A variety of US federal and state laws give cops the power to get your data from online services. This overview goes over how they work, and how they can be mitigated.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/how-cops-can-get-your-private-online-data
#privacy #police #security #encryption
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ALERT for Bluesky Bridge Users 🚨 🦋
If you are using a Bluesky bridge on Mastodon, DO NOT TAG Mastodon accounts in your posts without prior informed consent from this person.
This could end up showing a preview of this person's profile picture and bio on Bluesky without their consent.
Additionally, be careful about how the upcoming Quote Post feature could behave with Bluesky bridges.
Some of us don't want our information shared with commercial platforms like Bluesky, and have not consented to this bridge.
This practice can even endanger some Fediverse users.
If you have chosen to share your
own data with commercial platforms, make sure you leave the same choice to others.
This is important.
#Privacy #Mastodon #Bluesky #BlueskyBridge #Fediverse #Consent
🤖 Gemini’s Gmail summaries were just caught parroting phishing scams. A security researcher embedded hidden prompts in email text (w/ white font, zero size) to make Gemini falsely claim the user's Gmail password was compromised and suggest calling a fake Google number. It's patched now, but the bigger issue remains: AI tools that interpret or summarize content can be manipulated just like humans. Attackers know this and will keep probing for prompt injection weaknesses.
TL;DR
⚠️ Invisible prompts misled Gemini
📩 AI summaries spoofed Gmail alerts
🔍 Prompt injection worked cleanly
🔐 Google patched, but risk remains
https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-gemini-bug-turns-gmail-summaries-into-phishing-attack
#cybersecurity #promptinjection #AIrisks #Gmail #security #privacy #cloud #infosec #AI
A recent comic on the US giving international tourists the Big Brother treatment
The #Trump admin has, for the first time ever, built a searchable national #citizenship #data system.
The tool, which is being rolled out in phases, is designed to be used by state & local election officials [sure] to give them an easier way to ensure only citizens are voting. But it was developed rapidly without a public process, & some are already worrying about what else it could be used for.
NPR is the first to report….
#surveillance #law #privacy
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/29/nx-s1-5409608/citizenship-trump-privacy-voting-database
If you are enabling an AI feature scanning all your emails, consider this will also scan the emails people have sent you. This information could include personal or otherwise legally protected information.
If this data leaks later (as it regularly happens with these systems), this could mean severe legal consequences for you down the road.
YOU are responsible for protecting the data of others under your custody.
This includes the messages and emails others send to you.
Finally! #Privacy laws #vloggers, and anyone uploading photos & videos, must follow in the #Philippinesyoutu.be/1yol7ELLff4...It applies to #Filipino citizens & foreigners in the country. Blur people if you don't have their permission!
BAWAL NA ANG VLOGGING SA PILIP...
Finally! #Privacy laws #vloggers, and anyone uploading photos & videos, must follow in the #Philippines
https://youtu.be/1yol7ELLff4?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-myDefault
It applies to #Filipino citizens & foreigners in the country. Blur people if you don't have their permission!
@pilipinas @philippines
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The world needs a secure, open source alternative to Facebook private posting (i.e. to friends only), but nothing on the fediverse really fills the need today, alas. At the Fediforum in June, I gave a short presentation on FriendSafe, a social media system I've written that supports private posting. It's a proof of concept that works today, but it would need major UX work and a security review before it's really ready for widespread use. It has a few other features I haven't seen in other social media yet, and which I'd love to see added to other projects.
In this thread is that 10-slide presentation, one slide per post. The text in the slides is the same as the text in the posts. The presentation is focused on FriendSafe, but I'm also just trying to get these ideas out there.
Let's start a conversation. Specifically, how can we move forward to get secure private posting ASAP, with full mobile support, etc.? I think this is critical to let people exit FB.
𝗖𝗢𝗣𝗜𝗟𝗢𝗧 𝗛𝗔 𝗟𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗢 𝗟𝗘 𝗘𝗠𝗔𝗜𝗟 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗙𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗭𝗜𝗔𝗟𝗜 𝗗𝗜
𝗠𝗜𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗦𝗢𝗙𝗧 𝟯𝟲𝟱 𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗢𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗢 𝗤𝗨𝗔𝗟𝗦𝗜𝗔𝗦𝗜 𝗣𝗢𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗬 𝗗𝗜 𝗦𝗜𝗖𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗭𝗭𝗔
Siamo alle solite, si introducono sistemi "invasivi" e non si riesce a controllare come questi interagiranno con i nostri dati.
