Proton is well-known for its privacy-focused online services and software, including Proton Mail, Proton Pass, Proton VPN, Proton Drive, and now Lumo AI. Proton has recently released version 2.0 of its privacy-focused Lumo AI with the following introduction: Most platforms train their models with people’s
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Here at Daves Computer Tips, we have long been proponents of password managers. We list both KeePass and Bitwarden as recommended software. However, concerns about Bitwarden enshittification have recently led me to switch from Bitwarden to 1Password. Although 1Password is one of the best password managers,
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It has been confirmed that an OpenAI agent gained unauthorized access to an Australian Medicare database. Medicare is Australia’s publicly funded universal health insurance scheme that provides coverage for all Australian citizens and, as such, its database contains comprehensive personal and medical details of the
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Who would have thought that your television set would spy on you? I use that old term ‘television set’ intentionally because back in ye olden days, they really were just dumb boxes of cathode ray tubes and capacitors. You also had an alien-looking aerial, a
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Of course, everyone should be concerned about their online privacy. However, I do believe that some take that concern to extremes, almost to the point of paranoia. Windows Privacy Remember the furor over telemetry when Windows 10 was first released, with conspiracy theories aplenty and
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Opera updated today, and the main emphasis seems to be on their new and approved “Ad Blocker”. I’ll let their web page speak for itself: They also made it easier to access the controls to enable or disable them. When you open a web page,
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I’m all for enhanced online account security, but has it maybe gone a bit too far? These days, I find myself needing to sign in to some accounts over and over, and others are now putting me through hoops to prove my identity. All my
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In my naïveté, I always thought the UK was the only place on Earth where a TV license was enforced. But no, around two-thirds of European countries require you to pay for a license, as do many countries in Africa and some in Asia. In
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No one would disagree that children need to be protected from unsuitable content on the internet – the UK OSA and recent Australian laws are good examples of this kind of government intervention – but age verification at the operating system level? You’ve got to
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AmneziaVPN is a relatively new service that utilizes its own open-source AmneziaWG protocol, which closely mimics normal/standard traffic, making it virtually undetectable. The problem with most VPNs is that their characteristic patterns make them readily identifiable via DPI (Deep Packet Inspection). In contrast, AmneziaWG utilizes
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If you were here last week, I talked about how to remove third-party apps from your Google account. If you missed it, you can find it here: How To Remove Third-Party Apps from Google This week, I want to stick with the Google subject and
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Last week, we covered how to enable clipboard alerts on Samsung. If you missed that one, you can find it here: How To Enable Clipboard Alerts on Samsung This time, I wanted to show how you can remove third-party apps that you have connected to
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Last week, I covered how you can blur your home on Google Maps. If you missed that one, you can find it here: How To Blur House On Google Maps I want to stick with the subject of privacy and security. This time, we will
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Last week, we continued our lessons on ChatGPT, and I showed you how to disconnect it from apps. If you missed that one, you can find it here: How To Disconnect App From ChatGPT We are going to jump subjects again and talk about Google
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