Thanks a lot to our dears users that leave such lovely words in Google Play reviews.

You give us that magic energy and motivation to keep going!
💜✨🤗

Are you installing the app from Google Play but have not given a review yet??? it would help us a lot to gain more visibility and relevance between so many apps in the Google Play store, so please, if you can, leave us a review here:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.github.arcanechat

#android #arcanechat #OpenSource #europe #european #privacy #security #family

Google now support account recovery with AI and your face. What could possibly go wrong? Google having my face is not just bad enough but chances are high that selfie video may not work in edge cases or network down etc.

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-security/selfie-video-sign-in/

#privacy #security #DoNotwant

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The tweet from Google offical account reads: Forgot your password? Lost your phone? Can’t get into your account? You can now use a selfie video to log into your Google Account. The new feature is easy to use and lets you sign in — even if you forget your password or don’t have your usual phone or laptop — with a quick selfie. There is a short video showing how to use a selfie video to log into your Google Account and link to https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-security/selfie-video-sign-in/

Associated Press: EU finds TikTok violates its digital rule book by failing to protect privacy of minors. “The European Commission on Friday said it found TikTok had not adequately protected children’s privacy rights on its platform by allowing adults to view the accounts of minors. The action exposed children to cyberbullying, unwanted contact and predatory behavior, commission spokesperson […]

when they touch the privacy topic at the family dinner

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

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/

Introducing Native Containers in #Firefox153

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

#Firefox #FOSS #Mozilla #privacy #security

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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Lifehacker: 10 Privacy Hacks for Managing Browser Cookies Everyone Should Know. “Luckily, cookie management isn’t just a binary choice any more. You can choose which cookies to accept on a website, auto-delete cookies after a set amount of time, or even switch between browser profiles to control which cookies stay active during a session.”

https://infosec.exchange/users/briankrebs/statuses/116960969908967244

#tv #privacy #security

New, exclusive, by me: LG to Ban Residential Proxy Providers from Smart TV Apps

The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one’s television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move comes less than a month after researchers found that more than 42 percent of games and other apps available for download on LG’s webOS store allow unknown third-parties to route their Internet traffic through a user’s TV.

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

#smarttv #lg #residentialproxies #spur #security

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A Pac-Man smart TV app from Bright Data offers users the choice between viewing ads in the game or agreeing to allow their TV to serve as a residential proxy node. The image features a picture of Pac-Man celebrating, and some ghosts on the right. It says: Play Pac-Man without ads! For an ad free experience, please allow web indexing by Bright Data to use your device's free resources and IP address to download web data from the Internet. None of your personal information is collected, except your IP address. Bright Data does not track you. Bright Data may continue running in the background even after you close the app. Scan the QR code to learn more about Bright Data policy and ethical usage. Image: Spur.us.

Georgia Tech: Online Age Checks Create a Pointless Privacy Risk. “New cybersecurity research indicates that one of the world’s leading age verification providers collects and shares highly sensitive personal data with third parties and in some cases don’t even enforce the policy.”

'Grok Build' #Coding Tool Open Sourced This Week, Promises to Respect Zero Data Retention
> and what is a promise from #ElonMusk to protect privacy worth ?

#security #privacy #grok #ai

https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/07/19/034258/grok-build-coding-tool-open-sourced-this-week-promises-to-respect-zero-data-retention?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

The #ACLU Is Arming #Lawyers to Expose State #Surveillance #Secrets

A new toolkit for #attorneys in #Massachusetts targets the technologies #police use—and conceal—to build criminal cases, from facial recognition to AI-written police reports.
#ai #facialrecognition #security

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

Australia Considers Targeting VPNs Following Age Verification Failure

With the failure of age verification in Australia, the eSafety regulator is eyeing VPNs as a new target.

https://www.freezenet.ca/australia-considers-targeting-vpns-following-age-verification-failure/

#Censorship #News #Privacy #Security #AgeVerification #Australia #eSafety #VPN

When building a multi-factor authentication system for clients, backups codes should be generated just in case the user does not have their second factor with them.

The backup codes should all be one-time use of course, but how do you store them on the backend? What is best practice here? What is a real-world threat model?

