soc.octade.net is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
People increasingly choose products that match their values—voicing concerns about privacy, the environment, AI, and monopolistic power. Purchase with Purpose aims to help them switch across tools and industries, starting with key tech categories. Learn more: https://purchasewithpurpose.io/ 🔄🛡️🌍 #PurchaseWithPurpose #ConsumerChoice #DigitalRights #Privacy #Sustainability
How Hackers Broke into Madison Square Garden
https://www.404media.co/how-hackers-broke-into-madison-square-garden/
#MSG #privacy #cybersecurity #DataBreach #Knicks #sports #surveillance #FRT #FacialRecognition
Zerion is on Product Hunt today and the response has been great so far.
For anyone who missed it this morning: a messenger with no servers, no accounts, no phone number. Everything over Tor, post-quantum encryption on every message.
If it resonates with you, an upvote helps it reach more people who actually need this kind of tool.
PhotoGIMP is a free, open-source patch that makes GIMP feel much more like Adobe Photoshop.
It adds Photoshop-style keyboard shortcuts, a familiar workspace layout, reorganized tools, and a refined UI—helping Photoshop users switch without losing their workflow.
A great way to ditch subscriptions while keeping powerful image editing capabilities.
More details: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=photogimp
#OpenSource #GIMP #PhotoGIMP #GraphicDesign #Photoshop #Linux #Privacy
Thinking about using a VPN for privacy?
Your VPN’s jurisdiction may matter more than its marketing.
A provider based in a Five Eyes / Nine Eyes / Fourteen Eyes country could face legal requests, data retention orders, or secret warrants depending on local laws.
“No logs” claims are only as strong as: • jurisdiction
• court precedent
• infrastructure design
• independent audits
I broke down exactly how VPN jurisdiction affects your privacy, what the Five Eyes alliance actually means, and whether you should avoid these countries entirely.
Read here: https://thecybersecguru.com/online-privacy/vpn-jurisdiction-five-eyes/
#VPN #Privacy #OnlinePrivacy #CyberSecurity #InfoSec #FiveEyes
RE: https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@openrightsgroup/116810643512333836
📹 👮 With increasing state-sponsored privacy violations. Halloween masks and wigs might suddenly become the newest "fashion statement".
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#Privacy #Identity
Un client email progettato esclusivamente per Linux punta tutto su privacy, trasparenza e semplicità. Scopri Melia e le sue caratteristiche principali. #Linux #OpenSource #Email #Privacy #DesktopLinux
https://www.linuxeasy.org/melia-client-email-linux/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social
Zerion is live on Product Hunt today.
A messenger with no servers, no accounts, no phone number. Everything over Tor, post-quantum encryption on every message.
If you believe privacy should be the default, a quick upvote genuinely helps us reach more people who need this.
well, there is another way to lock VPN traffic for laws, specifically, for websites to do it.
most of the time, when you sign up for a service, you either will not use a #vpn traffic, or do. not a problem, though, because for some, say, Google, services, they have a permission to completely bypass VPN services on your phone, unless it's just apple.
this means your identity which was on your real IP can be tied back to your VPN IP.
this level of VPN coordination can allow that company to say "ok, this is a VPN IP clearly, let's block it."
then, they can violate your #privacy and, in many ways, #cybersecurity .
plus, they don't exactly protect you if they have your real identity already.
in fact, i'm sure #clownflare will also find ways to censor VPN IPs as well, given their track record.
so from a company standpoint, yes, this is absolutely enforceable.
not so much as from a state government standpoint, and, to an extent, even a US government standpoint. I say, to an extent, because keep in mind the US built #tor so I don't think even they want to ban VPNs themselves.
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/116807174239734199
We can not have democracy without privacy.
That’s it. Full stop.
@Em0nM4stodon knows this, and if you didn’t know this, please, for the love of whatever you hold most dear, start listening to people who do know this.
(Start by following @Em0nM4stodon .)
#Privacy #Data #PersonalData #Democracy
Lightfighter boostedIt saddens me that many people do not see far enough to understand well what we are losing while losing privacy rights and trivializing data protection. It is so much more than most think. This affects our intimacy, our safety, our social lives, our freedoms, and all our human rights.
It goes well beyond targeted advertising. Attacks on privacy lead to direct increases in authoritarianism and dictatorial governance.
