KOSA, the KIDS Act, AI, Bad Internet Bills, and a potential giveaway to big tech

It's a confusing situation, but with the House reportedly voting next week it seems like a good time for an update!

https://thenexusofprivacy.net/kosa-kids-act-june-update

#KOSA #SCREENAct #KIDSAct #ageVerification #USpol #privacy

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

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.

#Privacy #Authoritarianism

❓ Intellectual Property and privacy are interlinked, and the lack of "Intellectual Privacy" is a hindrance to Freedom of Thought (FoT) and creativity.

#privacy #privacymatters #IntellectualProperty #intellectualprivacy #datapoisoning #ai #freedomofthought

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The text describes the psychological impact of AI data theft on human creativity.

"AI traffic cameras spark backlash in Mississippi — as government officials try to calm fears they’ll be used to catch motorists who are speeding, not wearing seatbelts or texting at the wheel"

"Government officials in Mississippi have been attempting to calm fears that new AI traffic cameras will become a massive privacy violation."

https://www.techradar.com/vehicle-tech/hybrid-electric-vehicles/ai-traffic-cameras-spark-backlash-in-mississippi-as-government-officials-try-to-calm-fears-theyll-be-used-to-catch-motorists-who-are-speeding-not-wearing-seatbelts-or-texting-at-the-wheel

#Privacy

#Meta's Keystroke-Logging Employee #AI Training Program on Pause After Internal Data Leak

https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/06/23/metas-keystroke-logging-employee-ai-training-program-on-pause-after-internal-data-leak/

#privacy #cybersecurity #DataBreach

#Tata Electronics confirms cyberattack as hackers leak data

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/tata-electronics-confirms-cyberattack-as-hackers-leak-data/

#cybersecurity #privacy #DataBreach

"Age verification" should be called by its real name: ID verification—a new form of mass surveillance.

Parents already have effective tools to protect their children online: parental controls, screen time limits, or no device at all.

More surveillance won’t fix social media’s harms. Instead, let’s hold big tech accountable for the toxic algorithms fueling addiction, manipulation, outrage, and polarization.

#Privacy #DigitalRights #FreeSpeech #Surveillance #ChildProtection

Your public social media posts, including deleted ones, may be permanently archived by third-party scraping services and academic datasets. #privacy #socialmedia #archiving #indigoprivacy

#Dialog Claims It Was Hacked. A Misconfigured Website Left Its Members Exposed

https://www.wired.com/story/dialog-hack-website-misconfiguration/

#privacy #cybersecurity #DataBreach #politics #Thiel

🇪🇺 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

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EU Member States (and Google) suddenly want to keep cookie banners!

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For years, users and many companies have been complaining about cookie banners. Even though this under-standable frustration is mostly caused by misleading dark patterns used by the industry, these banners have become the symbol of what is perceived as excessive EU regulation.

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As part of the ‘Digital Omnibus’, the European Commission now finally wanted to get rid of cookie banners and replace them with an automated signal. However, Google and some of the very EU Member States that are actually calling on the EU to simplify and “cut red tape” – including Germany and France, for example – are now standing in the way.

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In the Council’s latest position paper of 18 June, the plan to abolish the cookie banner has been scrapped. This baffling outcome is likely to continue to cost European users a great deal of hassle, frustration and billions of clicks per year. For more info, visit: noyb.eu

Healthtech firm #Xolis suffers #DataBreach impacting 1.4 million people

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/healthtech-firm-xolis-suffers-data-breach-impacting-14-million-people/

#privacy #cybersecurity #healthcare

#Mozilla: The web is evolving. So are we.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/news/announcing-mozilla-org-new-non-profit/

#AI #FOSS #Firefox #privacy

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

#Anthropic’s #ClaudeTag is learning your company, one #Slack message at a time

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/23/anthropics-claude-tag-is-learning-your-company-one-slack-message-at-a-time/

#AI #privacy #Claude

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

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

"#VPN restrictions are escalating everywhere, my notes on what actually works now"

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/uk-russia-china-turkey-vpn-restrictions-are-escalating-everywhere-my-notes-on-what-actually-works-now/38706

#privacy #cybersecurity

Did anyone else notice that the hmrc web process for getting a tex refund in the UK now has extra "security" requirements including a pathway that requires a biometric face scan.

Just a few years ago all I needed to do was ring them up, confirm basic details over the phone, and they'd do the refund.

#uk #privacy #biometric #surveillance #hmrc #digitalid #idverification

#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/

#SmartGlasses #privacy #IoT #AI

#LastPass confirms #DataBreach in #Klue supply chain attack

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lastpass-confirms-data-breach-in-klue-supply-chain-attack/

#cybersecurity #privacy #PasswordManager