RE: https://privacysafe.social/@JohnKiriakou/115645609531513341
These classes with me and @JohnKiriakou are 50% OFF for #CyberMonday and beyond! https://ivycyber.com/kiriakou
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#Privacy #DigitalRights #DataProtection video accounts to follow:
➡️ @dair - Non-profit organisation trying to burst the hype bubble that is surrounding AI/LLM corporations, and draw attention to unethical practices in the tech industry
➡️ @fsfe - Free Software Foundation Europe official video account (not affiliated with FSF in America)
➡️ @privacyint - NGO campaigning for privacy as a human right
➡️ @openrightsgroup - UK NGO promoting civil liberties online
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👂 Pssst! Are you sure Big Tech isn’t listening to you?
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#Privacy
Every time someone links one of Cory Doctorow's blog posts to me, I wince at his hyperlinking. I get knowing if a link contains tracking stuff is important, but I can't read his stuff on his blog because of the way he hyperlinks shit. Has he ever explained why he links the way he does on his blog instead of hyperlinking words or sentences? If the URL is too long, I just close the tab. Hearing a full URL with a screen reader is very rough to me. Obviously I know others do it on accident or something, but he does it intentionally. I do not actively read him on my own. If someone shares something he does, I will take a look, but I deleted his RSS feed ages ago. #Privacy #WebDev
RE: https://flipboard.com/@gizmodo/tech-fknh6odjz/-/a-TiM2BSstS5WsienZri4Cbg%3Aa%3A1876139665-%2F0
This is an example of how far the surveillance capitalism has gone. IMHO there is no logic to your TV monitoring what you are watching. It is time for some serious legislation when it comes to what data can be collected and what it can be used for. IMHO companies should not be building profiles on their users.
Privacy is impossible without free software.
Privacidade é impossível sem software livre.
https://u.fsf.org/prism
#privacy #nsa #prism #FreeSoftware #SoftwareLivre #FSF
Privacidade é impossível sem software livre.
https://u.fsf.org/prism
#privacy #nsa #prism #FreeSoftware #SoftwareLivre #FSF
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Governments worldwide are training AI models to use them - on US. Cameras are found wherever we go, with growing amounts of footage evaluated not by humans, but #AI!
Under the cover of "fighting crime" this prepares the ground for widespread, automated mass #surveillance.
They are:
✔ Preparing the legal framework
✔ Expanding surveillance infrastructure
✔ Exploring new use cases
More & Sources:
🇬🇧 https://madeindex.org/blog/ai-mass-surveillance-human-rights-violations-made-in-germany
🇩🇪 https://madeindex.org/de/ki-massenueberwachung-menschenrechtsverletzungen-made-in-germany
🎄🎁 Christmas Giveaway: Tuta is giving away a 🇩🇪 German-made Volla Phone by @volla
The Quintus, worth €719, is a Google-free smartphone built for freedom, simplicity & security. 🔒
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RE: https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/12/19/implementing-encrypted-messaging-over-activitypub/
Big news for the #Fediverse! End-to-end encryption is coming to #ActivityPub.
@swf with support from @sovtechfund is coordinating two interoperable implementations.
Bonfire is proud to be one of these first two projects, alongside #Emissary by @benpate
We think #E2EE should simply be the default for any private communications, and we’re especially thrilled to bring private, trusted collaboration to the fediverse.
cypherpunks write code
https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html
#encryption #privacy #cypherpunk
This week's net.wars, "Slop", marks iRobot's bankruptcy and sale; wonders why, if generative AI is so great it has to be forced on us; and deplores the CBP plan to demand an unrealistic amount of "high-value data" as part of the price of visiting the US: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/12/19/slop/ #NetWars #privacy #robots
Standard OS design in 2026 is wild. Big Tech screenshots your desktop and melts polar ice caps just to generate 3D emojis. 🦖📉
We're done with digital chaperones.
Our zero-telemetry desktops are built on hardened Fedora:
🪟 #lucentOS for traditional Win 11 workflows.
🍏 #fijiOS for sleek, MacOS Like, floating layouts.
