TikTok's transition to U.S. ownership involves collecting even more data about its users, including precise location and AI interactions. It's also likely that the new privacy policy will lead to you seeing more targeted ads. Here's the lowdown from @WIRED.
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Your data. Your rules. Your digital future.
monocles launches its crowdfunding campaign on StartNext today! 🎉
monocles offers the solution for European independence from big tech. Be it the end-to-end encrypted chat, the secure email service or the privacy-friendly smartphones with our own operating system. monocles creates a decentralized, fair and ethical digital ecosystem for everyone.
Be part of it!
https://www.startnext.com/en/monocles
#privacy #sovereign #dataprotection #encryption #monocles
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New from Francesca D'Annunzio: Under Governor Greg Abbott's multi-billion dollar border security bonanza, Operation Lone Star, the Rio Grande no longer holds back law enforcement efforts. Today's digital border reaches across Texas and beyond. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-arsenal-artificial-intelligence-lege/
This story is presented in partnership with the Pulitzer Center.
#surveillance #tech #SocialMedia #GregAbbott #police #border #privacy #security #USpol #politics #news
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There is an optional feature on Mastodon which lets you automatically delete your posts after a certain amount of time:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/deleting-posts-automatically-in-mastodon-after-a-certain-time-period
If you activate this, your posts that are older than a certain number of weeks, months or years are automatically deleted by your server.
The setup process for autodelete also lets you choose types of post or specific posts not to delete.
(If you want to keep everything, just don't activate autodelete 🙂 )
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🚨 Time is Running Out to Save Encryption 🔐
Ofcom is consulting on implementing message scanning powers in the UK Online Safety Act.
This would break end-to-end encryption on the messaging apps we all use!
⏰ CLOSES Monday 10 March, 5pm.
Use our tool to tell Ofcom #PracticeSafeText 💬
ACT NOW ⬇️
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/48-hours-tell-ofcom-practice-safe-text
#e2ee #encryption #OnlineSafetyAct #ukpolitics #ukpol #privacy #ofcom #security #cybersecurity #whatsapp #signal
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Compromised? In this interview, https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/a-fork-in-the-road-is-federal-employee I speak to a systems security specialist who found privacy problems surrounding the HR@opm.gov email servers #IT #security #natsec #nationalsecurity #cybercrime #cybersecurity #hacking #surveillance #malware #email #DOGE #Musk #treasury #OPM #FAA #FEMA #education #privacy #PII
New from me: Companies in the EU are starting to look for ways to ditch Amazon, Google, and Microsoft cloud services amid fears of rising security risks from the US. But cutting ties won’t be easy
BIG news this week as we welcome Simon Forster (@f0r573r) to the Quad9 family as General Manager!
https://quad9.net/news/press/quad9-appoints-simon-forster-as-new-general-manager
"Your #privacy is our priority. With that message has #WhatsApp last week sent all its users a message" (translated from Dutch from an article in De Telegraaf, a large newspaper in the Netherlands)
There is too much gossip about WhatsApp according topman Will Cathcart.
"#Signal is very cool: the number of new subscriptions in the Netherlands is this year 25 times as high as before"
WhatsApp is closed source. Do you trust #Meta? Signal is #opensource.
I've published a new essay on my website.
“Into the Dark Wood: The Right to Be Unknown.”
Oblivion, autonomy, surveillance, and resisting a world that refuses to let us disappear.
🥰 Everybody loves the Murena Fairphone (Gen. 6)!
That’s why we’re making access even easier: Its price is now permanently reduced to $749 in the USA and to €599 in Europe.
Ethical hardware goes hand in hand with ethical software.
👉 https://murena.com/products/smartphones/
🇺🇲 https://murena.com/america/products/smartphones/
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We’re reading “the Sirens’ Call” by MSNBC commentator Chris Hayes. The book brings together several themes that interest me: the evils of #surveillancecapitalism; disinformation on #socialmedia; #privacy rights; and how our personal freedom is harmed by abuses in these areas.
He quotes Phaedrus, a book I’ve always meant to read since encountering it in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance decades ago. Maybe now I will.
Hello #Fediverse! 👋
I’m currently working on a new project: cupertino.social - a future home for the Apple community here on the decentralized web.
I’m building this because I believe we need a space that combines the elegance of the Apple ecosystem with the ethical soul of the Fediverse. A place for those who love the "Unix heart" of their devices and value privacy as a fundamental right.
We are currently "under construction," fine-tuning the infrastructure (strictly European-hosted and independent!) to ensure a smooth, clean, and respectful experience.
Stay tuned for the official launch post soon. I can’t wait to share this journey with you all.
#Introduction #Apple #Privacy #Tech #Mastodon #NewInstance #Unix #EthicalTech
Mozilla is adding a toggle to disable all generative "AI" features in Firefox. It shows that organized pushback is actually making a difference.
