#Flock Highlighted #Police Departments Using Its Tech. Now 4 Face Allegations of Misuse

Flock posted videos on its YouTube channel highlighting at least four police departments whose officers have faced allegations of misusing the company’s tech.
#alpr #privacy #security #flocksafety

https://www.wired.com/story/flock-videos-highlighted-police-departments-that-face-misuse/

#Flock Accused of Reactivating Its #Cameras Without Notifying a Town

A Massachusetts newspaper reports that officials from the town of Littleton (population: 10,141) "claim that 5 of Littletonâ(TM)s #FlockSafety cameras were switched back on by the company without informing the town..." Littleton had temporarily disabled the cameras earlier this year, according to the article, but upon discovering the cameras were still active, city officials say they directed the Town Counsel "to initiate cancellation of the contract with Flock Safety & directed the Town Administrator to coordinate the removal of the 6 cameras on public ways" with the Dept of Public Works. Ironically, it's the same Mass town that last year was breached by a Chinese-state-sponsored #hacking group for over 300 days. Flock has also considered #dashcams installed in hundreds of thousands #Uber , #Lyft , & delivery drivers' vehicles "to scan license plates those drivers travelled passed"
#privacy

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/08/0621205/flock-accused-of-reactivating-its-cameras-without-notifying-a-town?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

#Flock #Cameras Can #Track Every #Car in America. #Police Love Them. Citizens Don’t.

A #FlockSafety license plate reader in Addison, #Texas — one of 120,000 cameras the country has deployed around the country.
#privacy #alpr

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/us/flock-cameras-can-track-every-car-in-america-police-love-them-citizens-dont.html

uBlock Origin is stepping back from the ongoing fight against Facebook's ad-detection tactics.

The project isn't removing its existing Facebook filters, but its small volunteer team says it will no longer keep updating them every time Facebook changes its code to bypass them.

Existing filters may continue working, but future Facebook changes could allow ads through.

Read the full story: https://digitalescapetools.com/2026/08/ublock-origin-stops-chasing-facebook-ads.html

#uBlockOrigin #Privacy #AdBlocking #Facebook #OpenSource

Why Are So Many People Upset About #Flock #Cameras ?

Flock Safety’s automated license plate-reading cameras, used by thousands of law enforcement agencies in the U.S., have drawn intense criticism from civil liberties groups.
#privacy #security #alpr #flocksafety

https://www.nytimes.com/article/flock-safety-camera-technology.html

Ontime is an open-source event scheduling and rundown tool for conferences, broadcasts, theatres, and live events.

Plan schedules, manage cues, track timings, and share updates in real time.

It can run locally or self-hosted with Docker on Windows, macOS, and Linux, giving teams full control over their data and infrastructure.

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

#OpenSource #SelfHosted #FOSS #EventTech #Privacy

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The Mayor Who Said 'No' When #Flock Came to Town

https://www.404media.co/the-mayor-who-said-no-when-flock-came-to-town/

#privacy #surveillance #ALPR #Oklahoma

A #DataBreach at shipping giant #Ceva #Logistics is rippling across banks, retailers, #Steam gamers, and beyond

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/a-data-breach-at-shipping-giant-ceva-logistics-is-rippling-across-banks-retailers-steam-gamers-and-beyond/

#bank #retail #gaming #privacy #cybersecurity #Europe

Member of #TheCom sent to prison for blackmail, sextortion

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/member-of-the-com-sent-to-prison-for-blackmail-sextortion/

#cybersecurity #privacy #cybercrime

#LexisNexis shuts down services after suspicious activity on servers

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lexisnexis-shuts-down-services-after-suspicious-activity-on-servers/

#Diligence #Metabase #Newsdesk #privacy #DataBroker #cybersecurity

#Valve notifies #Steam hardware customers of a #DataBreach

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/valve-notifies-steam-hardware-customers-of-a-data-breach/

#privacy #cybersecurity #gaming

#Signal is working on registration without a phone number. But what form will it take?

https://aboutsignal.com/news/signal-is-working-on-registration-without-a-phone-number/

#privacy #cybersecurity #FOSS

Zerion 3.0 is live. On Google Play now, with F-Droid and the APK following the release tag.

The big one: our own native protocol stack, replacing the inherited Bramble layers entirely. Post-quantum on every message (ML-KEM-768, ML-DSA-65 via Bouncy Castle).