We must care much more about it than we do now. It is critical to ourselves as individuals, but also to democracy and society as a whole.
Your data, your call. Start with the free audit. https://indigoprivacy.com/audit #privacy #dataprivacy #indigoprivacy
When seeing your local GP ...
How sensitive information can be gleaned from medical AIs
Medical records could be revealed by AI training-data vulnerability (podcast)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02032-3
Knolle, M.A., Menten, M.J., Jungmann, F. et al. Disparate privacy risks from medical AI. Nature (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10688-0
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10688-0
#privacy #PrivacyRisk #MedicalAI #DataSparcity #AI #LLM #MembershipInferenceAttack #health #MedicalRecords #consent #prosumer #PatientPrivacy #NSW
LIFE HACK: you can pin as many chats as you want in #ArcaneChat
no need for anyone to micro-control such little aspects of your life in a centralized server...
live the way you want to live, there is no limit ✨
#signal #decentralization #privacy #encryption #autonomy #digitalindependence
RE: https://ieji.de/@GalacticGoddess/116805746344900569
Update: It also looks like members of the Senate are trying to put together their own packages as well:
-One package would bundle Senate KOSA, the NO FAKES Act, and the App Store Accountability Act together in a compromise with big tech regarding GenAI regulation
-Another is Hawley and Durbin trying to slip the DEFIANCE Act and STOP CSAM Act into a must pass bill (NDAA). They've tried this several times before but failed. Still it has a possibility of succeeding.
Call your Senators and Representatives ASAP!
#Privacy #FreeSpeech #DigitalRights #Censorship #AgeVerification #KOSA #KidsOnlineSafetyAct #ClientSideScanning #Encryption #UnitedStates #USA
RED ALERT! The KIDS Act (H.R.7757) is being teed up for a vote in the House next week! This bill is an omnibus style package which includes horrible bills like the Kids Online Safety Act and the SCREEN Act! Call your Senators and Representatives ASAP!
Reading the latest version of the bill and it seems like House is sticking with their version of KOSA. This will set up a showdown between the House and the Senate as both chambers have dug in their heels regarding their version of KOSA. I doubt either chamber will fully get their way.
#Privacy #FreeSpeech #DigitalRights #Censorship #AgeVerification #KOSA #KidsOnlineSafetyAct #Internet #SocialMedia #UnitedStates #USA #US
It saddens me that many people do not see far enough to understand well what we are losing while losing privacy rights and trivializing data protection. It is so much more than most think. This affects our intimacy, our safety, our social lives, our freedoms, and all our human rights.
It goes well beyond targeted advertising. Attacks on privacy lead to direct increases in authoritarianism and dictatorial governance.
We must care much more about it than we do now. It is critical to ourselves as individuals, but also to democracy and society as a whole.
Your public social media posts, including deleted ones, may be permanently archived by third-party scraping services and academic datasets. #privacy #socialmedia #archiving #indigoprivacy
boosted#Dialog Claims It Was Hacked. A Misconfigured Website Left Its Members Exposed
https://www.wired.com/story/dialog-hack-website-misconfiguration/
🇪🇺 What happened to the EU Commission's plans on getting rid of cookie banners? Well, according to the Council’s latest position paper, those have been scrapped. 🚮 This is likely to result in a great deal of hassle and frustration for European users, as well as billions of clicks per year. 🍪
More info 👉 https://noyb.eu/en/eu-member-states-and-google-suddenly-want-keep-cookie-banners #DigitalOmnibus #Cookies #Privacy #EU #Google #Schrems
Device fingerprinting systems used by carriers combine IMEI, IMSI, and behavioral data to track devices even when users replace SIM cards. #privacy #surveillance #indigoprivacy
“Because I cannot conceive of a crime that would require the breadth of disclosures in the subpoena – identifying and sensitive medical information for an entire class of people for a six-year period – I have to find that the government’s interest does not outweigh the plaintiffs’ interest in privacy,” Failla said.
#law #privacy #Trump #bigotry #LGBTQ #discrimination #health #medicine
“The scope of information sought by the government here, which includes medical assessments, diagnoses, informed consent records, and revelation of plaintiffs’ transgender status, is significant,” she said, adding that that type of information is “squarely within the class of intimate materials warranting the strongest constitutional protection.”
