Digital Footprint

Your ‘Delete’ Button Is a Lie: Mastodon’s New TOS Proves You Never Owned Your Data

📅 August 1, 2026 📂 Tech Industry

Mastodon’s new Terms of Service allow the platform to restore your self-deleted content from backup. This isn’t a bug—it’s the brutal truth about digital infrastructure. Your ‘delete’ button is a lie. The right to be forgotten is dead, and the fediverse just proved it. Once posted, forever stored. Accept it.

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Your Uber Eats Order Is More Dangerous Than Your Bitcoin Wallet

📅 July 27, 2026 📂 AI & Machine Learning

A sophisticated cybercriminal who stole hundreds of thousands in crypto via Steam malware was caught not by blockchain analysis, but by his own Uber Eats orders and Google cookies. The lesson: your mundane digital habits are a bigger threat to your anonymity than any encryption flaw.

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