#passwords #security #cybersecurity

Courthouse News Service: Toyota broadsided by website tracking class action. “Toyota was hit with a ‘trap and trace’ class action, over what the plaintiff calls an ‘outrageous privacy “bait and switch” scheme.’ In a class action filed Wednesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, lead plaintiff Brittany Conner claims the Japanese automaker ‘secretly tracks, de-anonymizes and sells visitors’ […]

A new toolkit for attorneys in Massachusetts targets the technologies police use—and conceal—to build criminal cases, from facial recognition to AI-written police reports.

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The ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State Surveillance Secrets

𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗰𝘆𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀:

#Privacy #Security #Data #PrivacyTools

https://thewhale.cc/posts/privacytools

You are being watched. Private and state-sponsored organizations are monitoring and recording your online activities. privacytools.io provides knowledge and tools to protect your privacy against global mass surveillance.

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You are being watched. Private and state-sponsored organizations are monitoring and recording your online activities. privacytools.io provides knowledge and tools to protect your privacy against global mass surveillance.

Victory! #Flock Ends Rollout of Audio “Distress Detection” of Human #Voices

Reversing course, #FlockSafety —the #surveillance technology vendor most known for its extensive network of automated #licensePlate readers—has announced that it will end a pilot for its acoustic #gunshot detection devicesto identify signs of “human distress.”

In October 2025, @eff warned the public that Flock was rolling out a new feature called “#DistressDetection ” that would be deployed through their acoustic gunshot detection devices (formerly known as #FlockRaven , now called #AudioDetection ). This feature purported to use high-powered #microphones scattered throughout a city to search for sounds of human distress, with original advertisements from the product indicating it would search for “#screaming.” (Since the publication of our original blog post, Flock quietly amended the ad on this webpage to say “distress” instead of “screaming.”)
#privacy #security

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/victory-flock-ends-rollout-audio-distress-detection-human-voices

Euronews: Anti-tracking fashion: Startup designs clothing to foil AI surveillance cameras. “Using fashion to counter tracking and AI surveillance – that is the concept behind Leipzig start-up Urban Privacy. For several years, Nicole Scheller and Daniel Preuß have been developing products such as anti-tracking jackets. They do not make their wearers invisible, but they do make them harder to […]

How #Cops Use #Flock to #Track People, Not Cars

#Police departments around the country have used Flock #cameras at least hundreds of times to search for specific people, not cars, using searches such as “heavy-set male with a black and white hat,” “person on skateboard,” and “person wearing orange vest and construction hat,” according to data reviewed by 404 Media. Sometimes searches reference a target’s race or signs of their #political affiliation.

The searches highlight that while most people associate Flock cameras with scanning license plates and #tracking vehicles, some of the cameras are also capable of following the movements of particular people or groups of people.
#privacy #security #alpr

https://www.404media.co/how-cops-use-flock-to-track-people-not-cars/

𝗩𝗮𝘂𝗹𝘁:

#Security #Vault

https://thewhale.cc/posts/vault

Secure, store and tightly control access to tokens, passwords, certificates, encryption keys for protecting secrets and other sensitive data using a UI, CLI, or HTTP API.

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Secure, store and tightly control access to tokens, passwords, certificates, encryption keys for protecting secrets and other sensitive data using a UI, CLI, or HTTP API.

@elettrona @VeilleOff

#Meta #RayBan #Surveillance #Privacy

(2/n)

1.) Does *everyone* really need such a tool, given the very serious #Security issues of #Meta's (Sp)AI glasses?

As this article shows, the downloads of these connected #RayBans can be sufficient to identify and track down a complete stranger's home address:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/116928975023533388

Anyone can imagine fanboy and stalker problems. How about sexual abusers? What if the data is used to hunt down regime critics...

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

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’

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

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

#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
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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

#LAPD Regularly Pulled Over #Innocent People Because #LicensePlateReaders Flagged Their Cars As Stolen

The #LosAngeles Police Department (LAPD) announced it will let its #surveillance contract with automated license plate reader company (#ALPR ) #Flock expire, becoming the largest police department in the country to drop its contract. Notably, the decision came after an audit of ALPR technology found that, in a two-month period, the LAPD had improperly "investigated" 161 people whose cars were flagged as stolen in the LAPD’s ALPR system but were not actually stolen.

