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.
Remember Friends:
You cannot both have secure end-to-end encryption to protect your communication AND also have a backdoor/key/access only for "the good guys."
This is not possible.
Do not believe anyone telling you otherwise.
End-to-end encryption protects us all,
we must fight to keep it ✊🔒
Anyone asserting encryption is a tool for crime is either painfully misinformed or is attempting to manipulate legislators to gain oppressive power over the people.
Encryption is not a crime,
encryption is a shield.
Encryption protects you from cyberattack, identity theft, discrimination, doxxing, stalking, sexual violence, physical harm, and much more.
For safety, for privacy, for democracy, and for all our human rights, it's critical that we defend our right to encryption.
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/11/encryption-is-not-a-crime/
#Privacy #Encryption #DigitalRights #HumanRights #Democracy #RootForE2EE
Mission Local: Federal agencies ‘improperly’ accessed S.F. license-plate surveillance data, audit finds
Police say ICE, DHS didn’t directly access data, but unclear if it was shared regardless
https://missionlocal.org/2026/06/federal-agencies-sf-surveillance-flock-data-audit/
Every removal guide we publish is free. No account required to read. #privacy #optout #indigoprivacy
404 Media: Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People. “The contours of each story are much the same, with the police officer in question using their access to the system to repeatedly track a specific person over the course of weeks or months. The cases highlight the fact that Flock can be used to track the whereabouts of individual people, that police do not get a warrant in […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/17/404-media-cops-keep-getting-arrested-for-using-flock-to-stalk-people/"Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) appears to be purchasing records related to immigrants’ tax identifiers from a data broker, potentially skirting a court order that banned ICE from sourcing such information, according to Senator Ron Wyden and government procurement records reviewed by 404 Media.
The contract, worth nearly $10 million, is related to ITINs, or Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers, which is the identifier many undocumented people use to file their taxes rather than a Social Security number (SSN).
“It looks for all the world like Trump is trying to skirt the law and a court order to fuel his mass-deportation campaign,” Senator Wyden told 404 Media in an emailed statement after reviewing the procurement records. “A court has already struck down an agreement between the IRS and Homeland Security to illegally share ITINs and other personal information.
A contract to buy that same information from private data brokers is a clear end-around both taxpayer privacy laws and a court order.”"
https://www.404media.co/ice-appears-to-be-buying-immigrants-tax-identifiers-from-a-data-broker/
📝 Zettlr is a free and open-source Markdown editor built for researchers, students, writers, and anyone who prefers owning their notes.
It supports citations, Zotero integration, LaTeX exports, full-text search, and Zettelkasten-style knowledge management while working entirely with local files.
A powerful privacy-friendly alternative to cloud-based writing tools.
More details: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=zettlr
#OpenSource #Markdown #Writing #Research #Privacy #Zettelkasten #NoteTaking
📬 Open Letter: 35+ organizations and experts are urging Canada’s federal leaders to close a privacy loophole and bring political parties under #privacy laws to protect people’s #data https://action.voterprivacy.ca/page/193988/action/1
⚠️ Surveillance-linked GDP growth is destroying social values, privacy, human rights and our climate.
- social values: creating dark patterns, algorithmic manipulation, black posting
- privacy: biometric psychography, smart glasses
- human rights: genocide in gaza
- climate: collapse of AMOC
#surveillancelinkedGDP #privacy #mentalprivacy #physicalprivacy #GDP #humanrights #socialmedia #blackposting #smartglasses #amoc #climatecrisis #genocide
Who would have thought that #surveillance cameras in public spaces would be abused by men, eh sorry I meant creeps.
In other news, Belgian #police has since recently gained warrantless real-time access to 21,000 surveillance cameras in trains, subways, trams, busses, and stations. What could possibly go wrong. 😓
When you delete an app, your data often remains in the company's database unless you explicitly submitted a deletion request. #privacy #apps #datarights #indigoprivacy
My custom ecosystem for watching #Dexter on a laptop while saving battery:
1️⃣ Thermal Physics: Designed a 3D-printed case for a #Raspberry #Pi 4 #VPN #gateway (WireGuard + ProtonVPN). Passive cooling via chimney effect clears heat with a 2-3 cm/s airflow (Bernoulli).
2️⃣ Client Side: Booting BashCoreGee live in RAM. Privacy via Mullvad Browser, zero local crypto overhead, massive battery life.
