People think a lot about the output they get from AI tools and chatbots.

But they don't think enough about the input they give to AI tools and chatbots.

Your input is very likely collected, tagged, evaluated, shared, and reused. Every word, every image, every line of code, every data point you share with them, knowingly or unknowingly.

You're not using them.
They're using you.

#NoAI #Privacy #DigitalRights #MassSurveillance

It must be said that while the #FlamingoRevolution is a big tent movement, most of its real movers & shakers are....students and student age.

#Protest #Privacy #Corruption #Surveillance #Albania

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“Any behavior that is potentially dangerous or in violation of the law is detected through artificial intelligence and generates an alert here at the Command and Control Center, which is immediately forwarded to the nearest police patrol. The system is designed to identify, analyze, and warn of risks in real time, enabling proactive and preventive action,” he said. Referring to the first phase of the project, Lamallari said beginning with 20 of Tirana’s busiest schools was a strategic decision. “It is no coincidence that we are launching this project—which represents a major leap forward in ensuring public safety in Albania—by focusing on the capital’s 20 most frequented schools. A country’s security is measured not only by crime statistics but also by its ability to protect its children,” the minister stated.

Palantir's infamy should have caused us to abandon this kind of privacy violation. Instead we now have double the number of problems.
#ai #privacy
https://www.luxtimes.lu/europeanunion/palantirs-infamy-opens-doors-for-french-challenger/159250028.html

🧐 Headlines in #privacy from @thenewoil

“You Can Now Verify Your # Facebook Account With a Video # Selfie https:// lifehacker.com/tech/you-can-no w-verify-your-facebook-account-with-a-video-selfie # Meta # privacy # biometrics”

https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/116992770350835381

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Mass surveillance is a violation of consent and a violation of democracy.

Stop normalizing surveillance.

#Privacy #Democracy #StopSurveillance

The most fundamental concept to comprehend to understand privacy is consent.

The most important concept to comprehend to understand why most AI training data is unethical is consent.

Consent is one the least understood concept in our society, yet the most likely to save it.

If you have difficulty understanding why privacy is important and why nonconsensual data sets are problematic, start learning more about consent.

It will benefit all aspects of your life,
and society as a whole as well.

#Consent #Privacy #HumanRights #NoAI

#Surveillance Cameras Can Now Be Retrofitted to Track Your Wireless Device Fingerprint

https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/07/27/surveillance-cameras-can-now-be-retrofitted-to-track-your-wireless-device-fingerprint/

#privacy #Leonardo #ALPR

Cal[.]diy is a community-driven fork of Cal[.]com that's 100% MIT licensed and removes proprietary enterprise features.

Unlike the open-core version, there are no license keys, locked features, or closed-source components. Self-host it to keep full control over your scheduling data and infrastructure.


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

#OpenSource #SelfHosting #Privacy #FOSS #Calendar #Scheduling #Linux #DigitalEscapeTools

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🔐 #Privacy news & updates from @privacyguides:

“🚨 This Week In Privacy #61 will be live in 30 minutes, we'll be talking about Apple adding a keylogger to the iOS app store, and covering the latest privacy & security news. 👋 Join us live and join the Q&A! https:/...”

https://mastodon.neat.computer/@privacyguides/116897573682346088

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California Leads the Nation in Flock License Plate Surveillance Cameras

California hosts over 16,000 Flock Safety cameras, the highest count of any U.S. state.
San Francisco ranks third nationally in camera density at 1,196 cameras per 1,000 road miles.

#California #SanFrancisco #flocksafety #alpr #surveillance #privacy #technolgy #tech

https://www.gadgetreview.com/california-leads-the-nation-in-flock-license-plate-surveillance-cameras

5th Circuit blocks #Texas law requiring websites to filter “harmful” speech

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/5th-circuit-blocks-texas-law-requiring-websites-to-filter-harmful-speech/

#FreeSpeech #privacy #AgeVerification

GrapheneOS is making headlines after a U.S. case involving its duress PIN feature, which can securely wipe a device if a special password is entered during an unlock attempt.

The case raises broader questions about privacy, encrypted devices, and digital rights during border searches not just for GrapheneOS users, but for anyone who values secure mobile devices.

