#Flock ‘Objects to Our Removing Their Equipment’: Emails Reveal Why a Town Put Bags Over Its Flock Cameras

https://www.404media.co/flock-objects-to-our-removing-their-equipment-emails-reveal-why-a-town-put-bags-over-its-flock-cameras/

#ALPR #surveillance #privacy

#Adobe #Chrome extension flaw let sites access private #WhatsApp chats

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/adobe-chrome-extension-flaw-let-sites-access-private-whatsapp-chats/

#privacy #cybersecurity #HermeticReader

Un piccolo pannello moderno per controllare le funzioni principali del desktop Linux senza complicazioni. Quick Control punta su semplicità, velocità e compatibilità con ambienti come Hyprland. #Linux #GTK4 #Hyprland #OpenSource #DesktopLinux

https://www.linuxeasy.org/quick-control-semplifica-la-gestione-del-desktop-linux-con-un-pannello-gtk4-leggero/

You Opened a #CreditCard. #ICE Now Knows Where You Live

https://www.404media.co/you-opened-a-credit-card-ice-now-knows-where-you-live/

#privacy #politics #PersonalFinance

How a Stranger Used One Text Message to Steal My Entire Digital Life

https://time.com/article/2026/07/07/how-a-stranger-used-one-text-message-to-steal-my-entire-digital-life/

#IdentityTheft #privacy #cybersecurity

Google and Meta both shipped facial recognition this week, days apart, for two different stated reasons — account recovery, catching AI catfish. Same instinct underneath: give us your face.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/everyone-knows-your-face

#bigtech #google #meta #privacy #biometrics #faceid #surveillance #userhostile #blog

How to disable location history on #Google, #Apple, and more

https://proton.me/blog/how-to-disable-location-history

#privacy #guide

States Want #ICE Agents to Show Their Faces. The #Trump Administration Is Blocking Them

https://www.wired.com/story/states-want-ice-agents-to-show-their-faces-the-trump-administration-is-blocking-them/

#privacy #politics

FastBackgroundCheck.com compiles your name, address, and relatives into a searchable background report. Opt-out is free: go to fastbackgroundcheck.com/optout, enter your name and email, click the link they email you, and fill the form. Allow ~3 days. Use an email alias, not your real address. Their own notice admits public data can reappear, so re-check. #databrokers #optout #privacy #indigoprivacy

#ChickFilA discloses #DataBreach after credential stuffing attacks

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chick-fil-a-discloses-data-breach-after-credential-stuffing-attacks/

#cybersecurity #privacy #FastFood

Leaked document shows the surveillance tech at ICE’s fingertips in the U.S.

@404mediaco reports: https://flip.it/lGcEP2

#ICE #Privacy #Technology

#France becomes first #EU country to ban #SocialMedia access for under-15s

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/21/france-ban-social-media-access-under-15s

#SocialMediaBan #privacy #politics #Europe #AgeVerification #cybersecurity

#LG to Ban Residential Proxies from #SmartTV Apps

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/lg-to-ban-residential-proxies-from-smart-tv-apps/

#cybersecurity #IoT #privacy

when they touch the privacy topic at the family dinner

#ArcaneChat #privacy #security #encryption #anonymity #family #digitalindependence #Europe #European #android #openSource

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Frank Ssekamwa says the United States presented his country with an impossible choice. If it accepted the terms of a new health agreement, Uganda would have to give the U.S. access to the data of millions of his fellow citizens — a decision he worries would […]

The EU Kept Message-Scanning. Encryption Got a Carve-Out.