Two new transports ship with it: opt-in I2P as an alternative to Tor, and a Bluetooth mesh that carries messages device to device with no internet at all. Tor stays the default.

All open source.

zerion.chat

#privacy #tor #mesh #foss

How Accurate Are #Flock's AI-Powered License-Reading Cameras?

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/09/230247/how-accurate-are-flocks-ai-powered-license-reading-cameras

#AI #ALPR #privacy #surveillance

I will be keeping this US Age Verification Tracker updated as things progress over the weeks and months. #privacy #ageverificaiton
https://closednetwork.io/us-age-verification-laws-live-tracker/

'Pervert glasses': Backlash against #Meta's #SmartGlasses grows

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/meta-ai/articles/pervert-glasses-backlash-against-metas-100000746.html

#privacy #IoT #AI

#Littleton claims #Flock reactivated its cameras without notifying the town

https://www.lowellsun.com/2026/07/31/littleton-claims-flock-reactivated-its-cameras-without-notifying-the-town/

#privacy #surveillance #ALPR

Flock CEO wants privacy. #DeFlock #Privacy #Technology #TaxBillionairesOutofExistence

https://www.reddit.com/r/chaoticgood/comments/1vkxn34/a_private_investigator_followed_the_ceo_of_flock/

👁️ BTP expands Live Facial Recognition (LFR) trial into London Underground stations | British Transport Police

｢ The first deployment in a TfL station will take place at Victoria Underground station on Tuesday 11 August. It will then rotate between deployments at Underground and Network Rail stations as the trial – which has now been extended to November – continues ｣

https://www.btp.police.uk/news/btp/news/england/btp-expands-live-facial-recognition-lfr-trial-into-london-underground-stations/

#facialrecognition #ai #uk #privacy #surveillance

A cybersecurity researcher covered a Toyota in an AI-generated pattern to confuse Flock cameras

https://www.techspot.com/news/113418-cybersecurity-researcher-covered-toyota-ai-generated-pattern-confuse.html

#news #tech #technology #AI #flock #aislop #nvidia #AIPsychosis #security #privacy

@arcanechat

what part is FUD???

The part where you say:

Switching from #WhatsApp / #Telegram to #Signal is not a solution if you really care about #privacy, #resilience and #autonomy

Your only rationale in the comic is that they are hosted on AWS. Which is a problem for a secure private messenger only for a protocol that is not designed to avoid leaking any sensitive data including the shape of the communication graph to an adversary with complete control over the server.

all of them are centralized services and depend on phone numbers, which makes them easy to censor

This is misleading. The phone number in Signal is not used for message routing at all. It can be used to make you discoverable to contacts that were previously using the phone / SMS to connect to you. Being discoverable by your contacts is important for a private messenger because it gets you a big anonymity set quickly.

for a start, there is no single adversary that can observe the whole network, and switching from one relay to another and using several at the same time is easy, without losing your chats & data!

To take the two parts of this in turn: First, I would suggest you search for the term 'global passive adversary'. It's a core part of how any private messenger expresses its threat model. And, although a perfect global passive adversary doesn't exist, ones that monitor more than an entire country do exist.

The second part is the real problem. How many people are there on each relay? I don't need to monitor the entire network to see what a person is doing, I need to monitor the servers that they talk to, and who those servers talk to. That's a much weaker adversary (achievable by a huge number of potentially hostile entities). And the way that you defeat an adversary like this is to have a large anonymity set, so that correlations between messages arriving and leaving are hard.

how does signal, a central observer with access to all users' IP addresses is any better?

We know, from the results of warrants, precisely what can leak from Signal: the timestamp at which you joined the network and the timestamp at which the client last connected to the network. What can a warrant with your protocol deliver?

But if you're leaking things to a passive adversary that require an active compromise of another system then it doesn't matter if your system might be more resilient to an active attacker: an active attacker doesn't need to bother if people use your system. Just knowing which relay they talk to is already giving more data than a warrant against Signal delivers.

But it also highlights the problem with a lot of distributed messaging systems: You can easily turn a single point of failure into a lot of points of failure. If a relay is operated by someone malicious, how much of the network's traffic can they observe?

But, more importantly: you did not answer my question. You just attacked Signal. There are lots of things I dislike about Signal but you aren't even giving answers that tell me that you have solved the problems that they have solved, and you've got a design that introduces a load of hard problems that they don't have.