Read more: https://digitalescapetools.com/2026/07/grapheneos-duress-wipe-border-search-doj-case.html

#GrapheneOS #Privacy #DigitalRights #CyberSecurity #Android #OpenSource #TechNews

"A GrapheneOS Privacy Feature Just Became the Basis for a Federal Indictment"

"Samuel Tunick faces up to five years in prison after the passcode he gave CBP agents wiped his phone."

https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17390033/grapheneos-duress-password-indictment

#Privacy

Pokemon Cards shouldn't be worth your privacy!

The Pokémon Company is bringing facial recognition to stores to fight scalpers

https://www.polygon.com/pokemon-facial-recognition-japan-stores-tcg-set-storm-emeralda/

#PokemonCompany #Pokemon #FacialRecognition #TradingCards #Scalpers #Privacy #Surveillance #Tech #Gaming

A first-of-its-kind US case: Samuel Tunick gave Customs agents at Atlanta's airport a GrapheneOS 'duress' passcode - a feature that wipes the phone when entered instead of the real unlock code. The DOJ is now prosecuting him under a statute against destroying property to prevent government seizure; his lawyers argue the seizure was unconstitutional and he was denied a lawyer. Follows a recent ruling that border agents can search phones without a warrant. #privacy #GrapheneOS #indigoprivacy

Phone users used to see Twitter as a phone app that they loaded from their app store. Mastodon is the only *blogging thing in the Fediverse that they can load from their app store.

This is one reason why just about all Mastodon newbies use the official app and why they're on mastodon.social (it's the default in the official app, and since they don't know what this setting does, they leave it on default).

Mastodon even gets away with an official app that's far from good, much less fully features. All the newbies don't have anything to compare with. If Mastodon is a phone app to them, then the official app's feature set is Mastodon's feature set. If a feature isn't implemented in the official app, then Mastodon doesn't have it. I dare say that well over 80% of all Mastodon users have never in their lives used Mastodon's Web UI.

If someone takes the step and moves from the official Mastodon app to Ivory or Mona or IceCubes or Tusky or Fedilab or something like this, it's almost always the first time in their lives that they use an online service through an app that has a different name than the online service. Many people couldn't even imagine doing that.

This means that if Friendica and Hubzilla want to be more successful, growing beyond Mike's old "if you build it, they'll come" credo and advertising more isn't sufficient. People must be able to load Friendica/Hubzilla onto their phones from their app store. This requires an official app named "Friendica"/"Hubzilla" with a native, up-to-date iOS UI in the Apple App Store and one with a native, up-to-date Android UI in the Google Play Store. The existence of an official phone app in the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store is essential for being considered existent in the first place.

A commonplace attitude on Friendica and even more so on Hubzilla is that both can be installed as a PWA. But seriously, 99.9% of all phone users don't even know that PWAs exist. They don't know what that is. Not to mention that they expect and demand a native mobile UI in the style of their phone OS and not a generic Web UI.

Now, what would this app have to look like?

If the advantages of Friendica and Hubzilla over Mastodon are to be emphasised and underlined, and if this app is to become people's one and only daily driver UI, it will have to be fully featured. Minus the settings for the Web UI (e.g. the theme settings and the PDL editor on Hubzilla), minus stuff that you'll never need if you only ever use the phone app and never the server UI (e.g. Webpages on Hubzilla), but otherwise fully featured. This would also demonstrate just how vastly more powerful Friendica and Hubzilla are than Mastodon.

The obvious downside is that such an app would be a feature monster. Bigger and more feature-laden than any Android e-mail app or OpenStreetMap editor.

There has been some talk about building an official Hubzilla phone app. Some Hubzilla users have proposed an app that only offers the very basics. However, their idea behind this is not to make the app easier for newbies to use, but to make it easier for the developers to build. They're often still stuck in the early 2010s when phone apps for websites were considered gimmicks. They think that people will only use the app when they're out and about, and when they're back home, they'll sit down behind their computers and use the Web interface. Thus, phone apps only need the most basic features implemented.

But 2026 is not 2011. The huge majority of Mastodon users only use Mastodon through a phone app. Even when they're at home. As I've said: If the app doesn't have a feature, the whole product doesn't have the feature, regardless of whether or not the feature is implemented in the server backend and even in the Web frontend.

Besides, even Friendica's basic features that you'll need all the time are a lot. Hubzilla's basic features that you'll need all the time are even more numerous.