Built step by step 👊🦾
Restic is a fast, secure, and open-source backup tool for Linux, macOS, Windows, and BSD systems.
It supports encrypted backups, deduplication, snapshot versioning, and storage on local drives, SSH servers, S3, Backblaze B2, Azure, Google Cloud, rclone, and more.
Designed to make backups simple, efficient, and verifiable while keeping your data protected.
More details: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=restic
#OpenSource #Backup #Privacy #SelfHosted #Linux #Windows #macOS #DataBackup
Zerion 2.0.3 is now live on F-Droid, Play Store and GitHub. This is our most stable release yet.
What’s in it: reliable voice calls in both directions, video calls as opt-in beta, faster startup, and lower battery use during sync.
F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.professor.zerion
GitHub: https://github.com/zerionproject/Zerion/releases/latest
Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.professor.zerion
#fdroid #foss #privacy #tor #android #encryption #p2p #opensource #infosec #grapheneos
Most people don't know Google has a free tool to remove your home address, phone number, and email from Search results. It's called Results About You (myaccount.google.com/results-about-you). It monitors for new matches and lets you request removal with one click. #privacy #Google #databrokers #infosec #indigoprivacy
Gizmodo: Signal Veterans Want to Encrypt Slack, Google Docs, and Basically Every Other App. “A team of developers, including the co-creator of the Signal protocol and contributors from Microsoft and Harvard, are building out open-source software that can help bring the sort of hardened privacy and security offered via Signal’s end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to more collaborative types of apps, […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/17/gizmodo-signal-veterans-want-to-encrypt-slack-google-docs-and-basically-every-other-app/If you don't want unknown entities spying on your emails, setting up email encryption is a great way to protect your #privacy and use your #UserFredom: u.fsf.org/1bq #surveillance #FSF #FreeSoftware #GNU
Ugh. Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless. Now both Sign in with Apple and Hide My Email aliases are going to be issued on the "@private.icloud.com" subdomain. This makes it much easier to ban all aliases without affecting non-relay mailboxes on iCloud mail
Why the Inquisition Built the Surveillance State
https://clairesalerno.substack.com/p/why-the-inquisition-built-the-surveillance
The real motive behind web 2.0, web 3.0, the cloud, AI, and panopticon nonsense is to identify and isolate heretics.
"They began with the network. If you can find one suspected heretic and interrogate them about their associations, who they speak to, who they share meals with, whose homes they visit and which neighbours are sympathetic, you can build a list of names."
"Then, you visit each of those people on the list and ask them the same questions. From this you can build a map of the entire community, identifying relationships and flagging suspects."[. . . . .]
"They used the social fabric of communities and rewarded those who denounced others. They reduced penalties for cooperation, and built the assumption that staying silent is itself suspicious."
"They made it so the rational choice for any individual in the community is to inform on neighbours before neighbours inform on them. This creates a self-policing community. The community does the work, with the institution as the receiving authority."
"Think about that for a moment, because it describes the current digital surveillance apparatus exactly."This is exactly how the bulk of social media and online platforms work to maintain thought control and censorship. It is following the Roman model of fascism, while pretending to denounce fascism, or vocally denouncing socialism, while supporting socialism for the rich. The people screaming the loudest about 'fascists' or 'socialists' or 'communists' or 'liberals' or 'nationalists' or 'racists' are in fact the imperial collaborators, the turncoats, the snitches, the sellouts, the shills, etc.
#Inquisition #Surveillance #Panopticon #Privacy #Cathars #Censorship
"Evan Spiegel doesn't want you to call Snap Specs AI glasses"
"Spoiler: He says "computing" a lot. Snap CEO Evan Spiegel sat with us to discuss the Snap Specs, privacy, parental controls and more."
https://www.engadget.com/2195862/snap-specs-ceo-evan-spiegel-interview-at-awe-2026/
***LOWERING our surveillance-linked GDP growth is the path to HIGHER social cohesion and material security and privacy***
💯 Measuring surveillance linked GDP growth will save our mental privacy.
🚀 During election times we can focus on identifying candidates who promise "lower surveillance-linked GDP growth".
🌏 Killing surveillance-linked GDP growth may be the only option left to save the earth.
#bansurveillance #surveillancelinkedGDP #privacy #privacymatters #humanrights #climatejustice
🖼️ Squoosh — Open-Source Image Compression in Your Browser
Squoosh is a free, open-source image compression tool that runs entirely in your browser. Your images stay on your device and are never sent to a server.