The news that LAPD pulled over 161 innocent people in two months because of improper tagging in the department’s system comes after several high-profile incidents in which people in other states were accosted by police because of data entry or clerical errors in ALPR systems.
#privacy #security

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

The SFPD’s exposure of hours of videos from drone platform Skydio reveals how broadly it’s watching the city from above—and how the results can spill online.

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A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance

We have better #security and #performance standards than most online banking sites, offering #0-RTT + #QUIC + #Post-Quantum #Cryptography. #tls #ssl #mastodon #instance

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An A+ Qualys SSLabs score showing a QUITE perfect deployment of website encryption. Additional texts: This server supports TLS 1.3. This server supports PQC (Post-Quantum Cryptography) key exchange. HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) with long duration deployed on this server. DNS Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) Policy found for this domain.

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http3checker screenshot showing we support quic and http/3 including 0-RTT and H3 quic protocol.

Cal Matters: Proposal would allow drivers to trade personal data for potentially lower insurance rates. “A bill to allow insurance companies to monitor California drivers’ behavior in exchange for potential discounts on their premiums would change the state’s longstanding insurance law, drawing opposition from the Insurance Department as well as consumer and privacy advocates.”

Mediaite: Madison Square Garden Has Massive Database of Celebs Who Attend Knicks Games and Gives Them a ‘Risk Score’: Report. “In 2023, New York Democrats threatened to strip MSG of its property tax exemption over the venue’s use of facial recognition technology; and earlier this year, it was revealed that Dolan’s company kept a database of biometric data and even tracked the movements of […]

The Drive: How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me for Days Over ‘Stolen’ Plates and Sent Police After Me. “The Plymouth Police Department had been tracking me for days using Flock license plate cameras, waiting for the right moment to strike, because they thought I’d stolen the Range Rover. And the reason I was ID’d as a dangerous car thief was a simple data error made 2,000 miles away in […]

Proton users, what are your thoughts on the Lumo AI?

#proton #privacy #ai #lumo #security

𝗟𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆:

#Browser #Firefox #Security #CSP

https://thewhale.cc/posts/laboratory

Laboratory is an experimental Firefox extension that helps you generate a Content Security Policy (CSP) header for your website.

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Laboratory is an experimental Firefox extension that helps you generate a Content Security Policy (CSP) header for your website.

Hopefully, nobody was using this for actually security and privacy.

Apple's Hide My Email may not be hiding anything - Engadget

https://www.engadget.com/2206382/apple-s-hide-my-email-may-not-be-hiding-anything/

#Apple #HideMyEmail #Privacy #Security #Vulnerability #Email #Tech

TechSpot: Google is testing a webcam CAPTCHA that scans your hand, but it’s already been bypassed using a photo. “Google is working on a new kind of challenge to improve its reCAPTCHA system, using biometric identification to confirm that the user is indeed human. The new method is officially named ‘hand gesture verification’ (HGV), and, according to early testing, is mostly useless.”

Ars Technica: Musk’s X poses “serious risk to Americans’ privacy,” advocates warn FTC. “Ahead of a July 2 deadline to submit public comments, advocates are warning the Federal Trade Commission that it must keep close watch over Elon Musk’s X and firmly reject a recent bid to end the agency’s ongoing audits of the platform’s data handling.”

TechCrunch: If you use Google, you’re training its AI. Here’s how to opt out.. “Consider this a belated PSA: A recent change to Google’s privacy settings is allowing the company to store more of your data, including media such as ‘images, files, and audio and video recordings,’ to improve its AI models. In other words, if you upload any media to Google’s Search services, it’s being […]

Honestly, what kind of scam #Akamai / #LInode is? They give you a form to report malicious activity from their network, you file it, you get "Error message to be decided", and it turns out they've banned you in the meantime; all their websites give you "Access denied".

And they host an exploit since 2021 at least: https://web.archive.org/web/20211225133805/http://sq.pe/

#security #abuse

Google open sources their Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) libraries to support age ID verification.

1. Authenticate your birth date with a trusted authority (the Issuer) and receive a cryptographically signed digital certificate.
2. A website requiring an age ID sends you a random maths puzzle.
3. The ZKP library solves the puzzle with your digital cert and replies with the proof.
4. Using the Issuers Public Cert the website validates the proof.

