Shotcut is a free and open-source video editor for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

It offers timeline editing, filters, transitions, audio tools, hardware encoding, and support for hundreds of formats via FFmpeg.

A privacy-friendly alternative to Premiere Pro, Filmora, and CapCut, no subscriptions, no lock-in, and no watermarks.

More details: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=shotcut

#OpenSource #VideoEditing #Privacy #Linux #Windows #macOS #FOSS

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Screenshot of the Shotcut project page. At the top are build status badges showing successful builds for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Below, a large heading describes Shotcut as a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor. The page includes a screenshot of the Shotcut interface, showing a video editing workspace with media bins, preview window, timeline tracks, audio meters, filters, and waveform displays. The preview displays a motorcycle video project titled “A Bike Show,” demonstrating Shotcut’s professional editing capabilities.

#Google to use #UK and #EU user IP addresses for ad personalization

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-to-use-uk-and-eu-user-ip-addresses-for-ad-personalization/

#privacy #advertising #TargetedAds

BeenVerified has your address, phone number, relatives, and court records — searchable by anyone. Today's guide walks you through removing it in about 5 minutes. https://indigoprivacy.com/subscribe #privacy #databrokers #optout #infosec #indigoprivacy

🛡️ AegisLog #1 (12–18 Jun)

🛠️ Shipped: large E2EE groups (up to 1024), owner-signed roles, group voice channels, on-device post-quantum crypto (ML-KEM-768).

🐛 Fixed: server CI was red for days (Jest ESM vs node:sqlite). Green again.

🔐 No one adds you to a group without your consent: invited → you approve → then you're in.

🔜 Next: PQXDH to transport + server.

github.com/gabinotech22-cmyk/AegisLink

#buildinpublic #privacy #e2ee #postquantum

Encrypted ≠ Private.

Your messages are encrypted — but who you talk to, when, and how often usually isn't. That's metadata, and most "private" apps still log it.

"We kill people based on metadata." — Gen. Hayden, ex-NSA/CIA.

AegisLink keeps zero metadata: no IP logs, no timestamps, no contact graph. Anonymous by default. Open source.

#privacy #metadata #e2ee #infosec

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AegisLink. Your chats are end-to-end encrypted. So why does your messaging app still know everything about you?

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Even on 'private' apps the server can still log: who you talk to, when and how often, your phone number, your IP and location, message size and timing. That's metadata.

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'We kill people based on metadata.' — Gen. Michael Hayden, former Director of the NSA and CIA. Metadata isn't the fine print. It is the data.

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AegisLink keeps zero metadata: no IP logs, no timestamps, no contact graph, no record the chat ever happened.

The #UK Will Scan #Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age Checks—Despite Knowing the Tech Is Flawed

https://www.wired.com/story/facial-age-estimate-uk-asylum-seekers/

#FRT #FacialRecognition #privacy #biometrics #politics #immigration #AgeVerification

Time to address the #HumanRights implications of #AI in the #military domain

https://privacyinternational.org/advocacy/5787/time-address-human-rights-implications-ai-military-domain

#privacy

One more time. This is an important read if you have any of the mentioned connected brands. Notice the part about "as long as it remains plugged into a wall socket and connected to a local network."

"These streaming boxes typically bundle or come pre-installed with software that turns the user’s TV into a 'residential proxy' — allowing anyone to route their Internet traffic through that device for as long as it remains plugged into a wall socket and connected to a local network."

KrebsonSecurity, from yesterday: ‘Popa’ Botnet Linked to Publicly-Traded Israeli Firm https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/06/popa-botnet-linked-to-publicly-traded-israeli-firm/ @briankrebs #infosec #botnet #privacy #malware

Banning or blocking VPNs in the UK will shatter cybersecurity in a self-defeating attempt to make the unworkable workable.

Creating uncertainty around core Internet infrastructure could undermine the UK’s credibility as a stable place for digital businesses and security innovation.

Read our briefing ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/briefing-vpns-and-the-online-safety-act/

#ProtectVPNs #vpn #vpns #cybersecurity #privacy #onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #ageverification #StopKillingTheInternet #ukpolitics #ukpol

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Restricting VPNs is almost impossible. DIY VPNs – Anyone can create a VPN on widely available cloud servers. This ability is built directly into the Linux OS and many consumer routers. Private, self-hosted VPNs can't be feasibly tracked or blocked. Integration with operating systems – VPN functionality is a standard feature of Linux, Windows, macOS, iOS and Android. Blocking or regulating it would require restricting core Internet protocols, with catastrophic knock-on effects for business and personal security. Global nature of the Internet – Users will be driven to offshore providers, which would create compliance headaches for businesses, while leaving determined individuals unaffected by domestic restrictions on VPN use.

An adult using a VPN doesn't impact the safety of a child online.

Adults use VPNs because they don’t trust age verification providers with their personal data.

Something the UK government has refused to deal with by regulating the industry to ensure high standards of data protection.

Read more ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/regulating-age-verification/

#ProtectVPNs #vpn #vpns #cybersecurity #privacy #onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #ageverification #StopKillingTheInternet #ukpolitics #ukpol

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Why are more adults turning to VPNs? The increase in VPN downloads suggests the public are wary of sharing their personal information with age verification providers. That's because the industry is unregulated and companies are based in other countries that may have weaker data protection laws. Also, the data gathered from ID checks can end up being repurposed for uses such as targeted advertising. Asking adults to hand over highly sensitive ID documents or biometric data to unfamiliar companies goes against many years of cybersecurity advice around being careful when handing over personal data online. Despite calls from ORG for age verification providers to be regulated, the government has done nothing except expand digital ID age checks into more areas of the Internet.