Maybe try talking about how you've actually solved some hard problems with security and privacy, rather than starting off with an attack on other projects and claiming that you're better than them?

The 12 words that lock Catchlight are called a Privacy phrase, not a seed phrase, and that was deliberate.

Seed phrase carries crypto baggage and puts the emphasis in the wrong place. It sounds like a recovery afterthought you jot down once and forget.

Those words are the whole reason nobody else can read your writing.

Same shape as a seed phrase, 12 words, a completely different job.

https://catchlight.app/journal/password-manager-for-thoughts/

#Privacy #Encryption

Switching from #WhatsApp / #Telegram to #Signal is not a solution if you really care about #privacy, #resilience and #autonomy

all of them are centralized services and depend on phone numbers, which makes them easy to censor, the best services are the one that don't require any personal data at all to register, like #ArcaneChat

Keep the #family safe 💜✨

#OpenSource #European #Europe #android #aws #bigtech #amazon #diday

Panopticon or not to Panopticon

Bentham wrote it in 1787, in letters sent from a town in what's now Belarus. Cells in a ring, inspector in the middle, lit so he sees out and you can't see in. People always repeat the seeing part. The part that mattered was that you couldn't check. Is he up there right now? No way to know, so you act like he is. That's the whole trick. It runs on doubt, and doubt is cheap, which is how one guard covers a hundred cells.

Foucault took that in 1975 and turned it into a shape for modern power generally. School, barracks, factory, ward. Two things about it: you move through enclosures one at a time, and each one is trying to correct you.

Neither is true anymore, and Deleuze said so in 1992, in five pages in October. No more enclosures. No graduation, no discharge, no sentence you finish. And the individual splits into what he called the dividual - slices, attributes, fragments that travel without you. He wrote that before the web was commercial and still described a computer tracking your position and said, flatly, that this wasn't science fiction.

Zuboff filled in the money in 2019. Behavioral surplus: the exhaust off your ordinary life, kept for uses past improving the service, milled into predictions, sold. Which inverts the point of the thing. The old apparatus watched in order to fix you. This one watches in order to bet on you.

Then there's the piece Deleuze had no name for. Something has to put the fragments back together. That's data fusion, and it's why Palantir is the name people say. In February DHS signed for up to a billion over five years, Gotham and Foundry, any component agency drawing on it by task order without competing a contract. Enforcement records, biometrics, financial history, travel, resolved into one object you can act on.

The inputs aren't new. Credit bureaus are older than I am. What's new is the schema - the thing that decides your face and your rent history are attributes of the same entity. Deleuze's fragments, glued.

So there's no tower. Nothing to photograph, nothing to zone, nothing you can usefully subpoena. And responsibility spreads until nobody's holding any of it. The location broker sells to the aggregator, the aggregator to the vendor, the vendor licenses to the agency, and not one of them assembled the file.

I'm fairly sure "who's watching" is the wrong question, though. Nobody's watching? Which is worse?

#Surveillance #Panopticon #Foucault #Deleuze #Palantir #SurveillanceCapitalism #Privacy #DataFusion #Philosophy

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A metal sphere suspended by cables, split open to reveal a screen inside displaying a close-up blue human eye with the digital time 15:31 across the iris. Hangs in an industrial building interior with railings and fluorescent lighting in the background.

Awesome DigitalEscapeTools keeps growing!

Now featuring 290 privacy-focused tools across 32 categories open-source, self-hosted, secure, and privacy-friendly alternatives.

Built a privacy-respecting tool? Contribute it, and accepted tools will also be showcased in r/DigitalEscapeTools.

⭐ Explore, contribute, or suggest a tool: https://github.com/abdomk1998/awesome-digital-escape-tools

#OpenSource #Privacy #FOSS #SelfHosted #GitHub #PrivacyTools #Linux #Windows #Android #macOS

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There are false binaries everywhere.

Politics. Gender. And in mobile phones the assumption is a phone's O/S is either iPhone or Android.

Not true. In this age of surveillance capitalism on the cusp of being supercharged by AI, there is no time like the present to reduce the amount of breadcrumbs we leave to the bad guys.

And one of the most effective ways, with behaviour modification and internet hygiene, is opting out of this fake binary.

