Heise reports: a viral WhatsApp chain claiming AI can read all chats is false — messages stay end‑to‑end encrypted — but WhatsApp’s metadata collection remains a serious privacy risk. Read more: https://www.heise.de/en/news/WhatsApp-chain-letter-is-fake-and-yet-there-is-reason-for-concern-11326548.html 🔐⚠️ #WhatsApp #Privacy #Metadata

Signal is your friend #imho

Heise: Der KI‑Kettenbrief zu WhatsApp ist fake — Chats bleiben Ende‑zu‑Ende‑verschlüsselt. Aber: WhatsApp sammelt umfangreiche Metadaten (Telefonnummern, IP, Timestamps) und ermöglicht Profiling. Wer Meta meiden will, sollte WhatsApp verlassen. Mehr: https://www.heise.de/news/WhatsApp-Kettenbrief-ist-fake-und-trotzdem-besteht-Grund-zur-Sorge-11326096.html 🤖🔒 #WhatsApp #Datenschutz #Privacy

Signal ist euer freund ✨ 👍

⋅ The “Nude” Ultimatum: My Phone is Not a Government Narc

− https://the.unknown-universe.co.uk/privacy-security/the-ultimatum/

#Privacy #Security

It still can't do DoH to an upstream DNS server, but it'll at least encrypt DNS queries within the local network now.

Title: Windows Server gets DNS over HTTPS (DoH) support

Subtitle: #Microsoft has finally flipped the switch on a long-awaited #Windows Server security upgrade, bringing encrypted #DNS to enterprise networks.

Link: https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-server-gets-dns-over-https-doh-support/

#Privacy #Security

Looks like 702 has lapsed.

Title: US #surveillance law to expire for first time after lawmakers reject Trump’s controversial pick to lead spy agencies

Link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/12/us-spy-law-to-expire-for-first-time-after-lawmakers-reject-trumps-controversial-pick-to-lead-spy-agencies/

#Privacy

#NoFakesAct: US-Spielebranche warnt vor #Deepfake-Gesetzgebung | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/No-Fakes-Act-US-Spielebranche-warnt-vor-Deepfake-Gesetzgebung-11326710.html #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #DeepFakes #Datenschutz #privacy

Quick reminder that Zerion runs on exactly two things: Tor and donations. Every contribution goes directly into stability fixes, new releases and the iOS version we’re working on. No investors, no ads, no company behind us. Just us and the people who want this to exist.

https://zerion.chat/donate.html

Boosts help more than you’d think.

#privacy #foss #tor

A source wants to reach you safely. With most messengers that starts with a problem: they need your phone number, you get theirs, and a server in the middle logs that you two talked.

Zerion skips all of that. You share a QR code or link, the connection runs device to device over Tor, and no record of the contact exists outside your two phones.

Source code and protocol docs are public. Verify before you trust: https://github.com/zerionproject/Zerion

#journalism #infosec #privacy #tor

🦥 Google will save your Lens photos, Search Live recordings, and Translate audio for AI training

https://www.theverge.com/tech/947836/google-search-privacy-settings-images-audio

#google #privacy #ai

Small wins are still wins.

@eff Victory! 702 has Expired!

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/victory-702-has-expired

#Privacy #702 #EFF #DigitalRights #MassSurveillance #CivilLiberties

We wrote an honest comparison of Zerion against Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram, Threema, Wire, Session, Cwtch and Tox.

Honest meaning: Signal gets credit for pioneering post-quantum key exchange, Cwtch is genuinely close in spirit, and each app is the right call for some threat model.

Where Zerion stands alone: post-quantum encryption on every single message, and everything (including calls) over Tor.

https://zerion.chat/blog/zerion-vs-mainstream-messengers.html

#privacy #tor #encryption #grapheneos #fdroid #android #p2p

‘You Will Not Speak on #Flock Tonight’: County Commissioner Refuses to Let Residents Opposing Flock Speak at Meeting

A County Commissioner in #NorthCarolina refused to let dozens of residents speak opposing Flock #surveillance at a public meeting this week, instead forcing the group to designate one single spokesperson.

“How many people are here for public comment dealing with license plate readers AKA Flock?,” Michael Garrison, the chairman of the Madison County Board of Commissioners began the public meeting by saying. Nearly everyone in the audience’s hand went up. “Probably most everybody. Per our county policy, I’m going to respectfully ask that you guys take a few minutes to converse with each other, designate one person to speak … we’ll move forward with only one person, whoever that happens to be.”

“What? No. We all want to speak on this,” someone in the crowd said; others can be heard trying to object as well.
#privacy #alpr

https://www.404media.co/you-will-not-speak-on-flock-tonight-county-commissioner-refuses-to-let-residents-opposing-flock-speak-at-meeting/

#PeopleSoft 0-day affecting hundreds of organizations steals gigabytes of data
#privacy #security #0day #hack

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/peoplesoft-0-day-affecting-hundreds-of-organizations-steals-gigabytes-of-data/

Controversial #FISA spying law expires tonight. The #spying will continue.

Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence #Surveillance Act (FISA) is set to expire at midnight tonight after Congress failed to pass an extension of the controversial spying law. But that doesn't mean the government's spying powers will disappear.

Surveillance under #Section702 of FISA "operates under yearlong certifications approved by the FISA Court," the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law explained this week. The current certification will remain in place until March 2027 under the yearlong certification issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on March 17, 2026.
#privacy #security

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/controversial-fisa-spying-law-expires-tonight-the-spying-will-continue/

#Trump Risks Key #Surveillance Authority Over ‘Unqualified’ Spy-Chief Pick

https://www.wired.com/story/trump-risks-key-surveillance-authority-over-unqualified-spy-chief-pick/

#Pulte #Section702 #FISA #privacy #surveillance #politics