#law #privacy #Trump #bigotry #LGBTQ #discrimination #health #medicine
Ruling from the bench on Wednesday, Failla, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, provisionally certified a class comprised of individuals who had received care from a #NYC provider over the past 6 years. She also issued a temporary restraining order that bars investigators from obtaining the records, including through a grand jury subpoena that had been issued to NYU Langone Hospitals in recent weeks.
#law #privacy #Trump #bigotry #LGBTQ #discrimination #health #medicine
The ruling from US District Judge Katherine Polk Failla is a significant blow to the #Trump admin’s ongoing nationwide criminal investigation into the provision of #gender #identity care, which numerous courts around the country have viewed as an improper fishing expedition because the government has struggled to identify any potential crimes by providers.
#law #privacy #bigotry #LGBTQ #discrimination #health #medicine
Judge blocks #Trump admin from getting #MedicalRecords of minors who received #gender identity care at #NYC #hospitals
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump admin from obtaining sensitive medical records from #healthcare institutions in New York City that provided gender identity care to minors in recent years.
#law #privacy #bigotry #LGBTQ #discrimination #health #medicine
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/24/politics/medical-records-minors-transgender-langone-new-york
Privacy Badger is a free browser extension from the EFF. It blocks cross-site trackers based on behavior, not a blocklist, and sends Global Privacy Control signals to opt you out of data selling. #privacy #browser #trackers #eff #indigoprivacy
LastPass breached again. Today. Via a third-party supplier.
This is not a one-off. It’s the architecture. Every centralized service, password manager, messenger, or platform is a target because it holds data worth stealing.
SecurityWeek’s headline today: “Attackers are no longer breaking in ; they’re logging in.”
No account means nothing to log into.
zerion.chat
#privacy #infosec #encryption #tor #foss #android #cybersecurity
RED ALERT! The KIDS Act (H.R.7757) is being teed up for a vote in the House next week! This bill is an omnibus style package which includes horrible bills like the Kids Online Safety Act and the SCREEN Act! Call your Senators and Representatives ASAP!
Reading the latest version of the bill and it seems like House is sticking with their version of KOSA. This will set up a showdown between the House and the Senate as both chambers have dug in their heels regarding their version of KOSA. I doubt either chamber will fully get their way.
#Privacy #FreeSpeech #DigitalRights #Censorship #AgeVerification #KOSA #KidsOnlineSafetyAct #Internet #SocialMedia #UnitedStates #USA #US
#Meta debuts new, cheaper smart glasses under its own brand
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/23/meta-debuts-new-cheaper-smart-glasses-under-its-own-brand/
Sunsetting #Tor 0.4.8 – Please update to 0.4.9 by September
"Why I Use #Uruky, a Private #Search Engine"
https://theprivacydad.com/why-i-use-uruky-a-private-search-engine/
Remember the recent #news that the #Dutch government chose for #sovereignty in their prudent decision not to let the critical infrastructure around #DigiD be managed by a foreign (US) commercial enterprise?
Well, the more recent news is that the Chief Privacy Officer of the Dutch #government, who was behind this initiative, has been fired. In the #petition I shared below Pieter van Oordt is called a "whistleblower". But that is an inaccurate description for a person who is just doing their job, and doing it well: Protecting our #privacy!
Sign the petition and
boost this message, so this matter gets the attention it deserves, and hopefully Pieter will be reinstated in the CPO position to continue this important work on #DigitalSovereignty.
cc @acm ?
GrapheneOS, the mobile Android OS geared towards security and privacy without consessions, is at Android 17. It is now in the beta channel, there will likely follow another build shortly that makes it to the stable channel.
The team did a fantastic job porting over so quickly and meticously.
I have been running the experimental releases on a Pixel 9 Pro and a Pixel 7 and it has been smooth sailing.
Privacy isn't a one-time fix. More like brushing your teeth. The free audit is a good place to start. https://indigoprivacy.com/audit #privacy #dataprivacy #indigoprivacy
Guess I won't be going to The Garden anytime soon.