#privacy #auspol #surveillancecapitalism

https://tuta.com/blog/degoogled-phones

This week in privacy:
• A NM judge added $567M to Meta's youth-harm liability and capped kids' usage.
• California's DROP opt-out: 30% of registered brokers now delete your data on request.
• EFF found ad SDKs leak your location to data brokers by default.
• Samsung and LG banned smart-TV apps that turn TVs into proxy servers.
• The Senate advanced the KOSA age-verification bill.

So what: your data leaks by default; the fixes are opt-in. Reach for them.

#privacy #databrokers #indigoprivacy

This ‘adversarial’ pattern can prevent #surveillance cameras from detecting you

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/this-adversarial-pattern-can-prevent-surveillance-cameras-from-detecting-you/

#privacy #noRecognition #fashion

#Flock Camera Vandalism Continues Around America, While 100 Communities Reject ALPRs

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/08/059204/flock-camera-vandalism-continues-around-america-while-100-communities-reject-alprs

#ALPR #privacy #surveillance #police

If you just woke up from a 10-year coma, you’d likely be stunned by how many surveillance cameras have popped up across the U.S. Cybersecurity expert Bill Swearingen has run some 31 million tests to find a computer-generated pattern that can scramble cameras' ability to identify objects, people and faces. @Techcrunch has more on Swearingen’s noRecognition movement intent on allowing people to “opt out of being tracked.”

https://flip.it/F_ZtMX

#Technology #Survellience #Privacy

More #Police Officers Fired, Investigated, or Arrested for Misusing #Flock Camera Systems

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/08/0453229/more-police-officers-fired-investigated-or-arrested-for-misusing-flock-camera-systems

#surveillance #privacy #ALPR

The Netherlands' data authority warned that period-tracking apps may be exposing users' most sensitive data, health, fertility, even sex life, and it may investigate.

Under EU law, health data needs explicit consent, but the regulator says it's unclear whether apps like Flo get it before sharing with advertisers.

In 2025, Google and Flo (70M+ users) settled a data lawsuit for $56M. Check what your app shares before you trust it.

#periodapps #healthdata #privacy #indigoprivacy

Zero Password Manager is a self-hosted password manager built around privacy and local control.

Your vault is encrypted on your device with AES-256-GCM before being sent to your own server. It supports TOTP 2FA, passkeys, biometrics, password history, emergency access, and cross-platform clients.

Android • iOS • Web • Windows • macOS • Linux

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

#OpenSource #Privacy #PasswordManager #SelfHosted #FOSS

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Screenshot of the Zero Password Manager webpage showing the title “Zero Password Manager” and the tagline “Zero Cloud. Zero Tracking. Zero Compromise.” It describes the app as a privacy-first, self-hosted password manager using zero-knowledge principles, with the vault stored on the user’s server and encryption keys kept on the device. Badges show AES-256-GCM encryption, FastAPI/Python, Flutter, and support for Android, iOS, Web, and Desktop.

Sensitive Info Goes Into ‘No Reply’ Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All

https://www.wired.com/story/sensitive-info-goes-into-no-reply-emails-constantly-this-guy-sees-it-all/

#email #privacy #cybersecurity

https://www.howtogeek.com/this-is-how-i-use-google-wallet-without-giving-google-my-credit-card-number/

A great way to use Google Wallet without giving up all your privacy, by using Privacy.com to create a Virtual Debit Card. Of course there will ALWAYS be some amount of tradeoff between Privacy & convenience, and Google this is no exception.

#GoogleWallet #Privacy

Woman Pulled From Car at Gunpoint By #Police After Mistaken #Flock Alert - Twice

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/08/042259/woman-pulled-from-car-at-gunpoint-by-police-after-mistaken-flock-alert---twice

#surveillance #privacy #ALPR

#Signal: "More linked devices are on the table (and the #Android tablet)"

https://signal.org/blog/linked-devices-and-android-tablets/

#iOS #privacy #cybersecurity

I'm not so thrilled about mobile operating systems... mostly because of the shrinking choices I seem to have about what apps I can run, where I can get them, what permissions I give (or deny) them, and the feeling that privacy is simply "less of a thing" on mobile devices. Is there a tablet that:

- can reasonably run a non-tablet-specific distro of Linux (preferably plain old Debian)
- can be carried around in a small napsack (ie: no fan)
- has enough battery life to get me through most of a day (anywhere near as good as my old Pixel 4a/5G would be great)

I mean I really just want to offload most of my typical phone based tasks (not calls or texts) to a device that I feel like I have more control over. Am I kidding myself or is this actually a *practical* thing?

