[Discussion] Which privacy apps / services do you think are most likely US government honeypots?
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Good News! 🚨👀
I am delighted to finally announce today what I've been working on in the past few weeks:
Privacy Guides' new Activism section! 
https://privacyguides.org/activism/
The Activism section offers a new way to empower the digital rights community. It will progressively grow with more tools to support the community in its privacy activism effort, both for individuals and organizations 💛
As Privacy Guides' new Activism & Outreach Lead, I will be working hard on developing this section even further in the coming weeks, adding many more tools to support our community.
I hope this can be a helpful resource for anyone who is ready to fight for privacy rights ✊🔒
#PrivacyGuides #Activism #Privacy #DigitalRights #HumanRights
RE: https://mstdn.social/@Npars01/116191613149406682
there are 800 billionaires in the United States. wouldn't it be funny if there were a mapped directory of all their homes, businessses and properties?
let’s assume they consider themselves human. since they don't believe in the human right to privacy, then we should apply their stalking of the rest of us to them.
n’est ce pas?
The fight for the open Internet is on – support our work 🦾
We're facing a social media ban, digital ID checkpoints and powers to scan our devices.
Our privacy and free expression rights could lie in tatters if we don't resist.
Donate now to power our grassroots movement ⬇️
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/build-our-grassroots-power-defend-open-internet
#StopKillingInternet #StopKillingTheInternet #grassroots #crowdfunder #socialmediaban #digitalrights #privacy #freeexpression #censorship #digitalid #ukpolitics #ukpol
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Konform Browser 140.12.0-100 has been released!
https://codeberg.org/konform-browser/source/releases/tag/140.12.0.100
See release notes for details.
Brings in latest security fixes from Firefox ESR 140.12.0 as described in https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2026-58/. Users of all Firefox-based browsers should upgrade to fixed version before loading untrusted content.
Also backports a number of relevant privacy- and security fixes from Mozilla and Tor Browser.
The sources and build tooling are also being tidied up a bit in preparation of the upcoming major version increase of ESR 153. There are already fresh preview builds up of Konform Browser based on Firefox 153 beta for anyone who wants to help out or get a sneak-peak.
Check it out and spread the word ☮️ 🕉️
These announcements can be filtered using #konform_release hashtag.
https://konform-browser.codeberg.page/
#konformbrowser #browsers #security #privacy #opensource #mozilla #firefox #linux #konform_release
Edited 151d ago
✨ A sparkle icon appears in an app that no one in IT approved. The help desk can't explain it, and it's already processing your data! This kept coming up in conversations with other CIOs, so I wrote about it in my latest Forbes piece.
The pattern repeats across so many vendors; here are just a few:
・Zoom auto-enabled AI Companion on host accounts, with recordings and full transcripts already defaulted on
・Microsoft 365 Copilot activates for every admin if your tenant holds a single paid license, and opting out means building a special security group
・Google's Workspace Intelligence shipped default-on for Gmail, Drive, Chat, and Calendar, with admin controls lagging the live feature by up to 72 hours
・OpenAI disables connectors by default for Enterprise customers but enables them for Business. Same vendor, opposite defaults.
Every default-on feature just transfers governance work from the vendor to you, along with wiretap exposure and e-discovery sprawl that nobody signed up for.
My ask of vendors is simple: ship AI features off by default and give admins an evaluation window measured in weeks, not days. Until that happens, assume the next AI feature is already live in your tenant. Review your configurations like it's a recurring operational task, because it is.
Full piece here: https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2026/06/10/default-on-ai-are-saas-vendors-outsourcing-their-risk-to-you
#RiskManagement #Forbes #ForbesTechnologyCouncil #ForbesTechCouncil #leadership #security #privacy #cloud #infosec #cybersecurity #AI #SaaS
@forbes @Forbes@newsie.social @forbestechcncl @RHR_International @depaulu #DePaul #DepaulU #DePaulUniversity #DePaulCDM
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Do not provide your ID or facial scan to access social media.
I repeat, do NOT provide your ID or facial scan to access social media when requested.
This is not a drill.
If everyone refuse to comply, and let their accounts dormant instead, I promise you the platforms themselves, with their immense budget and network of lobbyists, are going to fight these absurd laws to recover their users.