EU governments restored the lapsed rule letting platforms scan for child abuse images, to April 2028, and exempted end-to-end encrypted chats. A real win, but fragile: more MEPs voted against than for, and the permanent 'chat control' fight over breaking encryption is still coming.

https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/eu-csam-interim-encryption.html
#Encryption #Privacy #DigitalRights

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116968826554216628

"When it comes to making a new, good internet, there's plenty of room for labor law, civil rights legislation, antitrust, and other legal regimes. But privacy has the biggest constituency, gets us the most bang for the buck, and has the fewest harmful side-effects. It's a policy we can all agree on, even if we don't agree on much else. It's a coalition in potentia that would be unstoppable in reality." - @pluralistic

#privacy #surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #tech #BigTech

Mary Holstege boosted

Cory Doctorow » 🌐 2026-07-23
@pluralistic@mamot.fr

Data brokers are a cancer. There's a direct line from the collection, retention and processing of our data to deepfake porn and phishing scams; racial discrimination in hiring and ICE roundups of migrants; targeted election interference and identity theft:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/06/privacy-first/#but-not-just-privacy

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/23/drop-a-dime/#privacy-theater

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A hedge maze; out of its center rises the bear from the California state flag. Various human figures struggle to escape it. At the maze's entrance stands an agonized figure, reaching towards it.

Banks have reported cash over $10,000 to FinCEN since 1970 — a threshold never adjusted for inflation. It would be near $80,000 in today's money, so routine transactions now flood a database federal investigators mine at will.

#privacy #fintech #indigoprivacy

How many ways can we spell out fascist totalitarian dictatorship before American normies realize it’s happening?

https://www.404media.co/leaked-document-shows-the-surveillance-tech-at-ices-fingertips

There needs to be more ICE doxxing. These people need to be exposed and publicly berated. They should lose their friends and be ostracized by their families.

A dictatorship can’t function unless it has subservient lackeys. If we reduce the pool of candidates through shame and humiliation, it reduces the harm that can be done.

#ICE #ICEOut #Surveillance #Privacy #Technology

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More details: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=pictshare

#OpenSource #SelfHosting #Privacy #FileSharing #FOSS #PrivacyTools #DigitalEscapeTools

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“Some notable entries in the document include:

- Accurint: a LexisNexis tool for locating people that contains all sorts of personal data like addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, and more
Chameleon: a tool which provides “Anonymized means to conduct online investigations, web research, and undercover work”

- Locate X: a tool that lets ICE search a massive database of location data harvested from smartphones. Made by Babel Street, the tool uses data sourced through ordinary apps installed on peoples’ phones or the advertising ecosystem. 404 Media previously reported how the tool could be used to track phones at abortion clinics after privacy advocates gained access to the technology. “It allows investigators to draw a digital fence around an address or area, pinpoint mobile devices that were within that area from mobile data sources,” the document reads

- Cobwebs: a social media tracking tool. 404 Media previously reported Cobwebs also includes Webloc, which can monitor phone locations in entire neighbourhoods

- ISO ClaimSearch: a database that contains property and casualty insurance claims and medical bills. The database is nearly all encompassing and contains details on more than 1.8 billion insurance claims and 58 million medical bills”

https://www.404media.co/leaked-document-shows-the-surveillance-tech-at-ices-fingertips/

#USA #ICE #Immigration #Surveillance #Privacy

#OpenAI says #HuggingFace was breached by its pre-release models

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/openai-says-hugging-face-was-breached-by-its-pre-release-models/

#cybersecurity #DataBreach #AI #privacy

For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark

https://www.wired.com/story/for-taylor-swift-madison-square-gardens-controversial-cameras-briefly-went-dark/

#surveillance #ai #cybersecurity #privacy

#Anubis #ransomware claims #CocaCola #Fairlife attack, threatens data leak

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/anubis-ransomware-claims-coca-cola-fairlife-attack-threatens-data-leak/

#privacy #cybersecurity

#Trump Admin [finally] Drops [illegal] Subpoena Demanding #List of #Jews From #Penn

For more than a year, the Trump admin pressed the #university for records about #antisemitism complaints & a list of campus groups involved with #Judaism.

