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For questions related to privacy (user permissions / security techniques, internet tracking system such as Cookies, Web bugs etc.)

For questions related to privacy (user permissions / security techniques, internet tracking system such as Cookies, Web bugs etc.)

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How to prevent specific files from an R package to be pushed/uploaded to Github?

For safety reasons, in my own R packages, how to have private files like .Renviron only available locally and prevent from being pushed to GitHub?
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How to handle Google Privacy Popup in selenium (python)

I'm pretty new to selenium and i searched a lot, but can't find an answer to my problem. I want to open firefox, go on google and search for something. Store everthing in a list and print it to my console. But everytime i open firefox with selenium,…
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Can servers use proxies to hide their ip?

Would that just be a reverse proxy? Is it even possible to hide a servers ip address with a public proxy? How would hiding the servers ip address work?
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Save encrypted data in server . With no way for server to read actual data

Hello i am developing an app that collects some private data from my clients. My clients wont like it if i am able to read the data. So the data is encrypted in cleint side with a key say "xyz",which is auto generated when client install the…
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Should users be allowed to hard-delete conent?

I am currently developing a Website which allows users to create Blog-posts and was wondering whether I should allow them to delete their Posts from the Database. On one hand, they could be writing illegal stuff and delete it shortly afterwards,…
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Limit the visibility of comments on the Disqus private page

If I embed Disqus on a private page, my comments on the page will still be visible on the Discus site (https://disqus.com/home/forums/your_site/). Is it possible to somehow hide them on Disqus so that they are visible only on the page of my site?
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Best way to use the current URL as a parameter to external API in javascript

I would like to know what is the best way fetch a resource from our client's site to our servers with the Fetch API (GET). In order to do so we need to send the current URL since the resource depends on that. We've come up with two choices so…
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Detect Javascript injection in network traffic

This is my first question here in stackoverflow, so pardon me if I am missing something! I'm working on a project related to VPN security. They main goal of the project is to detect if a VPN client is introducing some sort of malware ( spyware…
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Question about SecurityPanel

In my app I am using microphone so I use Security.showSettings(SecurityPanel.PRIVACY); at launch. In this pop-up box there is a check box 'remember' - how can I get access to the value of this checkbox in my code? The window pop-ups every time i go…
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Does sending emails in the form of png inline images increase my privacy and resistance to being surveiled?

I have a habit of sending html emails to my friends. I usually rely on encryption provided by my protonmail account but occasionally I use less secure accounts as gmail and yahoo. Would sending the body of the message in the form of an image…
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Is there a way to set rules to prelimit data that MS Graph API responds to only contain certain fields?

For security and privacy reasons I would like to limit the data fields that an app with Application permissions is able to receive from MS Graph API. My end goal is to be able to display free calendar slots of members of an certain Active Directory…
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Privacy between 2 bitcoin accounts on the same ledger device

First of all please note i do not want to do something nasty or illegal. My goal is to understand. I have buy a ledger device. It looks like an USB key and it stores my bitcoin accounts. Here is what i've done: The devices first generates a random…
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are google forms privacy-Preserving?

Is google form a Privacy-Preserving way to conduct a survey? some people are not comfortable with it. Is it because most people have a google account and if they do not go on private mode, they give more information about themselves to google? does…
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Are google's search results influenced by our data?

I have always wondered that. For example, If I search for the term "composer" or "what is composer", it shows the php package manager. Why does it show programmer-related results? Obviously, it makes sense that it does that, since the results I get…
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Hiding XML code in view source code

I have to send an XML request to recover data from a remote server and parse it using PHP. That much, I've managed to do... sort of. The trouble is, the XML I get back from the remote server looks something like this:
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