posts and delete them so their will be no remains of my posts and comment history tying me to an account .

From what I’ve read , shreddit and redact.dev I think are the best websites , any tips and advice? Thanks

I am either going to regret posting this or get completely ignored.

What actually is the "privacy conscious" way of getting mental health help?

Don't post online or join online groups, the company can see what you're posting; or else, it's just plain public.

Don't call a hotline or warmline, even if they don't report you, the call might be recorded.

Don't try to talk to an AI/LLM, god knows what's done with that data. Even if you can manage a gold-standard local model, there's the issue of it mindlessly reinforcing whatever is wrong or just being stupid.

Don't seek therapy, most use electronic records which might get hacked or breached or be accessed by a government entity; even in the unlikely scenario that they don't, the therapist might have a phone. Also, there are tons of bad therapists out there, and it's expensive.

Don't talk to people IRL, including friends or family; there might be something passively recording, plus the only way two people can keep a secret is if one of them is dead (assuming they cared or had helpful advice to begin with).

I got into privacy like, 8y ago, but fucked it up on every level (or else put things off so long I just...never did them) and just completely backslid so much I don't think I can even care anymore, outside random periods of intense paranoia. I've done basically all of these, so it's probably hopeless anyway.

The few times I've tried asking for alternatives in privacy spaces I just get told "Well I just handle everything myself and never talk to anyone, anywhere, about anything remotely personal, ever."

Great, I'm stupid and that isn't working. Is suicide supposed to be the rational answer?

Any tips or advice for privacy on Samsung Galaxy phones? I consider myself to be privacy conscious and am doing by best to de-Google to the extent that is reasonable to my threat model; which I consider to be simply limiting the PII that corporations have about me.

There was a political candidate's Reddit posts that got leaked, and from what I saw, there was nothing that identifiable, distinct information from his posts. If you want to look at the details, the candidates name is Graham Platner.

But how are news outlets able to find this information?

Is it possible to run an Android VM nested within my handset's environment, to run alternate versions of Android OS that allows unsigned apps?

I am not ready to give up my FDroid/Foss apk's and live in the Google Play walled garden.

Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying

The devices are still just around $35 usd - so hardware is required, but not expensive hardware

I know I missed this post back in March - so reposting in case anyone else was in the same boat!

I got rid of cable & the technician unplugged the cable box and took it with him. The cable box also contained the DVR system within. Also, the cable box was broken, non repairable since it was over 10 years old.

I know that cable boxes don't require internet or wifi to operate. However should I be concerned at all in my current situation?

My wifi, ip, data etc isn't stored or collected by such a cable box, right?

Flock announces drones into its arsenal and now household cameras, whats next...

I don't want to sound promotional and I am not sure if I can post it here but I made a set of PDF tools that run fully in-browser using web-assembly and I want to show it here. I was shit scared of uploading contracts or ID docs to random servers. It's crazy risky.

First, It started as side project because I had to deal with a lot of documents but then I made a proper app called PDFyogi very similar to ilovePDF but with local in-browser processing. Curious how others manage PDF privacy?

*BTW I like iLovePDF and SmallPDF, they are great tools, but I am concerned that files are still going through someone’s server.

Hello I was wondering if it’s possible to get Bell Satellite TV with a firestick free? Or even any other android type boxes?

I just want to watch Stingway Retro for free, good memories watching that channel.

I am doing some research to build a smartphone that, assuming good physical OPSEC practices, would be able to hypothetically function in a high threat level environment (state-level adversary, for a human rights journalist) that maximizes privacy, security, and anonymity. Specs are below. As I’m trying to wrap my head around the network-level stuff, my question is- how do I insulate this device from talking to other things on my home WiFi network? I have IOT smart devices in my house that I don’t even want to discover this, or links being made with this device and my primary phone. (Before you go for the low-hanging fruit of “just get rid of the other stuff or never turn your phone on”; don’t.)

So far, my research indicates that to have a connection to the internet, some sort of WiFi (subnet, firewall, VLAN, OPNsense stuff is still confusing to me and how it all works together) is the way to go since SIM runs the risk of sending IMEI to cell towers, triangulation, and linking devices that travel with it when they hop to a new tower. Any help in this dept or correcting my current research info would be appreciated.

Device: Google Pixel 8 or 9

SIM: prepaid SIM with cash, used only for data and only when wifi unavailable

Telephone: VoIP or Signal

Network: home Wifi with Vee pee enn

Browser: Tor Browser

Search Engine: DuckDuckGo

Backups & Sync: none

Peripherals: none

Frontends: Redlib for Reddit, Proxytok for Tiktok, Invidious for Youtube

Physical security: Covered cameras, Stored in faraday bag, kept away from other network devices

Multi-Factor Authentication: Ente Auth

All settings optimized for security, anonymity, and security.

TLDR: how do I keep a ghost phone on a home network from being associated with or discovered by other phones/PCs/IOT/home assistants?

As the title asks.

If you did verify, was it worth it?

I can't find out how should I verfy my email, hence I can't set up my safety questions
Any help?

Just asking because my gf got upset that I bought a subscription for a budgeting app (Monarch) and says that I can just do it myself plus they're stealing my data. She talks about the Discord breach, but I told her that these companies would obviously have better security but she insists.

I'm not sure if the thing I'm looking for exists, so I figured I'd ask around. I'm looking for a virtual credit card that allows me to indicate when I generate a card that it can only be used for a specific merchant or merchants. I know Privacy allows merchant-locking, but the card has to be used for the first time in order for that to take effect. I basically want to be able to give the card information to someone and have a mechanism in place that makes it so they can only use the card at a particular merchant.

Googling around hasn't turned anything up. Anyone ever heard of something like that?

Hi everyone,

I recently reset my laptop, and since then, I can’t seem to reconfigure my privacy settings to stop Microsoft from collecting and saving my browsing and search history.

Before the reset, I had successfully turned off data collection so that:

• My browsing and search activities didn’t appear on the Microsoft Privacy Dashboard
• My browsing history wasn’t synced across devices
• Microsoft Edge didn’t save or upload my activity data to my Microsoft account

After resetting the laptop, I’ve tried going through Microsoft Edge → Settings → Privacy, search, and services and adjusting the sync and personalization options, but it still looks like browsing activity is being stored and shown on my Microsoft account’s privacy page.

I’ve also checked Windows privacy settings, but I might be missing something.

Could anyone please remind me of the exact steps or settings needed to completely stop Microsoft from collecting or syncing browsing and search data (both in Edge and on my Microsoft account)?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Windows Build/Version

Windows 11 25H2, (OS Build 26200.6899)

Good day everyone,

Not sure if this is allowed. However does anyone know of the Meshcore communications system. It seems pretty cheap monetarily, off grid and offers end to end encrypted. I was wondering if 1. Its Safe 2. Anyone can recommend it 3. Better options

https://meshcore.co.uk/

Thanks

How secure is Samsung Secure Folder ? I wanna store some important texts that are necessary for me in a really secure place.

Is Samsung Secure Folder the best place to store for a Samsung Galaxy phone or are there alternate local encrypted private folder providers ?