#law #AcademicFreedom #privacy #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/us/eeoc-subpoena-penn-jewish-list.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Pulizia del sistema, scansione malware e protezione della privacy in un'unica applicazione open source. Ecco cosa offre Kudu. #Linux #Windows #macOS #OpenSource #Privacy

https://www.linuxeasy.org/kudu-il-software-open-source-che-unisce-pulizia-del-sistema-sicurezza-e-privacy/

Un nuovo browser open source punta tutto su privacy e semplicità. Silver Browser integra Chromium con numerose protezioni avanzate per Linux. #Linux #OpenSource #Browser #Privacy #PyQt6

https://www.linuxeasy.org/silver-browser-il-browser-open-source-per-linux-che-mette-al-primo-posto-la-privacy/

What Does #OliveGarden’s Never-Ending Pasta Have to Do With #Voting Rights?

https://www.404media.co/olive-garden-never-ending-pasta-id-save-act/

#privacy #politics

https://itsfoss.com/news/collabora-online-26-04/

Collabora Online is celebrating 10 years of being a great, Open-Source, privacy first competitive alternative to MS Office and Google Workspace

#Collabora #Office #OpenSource #Privacy

#Flock ‘Objects to Our Removing Their Equipment’: Emails Reveal Why a Town Put Bags Over Its Flock #Cameras
#alpr #privacy

https://www.404media.co/flock-objects-to-our-removing-their-equipment-emails-reveal-why-a-town-put-bags-over-its-flock-cameras/

What Happened When #Flock Came to My Town

On Tuesday night, the city council of my small town of Irmo, #SouthCarolina , voted to install 22 new Flock cameras. That’ll bring the total up to 33. With a population of only 12,000 or so, it means there’ll be one Flock #camera for every 300 residents. That means there will be more Flock cameras in my town than police officers. The city council — the governing body consisting of the mayor and 4 councilpersons — voted for Flock expansion despite presentations from residents about the dangers of what they described as the creeping #surveillance state.
#privacy #alpr #security

https://www.404media.co/what-happened-when-flock-came-to-my-town/

#Leaked Document Shows the #Surveillance Tech at ICE’s Fingertips

A leaked document shows the spread of surveillance and investigative capabilities that Immigration and #Customs Enforcement (#ICE ) officials have access to agency wide, from location data harvested from #smartphones , to facial recognition apps that can reveal someone’s #identity , to tools that let the agency stay #anonymous online and approach people #undercover. The document covers everything from monitoring social media to tracking the movements of vehicles.

It is rare for the public to see such a large list of ICE’s technology capabilities in a single document. 404 Media has published the whole document, called “ICE Wide Analytical Tools,” below.
#privacy #socialmedia

https://www.404media.co/leaked-document-shows-the-surveillance-tech-at-ices-fingertips/

Introducing Native Containers in #Firefox153

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-containers-preview/

#Firefox #FOSS #Mozilla #privacy #security

How to stop getting #spam emails

https://adguard.com/en/blog/how-to-stop-getting-spam-emails.html

#email #privacy

What does #Google know about you? The chilling truth

https://proton.me/blog/what-does-google-know-about-me

#privacy

After #TikTok, #Snap settles #SocialMedia addiction case

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/after-tiktok-snap-settles-social-media-addiction-case/

#privacy

#AI #music generator #Suno breach affects 55M users, per Have I Been Pwned

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/ai-music-generator-suno-breach-affects-55m-users-per-have-i-been-pwned/

#cybersecurity #privacy #DataBreach #HIBP

An Explosion of #Surveillance Towers is Coming to U.S. Borders, Costing Over $1 Billion

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/explosion-surveillance-towers-coming-us-borders-costing-over-1-billion

#border #DHS #privacy #politics

#US #police now armed with Israeli spy vans simulating mobile phone towers

https://cybernews.com/privacy/us-police-israeli-spy-vans-falconet-cognyte/

#privacy #Israel #FalcoNet #Cognyte #IMSIcatcher #surveillance

** when you meet someone and they ask you for a way to keep in contact **

Centralized chat solutions that require phone numbers to work will never give you the digital independence and #privacy you deserve

