#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

Sunsetting #Tor 0.4.8 – Please update to 0.4.9 by September

https://blog.torproject.org/sunsetting-tor-048/

#privacy #anonymity #FOSS

Madison Square Garden Made Dossier on Activists Who Opposed #FacialRecognition

https://www.404media.co/madison-square-garden-made-dossier-on-activists-who-opposed-facial-recognition/

#FRT #MSG #privacy

"Why I Use #Uruky, a Private #Search Engine"

https://theprivacydad.com/why-i-use-uruky-a-private-search-engine/

#privacy

It's strange how little people value their digital identity and privacy. Upload your ID and selfie to access some AI toy: sure. Click on allowing any data to be used for marketing and AI training: Absolutely. Being annoyed about yet another data breach is part of modern life.
#identity #privacy

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.

https://actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/whistleblower-suspended-saving-18-million-digital-identities-eu-from-u-s-control

cc @acm ?

Welcome Midori Browser 11.8.2 new adblock

arrives with significant improvements and interesting new features in performance, privacy, New Tab, Adblock, workspaces, the graphical interface, and more.

astian.org/midori-en/midori-browser-11-8-2-new-adblock-new-tab/

#browser #privacy #web #tech #technology #windows #linux #debian #ubuntu #opensuse

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Midori Browser 11.8.2

Save the date:

Conference

The Dutch Data Protection Authority Meets Academia

24 September 2026, The Hague, The Netherlands

Organised by the Dutch Data Protection Authority and me.

There will sessions focused on law and on technology.

This is a good opportunity to meet people at the Dutch DPA, policymakers, and other regulators.

We will post information about registration and about the program soon.

#privacy #gdpr #law #technology

UPDATE: Michael Tsai @mjtsai confirms that all his search queries were included in the data he requested from Apple. Every iPhone user should learn that Apple's definition of privacy is different. Think different. Visit https://privacy.apple.com and request a copy of your data.

#privacy #Apple #infosec

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Update (2026-06-23): I received my own personal data from Apple and can confirm that it does include my timestamped App Store search queries.

Daily Digest | 24 June 2026

Your daily dose of Privacy, Data Protection, AI & Cybersecurity news.

5 stories you should not miss.

Read more: https://www.nicfab.eu/daily-digest/

#Privacy #AI #GDPR #Cybersecurity #TechLaw

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.

#GrapheneOS #Android #Security #Privacy

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

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

https://www.404media.co/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."

https://www.404media.co/madison-square-garden-made-dossier-on-activists-who-opposed-facial-recognition/

#USA #NYC #Surveillance #MadisonSquareGarden #FacialRecognition #Privacy #DigitalRights #Biometrics

Searching in 2026 without LLM products + respecting privacy, what's actually available?

My list so far is:

Mojeek
Oscobo
MetaGer
Swisscows
SearXNG
YaCy

I think Mojeek might be the only one of those that offers a truly independent index (external engine integration is purely optional via redirects, not a backend dependency).

What am I missing? Any others worth checking?

#NoAI #SearchEngine #Privacy #FOSS

Mashable: BlackVue’s dashcams broadcast users’ live location and footage to public. “Dashcam company BlackVue is broadcasting real-time video feeds of its users’ cameras to all app users around the world, in a potentially concerning privacy issue. First reported by Australia’s Nine News, BlackVue’s official app includes a world map showing the location of many of its dashcams, which users can […]

“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

https://youtu.be/P2jlRzBfzq8?si=4gs3V2cdacEaXAnf

“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/

#Meta #DataProtection #AI #Privacy #BigTech

“[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

#EU #Europol #Privacy #Surveillance #DataProtection

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

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

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

#privacy #Tor #encryption #infosec #Android

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

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

#Privacy #Security #internet #Browsers

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