Supports modern formats like WebP and AVIF, helping reduce file sizes while maintaining image quality.
More details: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=squoosh
#OpenSource #Privacy #ImageCompression #WebP #AVIF #Photography #WebDevelopment #Squoosh
Apps for encryption, comms, Usenet, remailers ...
Ch1ffr3punk: https://github.com/Ch1ffr3punk
The owner is a denizen of the OG #Usenet scene.
#cypherpunk #cryptography #crypto #encryption #privacy #github #freesoftware
@cypherpunk@soc.octade.net @cryptography@soc.octade.net @usenet@soc.octade.net
Fitness trackers sell aggregate workout and location data to insurance companies and real estate firms in some markets. #privacy #fitness #healthdata #indigoprivacy
Massachusetts just voted 146-0 to ban the sale of precise location data. Brokers sell it to advertisers, stalkers, and agencies — no warrant. States are doing what the federal government won’t.
#privacy #locationdata #databrokers #legislation #indigoprivacy
#Privacy #services by https://nadeko.net/
#Invidious
https://inv.nadeko.net
#Matrix (Synapse) https://matrix.nadeko.net
Privatebin
https://pbin.nadeko.net
Redlib
https://redlib.nadeko.net
#Phantom
https://phantom.nadeko.net
#Breezewiki
https://breezewiki.nadeko.net
#Forgejo
https://git.nadeko.
Monero Node
xmr.nadeko.net:18081
Jitsi (New)
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"Realizing your trove exists is terrifying. So is learning that it’s never been more vulnerable."
Bridget Read for New York/Intelligencer: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/your-digital-self-is-vulnerable.html
#Longreads #Privacy #Surveillance #Data #Technology #Internet
WhatsApp Clone, but Decentralized with P2P Messaging
"Secure and private" is the general goal.
This is a technical/concept demo of a fairly unique approach using a browser-based, local-first and webrtc.
This is intended to introduce a new paradigm in client-side managed secure cryptography. We can avoid registration of any sort.
Features:
* P2P
* End to end encryption
* Signal protocol
* Post-Quantum cryptography
* File transfer
* Local-first
* No registration
* No installation
* No database
* TURN server
Feel free to reach out for clarity instead of diving into the docs/code.
IMPORTANT: While this is aiming to provide a secure experience, it isnt audited or reviewed. **Shared for testing, feedback and demo purposes only.** Please use responsibly.
#Privacy #OpenSource #P2P #WebRTC #Decentralization #DigitalSovereignty #CyberSecurity #FOSS #SelfHosted #NoCloud #AntiCorp #Encryption #WebDev #TechLiberty #PrivateMessaging #Networking #DataPrivacy #InternetFreedom #LocalFirst #SoftwareEngineering #WebApps #ZeroKnowledge #PrivacyTech #IndieDev #NoSignup #NoInstall #DecentralizedWeb #SecureMessaging #BrowserApp #TechEthics #P2P #WebRTC #PeerJS #ZeroData #EphemeralData #Encryption #E2EE #BrowserToBrowser #NoInstall #Privacy #Security #Decentralized #Messaging #VideoCall #NoTracking #PrivateMessaging #Prototype #Demo #WorkInProgress #CloseSource #OpenSource #WebDev #GitHub #TechDevelopment #WhatsApp #ChatApp #InstantMessaging #PWA
Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
#HackerNews #Google #Chrome #adblockers #update #adtech #privacy #changes
🚨 Chrome is closing the final loopholes that kept legacy ad blockers alive.
Starting with Chrome 150/151, Google is removing the remaining Manifest V2 workarounds, meaning extensions like uBlock Origin (MV2) will no longer function in Chrome. Users will be limited to Manifest V3-compatible blockers with reduced capabilities.
Read more: https://digitalescapetools.com/2026/06/chrome-150-ad-blocker-loopholes-closed.html
#Privacy #Chrome #AdBlockers #uBlockOrigin #ManifestV3 #OpenSource #DigitalEscapeTools
Most messengers can say “we can’t read your messages.” Almost none can say “we can’t see who you talk to, when, or how often.” That metadata lives on their servers.
Zerion has no servers. Connections run device to device over Tor, contacts are keys instead of phone numbers, and the social graph exists nowhere but on your own phone.
