🚨 LAST CHANCE 🚨

The UK government's online safety consultation closes TODAY.

We must push back against more and more online ID checks. Making every adult hand over sensitive data to unregulated providers is itself UNSAFE.

Let's take on Big Tech business models instead!

Have your say ➡️ https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/growing-up-in-the-online-world-a-national-consultation

#onlinesafety #privacy #ageverification #bigtech #digitalID #ukpolitics #ukpol

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Image: Vector illustration of an eye with a red pupil, white dotted lined circle iris on black with a grey checkerboard for tthe white of the eye. Rotating tapes with red and white stripes stetch out from around the eye. A grided grey background of content boxes, ie image icons, profile icon, video play icon and lines. Text: Have your say – No Online ID Checks! Respond to the consultation.

…it’s basically what the title says. I can’t find the GitHub link/QRCode for the repository.

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

#Linux #AgeVerification
#Privacy

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

re:publica: Große Fragen, kaum Antworten | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/re-publica-Grosse-Fragen-kaum-Antworten-11302814.html #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Datenschutz #privacy #surveillance #Überwachung #Palantir #DSA #DigitalServicesAct #SocialMedia #SocialMediaVerbot #SocialMediaBan #DigitalSovereignty

Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files

https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/microsoft-copilot-cowork-exfiltrates-files

#HackerNews #Microsoft #Copilot #Cowork #Exfiltrates #Files #cybersecurity #data #privacy #AI #tools

I used it mostly for editing images (removing/adding details, putting text and translating mangas), but sometimes I’d also doodle.

Turns out I need GPS to use it.

They Built a Legendary #Privacy Tool. Now They’re Sworn Enemies
How #GrapheneOS lead developer #DanielMicay's legal fights with his former partner #JamesDonaldson over #CopperheadOS led to the privacy-focused tool's creation
There’s a lot of love all over the world for GrapheneOS, the gold standard of mobile security. There’s very little love between the two guys at the center of its history.
https://www.wired.com/story/they-built-privacy-tool-grapheneos-now-sworn-enemies/
https://archive.ph/K2uO1
#Android

These Privacy-Conscious #Gay #Dating Apps Want to Dethrone #Grindr

As public backlash against Big Dating mounts, a batch of new gay hookup apps offer community-powered alternatives.
#privacy #security

https://www.wired.com/story/these-privacy-conscious-gay-dating-apps-want-to-dethrone-grindr/