Shall people be limited to posting in public when they're on a phone because the phone app doesn't have any permission settings?

Shall people be limited to posting to their contacts when they're on a phone because someone decided that support for groups would make the phone app too complex?

Shall people wait until they're home, and they've got some time to fire up a computer, open a Web browser and log onto the Web interface to accept connection requests because the phone app doesn't have any connection settings? What if they don't have a computer?

Let's face it, social networking itself is a complex thing. And I mean actual social networking. Not misusing glorified SMS as a social network. Real social networking. Facebook-level social networking. Google+-level social networking. MySpace-level social networking.

Thus, a social networking phone app with all features necessary for real social networking has to be complex. This isn't a Friendica/Hubzilla issue. Don't believe that the official Facebook apps are simple.

This is also why so many prefer 𝕏 over Facebook. Facebook is complex. Facebook isn't just register, follow, post. 𝕏 is much more simple. 𝕏 is glorified SMS. 𝕏 is literally just register, follow, tweet. Facebook is rocket science whereas 𝕏 is for dumb-dumbs.

And it's because Mastodon is so lacking that it's for dumb-dumbs by Fediverse standards. In fact, if you don't read those panicky "it's too complicated because you have to know what a server is" posts, if you just load the app and create an account, Mastodon, through the official app, is for dumb-dumbs by all standards.

However, those who actually are on Facebook are willing to put up with something more complex. They need something more complex than glorified SMS for dumb-dumbs. They need the extra features that Facebook has that 𝕏 doesn't, even if these are the very features that deny Facebook the "for dumb-dumbs" attribute.

Send them to Mastodon, and they'll be irritated and even repelled because this feature isn't there, and that feature isn't there, and that feature is cut down beyond recognition, and they can't find any interesting people (not because Mastodon is decentralised, and the interesting people are on other servers, but because Mastodon's directory sucks arse in comparison with Facebook's), and what's with that stupid character limit?

On Friendica and Hubzilla, this feature and that feature have been there for longer than Mastodon itself, that feature is even more powerful than on Facebook proper, interesting people are being shoved into their faces once they've filled out their profile, even more so once they've got some connections, and there is no character limit worth speaking of.

But as long as Friendica and Hubzilla don't have official, fully daily-driveable phone apps named "Friendica" and "Hubzilla" respectively, they simply don't exist.

Granted, there's another obstacle. Many Mastodon users say the Fediverse needs a Facebook alternative. If you tell them about Friendica and its descendants, some will be very thankful because they've genuinely never heard of any of these.

Others will tell you that they know Friendica and maybe even Hubzilla. But they also say that none of these are Facebook alternatives. For when they say, "alternative," what they really mean is, "1:1 clone, just with a different name and decentralised and with ActivityPub and without spying and without the recent enshittification and without the evil CEO, otherwise absolutely identical."

One big aspect of this is that, as they say, the Fediverse needs an alternative to Facebook Groups. Friendica groups are exactly that because they were designed to be exactly that. Hubzilla forums, (streams) groups, Forte groups, all just that. But according to these people, they don't count because they aren't handled in precisely the same way as Facebook groups. Facebook groups aren't separate accounts. And different equals bad.

What really has me shake my head is that those who want a 1:1 Facebook clone continue to use Mastodon as a Facebook alternative. Even though Friendica and its family are vastly closer to Facebook regardless. Even though Mastodon not only doesn't have groups at all, but it doesn't even have any support for external groups. Is shouting into the void with a bunch of hashtags and hoping the right people will hear you really that much better than a Friendica group or a Hubzilla forum or maybe a PieFed community?

By the way: Just how faithful a Twitter clone is Mastodon really, seeing as Misskey and the Forkeys have the odd Twitter feature that Mastodon still lacks, seeing as even Mastodon gradually becomes more complex than 𝕏, much more so than when-it-still-was-good Twitter?

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #CharacterLimitMeta #CWCharacterLimitMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #Misskey #Forkey #Forkeys #PieFed #Privacy #Permission #Permissions #Groups #FediverseGroups #FediGroups #App #PhoneApp #iPhoneApp #iOSApp #AndroidApp #SocialNetwork #SocialNetworking #Twitter #𝕏 #Facebook #FacebookGroups

Keep the family safe with #ArcaneChat 🤗💜

No phone numbers required for registration, just set a name and start chatting!