Treating VPNs as a 'problem' is foolish.

They help parents manage online risks, support secure remote working, protect people in abusive situations, and provide a lifeline to people in repressive States.

UK MPs themselves use them!

Attacking VPNs throws the baby out with the bath water.

Read our briefing ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/briefing-vpns-and-the-online-safety-act/

#ProtectVPNs #vpn #vpns #cybersecurity #privacy #onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #ageverification #StopKillingTheInternet #ukpolitics #ukpol

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What are Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)? With a VPN, people can get on the Internet via a secure, encrypted connection to a remote server. Cybersecurity and data privacy – VPNs mask your IP address to help prevent data tracking and unauthorised access, protecting users from data theft, DDoS attacks, identity fraud and surveillance. This is important when using public WiFi or remote working and some VPN services are bundled with parental filters to restrict harmful websites at the network level. Free expression – In places like Russia and China, VPNs let people access news, social media and resources blocked by governments. This far outweighs the narrow concern that VPNs could be used to bypass age checks.

VPNs aren’t a meaningful threat to age verification measures.

⚫ 6-12 year olds are very unlikely to use them due to technological and economic barriers.

⚫ Older teens already know other workarounds.

Banning or restricting VPNs in the UK is overreach. The price is our privacy and security.

Read our briefing ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/briefing-vpns-and-the-online-safety-act/

#ProtectVPNs #vpn #vpns #cybersecurity #privacy #onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #ageverification #StopKillingTheInternet #ukpolitics #ukpol

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VPNs are unlikely to be used by 6-12 year olds. Younger users 6-12 year olds are the focus of bringing in online safety' measures like age verification. But they face significant barriers to VPN use. The majority in this group are highly unlikely to download, configure or subscribe to VPNs without adult help. Especially if parental controls on app store downloads are enabled. Adolescents and tech savvy teens Those with the capacity to use VPNs are likely to be teens around 13-18 years old. This group already have the skills and determination to use other workarounds to age checks (e.g. proxy sites, Tor, P2P sharing or borrowed account credentials). VPN use is not a meaningful threat to the effectiveness of age verification, so restrictions are wholly unjustified.

Aside from restrictions, it's been suggested that sites should detect VPN use and bounce users into age verification.

This would be technically flawed, privacy-invasive and would exclude lawful Internet users because VPN traffic can look identical to ordinary encrypted web traffic.

Read our briefing ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/briefing-vpns-and-the-online-safety-act/

#ProtectVPNs #vpn #vpns #cybersecurity #privacy #onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #ageverification #StopKillingTheInternet #ukpolitics #ukpol

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Requiring sites to detect VPNs won't work. The Age Verification Providers Association propose that sites age-gating content should detect VPN use and direct it to their services. Technical infeasibility – Detection relies on blacklists of commercial VPN servers, which are incomplete and easily outpaced by new services. False positives and exclusion – It would prevent law-abiding users, such as remote workers, people in high-risk environments, or families securing their Internet connection from getting online. Privacy risks – This would require intrusive traffic analysis, undermining privacy and data protection. Creating diplomatic rows – Users in countries that don't have age restrictions would also be caught up in it.

The only way to create an ironclad age verification system in the UK is extreme digital authoritarianism.

Restrictions on VPNs are an attack on the open Internet and our ability to be secure online – the antithesis of online safety.

Read our briefing ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/briefing-vpns-and-the-online-safety-act/

#ProtectVPNs #vpn #vpns #cybersecurity #privacy #onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #ageverification #StopKillingTheInternet #ukpolitics #ukpol

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The only way to restrict VPNs is authoritarian. Trying to ban or age-gate VPNs because they might be used to bypass digital ID age checks would be as unworkable as banning web browsers because they allow access to adult content. Attempts to have a perfect age verification system that no-one can get around would involve an extreme level of digital authoritarianism. To comprehensively prevent circumvention of age checks, a State would need to remove the ability of users to install and use software on their computer and try to prevent the Internet from providing open connectivity. The government must not blow up our cybersecurity and the open Internet with technologically illiterate and authoritarian attacks on VPN use.

VPNs can help protect children's security online too. They aren’t just used to avoid content blocks.

Restrictions will deter people from using a core cybersecurity tool and create greater risks.

Privacy is online safety ✊️

Sign the petition to #ProtectVPNs in the UK ➡️ https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-government-protect-vpn-use-uk

#vpn #vpns #cybersecurity #privacy #onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #ageverification #StopKillingTheInternet #ukpolitics #ukpol

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Image of a mobile phone held in a pair of hands with the thumbs over the screen with a neon effects in blue and purple. Text: Sign the petition – Protect VPN use in the UK. https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-government-protect-vpn-use-uk

The UK government could announce restrictions on VPNs next month.

This would threaten our privacy and security.

VPNs keep young people safe from harassment. Businesses secure. Journalists, activists and whistleblowers protected.

Here's why we must #ProtectVPNs 🧵

Sign the petition if you agree ⬇️

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-government-protect-vpn-use-uk

#vpn #vpns #cybersecurity #privacy #onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #ageverification #StopKillingTheInternet #ukpolitics #ukpol

World Food Programme expand #Palantir partnership

https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5789/world-food-programme-expand-palantir-partnership

#UN #WFP #privacy #surveillance

@moniquebarrow_

It's a pity, that the probably most promising "Discord killer" is not even mentioned on the "AlternativeTo" page: #Movim by @movim 🤷

https://piaille.fr/@movim/116767255470350702

It's federated, it' s based on #openStandards, it's #freeSoftware, it's not VC backed.

#Jabber #XMPP #ageVerification #privacy #federation