@vowe

Private #MassSurveillance and the virtual end of #Privacy in public spaces

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...fitness spaces, locker rooms, and private businesses. In 2024, 👉#Harvard researchers were able to run facial recognition software on recorded footage from #Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses to successfully locate the names, addresses, and other personal information of passersby from public databases. 👈 Morality aside, privacy law also hasn’t kept up... "

https://hyperallergic.com/guerrilla-london-bus-ads-mock-kylie-jenners-meta-glasses-campaign/

@vowe
Private #MassSurveillance and the virtual end of #Privacy in public spaces

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Why this matters:

"#Meta and #RayBan’s new #AIglasses can be used to secretly record women and young people for sexual reasons,” the #EHE spokesperson continued in their statement to #Hyperallergic. “Simply put, that’s abuse.” The chasm between legality and ethics continues to widen as the use of smart glasses poses additional risks at sites of expected privacy, including hospitals, restrooms,...

Here’s the Truth About Whether Meta’s #NameTag #FaceRecognition Tech ‘Exists’

Since WIRED reported on Meta’s NameTag face recognition system, company executives have made confusing and conflicting remarks about its very existence.
#meta #privacy #security #biometrics

https://www.wired.com/story/heres-the-truth-about-whether-metas-nametag-face-recognition-exists/

#California Steps Back From Dangerous Expansion of its Age-Gating Law

The California legislature has stepped back from a plan that would have expanded its age-gating law, removing language that could have compounded serious threats to users’ speech, #privacy and #security just to browse the internet. A.B. 1856, authored by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, will now move forward through the legislature without its most problematic pieces.
#ab1856 #ageverification

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/california-steps-back-dangerous-expansion-its-age-gating-law

Hey all! For #WIPWednesday I wanted to share my most recent video.

It's gotten a great response. It's the story of a Virginia vigilante who took out a whole bunch of Flock cameras and got arrested, but he's fighting back. I also give some background on why opposing Flock is a good thing.

If you give it a watch, all I ask is you hit the like button. Doing so gives us smaller creators a huge boost. Thank you!

#YouTube #Flock #Privacy #Technology #Vigilante #Resist

https://youtu.be/Y2A66tDGwFo

Since WIRED reported on Meta’s NameTag face recognition system, company executives have made confusing and conflicting remarks about its very existence.

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Here’s the Truth About Whether Meta’s NameTag Face Recognition Tech ‘Exists’

The internet is full of privacy traps and data scrapers, but there is one big tech company you can't avoid: your Internet Service Provider (ISP). Through your router, they have the ability to see all the websites you visit and detect where you are in your home, even if you don't have a connected device near you.
#privacy #surveillance #proton #technology

https://youtu.be/24_94bGpWQM?si=wzq3mJxm9ZwPnnM-

Briar is going into maintenance mode, only security fixes from here. Not for lack of skill. They had no funding and built it in their spare time for years.

Zerion runs on their Bramble protocol and we owe them for it. The gaps they listed as unsolved, account backup, attachments, reliably adding contacts, we’ve shipped. Our own protocol stack is next.

The foundation stays. The work keeps moving.

zerion.chat

#privacy #tor #foss

Big news for digital privacy in Delaware! The state legislature has passed a major amendment to the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act (DPDPA). If signed into law, it will take effect on January 1, 2027, making it one of the most robust privacy frameworks in the U.S. 🛡️

Here is what you need to know:

Tighter Controls: It significantly lowers the number of consumers a company can process data for before being required to comply, bringing more businesses under the law's reach.

Expanded "Sensitive Data": The definition now includes neural data, national origin, reproductive health status, government IDs, and financial account info. Companies will generally be prohibited from selling this data without your explicit consent.

AI & Profiling Rights: You gain more control over how algorithms use your data to make life-altering decisions (like credit, housing, or hiring). If you are hit with an "adverse action" due to automated profiling, you have new rights to be notified and informed of the data used.

Transparency: You can now request a list of the specific third parties your data has been shared with, rather than just vague categories.

