Maybe instead of building global police states, parents should just parent their children...
#foodforthought #censorship #privacy #surveillance #internet #wtf #childsafety
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New York's budget deadline is extended to tomorrow. Stand with creators NOW and tell your representatives to take surveillance and censorship mandates out of the budget. https://eff.org/3DPrintNY #newyork #3dprinting #privacy
You might have heard of Tor already,
yet never dared to try it yourself.
Despite being around for decades,
Tor is still a tool too few people know about. Tor is essential to journalists, activists, whistleblowers, dissidents, and people in vulnerable situations everywhere.
Thanks to Tor, activists have a safe way to continue fighting for human rights and resist censorship from oppressive regimes.
Here's how Tor works,
and why you should support it.
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/30/in-praise-of-tor/
#Whistleblower details how #DOGE may have taken sensitive #NLRB data
In the first days of March, a team of advisers from #Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived at the Southeast Washington, DC, headquarters of the National Labor Relations Board.
The small, independent federal agency investigates & adjudicates complaints about unfair #labor practices.
#law #InfoSec #privacy #NationalSecurity #Musk
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security
Senior #State Department official sought internal communications with #journalists, #European officials, & Trump #critics
#Trump appointee Darren Beattie requested records regarding a large list of high-profile names, organizations, & #RightWing buzzwords for a “#TwitterFiles” style document dump about alleged conservative censorship.
#law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #privacy #InfoSec #democracy #RevengePolitics
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/01/1115988/senior-state-department-official-sought-internal-communications-with-journalists-european-officials-and-trump-critics/
NEW: ORG investigation reveals Meta enables vulnerable people to be targeted with disinformation and fraudulent ads.
With ads offering fake identity documents still running on Facebook, Meta is profiting from the global migrant crisis.
Read more about our report on Meta's surveillance capitalism advertising model ⬇️
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/new-report-how-meta-is-monetising-the-migrant-crisis/
#meta #facebook #dataprotection #adtech #privacy #gdpr #data #advertising #surveillancecapitalism #migrants #ukpolitics #ukpol
#Privacy & #DataProtection picks of the day:
➡️ @CryptPad - Privacy-friendly FOSS online office suite (🇺🇳 UN recently started using it!)
➡️ @cryptomator - Lets you add E2E encrypted folder to any online cloud
➡️ @ToSDR - Summarising small print of online services, grades privacy-friendliness
➡️ @librewolf - Web browser emphasising privacy, forked from Firefox
➡️ @briar - Messenger app designed for maximum privacy
➡️ @privacyint (main) & @privacyint@media.privacyinternational.org (videos) - NGO campaigning for privacy
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#Introduction 📣 V3
Hi! 👋
I'm a #music producer with a strong passion for #photography. Music-wise I lean toward #EDM, while photography ranges from aerial to architecture and everyday stills.
A big believer in #privacy, digital independence, and owning your own space online, powered by #FOSS.
When I'm not crafting electronic noise or framing pixels, I’m reading terms and conditions just to feel something. 😁
Also, I get paid to talk. Not much—I just talk a lot.
Feel free to connect! ✨
Cash is private. Your digital payments aren't...yet.
Christian Grothoff joined Nym's Alexis Roussel to talk about fixing that.
💸 What GNU Taler is & why it matters
🔏 Payment privacy + network privacy
🌍 Building privacy infrastructure in Europe
▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gVYPqi1lqI
#GNUTaler #Privacy #FreeSoftware #Nym #FOSS
New Privacy Guides article 🔐
by me:
If you are an Apple user looking for a free, open-source, and privacy-focused password manager, KeePassium is a fantastic option.
KeePassium offers synchronization options, but allows you to keep your password database offline by default.
It's also KeePass-compatible, which makes migrating from or to any other KeePass-compatible apps easy.
Check the full review here: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/13/keepassium-review/
#PrivacyGuides #Security #Privacy #Password #PasswordManager #KeePass #KeePassium
I hate the fact so many Liberals are loving this age verification bullshit. Then again, my country loves surveillance. Remember, if they say “protecting children” and aren’t also in favor of things like free school breakfasts and lunches then they proved that they don’t actually care about protecting children, they just want control. #Privacy
The fediverse now has a mobile-first personal server called Holos by @HolosSocial (via @apps). It's a full ActivityPub server that runs on your Android device (iOS coming soon). You own your identity with a custom domain and your followers live on your device.
