Costco shares members' purchase history, payment method, and visit frequency with its financial-services partners.

So what: loyalty programs trade a discount for a purchase dossier. Sign up with an email alias and a Google Voice number, or skip it.

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AI tools train on your chats by default. Turn it off. In ChatGPT: Settings > Data Controls > "Improve the model for everyone." In Gemini: pause your activity history. On LinkedIn: turn off data use for generative AI.

So what: it's Opt Out October. Do it this month.

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Retail media networks operated by Amazon, Walmart, and Kroger sell advertising that targets consumers based on.

So what: loyalty programs trade a discount for a purchase dossier. Sign up with an email alias and a Google Voice number, or skip it.

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VoIP phone providers that use carrier networks collect call metadata and in some cases audio recordings.

So what: move sensitive conversations to Signal, and use an email alias for signups so your real inbox stays clean.

#privacy #telecom #surveillance #indigoprivacy

Researchers found a phishing kit posing as AI ad tools (Muse, ChatGPT, Gemini) that fakes a Google sign-in window inside your browser to steal passwords and MFA codes. It can fake a lock icon and URL bar, not the real browser's address. So what: use passkeys.

#phishing #AI #indigoprivacy

Privacy Guides (privacyguides.org) is a free, nonprofit site that recommends privacy-respecting tools: browsers, email, VPNs, password managers. Criteria-based, open-source first. No ads, no pay-for-placement. So what: picking a big-tech swap? Decide there.

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Social media analysis companies sell hospitals reports on patient communities, including which patients post about pain, depression.

So what: under HIPAA you can get your medical records and a list of who they went to. Request both, and correct anything wrong.

#privacy #healthcare #indigoprivacy

This week in privacy: DriveWealth breach exposed Social Security numbers for 2.5M+ people. A Pentagon DMDC breach hit nearly 3M service members and dependents.

So what: install a free app that flags nearby trackers and Flock cameras.

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The EFF just launched Opt Out October, a free guide to taking your data back: the settings to flip, the platforms to drop, and better alternatives, from AI training to social media to leaving Windows. So what: pick one thing to opt out of this month at eff.org.

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Cybernews found 48% of router apps collect your name, email, phone, and address through the vendor cloud. Two fixes: put smart-home gadgets on a separate guest network, and set an encrypted DNS resolver like Quad9 (9.9.9.9). So what: do it tonight.

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Consumer DNA databases expose your relatives too, even ones who never sent a sample.

So what: you can delete your genetic data. Download a copy if you want one, then request permanent deletion in your account settings.

#privacy #genetics #indigoprivacy

LinkedIn allows companies to use its data to identify which employees are updating their profiles and may be seeking new.

So what: assume anything on a work device or network is monitored. Keep personal browsing on your own phone, off company Wi-Fi.

#privacy #socialmedia #LinkedIn #indigoprivacy

Meta disputes a journalist's claim that its Muse AI agent read his private Messages without permission. Meta says it's opt-in and needs Full Disk Access; he says that access was off. So what: don't give AI agents Full Disk Access or your Messages.

#Meta #AI #indigoprivacy

Quad9 is a free public DNS resolver run by a Swiss nonprofit. Point a device or your whole router at 9.9.9.9 and it blocks known phishing and malware sites before you connect. It doesn't store your IP or sell your data.

So what: set 9.9.9.9 on your router.

#privacy #DNS #indigoprivacy