Madison Square Garden Made Dossier on Activists Who Opposed Facial Recognition
#MSG #Activism #FacialRecognition #Surveillance #Privacy #Tech
Most data broker opt-outs take under 10 minutes. We write the guides. You do the removals. #optout #privacy #indigoprivacy
"Madison Square Garden compiled a list of activists who have publicly criticized the venue’s use of facial recognition technology, putting their tweets and comments into a document that was then accessible to other people inside the company, 404 Media has found.
The news shows that MSG, operated by Jim Dolan who has garnered a reputation for being pernicious against his perceived enemies, is not only deploying controversial facial recognition technology but keeping track of specific people who take issue with it. The document was included in a 45GB cache of data hackers stole from MSG and posted online this month, which 404 Media then downloaded and reviewed.
“The wake of a data breach would be a good time for Madison Square Garden to stop subjecting its patrons to biometric surveillance,” Adam Schwartz, privacy litigation director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and one of the people included in the document, told 404 Media."
#USA #NYC #Surveillance #MadisonSquareGarden #FacialRecognition #Privacy #DigitalRights #Biometrics
“The problem is, there's no such thing as "age verification" for the internet. What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance, so invasive and pervasive that it makes the ad-tech industry's commercial surveillance look like some kind of cypherpunk darknet pirate utopia:
(…)
"Age verification" means that everyone who does anything online will have to submit to fine-grained tracking and recording of all their online activities. This nightmare is the surveillance advertising industry's fondest dream, a world where it's literally illegal to avoid their tracking, all in the name of saving kids…from them!
So it's not just a weird alliance of anti-Big Tech crusaders and the conspiratorial right that's pushing for age verification – they are unwitting allies of the very tech industry they think they're fighting. Those tech industry insiders are fully aware that an "age verification" mandate is really a way for the government to teach every child how to use a VPN. They're also fully aware that the next move is to ban VPNs:“
https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/23/destroy-the-village/
#AgeVerification #Surveillance #Privacy #VPNs #DigitalRights
How next-generation smart glasses are invading your privacy | DW News
#privacy #surveillance
#technology #meta
“META LEFT POTENTIALLY sensitive information collected from employee laptops accessible to anyone inside the company, according to an internal security notice seen by WIRED and three current employees familiar with the issue.
The data, which was collected as part of a divisive initiative to train artificial intelligence models, is believed to include keystrokes, mouseclicks, and content displayed on the computer screens of Meta’s US employees.
Meta spokesperson Tracy Clayton initially confirmed to WIRED that the company is investigating the security issue. As this story was being published, he added that Meta is pausing the data collection program indefinitely. "We have carefully designed this program with privacy safeguards and while we have no indication at this time that any data was improperly accessed by Meta employees, we're pausing it while we investigate," Clayton says.
The security notice sent out Monday indicated that “employee data across 45,000 hive tables,” had been exposed. Those tables included employee activity such as “full prompts and transcriptions, private conversations, people and performance data,” according to documents viewed by WIRED.“
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-accidentally-let-employees-access-each-others-keystroke-data/
“[On 24 June] the EU Commission is expected to propose an overhaul of Europol’s mandate which will substantially expand its powers and more than double its (already huge) annual budget by 2034, to €444m annually
Keeping double books, operating in legally-murky areas to escape scrutiny, influencing governments to change laws so their illegal activities are legalised – these aren’t just plot points from The Sopranos or another mob thriller but seemingly the playbook of EU’s police agency.
Europol might be tasked with dealing with organised crime but that hasn’t stopped it from following similar tactics as those they’re claiming to fight against.
Europol’s shadowy nature is no secret to those who have been paying attention – privacy experts have been calling them out for everything from their links to private companies, lacklustre data protection practices, to their perpetual efforts to undermine end-to-end encryption, a critical feature that secures our private messages from being mass surveillance fodder.”
https://euobserver.com/222391/europol-is-going-rogue-so-brussels-is-doubling-its-budget
You have more privacy rights than you use. Opt-out registries, data deletion requests, CCPA rights, and browser hardening tools exist, most people never touch them. #privacy #datarights #ccpa #indigoprivacy
Just wrapped up my new privacy gateway box with a smaller & cheaper SBC inside 🤖
28° in the flat, CPUs sweating at 60‑70° 🥵
This new one’s got VPN built‑in too 😶🌫️
***coin for size comparison
#PrivacyGateway #DIYTech #Linux #VPN #MakerLife #HotBuilds #Privacy #SBC #3dprinting #Nodo
Zerion 2.0.5 is live on Google Play.