Free, open source, GPL v3, on F-Droid:
https://zerion.chat
Signal warns UK plan to scan devices for nudes "endangers us all" — says client-side scanning risks mass surveillance & censorship, urges funding for education and child services instead. Read more: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/09/signal-uks-child-nude-block-threat-wont-protect-children/5252761 🛡️🚨 #Privacy #Encryption
Voice Age Verification
#HackerNews #Voice #Age #Verification #technology #AI #age #verification #security #privacy
Around 52 percent of parents track their 18- to 25-year-old children using smartphone apps, according to a University of Michigan survey.
Is it healthy and the new normal or bordering on surveillance?
https://flip.it/jccv0M
In a parallel universe somewhere, all of the non-fascist-led Western nations conspired together behind the scenes to use the push for age verification as a way to free their citizens from all US platforms, and migrate them to the fediverse and FOSS en massé in a well conceived & perfectly executed stunning maneuver.
In times of turmoil and chaos, our focus must be on the common good. Privacy and freedom of thought must be protected.
#privacy #privacymatters #freedomofthought #neurorights #thecommongood #digitalcommons
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jbjrkng/116755393515371033
This goes for Canada, too. Carney wants to sell your data to his business pals, and you can't put that toothpaste back in the tube.
""Every failed attempt to make children safer online is followed by more surveillance and censorship," he said. "Children have rights too and these policies will harm their free expression and privacy rights, and push them into less regulated spaces. Meanwhile the business models driving harms are untouched."
Others questioned whether the measures can realistically be enforced. Mark Jones, an online harms specialist and partner at law firm Payne Hicks Beach, noted that the consultation closed only weeks ago and warned that determined teenagers have a habit of finding ways around restrictions.
"A social media ban only helps if it is genuinely enforceable," Jones said. "If large numbers of young people simply circumvent the restrictions, parents will just lose visibility into where their children are actually spending time online rather than reclaiming any control."
The political case for the crackdown appears relatively straightforward, but the practical one is less so. The government now has to persuade social media companies to enforce the rules and teenagers not to find ways around them."
#UK #AgeVerification #NannyState #Surveillance #Oligopolies #Censorship #BigBrother #BigTech #Privacy #Anonymity
Canadian Government Gears Up to Pretend to Care About Privacy
Reports are surfacing saying that privacy reform is going to be tabled soon. We've been through this song and dance before.
https://www.freezenet.ca/canadian-government-gears-up-to-pretend-to-care-about-privacy/
#News #Privacy #Security #Canada #legislation #PrivacyReform
Zerion 2.0.3 is out, earlier than planned.
Headline: voice calls now work reliably in both directions. Everything runs over Tor, no STUN, no TURN, no VoIP server — just two devices finding each other through onion services. Getting that stable took work. This is the release where it is.
Video calls landed as opt-in beta. Vault now has search and sort. Per-channel notification muting. Draft saving in channels.
APK and Play Store now, F-Droid pending:
https://github.com/zerionproject/Zerion/releases/latest
Meta benutzt Gesichtserkennungs-Software für US-Polizeibehörden #SmartGlasses
‚Meta soll mit einem Unternehmen kooperieren, das Gesichtserkennungs-Software für Polizeibehörden entwickelt. Wie Wired herausgefunden hat, ist das Rank One Computing (ROC), ein Anbieter für Gesichtserkennungs-Software. Einige Algorithmen sollen Gesichter in einer Entfernung von einem Kilometer erkennen….‘
#Gesichtserkennung #überwachung #Privacy #Polizei #Repression #Datenschutz
‚Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’s lives…..‘
#Meta #Surveillance #Privacy #RayBan #SmartGlasses #Data #Technology
Phone numbers as ids are not only bad for #privacy. They also make it hard to maintain multiple accounts for different areas of life.
E.g. I maintain four #chat accounts: One at work, one at my main #freeSoftware project, one for public #socialNetwork stuff, and of course a private one.
(In my case it's #Jabber/#XMPP, not Delta, but that doesn't matter in this context. Both do support multiple accounts.)
Thank you, #Massachusetts. This is a great start. This bill passed unanimously in the house, 146-0.
https://www.squaredtech.co/massachusetts-passes-major-new-privacy-law-banning-location-data-sales
The law prohibits companies that handle or process personal data of more than 100,000 consumers from selling or sharing sensitive personal data, including precise geolocation, biometrics, health data, genetic information, religion, immigration status, and sexual orientation, without a user’s explicit consent.
The location data ban applies to both residents and visitors across the state.