#security #ageID #ZKP

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-security/opening-up-zero-knowledge-proof-technology-to-promote-privacy-in-age-assurance/

not a supporter of ArcaneChat yet??? you can not only watch but also be part of the change! ✨

no amount is too small!

💜 join our contributors 👉 https://arcanechat.me/#contribute

#ArcaneChat #freedom #privacy #security #encryption #autonomy #digitalindependence #opensource #decentralization #europe #european

Associated Press: Trump administration’s $46 billion ‘smart wall’ races ahead on the US-Mexico border. “The wall is under heavy scrutiny for the billions of dollars being dedicated to it when border crossings are at their lowest in decades. Critics say the U.S. is militarizing the border as it increasingly deploys sophisticated surveillance technology to the area, impacting local communities.”

#FlockSafety Credibility Lost as it Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, #Police Departments, and Public Across the Country

The #ACLU documents how an automatic license plate reader company has lied about its operations, signaling a need for reputable governments to avoid working with #Flock Safety.
#alpr #privacy #security #surveillance

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/tracking-alpr-cameras/flock-safety-credibility-lost-as-it-repeatedly-lies-to-city-councils-police-departments-and-public-across-the-country

Cal Matters: Californians can protect their personal data with one click. Help us test if it works. “Starting at the beginning of this year, the California Privacy Protection Agency allowed residents of the state to sign up for the Delete Request and Opt-out Platform, or DROP. The tool lets consumers send an instant request to hundreds of data brokers, asking them to delete their data and stop […]

Business Today: GoDaddy warns India’s fake website crackdown could damage the internet and privacy. “India is cracking down on websites that impersonate established brands. However, GoDaddy, the US-based internet domain seller, argues that its new court-ordered rules against fake websites could create privacy, security, and operational problems for website owners, not just scammers.”

Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop

Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user has not even installed.

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware

#ai #privacy #eprivacy #compliance #infosec #gdpr #law #cyber #security #anthropic #claude

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Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop

MakeUseOf: Google’s latest updates for Chrome extensions are a big boon for privacy. “On July 1, Google announced some significant changes to the Chrome Web Store’s policies. These changes will impact Chrome extensions in several key ways, but the primary focus is on enhancing user privacy.”

this kind of paradox is avoided with ArcaneChat

just type at your own pace and without the pressure that the other side knowing 🧙‍♂️

#ArcaneChat #privacy #security #anonymous #opensource #decentralization #e2ee

Data Sovereignty in light of US uncertainty

EU and businesses are abandoning US tech giants for open source and self-hosted alternatives. Why data sovereignty matters now more than ever.

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/data-sovereignty-in-light-of-us-uncertainty

#DataSovereignty #technology #SelfHosted #foss #gdpr #compliance #privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #infosec #cyber #security

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Data Sovereignty in light of US uncertainty

Dependency cooldowns are a nice idea, but I dare say they're a short-term solution.

They resemble the idea of avoiding poison by waiting for someone else to start eating first. That works, provided that someone actually eats first, and that the poison works fast. But eventually it leads to that awkward silence at the table when nobody wants to risk the first bite.

Adapting dependency cooldowns means basically waiting for "someone else" to notice the problem. At some point when large enough number of projects adapts them, we're going back to square one — except with an artificial few-day delay.

#security #FreeSoftware

TechCrunch: In major privacy win, Supreme Court rules geofence warrants are protected by privacy rights. “The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday limited the law enforcement use of ‘geofence’ search warrants, in a major legal ruling that is likely to have broad ramifications for privacy rights and law enforcement across the United States.”

Engadget: Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they’re spreading fast. “Although Flock cameras are often referred to as license plate readers, that’s reductive. Reading license plates is their primary task, but they can be used to track just about anyone or anything.”

The @w3c "Standards Vulnerability Disclosure & Handling Process Policy" document explains how to responsibly report #security vulnerabilities in W3C specifications. It defines the process for reporting, acknowledging, verifying, resolving, and disclosing security issues in #WebStandards #GroupNoteDraft

▶️ https://www.w3.org/TR/security-disclosure/

We appreciate researchers helping keep the Web secure by reporting issues in W3C specifications.

Feedback welcome: https://github.com/w3c/security-disclosure/issues