X.com has sent a cease and desist letter to Nitter, the privacy focused frontend for Twitter, demanding immediate takedown of the service and its repositories. This move brings into question whether other privacy frontends could also suffer the same fate, we'll discuss this and more on This Week In Privacy #68! (00:00) - Intro (00:39) - Start of podcast (01:15) - X sends cease-and-desist to open source project Nitter over alleged scraping (21:25) - Android 17 adds ECH support to make web browsing harder to track (35:52) - Apple Won't Change Hide My Email Domain After Backlash (40:47) - Site updates (47:09) - Meta agrees to pay $18 billion settle US lawsuit over children's social media addiction (01:19:36) - Microsoft tests new privacy controls for Windows 11 desktop apps (01:25:39) - Introducing Obscura VPN for Windows (01:32:06) - Q&A (01:45:09) - Outro ★ Support this podcast ★
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