#AskFedi #Privacy

Unlimited Technology Systems breach impacts 3.8 million people

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/unlimited-technology-systems-breach-impacts-38-million-people/

#DataBreach #cybersecurity #privacy #healthcare

🔍 Richmond, VA has 99 Flock license plate readers tracking every car that passes. Police won't say where they are, and they've denied every records request asking how they're used.

A Richmond Times-Dispatch investigation found two known violations of state law: an ATF analyst used the system for immigration enforcement, and a police sergeant illegally shared data with the FBI. Prosecutors declined to bring charges.

When the RTD filed a FOIA request for the audit logs police say prove they follow the rules -- denied again. Meanwhile, text messages show the mayor telling the police chief to "saturate the public narrative with feel good Flock stories."

The police department's response? "The Richmond Police Department remains committed to transparency."

Read more:
https://richmond.com/news/local/government-politics/article_b9ebbf29-e136-4498-ac9e-d68b6cd96ffc.html
https://richmond.com/news/local/government-politics/article_d6fd4ac3-2796-4dae-a08d-e361fcf24b4c.html
https://richmond.com/news/local/crime-courts/article_d54cf37b-72f3-44ab-9da9-225b842c7385.html

#surveillance #privacy #Virginia

Keyboard Cowboy is an open-source macOS automation tool for creating keyboard shortcuts, app-based triggers, scripts, macros, window actions, and custom workflows.

It runs locally and doesn't collect or send personal data, making it a great option for privacy-conscious Mac users.

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

#OpenSource #macOS #Automation #Privacy #FOSS

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Keyboard Cowboy 3 webpage showing the app’s macOS productivity and automation features, including privacy-first design, automation triggers, script running, application launching, window management, and customizable keyboard modifiers.

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Keyboard Cowboy automation interface showing workflows triggered by Xcode events, with options to run commands automatically when Xcode opens, closes, or becomes the frontmost application.

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Keyboard Cowboy action configuration window showing an “Open Xcode” action, with options to open an application in the background, hide it, or only launch it if it isn't already running.

Good morning, all.

Around my socials I've seen more than a few people asking about Flock cameras, what they are and why people are so angry, so I thought I'd re-share the video I made on Flock and Jeff Sovern, the alleged vigilante who destroyed 13 Flock cameras in his small town.

Please tap the like button if you enjoy the video or learn something new.

https://youtu.be/Y2A66tDGwFo

#Flock #Tech #Technology #MsasSurveillance #Privacy #Video #JeffSovern

In June 2026, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Chatrie v. United States that police accessing your cell phone Location History from Google is a Fourth Amendment search. Justice Kagan: 'An individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in records about his cell phone's location.'

The Court did NOT rule that geofence warrants are unconstitutional. It established the threshold: accessing this data IS a search. Whether a specific warrant is reasonable (probable cause, particularity) was sent back to the lower court.

On August 5, 2026, Judge Carlton Reeves (S.D. Mississippi) extended that logic to tower dumps - warrants that grab data from all devices connecting to a cell tower. He ruled them 'per se unconstitutional general warrants,' citing both Chatrie and the Fifth Circuit's Smith decision. 'The Government cannot have access to an entire haystack because it may contain a needle.'

The ruling may also affect Flock Safety's ALPR network (90,000+ cameras, 20 billion plate reads/month). A Virginia court already allowed a Fourth Amendment challenge to Flock to proceed. But Flock argues Chatrie actually helps them - the Court distinguished continuous cell-phone tracking from 'public-movements-only technology' on public roads. That legal question is unresolved.

Read more:
https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/06/court-rules-that-law-enforcements-use-of-geofence-warrant-was-a-search/
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/6013559-mississippi-judge-declares-towers-dumps-unconstitutional/

#law #privacy #fourthamendment

Using an ai to defend privacy.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/this-adversarial-pattern-can-prevent-surveillance-cameras-from-detecting-you/

#ai #privacy

Meet #ArcaneChat

No phone numbers required for registration.

No strangers discovering and contacting your family members.

All your conversations end-to-end encrypted.

it is magic! ✨

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

heyo #mastodon! this is not an #introduction post, but I realized my bio had gone really stale, so I updated it. if you're interested in any of the topics below, feel free to request to follow!

