📬 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

#cdnpoli

⚠️ 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

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#UK to require ID or face scan before you can make #SocialMedia accounts

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/uk-to-require-id-or-face-scan-before-you-can-make-social-media-accounts/

#privacy #cybersecurity #politics #AgeVerification #SocialMediaBan

Hackers Publish #Knicks and Madison Square Garden Data Online

https://www.404media.co/hackers-publish-knicks-and-madison-square-garden-data-online/

#MSG #privacy #cybersecurity #sports #basketball

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. 😓

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/17/milan-tram-drivers-used-whatsapp-for-sexist-chat-about-female-passengers

#privacy #HumanRights #Belgium #stib #sncb #delijn #tec

Chat sessiste #Atm, il Garante della privacy Agostino Ghiglia (vicinissimo a #FratelliDItalia) evoca illeciti della ragazza difendendo il conducente del tram che avrebbe scattato la foto e gli altri dipendenti sminuendo la gravità: “Se diffondo una foto di un certo tipo faccio un illecito, ma un conto è diffonderla su un canale pubblico, un altro è in un gruppo chiuso di 7 persone. Parliamo di 7 persone in un paese di 60 milioni”.

@Milano

https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2026/06/17/chat-sessista-atm-ghiglia-garante-privacy-notizie/8421932/

#Milano #Sessismo #Privacy

Your #medical provider might be recording your #MentalHealth care visits

https://themarkup.org/privacy/2026/06/16/your-medical-provider-might-be-recording-your-mental-health-care-visits

#healthcare #privacy #AI

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

Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People

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 order to use the system, and that, if they have access to the system, they have the technical ability to look up any license plate they want for any reason they want.

#police #stalking #safety #privacy #surveillance #flocksaftey #alpr

https://www.404media.co/cops-keep-getting-arrested-for-using-flock-to-stalk-people/

"We can't read your messages" is only half the story.

Metadata — who you talk to, when, how often, from where — is enough to map your entire life. Most E2EE apps still collect it.

The only safe metadata is metadata that never exists. That's the design constraint we started from.

#privacy #metadata #surveillance #e2ee

#iRhythm discloses #DataBreach, says hackers stole patient info

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/irhythm-discloses-data-breach-says-hackers-stole-patient-info/

#cybersecurity #privacy #healthcare

Republican Trump Administration Demands to Access Africans’ Data Raise Privacy, Sovereignty Concerns

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-state-department-africa-uganda-aid-medical-data-privacy

#Trump #privacy #MAGA #USA #Africa #bigdata

#DOJ seizes #CFAKE, #SOCFAKE #deepfake nude sites under TAKE IT DOWN Act

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/doj-seizes-cfake-socfake-deepfake-nude-sites-under-take-it-down-act/

#TakeItDown #privacy #AI #nudify

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

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#Google #Chrome’s next update will mark the end of popular ad blockers

https://9to5google.com/2026/06/15/google-chromes-next-update-will-mark-the-end-of-popular-ad-blockers/

#AdBlocker #AdBlocking #advertising #privacy

#UK to ban #SocialMedia for kids under 16, may impose overnight curfews

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/uk-to-ban-social-media-for-kids-under-16-may-impose-overnight-curfews/

#privacy #cybersecurity #politics #AgeVerification #SocialMediaBan

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

#UK’s #SocialMediaBan for children: the #privacy problems #Australia already exposed

https://proton.me/blog/uk-social-media-ban-privacy

#SocialMedia #AgeVerification #politics #cybersecurity

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, […]

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

Major updates today: Morrison Foerster rolls out Legora AI firmwide, Litera launches Outlook-integrated Clean+ to prevent metadata leaks, Canada extends CARM low-value customs measures, and Sumsub secures High-confidence eIDAS 2.0 verification in the EU.
#legaltech #AI #privacy

Electronic Frontier Foundation released #Privacy Badger for Chrome version 2026.6.16. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-badger/pkehgijcmpdhfbdbbnkijodmdjhbjlgp

Daily Digest | 17 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

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

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=sus6t6ab

#privacy #apple

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."

#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/

#Privacy

***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

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