Do not provide your ID or facial scan to access social media.
I repeat, do NOT provide your ID or facial scan to access social media when requested.
This is not a drill.
If everyone refuse to comply, and let their accounts dormant instead, I promise you the platforms themselves, with their immense budget and network of lobbyists, are going to fight these absurd laws to recover their users.
They need you more than you need them.
Make them fight for your rights.
Do not comply.
Spread the word and boycott ID checks ✊
#StopIDSurveillance #AgeVerification #Privacy #HumanRights #Democracy #Safety #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism
Palantir in Deutschland
Überwachung first, Bedenken second!
‚Bundesinnenminister #Dobrindt hält an der Überwachungssoftware #Palantir fest. Eine taz-Recherche zeigt: Damit steht er fast alleine da. Ein Grund zur Entwarnung ist das nicht…..‘
#Überwachung #Bundesregierung #Datenschutz #Privacy #Antireport
📤 PairDrop — Open-Source Cross-Platform File Sharing (AirDrop alternative)
PairDrop lets you send files, photos, folders, and text directly between devices using peer-to-peer connections. No account required.
Works on Android, iPhone, Windows, Linux, and macOS right from your browser.
More details:
https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=pairdrop
#OpenSource #Privacy #FileSharing #SelfHosted #AirDropAlternative #Android #Linux #Windows #iPhone
„Am Mittwoch will die grün-schwarze #Landesregierung in #Baden-Württemberg einen heftig umstrittenen Gesetzentwurf verabschieden. Er erlaubt dem Bundesland den Einsatz der Palantir-Software zur #Datenanalyse, die das Land für mehr als 25 Millionen Euro bereits eingekauft hat…..“
Palantir in Baden-Württemberg
Polizei soll mit deinen Daten Software trainieren dürfen
#Grüne #CDU #BaWü #Überwachung #Polizei #Daten #Datenschutz #Privacy
‚Heute wurde in #Berlin eine Novelle des Polizeigesetzes verabschiedet. Sie erlaubt so ziemlich alles, was an digitaler Überwachung möglich ist: Verhaltensscanner, Gesichtersuche, Palantir-artige Datenanalysen, Staatstrojaner….‘
https://netzpolitik.org/2025/neues-polizeigesetz-berlin-wirft-die-freiheit-weg/
#Netzpolitik #Überwachung #Deutschland #Palantir #Gesichtserkennung #Datenschutz #Daten #Privacy
‚Deutschlandweit sprechen sich Politiker*innen dafür aus, keine Software von Palantir zu verwenden. Stattdessen soll eine europäische Alternative eingesetzt werden. Die Verknüpfung und automatische Analyse möglichst vieler Daten bleibt aber ein totalitäres Konzept…..‘
Totalitäre Tendenzen - Palantir-Ersatz aus der #EU ist ein gefährlicher Wunsch
https://netzpolitik.org/2026/totalitaere-tendenzen-palantir-ersatz-aus-der-eu-ist-ein-gefaehrlicher-wunsch/
Sehr treffender Kommentar von @yoshiXYZ
#Überwachung #Datenschutz #Privacy #Palantir #Netzpolitik #Totalitarismus
Last week W3C Privacy Lead Tara Whalen was at ICANN86 Policy Forum Seville.
She participated in the GNSO: ISPCP Outreach Session "Data Sharing for Abuse Mitigation: Balancing Privacy and Security"
https://icann86.sched.com/event/2NQOU/gnso-ispcp-outreach-session
Learn more about W3C's work on Privacy and how you can help shape the privacy-preserving Web as a W3C Member: https://www.w3.org/mission/privacy/
(photo credit: @icannphotos on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/icann/55327133245/)
#ICANN86 #Privacy #Policy #JoinW3C
WIRED - The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture and Business [Unofficial] » 🌐
@wired.com@web.brid.gy
Rank One, whose board includes a former CIA deputy director and a former FBI science chief, supplied face recognition to Meta for internal development of its smart glasses app.
The UK government has adopted the Boris Johnson clown car. They've just announced a ban on under 16s accessing social media.
But, they have not first understood the implications of age verification on everyone else:
"The regulator #Ofcom has been asked to carry out a rapid study to identify the best ways to verify if someone is over 16. "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceqdny4l3jdo
What utter stupidity from #KeirStarmer #LisaNandy of #UKLabour. If only Ofcom regulated the companies.