No strangers discovering and contacting your family members!

All your conversations encrypted, only visible by family members, no 3rd party trust needed!

#digitalindependence #privacy #security #family #encryption #autonomy #europe #european #android

Zerion 3.0 is close. Our own protocol stack replacing the inherited Bramble layers: Tor-only, post-quantum on every message, constant-rate cover traffic so an observer can’t tell messages from noise.

In final testing now, two more transports:

I2P as an opt-in alternative to Tor. And a Bluetooth mesh for communicating with no internet at all, blackouts, protests, disasters.

Tor stays mandatory. The rest is additive.

zerion.chat

#privacy #tor #i2p #foss

🔐 #Privacy news & updates from @privacyguides:

“🚨 This Week In Privacy #60 will be live in 30 minutes, we'll be talking about CalyxOS coming back with a stable build, and covering the latest privacy & security news. 👋 Come join and chat with us live! https:// s...”

https://mastodon.neat.computer/@privacyguides/116857937018675870

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We read the privacy news so you don't have to. One story, clearly explained, every Monday morning.

#privacy #indigoprivacy

We read the privacy news so you don't have to. One story, clearly explained, every Monday morning.

#privacy #indigoprivacy

Every one of America's 20 state privacy laws — and the federal proposals that died before becoming law — explicitly exempts government from the rules that bind companies. The drone leak, the license-plate stalking, the ER-records grab: this is why none of it needed your consent. #Surveillance #Privacy

https://www.thebluf.news/p/privacy-laws-exempt-government

Tons of Peoples’ #Claude Chats and Creations are Exposed on #Google

https://www.404media.co/tons-of-peoples-claude-chats-and-creations-are-exposed-on-google/

#AI #privacy #Anthropic

Inside the dystopian world of #Germany’s #FreeSpeech crackdown

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/07/20/germany-europe-free-speech-crisis-rainer-zitelmann-afd/

#privacy

#Apple’s #SmartGlasses are running late because they don’t want to stir a #privacy storm

https://www.digitaltrends.com/wearables/apples-smart-glasses-are-running-late-because-they-dont-want-to-stir-a-privacy-storm/

#IoT #AI

#Garbage trucks may soon start spying on people—where it’s happening

https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/artificial-intelligence/garbage-trucks-may-soon-start-spying-on-people-where-it-s-happening/ar-AA28hIjk

#privacy #surveillance #infrastructure #trash #Florida

US prosecutors charge Atlanta man after #GrapheneOS phone wipes itself during airport search

"The case centers on ... use of GrapheneOS, an open-source operating system that works on Google Pixel phones and lets users enter a passcode to #wipe a device clean."

"The wipe is now central to the case. Prosecutors are treating it as an intentional act to destroy evidence..."

https://www.techspot.com/news/113236-us-prosecutors-charge-atlanta-man-after-grapheneos-phone.html

#security #privacy #US #opensource #FOSS

Secluso is an open-source home security system that runs on a Raspberry Pi, giving you encrypted remote access to live video, recordings, and alerts without relying on cloud surveillance.

If you want a privacy-first alternative to cloud-connected security cameras, Secluso keeps your camera data under your control.

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

#OpenSource #SelfHosting #Privacy #HomeSecurity #RaspberryPi #Linux #FOSS #DigitalEscapeTools

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Screenshot of the Secluso website in dark mode. A banner reads “Private home security without cloud surveillance” with mentions of end-to-end encrypted remote viewing, alerts, and recordings on Raspberry Pi. The page title “Secluso” appears above the description: “Private DIY home security for Raspberry Pi, with encrypted remote access and a 5-minute software setup.” Blue links are shown for deployment, build guide, security model, and website. The text explains that Secluso is a private home security camera system for Raspberry Pi that allows live video viewing, alerts, and access to recordings from a phone without uploading footage to a cloud provider.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@janvlug/116991928856888810

CONTEXT:

privacy laws, including court cases, only recorgnize passwords as part of your right to privacy. so if you lock your phone with biometrics, DHS/TSA/ICE can force you physically to unlock the device. not so with passwords… until now.

prosecutors in Atlanta want to use this case to completely take away the right to privacy with passwords.

this would open EVERYTHING ―including emails, bank accounts, health care records―, to fascist predation.