Your RAM is for actual workloads, not corporate spyware. Absolute autonomy is back.
Star the roadmap: https://github.com/dixon-team-tech/lucentOS
The argument shouldn't be:
"I don't have anything to hide, so you can surveil me,"
Instead, it should be:
"I don't have anything to hide, so you shouldn't surveil me."
Check out my new blog post, “Vivaldi Web Browser:”
https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2025/12/19/vivaldi-web-browser/
#edtech #MediaLit #opencontent #openweb #browser #BrowserWar #privacy
#alternative #privacy-friendly #frontends
嗨，各位关注及其跟踪 @board 的 Fedi 友好！
俺想在未来出品 X - Twitter Youtube Reddit 等一系列友好的公共替代隐私友好型的前端服务
目前在隐私友好型的前端服务中让俺非常需要烦恼的就是 Nitter 和 Invidious 了
Nitter 和 Invidious 分别是 Youtube 的隐私前端，目前 Invidious 和 Nitter 维持是非常困难的
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any yggdrasil admins ? im doing research about yggdrasil and im wondering whats the maintenance, resource usage, network hog, and riskyness of hosting a public yggdrasil peer, also, any other tips or knowledge i should delve into before i do anything ?
im not yet convinced because i need to know a lot more, so i thought fedi would be a good place to ask : )
#sysadmin #yggdradil #mashnetwork #linux #privacy #question
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any yggdrasil admins ? im doing research about yggdrasil and im wondering whats the maintenance, resource usage, network hog, and riskyness of hosting a public yggdrasil peer, also, any other tips or knowledge i should delve into before i do anything ?
im not yet convinced because i need to know a lot more, so i thought fedi would be a good place to ask : )
#sysadmin #yggdradil #mashnetwork #linux #privacy #question
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NEW: Gun-Makers Gave Sensitive Customer Information to #Political Operatives
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At least 10 #gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians.
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As a Muslim researching about #cybersecurity, I wondered: what does Islam teach about privacy?
Turns out, a lot. Here's a hadith from 1400 years ago: “When a man peeps into your house without permission, and you throw a stone at him and injure his eye, you will not be blamed.”
Digital surveillance is the modern peeping. Your phone is your house.
I wrote about this + my journey from Telegram fanboy to Signal advocate here:
https://kaifisahil.substack.com/p/your-chats-are-not-really-private?r=6p8e80
📷 #Germany has unleashed self-learning¹ AI camera systems on it's citizens.
AI + Mass Surveillance = Human Rights violations Made in Germany:
🇬🇧 https://madeindex.org/blog/ai-mass-surveillance-human-rights-violations-made-in-germany
🇩🇪 https://madeindex.org/de/ki-massenueberwachung-menschenrechtsverletzungen-made-in-germany
Sources:
¹https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXQ_E6AZTXQ&t=158
#Tech #Privacy #Government #Artificialintelligence #Software #IT #News #Mannheim #Deutschland #KI #MadeinGermany #HumanRights #Surveillance #kunstlicheintelligenz #uberwachung #AI #camera #regierung #nachrichten #georgeorwell #german #deutsch #BadenWurttemberg #parody
You can shop for #VPN services that are audited for #privacy. Doing that with ISPs is basically impossible.
Edit: Some VPNs I consider to be decent are Mullvad, Nordvpn and Protonvpn.
Some to be avoided are PIA, Expressvpn and Cyberghost.
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We are running an Inclusive Web Devroom at FOSDEM 2025!
If you want to speak about anything related to privacy, accessibility, localization, and inclusivity in web, please submit a talk. Check https://github.com/Inclusive-Web-Devroom/fosdem-2025/blob/main/CFP.md for more details regarding CFP
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Police in Coffee County, Georgia used Flock automated license plate reader cameras to issue a traffic ticket to a motorcyclist. Police departments across the country explicitly promise residents they will not use these cameras for minor violations. They lied.
https://blackoutvpn.au/blog/police-promised-flock-cameras-wouldnt-ticket-drivers-they-lied