They need you more than you need them.
Make them fight for your rights.
Do not comply.
Spread the word and boycott ID checks ✊
#StopIDSurveillance #AgeVerification #Privacy #HumanRights #Democracy #Safety #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism
🚨 ID checks to get online could become the new norm 🚨
A new amendment would give the UK government sweeping powers to block access to lawful information and communications.
That's unless we submit our identification to a bounty of providers.
Tell your MP to stop this broad and repressive law ⬇️
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/no-id-checks-web-access
#privacy #freedomofexpression #ageverification #digitalID #onlinesafety #ukpolitics #ukpol
DHS Seeks Access to Massive Employment, Salary and Family Database Legally Restricted to Use in Child Support Cases
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The Trump administration’s immigration enforcers are requesting unfettered access to the government’s “most powerful people-finder system,” which contains sensitive information on children and victims of domestic violence.
https://www.propublica.org/article/dhs-trump-child-support-federal-parent-locator-service-immigration?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #DHS #Data #Children #Privacy #Government #USPolitics #Law #DomesticViolence
If enough Canadians contact
their local representatives, as well Mark Carney's office this week, we might be spared from this authoritarian mass-surveillance measure called "Age Verification" in Canada.
The time to fight back is NOW: https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/social-media-ban-for-kids-under-consideration-in-online-harms-bill-carney/
Privacy is a human right essential to safety and democracy. If we do not fight to protect it, we will lose it.
#AgeVerification #MassSurveillance #Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights #Canada #CanPoli
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OK, here we go. The 4th run of the Tunnel training.
Learn best-practice server security & computer networking fundamentals while building up your own high-performance, censorship-resistant VPN in Iceland. Generate configs as easy-to-use QR codes to give out to friends, family & your activist mates to protect them in this mad era of runaway surveillance, automated attacks and account theft.
https://courses.nikau.io/tunnel/
March 27. 4x4hrs. No prior skills required.
Computer maker #Framework notifies ‘all customers’ of a #DataBreach
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/07/computer-maker-framework-notifies-all-customers-of-a-data-breach/
Happy Friday, folks. My new YouTube video is up!
It's about Kristen Volpe, a schoolteacher in Illinois who was arrested after a private DM she sent to friends was forwarded to the FBI by Snapchat's AI alerts.
It's an interesting story and a cautionary tale.
If you watch and enjoy the video, please hit the like button to help me out a little. Thanks!
#YouTube #Privacy #Tech #Technology #AI #DigitalPrivacy #KristenVolpe
Across Africa, the State Department has demanded access to health data for millions of people as a condition of giving countries billions of dollars in aid needed to address HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and other illnesses.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-state-department-africa-uganda-aid-medical-data-privacy?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Geopolitics #Politics #Africa #Uganda #Trump #Health #Data #Privacy
META’S REAL AI WAS HIDING
IN PLAIN SIGHT. 💎
I watched a video this morning called 'The (Overdue) Collapse of Meta,' expecting another story about a giant technology company finally coming unstuck.
BUT THAT REALLY WASN'T THE STORY.
Meta is still making extraordinary amounts of money.
The metaverse was a spectacular failure. Zuckerberg renamed the company around it, talked about a billion people eventually inhabiting virtual worlds, and poured tens of billions of dollars into trying to make it happen.
PEOPLE MOSTLY DIDN'T COME.
But while everyone was laughing at cartoon legs and expensive headsets, something else inside Meta was working extraordinarily well.
THE ADVERTISING MACHINE
For more than a decade, Meta has been using AI to learn from the tiny signals produced by billions of human brains. What we stop to look at. What we click. What we ignore. What keeps us scrolling?
WHAT WE ARE ABOUT TO BUY
And increasingly, what we might be about to do. That system became astonishingly good at turning human behaviour into advertising revenue. Which changes the story rather dramatically.
META DIDN'T FAIL TO BUILD POWERFUL AI.
It was built years ago. It just wasn't sitting there chatting pleasantly to us. It was behind Facebook and Instagram, watching behaviour and learning how to predict it.
