Grünes Signal gegen #Palantir: Basis revoltiert gegen Überwachungssoftware | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Gruenes-Signal-gegen-Palantir-Basis-revoltiert-gegen-Ueberwachungssoftware-11340773.html #Datenschutz #privacy #surveillance #Überwachung

@GuillaumeRossolini @dzwiedziu no, WhatsApp most certainly doesn't and I don't consider it real E2EE if you cannit exercise self-custody.

• Which you don't in either case!

I wish everyone could afford your level of naivity and trust, because that's how I almost got killed!

• Or are you that dellusional to expect @signalapp staff if not @Mer__edith herself to die of old age in jail for you?
  • Cuz unlike Mafia Members they don't get paid to do that!

#EOD #WhatsApp #Signal #E2EE #SelfCustody #Privacy

@0x4d6165 blocking VPNs (& Tor) should be made a felony [not just] across the EU, alongside Geoblocking and other discrimination!

#VONs #Tor #DontBlockTor #Privacy #GDPR #Geoblocking #discrimination

Znów grzebałem pod maską w swoim setupie na GrapheneOS. Wywaliłem systemowy aparat na rzecz jakości z Pixela, ale bez wpuszczania Google do telefonu.

Co dokładnie zrobiłem:

Pixel Camera build 68469120 – odcięta od internetu, ogólnie robi o wiele lepsze zdjęcia niż aparat GrapheneOS, bo w pełni wykorzystuje procesor, co widać też w nocy.

Gcam Services Provider photosonly – open sourceowy mostek od lukaspieper, dzięki któremu aparat działa stabilnie offline i płynnie współpracuje z zewnętrzną galerią.

Ente Photos – moja główna galeria i chmura z szyfrowaniem end to end, zamiast Google Photos.

Image Toolbox – narzędzie do usuwania metadanych. Zanim wyślę komuś zdjęcie, robię szybkie share z Ente przez Toolboxa, który w sekundę wycina z pliku GPS i EXIF.

Na dzisiaj koniec zmian i czas spać.

#GrapheneOS #Privacy #Gcam #Ente #ImageToolbox #DeGoogle

"Madison Square Garden compiled a list of activists who have publicly criticized the venue’s use of facial recognition technology, putting their tweets and comments into a document that was then accessible to other people inside the company, 404 Media has found.

The news shows that MSG, operated by Jim Dolan who has garnered a reputation for being pernicious against his perceived enemies, is not only deploying controversial facial recognition technology but keeping track of specific people who take issue with it. The document was included in a 45GB cache of data hackers stole from MSG and posted online this month, which 404 Media then downloaded and reviewed.

“The wake of a data breach would be a good time for Madison Square Garden to stop subjecting its patrons to biometric surveillance,” Adam Schwartz, privacy litigation director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and one of the people included in the document, told 404 Media."

https://www.404media.co/madison-square-garden-made-dossier-on-activists-who-opposed-facial-recognition/

#USA #NYC #Surveillance #MadisonSquareGarden #FacialRecognition #Privacy #DigitalRights #Biometrics

Searching in 2026 without LLM products + respecting privacy, what's actually available?

My list so far is:

Mojeek
Oscobo
MetaGer
Swisscows
SearXNG
YaCy

I think Mojeek might be the only one of those that offers a truly independent index (external engine integration is purely optional via redirects, not a backend dependency).

What am I missing? Any others worth checking?

#NoAI #SearchEngine #Privacy #FOSS

You have more privacy rights than you use. Opt-out registries, data deletion requests, CCPA rights, and browser hardening tools exist, most people never touch them. https://indigoprivacy.com/subscribe #privacy #datarights #ccpa #indigoprivacy

You have more privacy rights than you use. Opt-out registries, data deletion requests, CCPA rights, and browser hardening tools exist, most people never touch them. https://indigoprivacy.com/subscribe #privacy #datarights #ccpa #indigoprivacy

“[On 24 June] the EU Commission is expected to propose an overhaul of Europol’s mandate which will substantially expand its powers and more than double its (already huge) annual budget by 2034, to €444m annually

Keeping double books, operating in legally-murky areas to escape scrutiny, influencing governments to change laws so their illegal activities are legalised – these aren’t just plot points from The Sopranos or another mob thriller but seemingly the playbook of EU’s police agency.