I'm a data monkey in tech, but that's just what I do by day to keep the lights on.

things I am interested in & can talk about for hours on end if you let me:
🎮 #retroGaming #retroTech
🌐 the #smallWeb #indieWeb #Fediverse
🐧 #Linux #popOS
🖥 #privacy, #FOSS, the ""#AI"" bubble
🌆 #yeg #Edmonton 🇨🇦

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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/117066506009210864

Bring back Web 1.0. Or maybe even Web 0.x.

#Privacy #SmallWeb #SmolWeb #Internet

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Em » 🌐 2026-08-09
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange

I miss when technology
wasn't spying on us.

#Tech #Privacy

I miss when technology
wasn't spying on us.

#Tech #Privacy

FeedFlow is an open-source RSS reader for Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, and Linux. Keep your library local or sync with services like FreshRSS and Miniflux, with Reader Mode, offline reading, filters, bookmarks, and OPML import/export.

👉 https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=feedflow

#OpenSource #RSS #Privacy #FOSS #SelfHosting

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnBPhelCdWE

John Oliver discusses police surveillance technology.

Y'all remember Ice-T's rock band Body Count? #FLOCK, #ALPR, #surveillance #privacy #freedom

Smart glasses are going mainstream. Do current privacy laws protect us from the risks? https://theconversation.com/smart-glasses-are-going-mainstream-do-current-privacy-laws-protect-us-from-the-risks-289138 #privacy #Surveillance #Meta #SmartGlasses #PervertGlasses

Happy Sunday!

The weekend is not over yet: you still have time to recommend #ArcaneChat to a friend or family and help them get in contact with you here.

Spread purple love 💜✨
Keep the family safe 🤗

#privacy #encryption #europe #european #OpenSource #android #security

📶 Want to monitor your internet connection over time?

Speedtest Tracker is an open-source, self-hosted tool that automatically runs internet speed tests and keeps a history of your download speed, upload speed, ping, and other network metrics.

It supports Docker, scheduled tests, notifications, and a web dashboard for tracking performance.

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

#OpenSource #SelfHosting #FOSS #Homelab #Privacy

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FACEBOOK IS TOXIC. META IS AWFUL.
WHY CONTINUE FEEDING IT? 💎

Nearly everyone complains about Facebook and Meta.

The algorithms are toxic.

The advertising is invasive.

The outrage is manufactured.

CHILDREN ARE BEING HARMED.

Privacy is disappearing.

And then millions of people open Facebook or Instagram.

Again.

And again.

I genuinely do not understand it.

If you believe these companies are damaging children, manipulating attention, and making billions from human vulnerability, why are you still giving them your presence?

Especially the parents.

If Facebook and Instagram are unhealthy for your children, what exactly are you modeling by remaining there yourself?

“We know this place is harmful, darling, but Mummy and Daddy have photographs to look at.”

I left Meta years ago.

I didn’t die.

My friends did not evaporate.

Civilization continued.

There is email.

There are phones.

THERE IS THE OPEN WEB.

There is even the terrifying possibility of seeing another human being, god forbid, in person.

Meta survives because people who complain about it continue supplying exactly what it needs:

Their attention.

Their relationships.

Their outrage.

THEIR CHILDREN.

You do not have to wait for Zuckerberg to become a better person.

You can simply leave today.

The door swings both ways.

@DigitalCoup
@economics_that_works

#Facebook #Meta #Instagram #SocialMedia #Algorithms #BigTech #DigitalWellbeing #OnlineSafety #ChildSafety #Privacy #AttentionEconomy #TechEthics #SocialMediaAddiction #Zuckerberg #DeleteFacebook

Tiny Privacy Recommendation 🔒:

When on a public social platform or a group chat, if you know someone from a different place, remember not to share more about them on that platform than what they have already shared there. Unless you have prior Consent from that person.

Privacy has modularity.

What someone has shared somewhere else, or privately, they might not wish to share on that new place.

Privacy works hand in hand with Consent.

And Consent can differ from one context to another.

#TinyPrivacyTip #Privacy

Laws are only as strong as their enforcement.

This is the core problem with most privacy laws. We need to demand better laws, with stronger, faster enforcement mechanisms.

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PetaPixel: Apple Faces $32.5 Billion Lawsuit Over Facial Recognition in iPhone Photos App. “Apple is facing a lawsuit seeking up to $32.5 billion over claims its iPhone Photos app illegally collected users’ biometric information. The iPhone is widely known for using Face ID as a biometric security feature to help protect users’ privacy. However, a class action lawsuit in Illinois alleges […]