Read the full breakdown here: https://www.insideprivacy.com/state-privacy/delaware-general-assembly-passes-hb-380-an-amendment-to-the-delaware-personal-data-privacy-act/

#Privacy #DataRights #Delaware #TechPolicy #DigitalRights #news

New Release: #Tor Browser 15.0.18

https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-15018/

#cybersecurity #privacy #anonymity #FOSS

Over The Edge 2.0: what independent researchers found about browser choice on #Windows

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/browser-choice-windows-report-over-the-edge-2/

#privacy #Microsoft

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mataasiaofficial/116924772963889867

We’re accepting stories on privacy, surveillance, digital rights, and bodily/biological autonomy. All voices welcome—especially those from Southeast Asia and the Global South.

Submit here: mataasiaofficial@gmail.com
#OpenCall #Privacy #Autonomy #TechForPeople

RE: https://flipboard.com/@404media/404-media-qvt3vv94z/-/a-96xLEbsGQNSD-362QkZPdg%3Aa%3A4082434389-%2F0

It doesn't matter that this was the US. The Police in any country cannot be trusted with surveillance technology.

There will always be someone, or really several someones who will relish being able to stalk someone on a whim. Or to do a mate a favour.

It's the nature of organisations set up to protect property and to enable state violence.

The power is what attracts the worst folks to wield it.

Power reveals.

#Privacy #ACAB

Firewalla is an intrusion detection and prevention system for a home network, managed from a phone app. Sitting at the network gateway, it sees every device and every connection, blocks ads and trackers across all of them, and includes a VPN server with no monthly fee. One-time purchase, no subscription, from $279.

#firewalla #networksecurity #privacy #firewall #indigoprivacy

Remember you can disable read receipts in the ArcaneChat settings in the Privacy section, chill mode, no stress, read messages without the burden of "now I need to reply because they see that I read the message"

#ArcaneChat #tips #Europe #European #privacy #security #encryption

💥NEW voter #privacy action for MPs!

Sign-ups for our online Parliamentary petition are closed, but pressure on MPs is just getting started!

Join 10k+ Canadians 🇨🇦. Tell your MP: bring political parties under privacy laws and protect your #data: https://openmedia.org/voter-privacy-2026-mtd

Privacy Incidents – Real-world examples of why your photos need protection

https://snapsafe.org/incidents.html

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48920443

#HackerNews #privacy #protection #data #security #photo #safety #real #world #examples

Shufflecake talk at CAW 2026 last May - video now available online!

https://clip.place/w/d7Anz5jbsMCZo1HBg8JkES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21LjKFBIwwY

#shufflecake #caw #eurocrypt #eurocrypt2026 #cryptography #crypto #truecrypt #veracrypt #security #Privacy #infosec #hacktivism #censorship

Data brokers collect your address, relatives, income estimate, and daily routine. They sell it to anyone who pays.

#databrokers #privacy #indigoprivacy

Die Schattendatenbank der #Schufa

‚Es ist ein wahrer Schatz, den die Schufa besitzt, und er war bisher vielleicht ihr größtes Geheimnis. Denn neben der "offiziellen" Schufa-Datenbank gibt es noch eine zweite Sammlung, von der selbst viele Fachleute nichts wussten:
"Historische" Daten von Millionen Verbraucherinnen und Verbrauchern, veraltete Informationen, die Jahre zurückreichen und von denen die Betroffenen bislang annahmen, dass sie längst gelöscht seien.

Alte Kredite und Kreditkarten, Pfändungen und Privatinsolvenzen, Schulden, die die Betroffenen oft schon vor Jahren beglichen haben. Sensible Informationen, die großen Schaden anrichten können, wenn sie in die falschen Hände geraten…..‘

https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/ndr/schufa-verbraucher-daten-100.html

#Datenschutz #Deutschland #Diskriminierung #Privacy #Daten

New post: Privacy Is a Luxury I Can't Afford

https://lanie.work/technology/privacy-is-a-luxury-i-cant-afford/

#Privacy #Accessibility #Disability #Chronic-Illness #Blindness #Technology

New on the blog: Why Makro Stands Out: Privacy, AI, and Smarter Text Expansion

https://makroexpander.com/blog/why-makro-stands-out-privacy-ai-and-smarter-text-expansion

#Privacy #Encryption #Productivity

We live in the sort of timeline where I had to spend extra effort while shopping for my new prescription glasses frame to make sure it was unambiguously clear that these aren't surveillance pervert glasses.

