Came across Spam Watch 2025 report by Proton team. Key finding that there is no retailers that were good in respecting privacy and low volume of marketing fluff. Surprisingly there were global retailers respecting privacy and not using any trackers in their emails. Some retailers came close with no trackers and low volume, but then they probably had a team who used different system and once in a while they'll sent an email with lot's of trackers. Report: https://res.cloudinary.com/dbulfrlrz/images/v1765301399/wp-pme/proton-mail-spam-watch-2025--the-u-s--inbox-overload-hidden-tracker-report/proton-mail-spam-watch-2025--the-u-s--inbox-overload-hidden-tracker-report.pdf
Article stating that Meta earning a fortune from fraudulent ads. Ads has no real purpose other than to track you across the internet, those are small beacons of data that you take with you everywhere you go on the Internet. Solid reason to use ad-blockers, especially if particular platform does not care about protecting you from fraudsters and you are better off DIY.
Link: https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/
Total surveillance is here, ALPR can track all of your car movements and unfortunately technology being used for warrant-less surveillance. Check out this article.
Link:https://proton.me/blog/ai-license-plate-reader
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@CyberSecCanon 100% agree, important book to read, not just for cybersecurity leaders, but for anyone related to building software systems.
💡𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗗𝗮𝘆💡
“Antifragile isn’t a cybersecurity book, but it might be one of the most important books for cybersecurity leaders to read. Not because you’ll agree with everything, but because it will push you to think differently about risk, resilience, and the kind of systems worth building."
--Walt Powell in his review of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's 𝘼𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙛𝙧𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙡𝙚: 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙂𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙧, nominating it for the Hall of Fame!
📝Review: https://cybercanon.org/antifragile-things-that-gain-from-disorder/
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