Privacy

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Hi there, everyone.

This appears to be part of the “Parents Decide Act” announced earlier in April by Gottheimer, as just one step in the process. So expect a lot more to come. Some bullet point plans from it:

For advocates like Lucy Parsons Labs’ Martinez, however, the ultimate solution to ALPRs is the complete abolition of them, not measures made with the intent to improve the existing system.

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Reason number 5,386 to delete your Reddit account and encourage your friends & loved ones to do the same.

https://archive.ph/bSQhD

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.

We had hoped this day would never come, but Session has now entered its final 90 days of operation. If we are unable to reach our funding goal within this period, the Session Technology Foundation (STF) will be forced to shut down.

The letter is the first time ICE has indicated it is using Graphite. The agency initially signed a $2 million contract with Paragon Solutions for an unspecified software product at the end of the Biden administration. But the contract was swiftly paused until it was revived by the Trump administration last fall.

Friends,

EU will require all member states to have digital profiles of citizens with birth certs and IDs

LinkedIn is using hidden JS to scan your browser for over 6,000 specific extension IDs via a known Chromium vulnerability. By inventorying your local software, they can infer highly sensitive “Special Category” data like health status, religion, and political advocacy without consent.

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The FTC said that “OkCupid provided the third party with access to nearly three million OkCupid user photos as well as location and other information without placing any formal or contractual restrictions on how the information could be used.” OkCupid “did not inform consumers or give them the chance to opt out of such sharing,” the FTC said.

Denial Takes Hold as Teens Circumvent Australian Age Verification

Thought this belonged here. The not so comfortable truth about verifying your identity to a company that purchases their verification services from a third party.

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I got tired of every messenger asking for a phone number before letting you talk to anyone. Most privacy-focused messengers make you choose between convenience and privacy — either you get a polished experience with questionable data practices, or you get strong privacy with a painful setup. I tried to find the balance between the two. The result is ONYX. I want to be upfront about what it does and doesn’t do privacy-wise — because “private messenger” is a claim that deserves scrutiny.

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116261301913660830

it was bothering me for at least two weeks now with “nova launcher can’t open network connection”. today it finally presented this shitty ad dialog with missing reject all option where you can either accept all, or dive into few dozens of separate section, each of them containing few dozens sliders, all of them enabled by default.

Per the very first reply on their thread discussing it in their forums, which I linked directly to for the post title:

What’s at stake is whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control over the internet to enforce specific moral and religious judgments—judgments that deny marginalized people access to speech, community, history, and truth—into law.

Cross posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/45797826

Instagram appears to be stepping back from end-to-end encrypted messaging — a surprising move after years of Meta, its parent company, promoting strong encryption as the future of private communication.

I saw this post on r/Linux and wanted to share it here

mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@mshelton/116214301513839946

I find it alarming that to “protect” women, men have to be surveilled secretly in all public places. This is way beyond dystopian.

Disclaimer: This is not technically a privacy matter for the reader, but I believe it is adjacent and important enough for this community.

It was reported in Brazil last week that the Federal Police was able to access previously displayed WhatsApp "view once" messages during an "extraction carried out by specific software that jointly displays the messages and files sent, reversing, in practice, the single view of the message" .