A serverless messenger has a hard problem: no server holds your account, so how do you move to a new phone?
Zerion's answer: back up your whole account to an encrypted file (Argon2id + AES-256-GCM), or pass it straight to your new phone over Tor with a safety-number check. Only you ever hold the key.
No phone number. No metadata. Post-quantum encryption on every message, all over Tor.
▶ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.professor.zerion
Canada Is Forging Ahead with Its Dangerous Surveillance Bill
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/canada-forging-ahead-its-dangerous-surveillance-bill
I just gave up an extremely nice volunteer opportunity because I'm not willing to let some third-party corporate subcontractor take my biometric data for a background check.
I accept the need for a background check, but I'll be damned if I'm giving up my fingerprints to these extremely hinky dudes. #privacy
James House-Lantto (He/Him) [(He/Him)] » 🌐
@Theeo123@mastodon.social
https://linuxiac.com/cloudflare-unveils-pact-to-help-websites-fight-bots-without-captcha/
Cloudflare along with Mozilla, Google, and more are introducing PACT (Private Access Control Tokens) A way to identify legitimate traffic to a website (as opposed to bots/scraping) without relying on CAPTCHA's or using privacy invasive tracking
Odysseus is an open-source, self-hosted AI workspace that brings chat, AI agents, deep research, documents, email, notes, tasks, and calendars together in one platform.
Supports local & cloud AI models, MCP tools, web research, IMAP/SMTP email, CalDAV calendars, document editing, and scheduled AI workflows.
Perfect for users who want more control over their data and AI tools.
More details: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=odysseus
#Tyranny #corruption #surveillance #privacy #AgeVerification
People's reaction to the age verification pandemic. names are hidden for privacy :)
#Cloudflare teams up with big browsers to help websites tell welcome from unwelcome visitors
#privacy #PACT #Chrome #Edge #Firefox #Google #Microsoft #Mozilla
boosted"...Madison Square Garden compiled a list of activists who have publicly criticized the venue’s use of facial recognition technology, putting their tweets and comments into a document that was then accessible to other people inside the company, 404 Media has found...."
#Anthropic says #Claude may want to see your ID
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/anthropic-says-claude-may-want-to-see-your-id/
#Klue hack results in #DataBreach at several #cybersecurity firms
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/klue-hack-results-in-data-breach-at-several-cybersecurity-firms/
Video with #AralBalkan
Keywords = #Planet #Earth #Surveillance #Population #Digital #Rich #People #Privacy #Monetise #Business #Model #Enshittification
"Excuse me, your unicorn keeps shitting in my back yard, can he please not?..."
https://aperi.tube/w/rsEV1YEWaubzeuJeayskvh
https://better.fyi/
= privacy tool which protected from behavioural #ads and companies #tracking, profiling, #monetising you on the web.
New video about Signal📽️
Udbhav Tiwari discusses at @orangecon how Signal is structured as an organization, the reasoning behind its decisions, its global use, and technological and policy threats
Watch it here🍿👉️ https://aboutsignal.com/videos-podcasts/videos/signal-and-the-platformization-of-surveillance-with-udbhav-tiwari/
#signal #signalapp #signalmessenger #aboutsignal #AI #privacy
With the expansion of Met Police facial recognition cameras, might this not be a rather good time to bring back hats?
I can well imagine that a good, broad-rimmed hat would be the fashion statement for many this coming protest season, or just a day out feeding the ducks.
#life #clothing #fashion #hat #surveillance #London #police #privacy
Next Monday, the EU decides on Chat Control 2.0. Will they let the Trojan Horse through the gate and let Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn etc continue to scan all your messages?
We at Tuta say NO.
❌ No scanning
❌ No mass surveillance
❌ No age verification
Instead we fight for:
✅ Encryption
✅ Privacy
✅ Open Source
And so should the EU. Call your local representatives! 🥊
Privacy is not negotiable. Speak up now. ✊ #Privacy
Mouzi organizza automaticamente la cartella Download con regole personalizzabili, cronologia delle azioni e massima attenzione alla privacy.
#Windows #OpenSource #Produttività #FileManager #Mouzi #Privacy #Utility