Project URL: https://holos.social
Key features:
✅ Your server on your phone – Your identity, keys, and followers live on your device, not a giant shared server.
✅ Custom domain identity – Permanently own your handle (@you@yourname.com) and take it anywhere.
✅ True E2EE for DMs – Real end-to-end encryption for private conversations, a major privacy upgrade.
✅ Relay-based connectivity – Connects to the wider fediverse via relays, so a personal server is practical on mobile.
Open source, privacy-focused, and built to give you real ownership in the fediverse. The Android version is available now.
Donations:
https://fedilab.app/page/donations/
Open Collective:
https://opencollective.com/fedilab
#HolosSocial #Fediverse #ActivityPub #E2EE #Privacy #Android #Fedilab #OpenSource
Dani's Race. An #openworld #libre #game for #GNU / #Linux made in #UPBGE ( #blender #gameengine ).
Please Download and Play!!!
A centralized intelligence database on all Americans is not inherently legal.
It likely breaks the Privacy Act of 1974, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the 1st, 4th and 5th Amendments.
This must be stopped. Contact your Senators and Representative and ask them to stop it. I use @5calls to call mine.
https://newrepublic.com/post/195904/trump-palantir-data-americans
New Privacy Guides article 🌈🔒
by me:
Data privacy is important for everyone.
But for some marginalized groups,
data privacy is indispensable for social connection, access to information, and physical safety.
For Pride month this year,
we are happy to present you the first article of our series discussing topics at the intersection of data privacy and LGBTQ+ experiences.
Stay safe 🔒
Stay connected ✨
And Happy Pride! 
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/03/importance-of-privacy-for-the-queer-community/
"There’s no opting out of being tracked: if you drive, you should simply assume that these cameras are logging your movements.
A Texas police officer used Flock to perform a nationwide search of more than 83,000 ALPR cameras while looking for a woman who had had an abortion."
But who cares?
The only danger to women are trans women in bathroom and sports! /s
#feminism #texas #abortion #civilright #womensrights #health #science #tech #privacy #news #media #women
Calm, relaxed, serene, she moved slowly yet gracefully, her thoughts as tranquil as her movements.
The bath had been so warm and relaxing; a little steam misted over the mirrors, and the air in the room was of the perfect temperature.
This was quite the perfect way to spend some time.
Reverie art print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/reverie-steve-henderson.html?product=art-print
#bath #home #privacy #art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #artist #woman #beauty #peace #relax
You know what? As a society, I don't think we have a data privacy problem, actually.
What we truly have is a
consent-respecting problem.
If, as a society and as individuals, we truly respected people's informed and freely given consent, we would not have problems with data privacy at all.
If we culturally improve our consent-respecting practices, we will inevitably understand better how to improve our privacy-respecting practices.
Ask first.
Give options.
Respect people's choices.
Never share without prior permission.
Switzerland is heading down a murky path. 😳
(Update: clarifying this was a specific case, not general case... although, lots of cameras wandering around everywhere nowadays)
"Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to the LAPD, Internal Emails Show"
(9/28/2023)
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I never thought I would see society slip into authoritarian surveillance so fast.
If we don't push back hard and quickly against this, we will lose all our rights.
Increasingly, surveillance is being normalized and integrated in our lives. Under the guise of convenience, applications and features are sold to us as being the new better way to do things. While some might be useful, this convenience is a Trojan horse. The cost of it is the continuous degradation of our privacy rights, with all that that entails.
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/07/selling-surveillance-as-convenience/
They will never have enough data about you.
They will always ask for more.
That's how they feed the billionaires.
Leave and delete corporate social media.
Before they eat you whole.
#Facebook #X #Instagram #Reddit #Threads #Bluesky #LinkedIn #Slack #Discord #YouTube #TikTok #SurveillanceCapitalism #Privacy
First, they'll ask for your official IDs to confirm your age and identity.
This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.
Then, they'll claim your official ID is
unreliable, because it was stolen so many times, and demand you share your biometric data.
They will collect your face scan,
your palm scan, and even your iris scan (no exaggeration, these are all already being collected by some companies for identification). They will claim it's super safe.
This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive biometric data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.
Then what? Rinse and escalate.
You will have lost control of not just your corporate social media accounts by participating to this, but to any data capable of validating your identity, to your privacy rights, to the protections you could use online to stay safe.
We don't have to wait that it escalates.
We can, and must, push back and say No now. Start to say No now.
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