One battle won. Now let's make it crystal clear. We want tools, not forced LLMs. Keep the pressure on until "AI" is no longer an option.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/02/firefox-will-soon-let-you-block-all-of-its-generative-ai-features/
#Firefox #Mozilla #NoAI #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #TerminalTilt
There is a growing sentiment that the US shouldn't be relied upon for the technologies that many people and businesses use every day.
While we prefer to focus on technical guarantees like strong end-to-end encryption over matters like jurisdiction, these issues still matter, and the United States certainly does not have a monopoly on the best technologies.
We've compiled a list of some of our favorite and highly recommended European privacy tools, to highlight how easy it can be to take your data back from American Big Tech companies: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/03/19/private-european-alternatives/
#EUTech #EuropeanTech #Privacy #USElection2024 #EUCloud #EuropeanAlternatives #PrivacyGuides #Article
💡 Encryption IS online safety 💡
Keeping data secure is key when hackers are skilled at unpicking accounts.
So why does the UK government want to make us unsafe by ordering a backdoor to Apple encrypted services?
✍️ Sign to save encryption this #SaferInternetDay.
#encryption #privacy #Apple #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #digitalrights #e2ee
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/keep-our-apple-data-encrypted
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨
The UK is rogue in trying to order a backdoor to Apple encryption.
US lawmakers slam the UK's secretive order, calling it what it is:
🔥 'Dangerous' for global cybersecurity
🔥 'Effectively a foreign cyberattack'
The Home Office must back off ✋
#encryption #surveillance #e2ee #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #Apple #privacy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/13/apple-uk-security-back-door-adp/
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If you click on a link in a Bluesky post, it is now automatically redirected via the domain go.bsky.app before it actually goes to the link in the post. There is no way to stop this or know that it is happening as the redirect only flickers on the screen for a fraction of a second.
Presumably this means Bluesky can now track all link clicking on their platform, including IP addresses, destinations etc?
Or have I misunderstood?
Bluesky is spinning it as a tool for publishers to track referrals, but going beyond the spin it seems to be giving Bluesky access to people's online activity?
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Today we are very proud to announce that the United Nations has switched from Google Forms to CryptPad Form for collecting endorsements on the UN Open Source Principles: https://unite.un.org/news/sixteen-organizations-endorse-un-open-source-principles
CryptPad Form is a full-fledged application allowing you to build privacy-preserving questionnaires for your respondents.
Try it for free, without even registering an account, on our CryptPad.fr flagship instance!
#UnitedNations #UN #Privacy #OpenSource #Forms #Studies #FOSS
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🚨Best News of the Year: We've stopped a backdoor law in France
Encryption backdoors must never be allowed. We at Tuta will continue to fight against mass surveillance! ✊
DavidV spills the Background Beans here. 🛰️ 📡
But we are still left with 📡 #WAYMO INTERFERING with our ✝️ #GOD GIVEN #PRIVACY RIGHTS by 👹 #Jew_Terrorists & #Nazi_gov out of 🇸🇬 #Singapore?
WAYMO exec admits under #oath cars in the US have " #human_operators " based in #Philippines??? 🇸🇬
🛰️ 📡 #SURVEILLANCE ON 💉 STEROIDS was going to Spearhead #Tesla #Robotaxi instead of #Waymo btw.
🥊 #TastingTraffic LLC put a STOP to that #Insanity and sent 🐀 #MUSKRAT PACKING! 🛰️ 📡
#BONUS: 🇺🇸 APP'S & #APP_STORES ARE #MALICOUS #TRACKING_DEVICES. SEE BELOW..
But we are still left with 🛰️💩 📡 #WAYMO INTERFERING with our ✝️ #GOD GIVEN #PRIVACY RIGHTS by 👹 #Jew_Terrorists & 🔥 #Nazi_gov out of 🇸🇬 #Singapore?
#Mask_up first! Grab your #BASEBALL_BAT! Aim at that at that #SPINNING_THINGY (aka #radar w/ 25 mile radius) on top of any #WAYMO and #HIT a #HOMERUN >> #PROBLEM_SOLVED.
Justification in Court?? #Surveillance W/O CITIZEN #CONSENT! And without #PROBABLE_CAUSE #DISCLOSURE is a GROSS VIOLATION of your ✝️ GOD GIVEN PRIVACY RIGHTS by 🛰️ 📡 #illegal_Survaillance.
🚗 #Waymo #robotaxi 💥 #hits a 👶 #child near an 🏫 #elementary_school in #Santa_Monica, Cali??
A Waymo robotaxi #struck a #child near an elementary school in Santa Monica on January 23, according to the company. Waymo told the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that the child — whose age and identity are not currently public — sustained minor injuries.
The NHTSA has opened an investigation into the accident, and Waymo said in a blog post that it “will cooperate fully with them throughout the process.” The National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday afternoon that it has also opened an investigation in coordination with the Santa Monica Police Department.
#BONUS: 🇺🇸 APP'S & #APP_STORES ARE #MALICOUS #TRACKING_DEVICES 🔥 👹 SEE BELOW..