Yep. We're there.

These horrifying non-consensual surveillance glasses are everywhere now. That's life now. I hate it 🤓

#BanRayBan #Meta #PervertGlasses #SmartGlasses #Surveillance #Privacy #Consent

"The criticism of eye-worn gadgets capable of surveillance isn't new, though the online discourse — "Meta Glasses" repeatedly trended on Meta's own Threads app last week, for the wrong reasons — seems to have intensified following the release of Meta's latest cheaper lineup, as well as reports about an unreleased facial recognition feature for the product. For whatever reason, this time the backlash seems to be having a real effect.

Engadget spoke with five creators, photographers and others who were once enthusiastic about Meta's smart glasses about how public perception has changed their habits.

"A lot of men and their behaviors have ruined this product," Danielle, a Florida-based creator and travel host who asked to be identified by first name only, told Engadget. Initially she enjoyed using her smart glasses for capturing travel content from the international trips she hosts. Then she read a story about how contractors working for Meta said they had been tasked with reviewing intimate images and other sensitive details captured by glasses owners.

Further reporting of men using Meta-branded glasses to film videos of themselves harassing women in public sealed the deal. She says she hasn't used them since. "I wouldn't feel comfortable around somebody wearing them, so I wouldn't expect anybody to be comfortable around me wearing them, no matter where I am.
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Other creators who have previously purchased the frames now say they are using the product less often due to fears that people around them will assume they're doing something "creepy."

Christian Eisenbarth is a Los Angeles-based videographer who was gifted a pair of Ray-Ban Meta glasses by his girlfriend. He says that while he had previously been eyeing a pair for use on his video shoots, he has yet to use them outside of his home "mainly due to being afraid of being labeled as a creep.""
https://www.engadget.com/2212604/the-meta-glasses-backlash-is-changing-how-or-if-people-use-them/

#Meta #SmartGlasses #Surveillance #Privacy

Files.md is a lightweight, open-source Markdown workspace for notes, journals, tasks, and personal knowledge management.

It stores everything as plain .md files, works completely offline, and keeps your data under your control, no cloud account required.

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

#OpenSource #Markdown #PKM #Notes #Productivity #Privacy

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Screenshot of the Files.md project page. It describes Files.md as a "Private, quiet space for thinking" and a simple app for Markdown (.md) files. Below is a dark-themed interface showing a sidebar of Markdown notes, a note outline in the center, and a note editor on the right, highlighting its clean, distraction-free workspace for local note-taking.

#Cloudflare #Precursor watches your mouse and keyboard to decide if you are human

https://nerds.xyz/2026/07/cloudflare-precursor-bot-detection/

#privacy #AI #bot #CAPTCHA

I’ve released two complete manuals—687 pages—FREE to read, download, print and redistribute unaltered.

The Tribal Bible 2026 covers community survival, cultural continuity, food, water, medicine, governance and rebuilding.

The Global Civil-Liberties Defence Manual covers digital ID, biometrics, surveillance, automated decisions, evidence and lawful remedies.

https://thomaster.substack.com/p/two-manuals-one-purpose-preserve

#CivilLiberties #DigitalRights #Privacy #Preparedness #Survival #CulturalPreservation

#LAPD Regularly Pulled Over Innocent People Because License Plate Readers Flagged Their Cars As Stolen

https://www.404media.co/lapd-regularly-pulled-over-innocent-people-because-license-plate-readers-flagged-their-cars-as-stolen/

#privacy #Flock #ALPR #surveillance

Children's #SocialMedia curbs planned across #EU, von der Leyen says

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/eu-propose-limit-kids-social-media-access-von-der-leyen-says-2026-07-13/

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

Programmatic advertising's transparency gap means advertisers often do not know which specific websites their ads appear on due to complex reseller chains.

