"The city of Dayton, Ohio has covered its Flock automated license plate reader cameras with black trash bags in part because police there are unsure whether the cameras are still active and the city also doesn’t seem to know whether it is allowed to take the cameras down. The move comes after months of resident outrage, a scandal in which the city was sharing Flock camera data for immigration enforcement apparently on accident, and a $30,000 audit into how the cameras are being used.

Joe Parlette, the deputy city manager of Dayton, said at a city commission meeting last week that the “Dayton Police Department agreed to work with Public Works to put bags over the cameras” as a stop-gap measure until Flock cameras could be removed entirely. I spoke to multiple people in Dayton who said they had seen bagged cameras in the last few days. The Dayton Daily News first reported on the baggings.

Bagged Flock cameras in Dayton. Image: Melissa Bertolo
Dayton is not the first city to cover its Flock cameras with trash bags because they can’t figure out how to immediately terminate the use of the cameras. Late last year, the city of Evanston, Illinois also covered its cameras with trash bags while it was waiting for the company to remove them from the city. Cities around the country have been reconsidering their relationship with the surveillance company after reporting from 404 Media and local news outlets that showed data from the cameras was making its way to Immigration and Customs Enforcement through Flock’s national camera network."

https://www.404media.co/cities-are-covering-flock-cameras-with-trash-bags/

#USA #Surveillance #Flock #Privacy #DataProtection #PoliceState

https://proton.me/blog/proton-mail-connect-gmail

proton will now, not only import your contacts & emails from Google

you can use your Gmail account from right inside proton

#Proton #ProtonMail #Privacy #Security #Encryption #E2EE #Google #Gmail

We continue to improve our private search engine AstianGO, with no intrusive advertising, no tracking, and no profiling.

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WhatsApp does, Signal does, Wire does, what now?

"Age Verification is a Privacy Nightmare"

"In the rush to block young people from certain parts of the internet, lawmakers are creating a privacy and security nightmare for everyone."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/age-verification-privacy-nightmare

#Privacy

More License Plate Reader Mission Creep: School Residency Verification, Background Checks, and Noise Complaints

absence of a warrant requirement has fostered a culture of unrestricted access to sensitive location data, allowing agencies to leverage that data beyond the scope of specific criminal investigations

#alpr #flocksafety #surveillance #privacy #technology #tech

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/more-license-plate-reader-mission-creep-school-residency-verification-background

#UK #Visa Portal spilled thousands of applicants’ passports and selfies online — and hasn’t fixed the leak

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/26/uk-visa-portal-spilled-thousands-of-applicants-passports-and-selfies-online-and-hasnt-fixed-the-leak/

#privacy #passport #travel #DataBreach #cybersecurity #immigration

9-Year-Old Linux Kernel Flaw enables Root Command Execution on Major Distros.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-46333 [CVSS score: 5.5], is a case of improper privilege management that could permit an unprivileged local user to disclose sensitive files and execute arbitrary commands as root on default installations of several major distributions like Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu. It's also codenamed ssh-keysign-pwn.

According to Qualys, which discovered the flaw, the problem is rooted in the kernel's __ptrace_may_access() function and was introduced in November 2016.

⁉️"The primitive is reliable and turns any local shell into a path to root or to sensitive credential material," Saeed Abbasi, senior manager of Threat Research Unit at Qualys, said.⁉️

https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2026/05/20/cve-2026-46333-local-root-privilege-escalation-and-credential-disclosure-in-the-linux-kernel-ptrace-path

#linux #security #privacy #engineer #media #infosec #tech #news

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👾Successful exploitation of the flaw could permit a local attacker to disclose /etc/shadow and host private keys under /etc/ssh/*_key, as well as execute arbitrary commands as root through four different exploits targeting chage, ssh-keysign, pkexec and accounts-daemon.👾 The disclosure comes as a proof-of-concept [PoC] exploit for the vulnerability was released last week, shortly after a public kernel commit emerged. CVE-2026-46333 is the latest security vulnerability disclosed in the Linux kernel after Copy Fail, Dirty Frag and Fragnesia over the past month. ⁉️It's recommended to apply the latest kernel update released by Linux distributions. If the updates cannot be carried out immediately, temporary workarounds include raising "kernel.yama.ptrace_scope" to 2.⁉️ "On hosts that have allowed untrusted local users during the exposure window, treat SSH host keys and locally cached credentials as potentially disclosed," Qualys said. "Rotate host keys and review any administrative material that lived in the memory of set-uid processes."