#privacy #GrapheneOS #laws #passwords

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US prosecutors charge Atlanta man after #GrapheneOS phone wipes itself during airport search

"The case centers on ... use of GrapheneOS, an open-source operating system that works on Google Pixel phones and lets users enter a passcode to #wipe a device clean."

"The wipe is now central to the case. Prosecutors are treating it as an intentional act to destroy evidence..."

https://www.techspot.com/news/113236-us-prosecutors-charge-atlanta-man-after-grapheneos-phone.html

#security #privacy #US #opensource #FOSS

Employer wellness programs increasingly sync with Fitbit-style wearables and apps, streaming your steps, sleep, and heart rate straight to the company's health insurer — a biometric feed that can quietly move your premiums.

#privacy #healthcare #workplacemonitoring #indigoprivacy

Employer wellness programs increasingly sync with Fitbit-style wearables and apps, streaming your steps, sleep, and heart rate straight to the company's health insurer — a biometric feed that can quietly move your premiums.

#privacy #healthcare #workplacemonitoring #indigoprivacy

The hacker who humiliated #spyware makers and was never caught

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/25/the-hacker-who-humiliated-spyware-makers-and-was-never-caught/

#cybersecurity #privacy #malware

You Can Now Verify Your #Facebook Account With a Video #Selfie

https://lifehacker.com/tech/you-can-now-verify-your-facebook-account-with-a-video-selfie

#Meta #privacy #biometrics

The ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State Surveillance Secrets

The online toolkit for criminal defense attorneys is built around handcrafted legal motions that, when granted by a judge, will force prosecutors to reveal whether surveillance technology was used against a defendant.

#ACLU #legal #flocksecurity #surveillance #privacy #technology #tech

https://www.wired.com/story/the-aclu-is-arming-lawyers-to-expose-state-surveillance-secrets/

#ShinyHunters data leaks fuel $2,000 #sextortion email scam

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/shinyhunters-data-leaks-fuel-2-000-sextortion-email-scam/

#privacy #cybersecurity #DataBreach

United and American don't just swap miles with hotels and card partners. Airline data broker ARC sells passenger travel records to DHS and marketers, cross-linked with your card spending into a full movement profile.

#privacy #surveillance #socialmedia #indigoprivacy

#OnTrac notifies customers of #DataBreach after network hack

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ontrac-notifies-customers-of-data-breach-after-network-hack/

#cybersecurity #privacy #delivery #shipping

A new Jscrambler study found bank mortgage and account-opening pages quietly firing tracking pixels that send your data to Google, Meta, TikTok, and others. Across 14 cases, tracking fired without valid consent at 9 banks: before the cookie banner, after 'reject all,' or despite 'essential only.' One Spanish bank sent TikTok your hashed email and phone during a mortgage application. The cookie banner won't save you. Block trackers in the browser: Brave, uBlock, Pi-hole. #privacy #indigoprivacy

EU finds TikTok failed to shield the privacy of children's accounts from adults

The European Commission has found TikTok did not adequately protect children's privacy on its platform, after allowing adults to view the accounts of minors.

#euope #eu #DSA #tiktok #socialmedia #privacy #technology #tech

https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/07/24/eu-finds-tiktok-failed-to-shield-the-privacy-of-childrens-accounts-from-adults

Judge rebuffs #Trump admin demand for phone records from #NYT reporters

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/judge-rebuffs-trump-admin-demand-for-phone-records-from-nyt-reporters/

#journalism #privacy

"Smart wearables challenge UK privacy laws through invisible surveillance"

"Are UK privacy laws prepared for the challenge of invisible smart wearable surveillance?"

https://www.techradar.com/pro/smart-wearables-challenge-uk-privacy-laws-through-invisible-surveillance

#Privacy

Attention 📣 #privacy focused #GrapheneOS users, keep an eye for this legal bullshit that is happening in the US right now:

https://www.techspot.com/news/113236-us-prosecutors-charge-atlanta-man-after-grapheneos-phone.html

If they get it their way, they will make GrapheneOS criminal.

#acab

We have a duty to resist authoritarianism and mass surveillance.

We owe it to the next generations.

