#FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers’ IDs

https://www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to-kill-burner-phones-by-forcing-telecoms-to-get-all-customers-ids/

#privacy

US lawmakers are alarmed that Bill Pulte, a housing official with no intelligence experience, is poised to take charge of one of the government's most powerful surveillance tools.

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

#Starmer gives tech firms ultimatum to block explicit images on children’s phones

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/08/starmer-tech-firms-ultimatum-block-explicit-images-children-phones

#privacy #censorship #cybersecurity #politics #UK #AgeVerification

If UK win, and their "track all devices" bs passed.

Other country will also do that, bcz "UK did that, why don't we?"

And, privacy is doomed.

#privacy #unitedkingdom

Who's ready for some Blade Runner shit?

#vancouver #yvr #vpd #privacy

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-police-canadian-first-technology

Authentik is an open-source identity provider that brings single sign-on (SSO) to your self-hosted services.

Manage access to apps like Jellyfin, Immich, Nextcloud, Vaultwarden, and more from one place, with support for OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, LDAP, and other authentication standards.

A powerful tool for anyone running a homelab or self-hosted infrastructure.

👉 https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=authentik

#OpenSource #SelfHosted #Authentik #SSO #Homelab #Privacy #FOSS

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Screenshot of the Authentik project page featuring the Authentik logo and status badges for build health, version information, code coverage, and community activity. The page describes Authentik as an open-source identity provider (IdP) for modern single sign-on (SSO), supporting OAuth2/OIDC, SAML, LDAP, RADIUS, and other authentication protocols for self-hosted environments.

Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow

"Unfortunately, we won't be putting code behind a compilation flag ... We won't be removing all the MV2 code wholesale right away, so many of these things will continue working for awhile (but they will go away eventually, and some may go away sooner than others)."

https://www.neowin.net/news/google-chrome-is-killing-all-ublock-origin-bypasses-microsoft-edge-opera-to-follow/

#chrome #privacy #adblock #ublock

A thread to Stop ID Surveillance from coming to Canada ⛔️🧵

Yesterday, I sent a long letter the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Culture Minister Marc Miller, and the leaders of all other major federal parties in Canada.

I sent this letter to voice my concerns about the upcoming bill that is planned to be introduced today at 5 p.m. ET, to propose a ban of social media for children, therefore requiring all social media platforms to identify every adults accessing it.

This is a long thread of what I wrote (mute me for one hour if you don't want to see it).

Feel free to copy any parts you want to share in your own letter of opposition sent to your representatives this week.

Here's how to find their contact information: https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en/search

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#StopIDSurveillance #Privacy #HumanRights #AgeVerification #CanPoli #Canada

A ban does nothing to address the harm caused by social media 🧨🧵

The things that harm children on social media also harm adults. A ban of social media for children sadly does nothing to reduce the harm caused by social media, it only reserves it to adult, and postpones it for children.

The addictive and manipulative black-box algorithms, the privacy-intrusive data collection, the harmful violent content and misinformation, are all hurting adults as well.

Moreover, children who do not go around the ban before the restricted age (other implementations have shown that most children will attempt to circumvent the ban) will find themselves completely ill-equipped to protect themselves from social media harm once they come of age, and will be made even more vulnerable by our own legislation claiming to protect them.

A true solution to this is to regulate corporate platforms to forbid addictive algorithms, targeted advertising, intrusive data collection, third-party data sharing, violent content, weak moderation, manipulative tactics, and other abusive mechanisms used by certain platforms to prioritize profits over the safety and sanity of its users.

This would not only help children, but adults and society as a whole as well.

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#StopIDSurveillance #Privacy #HumanRights #AgeVerification #CanPoli #Canada

Lobbyists are influencing policies more than experts and advocates 💰🧵

Unfortunately, there are many groups that are putting pressure on governments all around the world to increase surveillance under the guise of protecting the children. The rapidly growing, for-profit, age assurance industry has all to gain in influencing governments to push for age verification processes and bans of social media for children.

Even Meta has reportedly invested heavily in a network of organisations to discreetly lobby for age verification at the operating system level.

Meanwhile, nonprofit organisations and advocates who genuinely care for the well-being of the public have been warning for years about the dangers of age verification and social media ban legislation, but have much less money and power to influence policies at the government level.

I implore you, as the elected representatives for all Canadians, to consider this threat of corporate influence cautiously in your decisions, to listen to the warnings from advocates and experts in the field, and to prioritize first and foremost the well-being and safety of all Canadians.

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#StopIDSurveillance #Privacy #HumanRights #AgeVerification #CanPoli #Canada

Always remember. The police are not our friends.

All of this technology being placed in their hands is good for no one. They claim it makes us safer, but we know better.

https://ij.org/police-have-reportedly-used-license-plate-readers-to-stalk-romantic-interests-at-least-14-times-in-recent-years/

#ACAB #Policing #OpSec #Privacy #Flock

Children would be harmed by this ban 🧒🧵

Despite how it might feel at first glance, a ban of social media for children would actually create new harm for children.

First, many children would try to circumvent the ban, this is already happening in countries with such legislation, like Australia.

Second, children who cannot circumvent the ban might be pushed to darker corners of the web to rebuild their social lives, on worse platforms, without any moderation or safety measures. Moreover, being pushed out of the legal frame, these teens and children might feel less inclined to report any abuses experienced to a trustworthy adult, effectively making the situation much worse.

Then, children living with abusive or unsupportive families could lose their support network overnight. It is quite common for 2SLGBTQ+ teens and children living with families that do not support them to find emotional support in a network of peers online. This is often vital to survival. Losing this support suddenly can have devastating permanent consequences.

