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#Meta's Keystroke-Logging Employee #AI Training Program on Pause After Internal Data Leak

https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/06/23/metas-keystroke-logging-employee-ai-training-program-on-pause-after-internal-data-leak/

#privacy #cybersecurity #DataBreach

"AI traffic cameras spark backlash in Mississippi — as government officials try to calm fears they’ll be used to catch motorists who are speeding, not wearing seatbelts or texting at the wheel"

"Government officials in Mississippi have been attempting to calm fears that new AI traffic cameras will become a massive privacy violation."

https://www.techradar.com/vehicle-tech/hybrid-electric-vehicles/ai-traffic-cameras-spark-backlash-in-mississippi-as-government-officials-try-to-calm-fears-theyll-be-used-to-catch-motorists-who-are-speeding-not-wearing-seatbelts-or-texting-at-the-wheel

#Privacy

It saddens me that many people do not see far enough to understand well what we are losing while losing privacy rights and trivializing data protection. It is so much more than most think. This affects our intimacy, our safety, our social lives, our freedoms, and all our human rights.

It goes well beyond targeted advertising. Attacks on privacy lead to direct increases in authoritarianism and dictatorial governance.

We must care much more about it than we do now. It is critical to ourselves as individuals, but also to democracy and society as a whole.

#Privacy #Authoritarianism

How To Make Your #Mac #UnHackable #Proton #Privacy #Security #yt

https://youtu.be/llwHxLZ6y-U

This video is essentail for all new #macos owners :bulb:

"How is this different from Session?"

Session is great work. Our differences:
• Panic mode with decoy profile (they don't have it)
• No blockchain dependency — a relay you can self-host today
• Work tier funds development; every security feature stays free

Where Session wins: onion routing is more mature than our relay model. Honest trade-offs, documented in the repo.

#privacy #opensource #messaging

#Mozilla: The web is evolving. So are we.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/news/announcing-mozilla-org-new-non-profit/

#AI #FOSS #Firefox #privacy

Remember the recent #news that the #Dutch government chose for #sovereignty in their prudent decision not to let the critical infrastructure around #DigiD be managed by a foreign (US) commercial enterprise?

Well, the more recent news is that the Chief Privacy Officer of the Dutch #government, who was behind this initiative, has been fired. In the #petition I shared below Pieter van Oordt is called a "whistleblower". But that is an inaccurate description for a person who is just doing their job, and doing it well: Protecting our #privacy!

Sign the petition and boost this message, so this matter gets the attention it deserves, and hopefully Pieter will be reinstated in the CPO position to continue this important work on #DigitalSovereignty.

https://actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/whistleblower-suspended-saving-18-million-digital-identities-eu-from-u-s-control

cc @acm ?