Europol might be tasked with dealing with organised crime but that hasn’t stopped it from following similar tactics as those they’re claiming to fight against.

Europol’s shadowy nature is no secret to those who have been paying attention – privacy experts have been calling them out for everything from their links to private companies, lacklustre data protection practices, to their perpetual efforts to undermine end-to-end encryption, a critical feature that secures our private messages from being mass surveillance fodder.”

https://euobserver.com/222391/europol-is-going-rogue-so-brussels-is-doubling-its-budget

#EU #Europol #Privacy #Surveillance #DataProtection

“META LEFT POTENTIALLY sensitive information collected from employee laptops accessible to anyone inside the company, according to an internal security notice seen by WIRED and three current employees familiar with the issue.

The data, which was collected as part of a divisive initiative to train artificial intelligence models, is believed to include keystrokes, mouseclicks, and content displayed on the computer screens of Meta’s US employees.

Meta spokesperson Tracy Clayton initially confirmed to WIRED that the company is investigating the security issue. As this story was being published, he added that Meta is pausing the data collection program indefinitely. "We have carefully designed this program with privacy safeguards and while we have no indication at this time that any data was improperly accessed by Meta employees, we're pausing it while we investigate," Clayton says.

The security notice sent out Monday indicated that “employee data across 45,000 hive tables,” had been exposed. Those tables included employee activity such as “full prompts and transcriptions, private conversations, people and performance data,” according to documents viewed by WIRED.“

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-accidentally-let-employees-access-each-others-keystroke-data/

#Meta #DataProtection #AI #Privacy #BigTech

How next-generation smart glasses are invading your privacy | DW News
#privacy #surveillance
#technology #meta

https://youtu.be/P2jlRzBfzq8?si=4gs3V2cdacEaXAnf

Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity

https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy

#HackerNews #Anthropic #Age #Verification #Terms #Privacy #Update

“The problem is, there's no such thing as "age verification" for the internet. What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance, so invasive and pervasive that it makes the ad-tech industry's commercial surveillance look like some kind of cypherpunk darknet pirate utopia:
(…)
"Age verification" means that everyone who does anything online will have to submit to fine-grained tracking and recording of all their online activities. This nightmare is the surveillance advertising industry's fondest dream, a world where it's literally illegal to avoid their tracking, all in the name of saving kids…from them!

So it's not just a weird alliance of anti-Big Tech crusaders and the conspiratorial right that's pushing for age verification – they are unwitting allies of the very tech industry they think they're fighting. Those tech industry insiders are fully aware that an "age verification" mandate is really a way for the government to teach every child how to use a VPN. They're also fully aware that the next move is to ban VPNs:“

https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/23/destroy-the-village/

#AgeVerification #Surveillance #Privacy #VPNs #DigitalRights

The private events group, cofounded by Peter Thiel, says a “criminal” hacker is behind a breach that exposed members’ personal details. WIRED found no evidence a break-in was needed to access the files.

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Dialog Claims It Was Hacked. A Misconfigured Website Left Its Members Exposed

New by me: CybersecKyle Security How-To Series: Home Network and Devices, Part 3 - Safe File Storage with Encryption and Snapshots

https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/cyberseckyle-security-how-to-series-home-network-and-devices-part-3-safe-file-storage-with-encryption-and-snapshots/

#Cybersecurity #InfoSec #Backups #Privacy #CybersecKyleHowTo

I just found out that 4chan lawyer sending this in response to UK request to comply with their bs Child Safety Act.

I suggest for yall UK people, everytime politician talking about that shit Act, just ratio them with this.

@UnitedKingdom@pubeurope.com
@unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
@uk
@unitedkingdom@lemmy.ml
#privacy #digitalrights #unitedkingdom

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