Again, 📞 Mobile technology was already available in its 🍼 infantile stages back in 2000 | But what wasn't available was 🎯 #free_traffic (web site #exposure)
👢 #Bootstrap is a basic MOBILE PHONE menu system that wraps itself around your existing HTML web site, nothing more.. >> lil scaled down versions of web sites until app store realized THEY could #inject their own #malicious #SPYWARE (converts your mobile phone into a tracking device – SCRAPING (ip theft) your #INTELLECTUAL_PROPERTY (IP) #INVENTION?? etc. etc.
🤑 #usd_subsidies up the ying yang = #Forced and #Manipulated #ON-BOARDING.
🚔 Hello anyone home? ILLEGAL SHERMAN ANTITRUST ACT VIOLATIONS NEVER ENFORCED.
Section 2 is a Felony.
🚔 In the same way #Amazon owns #no_hardware OR Software for that matter as #AWS, #FBA, #Amazon All Piggy Backs off of #ORACLES HARDWARE AND ILLEGAL STOLEN SOFTWARE bc #bezos IS ACTUALLY #BRAINDEAD!
🚔 Amazon runs on a SIMPLE #SHOPPING_CART_SCRIPT worth not more than a package of cigarettes (a trusted #centralized company? We think not!) >> #IDENTITY_AND_MEDICAL_RECORD_THEFT on #steriods!
🎯 But what wasn't available was #free_traffic to launch these lil scaled down version of sites and other #malicious_programs (Called #Software_Applications via #Surveillance_APP_STORES?) that did a lot more than just provide basic site functions AND #GRANULAR #WEBSITE_TRAFFIC.
🧲 They are magnets for third-party illegal cookie attacks. Collecting membership info unknowingly for years.. They are #third_party #software_applications (BACK DOORS) running ON TOP of your website application #BEHIND_THE_SCENES collecting YOUR DATA!! (Think Bitcoin lightening network #BYPASS #TUNNEL added after the fact.. aka Patch = #open_backdoor)
🚔 #ILLEGAL_FRAUD UP THE YING YANG; 💩 but still everyone is in the App Store as if it is some sort of #authority??, #credibility?? or #validation?? of online existence. It's neither. Also Think #NSA and/or #CIA and #PRISM Program and you will start seeing the #scope of #theft and USA GOVERNMENT FRAUD!
And btw since we are founders of #SEO (Search Engine Optimization) why would we need an app store?? We build all our own traffic inhouse to the tune of $180,000.00 USD #NET per #MONTH!??
Stay Tuned for #TASTINGTRAFFIC' upcoming Launch!
* No App Download needed or *required.
* Best of All Zero (0) Third-Party Data Collection!
* We can adapt to ANY mobile device -out the box (any phone). And best of all DATA is In-House PROTECTED without any Third Party Connections.
("App STORES" Deadly lil bugs..)
Driverless taxis from Waymo will be on London’s roads next year, US firm announces
2. https://www.wired.com/story/phantomlance-google-play-malware-apt32/
BONUS! #Fonoptikon - #They_Live
4. https://youtu.be/BSulACythMk
🍷 🍾 #TASTINGTRAFFIC_LLC | The Largest (WWW) #DIGITAL_TRAFFIC PROVIDER in the WORLD since 1999.
🌐 https://tastingtraffic.net/sitemap.xml
TASTINGTRAFFIC_LLC are NOT affiliates of this provider or referenced images used. This is NOT an endorsement OR Sponsored (Paid) Promotion/Reshare.
We would like to endorse what @kuketzblog writes about the inclusion of an “AI assistant” into an instant messenger that is still widely used:
It is unfortunate that many journalists do not realise how dangerous the new AI in WhatsApp really is. Der Spiegel, for example, writes in a recent article: “Meta AI does not have access to users' private chats, however, thanks to end-to-end encryption.” As a matter of fact, the AI does have access as it is used in the context of private chats or group chats. Sadly, this misinformation lulls users into a false sense of security. 🤦
Source (in German): https://social.tchncs.de/@kuketzblog/114267998218207258
THIS is how Google Maps wants to "calibrate"??
Oh HELL NO!
I'm giving you GPS and I can do the figure 8 sillyness if I need to but give you access to my *camera* to take pics and send them to Google???
Are people really doing this shit?!
AMERICAN PANOPTICON
The #Trump admin is pooling #data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next.
by Ian Bogost & Charlie Warzel
If you were tasked with building a #panopticon, your design might look a lot like the #information stores of the US federal govt—a collection of large, complex agencies, each making use of enormous volumes of data provided by or collected from #citizens.
#law #privacy #InfoSec #AmericanAutocracy #tech #DOGE #Musk #surveillance
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/04/american-panopticon/682616/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxc3WqSyzCi3gasJ-au_BC9g&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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I send thanks to the buyer from California who purchased a canvas print of
Before the Bath -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/before-the-bath-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print
May the artwork take you to a place of peace, calmness, and quiet joy.
#bath #bathroom #woman #beauty #home #art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #sale #sensual #privacy #peace