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#StopIDSurveillance #Privacy #HumanRights #AgeVerification #CanPoli #Canada

Adults would be harmed by this ban 🧑🧵

In addition to the already stated dangers of increasing the risk of identity theft, fraud, devaluation of official documents, attacks on the most vulnerable, discrimination against marginalized groups, and self-censorship, a ban of social media for children would give a free pass for corporate platforms to perpetuate the harm they also currently cause to adults.

All that is harmful to children on social media is also harmful to adults.

Social media are an integral part of modern communication and it has many benefits, but commercial platforms have been exploiting their users for decades, much beyond what our society should deem reasonable.

It is time for the Canadian government to regulate social media, yes. Not by excluding children and teens from it, but by obligating platforms to be responsible in protecting the safety and sanity of its users. It should be more profitable to run a platform that is open, transparent, and healthy for its users than one that is not.

A ban on addictive algorithms and data reselling, strong privacy protections and user controls, mandated transparency and effective moderation, an obligation to implement proven safety measures, and important consequences for platforms that prioritize profits over users' safety would all be much more effective at protecting everyone on social media, including the children.

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#StopIDSurveillance #Privacy #HumanRights #AgeVerification #CanPoli #Canada

This is nothing like showing ID at the liquor store 🪪🧵

Finally, it's important to take note that age verification online is nothing like showing an identification card to be able to purchase alcohol. This often-used comparison is disingenuous.

If we stay within this analogy of the analogue world, then online age verification is more comparable to showing an official identification card at the liquor where the cashier would make thousands of photocopies of it, store some in an unlocked drawer, share some with all other liquor stores worldwide, also share some with grocery stores, newspapers, their friends, and random strangers on the street. Then leave a bunch of copies on the floor, for anyone to grab.

Nobody would accept to show their ID at the liquor store if it was happening that way. But sadly, most people ignore the extent to which data is shared, lost, and stolen online, on a daily basis.

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#StopIDSurveillance #Privacy #HumanRights #AgeVerification #CanPoli #Canada

Canadians need better privacy protections 🔒🧵

Canadians need better and stronger privacy protections, not less. A ban on social media for children is effectively a mandatory ID checks for all adults.

I hope that you will consider these important risks in your evaluation this week, and that you will favour regulations to make social media safer for everyone instead. Excluding children from social media is a decision that should remain a parent's responsibility, not a government one.

As a Canadian citizen who care deeply for the safety of all Canadians, I thank you for taking the time to read this letter and consider my concerns.

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#StopIDSurveillance #Privacy #HumanRights #AgeVerification #CanPoli #Canada

Information and references 📚🧵

Portal of resources about age verification (EFF):
https://www.eff.org/issues/age-verification

Everything You Wanted to Know About a Kids’ Social Media Ban (Michael Geist):
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/06/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-a-kids-social-media-ban-but-were-rightly-afraid-to-ask-a-faq-on-age-verification-and-mandated-id-for-everyone/

How and Why to Fight Back Against Social Media Bans (EFF):
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/how-and-why-fight-back-against-social-media-bans

Transgender youth 5 times more likely to attempt suicide, study finds (CBC):
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-transgender-youth-suicide-1.6487787

Age Verification Lobby Pushes For Age Verification Checks For VPN Use (Reclaim The Net):
https://reclaimthenet.org/lobbyists-propose-vpn-age-checks

Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech (Gadget Review):
https://www.gadgetreview.com/reddit-user-uncovers-who-is-behind-metas-2b-lobbying-for-invasive-age-verification-tech

Firm that verifies mugshots for ChatGPT and Roblox feeds US surveillance apparatus with 269 distinct checks (Cybernews):
https://cybernews.com/privacy/persona-leak-exposes-global-surveillance-capabilities/

Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users (Ars Technica):
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/10/discord-says-hackers-stole-government-ids-of-70000-users/

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#StopIDSurveillance #Privacy #HumanRights #AgeVerification #CanPoli #Canada

Introducing #ProtonDrive #CLI: Use Drive from your terminal

https://proton.me/blog/proton-drive-cli

#Proton #privacy #cybersecurity #cloud

Most US World Cup stadiums are surrounded by surveillance cameras. Want to know if you’re being watched on your way to a match? These maps will help you.

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Mapping Every Flock License Plate Reader Near US World Cup Stadiums

From anti-drone tech to face recognition, 2026 World Cup stadiums in the US, Canada, and Mexico are subjecting fans to an array of surveillance tech. Here’s what you need to know.

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Soccer Fans, You’re Being Watched

RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxnightly/116685491709643877

This is, I think, a helpful change for people who have #location enabled in #Firefox.

However, I would encourage everybody to disable location tracking altogether.

#privacy

Following the Australian precedence, Brazil, Greece, Turkey, and Malaysia have now passed laws requiring age checks for social media.

😡 But age verification and ID checks destroy everyone's #privacy. 😡

Learn what countries are planning a social media ban for teens and fight #AgeVerification 💪

👉https://tuta.com/blog/age-verification-kills-anonymity

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Image shows the flags of different countries including Greece, Australia, Brasil, Turkey and Malaysia.

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#WhatsApp Catches #Spyware Firm #NSO Defying No-Hacking #CourtOrder
#privacy #security #hacking

https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/06/08/1656222/whatsapp-catches-spyware-firm-nso-defying-no-hacking-court-order?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

#Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its #SmartGlasses App After WIRED Report

The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of #MetaAI , the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.
#privacy #facerecognition #biometrics #ai

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-removes-face-recognition-code-meta-ai-app-smart-glasses/