#EFF, #TEDIC and #CEJIL Challenge Secrecy in the Use of Face Recognition in #Paraguay

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/eff-tedic-and-cejil-challenge-secrecy-use-face-recognition-paraguay

#privacy #surveillance #FRT #FacialRecognition

"When this rolls out to your account, you can visit Google’s My Activity page and then select the Search Services History tab to opt out. This page gives you a solid sense of what Google saves from your Search history. It’s also where you can turn off the entire setting and delete your activity. It’s critical to uncheck the box next to Save media if you don’t want your image uploads used for AI training.

It’s worth doing this change now rather than later. There’s not much you can do after your media data is thrown into the AI blender. “If your saved media is used to train our AI models, it is disconnected from your Google Account. This training data will be kept for up to 4 years, even if you delete the original activity,” read the pop-up when I turned off this feature. That’s such a long time for my random image Search uploads to float around in the digital ether."

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-opt-out-of-google-search-new-ai-data-training/

#AI #AISearch #Google #AITraining #Privacy #DataProtection #AIOverview

I just read the Sirius xm privacy policy. Holy shit. Uncool.

#privacy #data

A U.S. court dismissed a data breach class action because plaintiffs couldn't prove "traceable injury." Technically correct — but this legal threshold keeps raising the bar for breach accountability. Harm from exposed data is often slow, diffuse, and hard to pin. The law and the threat model aren't quite aligned yet. #infosec #breach #privacy
https://malware.news/t/first-circuit-affirms-dismissal-of-data-breach-class-action-for-lack-of-traceable-injury/108251

Sign-up flow of most "private" messengers: phone number → SMS → identity linked forever.

AegisLink's sign-up flow: open app → keys generated on device → done.

No phone. No email. No name. Your Aegis ID is a public key, not a person.

#privacy #anonymity #e2ee

Hacked #Klue says criminals are deleting stolen customer data, but now other hackers are making threats

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/hacked-klue-says-criminals-are-deleting-stolen-customer-data-but-now-other-hackers-are-making-threats/

#cybersecurity #privacy #DataBreach

The IT company Mullvad's founder Daniel Berntsson is behind a huge donation to the populist Örebro Party, which advocates ”extensive return from Sweden. ”It's sad that it needs”, he tells Flamman.

"My ideal is free movement, but really bad criminal, immigration and integration policies (and more) have put us in today's miserable situation."

https://www.flamman.se/techprofil-ger-miljoner-till-orebropartiet/

#privacy #VPN #EU #uspol #immigration #sweden #racism #fascism

The #FCC’s #Spam Call Proposal Is Just a Data Collection Scheme

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/fccs-spam-call-proposal-just-data-collection-scheme

#privacy