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👾The development follows the release of a PoC for a local privilege escalation flaw called PinTheft that allows local attackers to gain root privileges on Arch Linux systems. The exploit requires the Reliable Datagram Sockets [RDS] module to be loaded on the target system, io_ring to be enabled, a readable SUID-root binary, and x86_64 support for the included payload.👾 "PinTheft is a Linux local privilege escalation exploit for an RDS zerocopy double-free that can be turned into a page-cache overwrite through io_uring fixed buffers," Zellic and the V12 security team said. <https://github.com/v12-security/pocs/tree/09e835b587bf71249775654061ae4c79e92cf430/pintheft> ⁉️"The bug lived in the RDS zerocopy send path. rds_message_zcopy_from_user() pins user pages one at a time. If a later page faults, the error path drops the pages it already pinned, and later RDS message cleanup drops them again because the scatterlist entries and entry count remain live after the zcopy notifier is cleared. Each failed zerocopy send can steal one reference from the first page."⁉️

🚨Warning: #Discord age verification is going live any day now.

While huge public backlash put Discord's plans on hold, they were never abandoned.

👉 Learn here what's next & how to protect your #identity: https://tuta.com/blog/discord-plans-age-verification-globally

#IDcheck #anonymity #privacy #AgeVerification

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#California moves to exempt #Linux from its upcoming #AgeVerification law after backlash

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-moves-to-exempt-linux-from-its-upcoming-age-verification-law-after-backlash-over-forcing-operating-systems-to-collect-users-ages-amendment-proposed-by-the-same-lawmaker-who-wrote-the-original-law

#privacy #FOSS #politics

#Dutch government blocks US company from acquisition, citing ‘risk to public interest’

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/26/dutch-government-blocks-us-company-from-acquisition-citing-risk-to-public-interest/

#Kyndryl #Solvinity #privacy #Netherlands #politics #DigitalID #biometrics

New financial support for #FDroid thanks to FLOSS/Fund

https://f-droid.org/en/2026/05/26/flossfund.html

#FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #privacy #Android

Privacy-by-design: что наш edge не пишет на диск и почему это сложнее, чем кажется

Я пилю VantageDNS — рекурсивный DNS-резолвер с фильтрацией. NextDNS-clone, если коротко: юзер настраивает роутер на наш DoH endpoint, а мы рекурсивно резолвим и заодно режем рекламу, трекеры и malware. Privacy-фокус для такого продукта это не маркетинговая фича, а архитектурное ограничение, которое надо тащить с первого дня. Privacy policy без архитектурных гарантий — это обещание не лезть в твою тумбочку, ключи от которой ты сам отдал. В этой статье конкретика: что edge-нода не пишет на диск, как устроен кольцевой буфер для query log, что делать с crash dumps, и как юзер может проверить, что мы не врём, через strace . Что мы не пишем на диск

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1035640/

#privacy #DNS #retention #GDPR #edge #query_log #inmemory #EU #anonymization #ClickHouse

Looper Player porta su Linux e Android un lettore musicale locale con audio ad alta fedeltà, interfaccia glassmorphism e totale privacy.

#musica #linux #android #opensource #audiophile #musicplayer #privacy #desktoplinux

https://www.linuxeasy.org/looper-player-musicale-locale-privacy/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

More #LicensePlateReader Mission Creep: #School Residency Verification, #BackgroundChecks , and Noise Complaints
#alpr #privacy #surveillance

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/more-license-plate-reader-mission-creep-school-residency-verification-background

#FBI agent explains how easy it is to ID people posting #AI #porn without consent

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/fbi-easily-nabs-man-selling-sexy-deepfakes-who-used-his-own-photo-in-profile/

#privacy #deepfake #cybercrime #nsfw

#Charter confirms #DataBreach after #ShinyHunters extortion threat

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/charter-confirms-data-breach-after-shinyhunters-extortion-threat/

#privacy #cybersecurity #ISP

«Websites have a new way to spy on visitors — analyzing their SSD activity:
Telltale SSD activity can be measured in the browser using simple JavaScript.»

WTF!?!! Why do the web providers always want to listen to their users instead of simply offering correct honest services?

🤬 https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/websites-have-a-new-way-to-spy-on-visitors-analyzing-their-ssd-activity/

#ssd #web #spy #javascript #online #itsec #website #privacy #securyti #itsecurity #spying #onlineprivacy