#ArcaneChat #decentralization #android #Europe #European #whatsapp #signal #telegram #facebookmessenger #messenger #digitalindependence #family #encryption

Bitwarden is a free, open-source password manager. Unlimited passwords, unlimited devices, end-to-end encrypted so Bitwarden itself can't read your vault. The code is public and independently audited. Reused passwords are how most account breaches start. #Bitwarden #passwords #privacy #indigoprivacy

The scariest thing about new #AgeVerification laws being introduced in Europe (France, I was expecting more from you) is to see the positive reactions of my family members, who have fallen hook, line and sinker for the arguments discussed in the media. "It's to protect the children!" No it isn't.

I'm sending this superb article by the @eff to all of them:
🔗: https://www.eff.org/issues/age-verification

Now is the time to #resist and speak up and educate those around us ✊ #privacy

"For weeks, Verona, Wisconsin tried to get Flock to remove the three automated license plate cameras that its city council had voted to stop using. Flock told city employees not to remove the cameras, and a Flock employee told city officials that they were unsure whether the cameras could be remotely disabled, which led the town to decide to put black plastic trash bags over them until Flock eventually removed the cameras itself, according to emails obtained using a public records request by 404 Media.

The emails give insight into the process cities face while deFlocking themselves after voting not to renew a contract with the AI surveillance company. As we’ve previously reported, multiple cities around the country have decided to put black trash bags over their Flock cameras while they wait for them to be removed; this is in part because, until the cameras are physically removed by Flock, cities are unsure whether they have the legal right to remove the cameras themselves and are not sure whether they can disable their recording operations. The emails show Verona city officials telling each other that they had made multiple requests to Flock to have the cameras removed, and show a work order from Flock in which the cameras were set to have maintenance performed on them rather than being removed."

https://www.404media.co/flock-objects-to-our-removing-their-equipment-emails-reveal-why-a-town-put-bags-over-its-flock-cameras

#USA #Surveillance #ALPRs #Flock #Privacy #DataProtection #PoliceState

#MIT to Become Hotbed of #AI Video #Surveillance

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/mit-to-become-hotbed-of-ai-video-surveillance.html

#privacy #education #university

Yesterday, CCIA partnered with @NetChoice, @SIIA,@ProgressChamber, and @actonline on a letter to the @HouseCommerce committee regarding today’s hearing touching on the App Store Freedom Act (ASFA). As a coalition we are concerned that ASFA would introduce significant cybersecurity vulnerabilities and undermine user #Privacy that far outweigh the alleged benefits to competition supporters claim will flow from this legislation.

This is a great list of tips for improving your Signal privacy from @yaelwrites.

I found this part especially meaningful:

“Turning off biometrics makes it annoying to use your phone…If that’s you, remember that both Android and iOS have a quick lockout that forces a passcode and disables biometrics until you re-enter it: on iPhone, hold the side + volume button until the power-off screen appears, then cancel; on most Androids, hold power and tap Lockdown.”

https://blog.yaelwrites.com/how-to-keep-the-feds-out-of-your-signal-messages

#Signal #Privacy #InfoSec #OpSec

New Release: #Tor Browser 15.0.19

https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-15019/

#privacy #cybersecurity #anonymity #FOSS

Shasta is wearing her privacy scarf, as she is wont to do

#mountains #privacy

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#EstéeLauder discloses #DataBreach via #Oracle #EBusiness flaw

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/est-e-lauder-discloses-data-breach-via-oracle-e-business-flaw/

#EsteeLauder #privacy #cybersecurity

DA: #Cop covered #bodycam to snap nude prisoners on his #iPhone—but other cams caught him

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/cop-charged-with-covering-bodycam-to-photograph-naked-prisoners/