And the enormous advertising business generated by that machinery is now helping to finance Meta's next gigantic gamble: superintelligence, data centres, researchers, and infrastructure costing tens of billions of dollars.
There is something almost perfect about that. The metaverse failed because people didn't particularly want what Meta was selling. The advertising machine succeeded because we WERE what Meta was selling. And perhaps that is the part worth paying attention to.
Because sometimes the most important question about technology isn't:
DID IT WORK?
It is:
WHAT DID IT LEARN TO DO TO US?
@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works
#Meta #Facebook #Instagram #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #SurveillanceCapitalism #SocialMedia #BigTech #Privacy #Technology #DigitalRights #people #humans #brain
Edited 77d ago
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We've cracked 20,000 signatures on our petition against the corporate lawlessness of the AI rollout in Canada!
The Big Tech industry is steamrolling our democracy, our privacy, our labour market, our climate, and our local communities in its pursuit of power. It has to stop.
Please share widely; let's drive that number up, and make the House of Commons hear that we're not happy.
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7550
#CdnPoli #Canada #NoAI #BigTech #DataCentres #Climate #Privacy
Edited 108d ago
NEW: A Puerto Rico Government Agency Exposed 1 Million Social Security Numbers
A cybersecurity loophole in an official government mapping service left private data easily accessible, Centro de Periodismo Investigativo and ProPublica learned.
https://www.propublica.org/article/puerto-rico-crim-data-breach?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #PuertoRico #Government #Cybersecurity #Data #Privacy #SocialSecurity #Tech #Technology
We are honoured to be one of the first recipients of the Nominet DNS Fund, which recognises the importance of supporting the quiet work behind the scenes.
We thank @Nominet for their forward thinking - helping public interest nonprofits, such as Quad9, who work every day to maintain internet integrity, and the security and privacy of end users around the world.
https://quad9.net/news/press/nominet-invests-in-quad9/
Congratulations to the other recipients!
Konform Browser 140.9.0-100 has been released!
See release notes for details.
https://codeberg.org/konform-browser/source/releases/tag/140.9.0.100
Besides latest security fixes from #mozilla there is a bunch of updates from #konform #browser. To name a few:
- Reorganized Security Settings with new global configuration for WASM, JIT, WebRTC, WebGPU, Geolocation, DOM Push, etc...
- Security Settings also expose UI for enabling First-Party Isolation (same behavior as Tor Browser) and tweaking Enhanced Tracking Protection.
- Bundled depropped Multi-Account Containers allows configuring per-container proxies and makes container tabs part of core browser experience without having to install telemetry-laden addons.
- Profile Import now supports importing profiles from #firefox and compatible #browsers (#firefox_esr, #floorp, #ironfox, #librewolf, #midori, #palemoon, #waterfox, #zenbrowser)
- Spoofing of Navigator.sendBeacon.
- #privacy improvements and defense-in-depth
- Various bugfixes and minor improvements
Check it out and spread the word ☮️ 🕉️
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Florida Senate Bill 488 is going to require people to provide an email address on applications for ID cards and requests for a replacement driver's license or instruction permit, and it allows the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to provide notification by email in lieu of physical mail. Seems problematic to me 🤔
Watching the livestream of the Artemis II launch, I just witnessed one of the astronauts type in the password on their tablet while sitting in the capsule on camera.
#ArtemisII #Artemis #Artemis2 #NASA #InfoSec #cybersecurity #OpSec #Privacy #SpaceExploration
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🇪🇺🚨 Ursula von der Leyen wants to ban social media for under 13s across the European Union
What the EU claims as "child protection" means mass surveillance because of ID checks and face scans 🚩
We must fight against #AgeVerification and for our right of #privacy✊
#互联网抗癌记 央视新闻消息，当地时间8月14日，法国宪法委员会宣布，否决一项禁止15岁以下未成年人使用社交媒体的法案，认为相关规定对表达和通信自由构成“不成比例的侵犯”。
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_33785641
#未成年人 #社交媒体 #社交媒体禁令 #互联网 #年龄验证 #隐私 #法国 #政治 #新闻 #Minor #SocialMedia #SocialMediaBan #Internet #AgeVerification #Privacy #France #Politics #News