Ora, con sistemi "agenti", la questione è ancora più spinosa: cosa potrebbero "fare" con dati a cui non dovrebbero aver accesso?
#sicurezza #privacy #email #mail #cybersecurity #copilot #microsoft #office365 #microsoft365
Buried in Proton's AI announcement today is a pretty shocking detail about their service 👀
Because of legal uncertainty around Swiss government proposals to introduce mass surveillance — proposals that have been outlawed in the EU — Proton is moving most of its physical infrastructure out of Switzerland. Lumo will be the first product to move.
Smartphone security tip of the week: Do not take screenshots of personal or sensitive data
Certain malicious apps secretly search your screenshots for login data, recovery data or personal information.
Read more about this topic: https://smartphone-dont-spy.de/en/list/do-not-take-screenshots-of-personal-or-sensitive-data
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#Scaleway remporte l’hébergement des données de santé à la place de #Microsoft
La ministre de la Santé a annoncé jeudi matin la sélection de Scaleway, filiale du groupe iliad, par la Plateforme des données de santé. Ce fameux « Health Data Hub », qui doit notamment faciliter l’accès aux données de santé à des fins de recherche, était précédemment hébergé par Microsoft.
#FuckMicrosoft #BanMicrosoft #Privacy #RegainPrivacy #HealthDataHub #NoSpy #SouveraineteNumerique #NoGAFAM #BanGAFAM #GetTheGAFAMOutOfHere
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https://sebsauvage.net/links/?UAiVLA
Age verification is creating an information desert.
The Online Safety Act sets every UK user to child as default.
Teenagers? Blocked. Adults? Content denied unless we do age checks with unregulated companies.
It's not just porn! News on Gaza and Ukraine is being scrubbed from view, threatening #freedomofexpression as well as #privacy ⛔
#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #palestine #gaza #ukraine #reddit #ageverification #ageassurance #censorship #ukpolitics #ukpol
Edited 1y ago
Don't trust cloud services with your creative work.
#enshittification #privacy #infosec #security #cybersecurity #writing #art
A list of Digital Service Providers located outside the jurisdiction of the United States of America:
https://codeberg.org/Linux-Is-Best/Outside_Us_Jurisdiction
This is an ongoing group project — so if you have any suggestions, corrections, or new information to share, feel free to reach out!
#USJurisdiction #USA #America #UnitedStates #Privacy #Security
Delighted to report that Amazon has abandoned its plans to build a datacenter here.
The "lease-and-equip" model they're switching to is a lot easier to get rid of, when we eventually kick these digital imperialists out altogether.
I'll raise a sovereign glass of fresh water to that.
no more music for U-18s in UK 🙃
#OnlineSafetyAct #OSA #AgeVerification #Spotify #Tech #Technology #Privacy #Censorship #Surveillance
By the way, this article I wrote for Pride Month on queer dating apps is also applicable to anyone using any dating apps.
I highly recommend a read if
you are currently using a dating app,
or have been in the past and have not deleted your data and account yet:
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/24/queer-dating-apps-beware-who-you-trust/
#Privacy #DatingApps #Dating #QueerDatingApps #SurveillanceCapitalism #AgeVerification
This French city has said no to Microsoft.
#Microsoft Used China-Based Engineers to Support Product Recently Hacked by #China
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Microsoft announced that Chinese state-sponsored hackers had exploited vulnerabilities in its popular #SharePoint software but didn’t mention that it has long used China-based engineers to maintain the product.
#News #Tech #Cybersecurity #Government #Safety #privacy
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-sharepoint-hack-china-cybersecurity
Recent comic: Cutting out the Middleman
I suspect that some readers might interpret this cartoon as a call for Luddism, but mostly it's a reflection of thoughts I've been having lately about out-of-control data harvesting and a growing surveillance state.
#tech #technology #privacy #data #comic #cartoon #surveillance #consumers #corporations
New publication - Matthew Rimmer, ‘Bioprinting Regulation: Intellectual Property, Health Law, and Biomedical Innovation’, in Andy Choi (ed.) Handbook in Tissue Reconstruction and Regeneration, Singapore: Springer, 2026, pp 1-50, https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-981-96-7448-0_9-1 The Chapter is part of a Handbook of Tissue Reconstruction and Regeneration https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-981-96-7448-0 Having performed this paper a number of times over the years, I am happy to publish a final, long version of this work. It is also good to acknowledge the many scholars and researchers working in this burgeoning field of bioprinting regulation. #additivemanufacturing #3dprinting #bioprinting #health #publichealth #IP #innovation #productliability #consumerrights #dataprotection #privacy