#privacy #police

Protect Your #Privacy with #California's #DROP Tool

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/what-you-need-know-about-californias-drop-tool

#DataBroker

Think your biggest privacy worry is online tracking? Think again. 👀 This new short dives into a surprisingly common threat – eavesdropping in plain sight. Seriously, be careful what you say (and show!) in public. New video! #Privacy #Security #DEFCON

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cdafe86mIY

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How to disable #OneDrive: A complete #guide

https://proton.me/blog/how-to-disable-onedrive

#Windows #privacy #Microsoft

There is no single blueprint for global control. There does not need to be.

Digital ID, CBDCs, health surveillance, AI governance, pathogen monitoring and neurotechnology are being built separately—but increasingly operate through compatible infrastructure.

This evidence-graded dossier maps the system, the funding and the safeguards still missing.

Read: https://thomaster.substack.com/p/the-global-governance-infrastructure

#DigitalID #CBDC #Surveillance #Privacy #AI #DigitalRights #WHO #Neurotechnology

For the past three decades, #BigTech have been secretly, continuously, systematically tracking all aspects of our personal lives, and they have been exploiting that data to extract more and more profits. To the delight of many technology fanciers, all these nefarious acts are now #AI powered. It is only during this period of exploration that IT had its first billionaire.

We Americans have tacitly accepted this invasive surveillance, in exchange for essential modern goods and services, like toilets that flush automatically after shitting and shit-posting on social media in the wee small hour of the morning. So long as the two parties involved have the “meeting of the minds”, this process counts as a “fair exchange” under law.

It is now evident that our federal #government is using those same #surveillance technologies and procedures to monitor, control, manipulate, and oppress us. Regardless of our nonchalance, this process is "government overreach" in violation of our constitutional rights to privacy.

Why so dramatic a difference between these two forms of privacy violation that employ the same technologies and procedures?

• The first form of privacy violation is a private act that induces us to waste our time and money, individually and collectively.
• The second form of privacy violation is a governmental action that erodes our individual #freedom and our collective #democracy.

But we #American citizens are equally unperturbed by both forms of #privacy violation.

If you have been wondering about the effectiveness of the social media ban of under 15 year olds, this study got you :)

Spoiler: 92%+ of kids age 14-15 in #Australia still use it 🥳

Meanwhile IMO forced verification of users had a much better success rate 😉

Source:
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w35162/w35162.pdf

#Privacy #ageverification #IDverification #Study #Data #Science #Survey #Tech #SocialMedia #Technology #Internet #Censorship #Authoritarianism #MassSurveillance #Surveillance

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Screenshot of graphic from this study of Australia's social media ban: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w35162/w35162.pdf Percent of banned 14-15-year olds (b) Compliance rate, April versus June 2026 Usage rate: 64% April, 92% June Implied compliance: 27% April, 6% June Notes: Figure 5 reports self-reported past-7-day use of any banned platform.

An Explosion of #SurveillanceTowers is Coming to U.S. #Borders , Costing Over $1 Billion

A new report from the Government Accounting Office reveals that the Department of #HomelandSecurity (#DHS ) plans to nearly triple the number of #surveillance towers along U.S. borders, from the current 830 to 2,300 by 2034.

DHS expects to expend $1 billion in taxpayer dollars for this dangerous expansion of a surveillance network indiscriminately trained on towns, school playgrounds, backyards, and vehicles—threatening the #privacy and civil liberties of everyone in the border regions

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/explosion-surveillance-towers-coming-us-borders-costing-over-1-billion

Hackers stole ‘significant’ amount of data from tech firm relied on by thousands of US hospitals and pharmacies

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/hackers-stole-significant-amount-of-data-from-tech-firm-relied-on-by-thousands-of-us-hospitals-and-pharmacies/

#Craneware #DataBreach #privacy #cybersecurity #healthcare #hospital #pharmacy