#privacy #adtech #transparency #indigoprivacy

#LAPD lets contract with #surveillance giant #Flock expire, citing ‘serious concerns’ over civil liberties and #privacy

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/lapd-lets-contract-with-surveillance-giant-flock-expire-citing-serious-concerns-over-civil-liberties-and-privacy/

#ALPR

#Lidl discloses online shop breach after service provider hack

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lidl-discloses-online-shop-breach-after-service-provider-hack/

#privacy #cybersecurity #DataBreach

Tonkatsu Box is a free, open-source media collection manager that lets you organize games, movies, TV shows, anime, manga, books, comics, and more in one place.

It stores your library locally, works offline after setup, supports local network sync, and can import data from Steam, Trakt, MyAnimeList, AniList, and other services.

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

#OpenSource #SelfHosted #Media #Gaming #Anime #Privacy

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Screenshot of the Tonkatsu Box project page in dark mode. The top shows the Tonkatsu Box logo and the tagline: "Your personal collection manager for games, movies, TV shows, anime, visual novels, and manga." Below are platform badges for Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, and Rustore, followed by badges indicating passing tests, MIT license, Flutter support, and a Discord community. The layout highlights Tonkatsu Box as a cross-platform, open-source media collection manager.

A Leak of #SanFrancisco #Police #Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban #Surveillance

https://www.wired.com/story/sfpd-drone-video-leak-surveillance/

#privacy

"One click to join, a dozen to cancel" is a dark pattern, the same one that makes "accept all cookies" one tap and opting out a slog. NYC is the first US city to ban it for subscriptions: joined online, cancel online. In force Oct 1.

#darkpatterns #clicktocancel #privacy #indigoprivacy

Alarm over launch of #FacialRecognition in #UK shops that instantly alerts #police

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/10/facewatch-facial-recognition-uk-shops-instantly-alerts-police-civil-liberties

#privacy #surveillance #FRT

PixelRAG is an open-source visual RAG framework that helps local AI models understand documents by analyzing screenshots instead of relying only on extracted text.

It preserves tables, charts, diagrams, and page layouts for more accurate retrieval, and can run locally with your own PDFs and webpages.

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

#OpenSource #AI #RAG #LLM #SelfHosted #Privacy

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Screenshot of the PixelRAG project page. At the top is the PixelRAG logo with the tagline "Web Screenshots Beat Text." Below, an overview explains that PixelRAG renders web pages, PDFs, and images as screenshots so AI models can preserve visual elements like tables, charts, layouts, and infographics for more accurate document retrieval and question answering.

An independent security audit is the single thing standing between “trust us” and “verified.” It’s also what Privacy Guides, journalists and security reviewers rightly ask for before recommending any messenger.

We’re raising funds to have Zerion audited by Radically Open Security. Every finding gets published, good or bad. That’s the deal.

If Zerion is useful to you, this is the most direct way to push it forward:

zerion.chat/donate.html

BTC, XMR and ETH accepted.
#privacy #foss #tor #monero

Most apps keep a log of what you get up to in them. Catchlight keeps one too, built so it can never hold your notes.
When sync or storage hits a snag, it records the event, a timestamp, a category, a short message, and never the content of a note or your key. You can read the whole history in Settings and export it to attach to a bug report.
A diagnostics log that knows nothing about you is the only kind a privacy app should keep.
#Privacy #FOSS #BuildInPublic

The privacy news cycle is noisy. We send one story a week, and it's the one that actually matters.

#privacy #indigoprivacy

#Mobile #SIM #Cape for #Privacy #Security

= Identifier Rotation,
= Secondary Numbers,
= Disappearing Call Logs

https://www.cape.co/get-cape

#AltText says:

Unlimited Talk and Text
Unlimited 5G and 4G Data
Minimal Data Collection →
Identifier Rotation →
Secondary Numbers →
SIM Swap Protection →
Network Lock →
Encrypted Voicemail →
Secure Global Roaming →
Mobile Hotspot
No contract - cancel any time

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List of features: Unlimited Talk and Text Unlimited 5G and 4G Data Minimal Data Collection → Identifier Rotation → Secondary Numbers → SIM Swap Protection → Network Lock → Encrypted Voicemail → Secure Global Roaming → Mobile Hotspot No contract - cancel any time

Virginia’s State of Surveillance - The Daily Signal
#privacy #surveillance #news

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