"major retailers are lobbying for weaker guardrails [against surveillance pricing] they argue are necessary for data-based personalized discounts"

Nice try.

Paywalled link: https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/ban-on-surveillance-pricing-could-threaten-discounts-retailers-warn/article_9b1e92dd-dddd-41e5-b9dd-dc090d2f7367.html

#news #technology #TechNews #SurveillancePricing #SurvelienceCapitalism #surveillance #privacy #security

#ElonMusk tries again to escape #FTC audits of #X data handling
The FTC order placed restrictions on X’s data use for 20 years, while requiring regular independent audits and granting the agency authority to request documents as needed to ensure compliance.
Musk tried and failed to get the order revoked in 2023.
Critics hope to keep Elon Musk from escaping a strict data-#privacy order imposed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) shortly before he took over #Twitter.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/elon-musk-tries-again-to-escape-ftc-audits-of-x-data-handling/

📡 The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy

｢ Bright Data is a data-collection company that sells access to what it markets as the world’s largest residential proxy network of 400M+ home IP addresses that its customers route web-scraping traffic through. The supply behind that network comes from an SDK ｣

https://blog.includesecurity.com/2026/06/the-smart-tv-in-your-livingroom-is-a-node-in-the-aiscraping-economy/

#ai #scraping #privacy

#ICE’s Plan to Let #Cops Around the Country Scan Faces to Verify #Immigration Status

https://www.404media.co/ices-plan-to-let-cops-around-the-country-scan-faces-to-verify-immigration-status/

#police #politics #privacy #FRT #FacialRecognition #biometrics #surveillance

#Pulte Appointment Underscores Need to Reform #Section702 Spying

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/pulte-appointment-underscores-need-reform-section-702-spying

#politics #privacy #surveillance #FISA

This FOSS fitness tracker looks really neat!
Have a look into demo URL there.

https://docs.endurain.com/

#fitness #FitnessTracker #strava #garmin #privacy #selfHosted #SelfHosting #FOSS

#Filtr is a new #privacy tool that blocks ads in almost every #iPhone and #Mac app

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/04/filtr-is-a-new-privacy-tool-that-blocks-ads-in-almost-every-iphone-and-mac-app/

#advertising #ad #AdBlocker #AdBlocking #Apple

Is #DeGoogling Actually a Waste of Time? #Privacy #Security #yt #MassSurveillance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OG142U48js

Recommendations for #printers for my #privacy conscious wife please. She wants to be able to use compatible #ink, not just the official cartridges and no cloud dependency.

She will mainly be printing out multi page text, say 10-20 pages, but ideally wants a small printer.

I have an old-ish Brother printer/scanner but she thinks Brother have gone to the dark side (outlawing compatible cartridges) though I've not seen this with mine yet.

#InternetOfNoShit

The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy https://lobste.rs/s/k67xnh #privacy #security
https://blog.includesecurity.com/2026/06/the-smart-tv-in-your-livingroom-is-a-node-in-the-aiscraping-economy/

Fauxx: Data poisoning for your everyday tracking

Fauxx is an open-source Android (@fdroidorg) privacy tool that poisons data broker and ad-tech profiles by generating continuous, plausible, off-demographic synthetic activity from your device. The goal is simple: make your real behavioral signal statistically indistinguishable from noise.

📱 https://f-droid.org/packages/com.fauxx.full
📄 https://github.com/digital-grease/fauxx#fauxx

#fauxx #privacy #noise #data #app #adtech #android #fdroid #opensource #poison #tracking #databroker #oss

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Fauxx: Dashboard

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Fauxx: Targeting

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Fauxx: Modules

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Fauxx: Log

@mullvadnet personally, I'd recommend @torproject instead of a VPN simply because even Mullvad will comply with an orderly issue warrant.

• And I don't expect your staff to risk dying of old age in jail…

https://web.archive.org/web/20220112020000/https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/1085614812581715968

The only thing that VPNs are good for is circumventing Geoblocking and Providers violating Net Neutrality.

• But if you are targeted by state-sponsored attackers, espechally the UK government, a VPN is clearly insifficient…
  • But those OpSec, InfoSec, ComSec & ITsec issues are way beyond the scope of this post…

Case in point: If you want to watch i.e. @dw_innovation / DW news then a VPN is propably the only option if you can't get the livestream working.

• But in terms of privacy, I'd rather recommend Tor.
  • Still I have to give you guys cudos for your OnionService and pro-privacy setup, and I think that Tor over VPN is a valid strategy on the go…

#VPN #Tor #privacy #InfoSec #OpSec #ComSec #ITsec #security #VPNs #Mullvad #Tor #DW #DeutscheWelle #DWnews #OnionService