#Privacy #BeTheResistance

US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a ‘duress’ password during border search

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/us-accuses-american-of-allegedly-wiping-his-phone-using-a-duress-password-during-border-search/

#cybersecurity #privacy #politics #GrapheneOS

France plans to require age verification for social media, with access potentially blocked for users under 15 who don't have parental consent.

Supporters say it's about protecting children online. Critics warn that mandatory age verification could impact privacy, anonymity, and data collection.

Read more: https://digitalescapetools.com/2026/07/france-social-media-ban-age-verification-privacy.html

#Privacy #SocialMedia #AgeVerification #France #DigitalRights #OnlinePrivacy #TechNews #DigitalEscapeTools

#ChickFilA #DataBreach affects more than 13,000 customers

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chick-fil-a-data-breach-affects-more-than-13-000-customers/

#privacy #cybersecurity #FastFood

Man gets six years for hacking 750 women's #Snapchat accounts

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/man-gets-six-years-for-hacking-750-womens-snapchat-accounts/

#privacy #cybersecurity

#Meta's new #AI glasses let people secretly film and photograph you!

https://tuta.com/blog/metas-new-ai-glasses

#privacy #SmartGlasses

#Microsoft responds to #LG monitors installing #McAfee ads on #Windows

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/microsoft-responds-to-lg-monitors-installing-mcafee-ads-on-windows/

#cybersecurity #advertising #privacy

Hundreds of Drone-as-First-Responder Programs Could Soon Be Launched Across the Country

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/hundreds-drone-first-responder-programs-could-soon-be-launched-across-country

#drone #privacy #surveillance

Many rely on Big Tech—US-governed, surveillance-prone, and built on data monetization. In the UK, Germany & France, 8/10 feel too dependent on US tech. Europe offers stronger privacy laws and digital-rights tech. 🔍🇪🇺 Try European search options: https://proton.me/learn/european-alternatives #Privacy #DigitalRights #Europe

Australian #energy provider #Origin says #DataBreach exposes client data

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/australian-energy-provider-origin-says-data-breach-exposes-client-data/

#Australia #privacy #cybersecurity #infrastructure

#Flock's CEO Says its ALPRs Don't Do Video After Repeatedly Announcing They Can

https://www.404media.co/flocks-ceo-says-its-alprs-dont-do-video-after-repeatedly-announcing-they-can/

#ALPR #privacy #surveillance

Portmaster might be goated for privacy #privacy #privacymatters

For #TaylorSwift, 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/

#MSG #privacy #surveillance #FRT #FacialRecognition

Linkwarden is a free, open-source bookmark manager that helps you save, organize, and preserve webpages. It can automatically archive pages as screenshots, PDFs, and HTML files, supports collaboration, includes browser extensions and mobile apps, and can be self-hosted for full control over your data.

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

#OpenSource #SelfHosting #Bookmarks #Privacy #Productivity #FOSS #DigitalOwnership

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Screenshot of the Linkwarden project page featuring its logo and the tagline "Bookmarks, Evolved." The page highlights GitHub Trending (#3 Repository of the Day), an active Discord community, Hacker News mentions, the latest release, localization progress, and project sponsors.

There shouldn't be privacy issues in meeting apps. Developers: let us opt out of access to our social media accounts when we use your apps!

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2014/04/privacy-issues-in-meeting-apps

#meetings #privacy #DataProtection #SocialCheckIn #MeetingApps #events #eventprofs

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Privacy issues in meeting apps: photograph of a crowd of people indoors with a photographer pointing his camera directly towards the viewer. Photo attribution: Flickr user michellzappa

Stop the tracking circus. Kill the cookie banner!

Tired of misleading cookie banners? The EU Commission has finally proposed a solution: set your privacy preferences in the browser once, and never see another banner. Unfortunately, the tracking industry is pushing back – and so far, they’ve been successful. We need YOUR help to #KillTheCookieBanner!

🍪 https://killthecookiebanner.eu

#tracking #cookies #cookiebanner #eu #web #browser #internet #tracking #stop #privacy #privacymatters

See how /e/OS protects my device from tracking attempts!
Mobile apps trackers are one of the most impactful threats regarding your privacy and your freedom.

#privacy #tracking #AppTracking #apptrackingprotection #eos #surveillancecapitalism

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Trackers blocked: 100% of all tracking attempts neutralized 21,659 just this week