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[?]Meteora Web » 🌐
@meteoraweb@mastodon.social

🚨 NEWS: Apple Unifica Sign in with Apple e Hide My Email in un Unico Dominio

Ecco i punti chiave in breve:
💡 Apple ha annunciato un cambiamento significativo per la privacy degli utenti, unificando i domini di posta elettronica utilizzati da due dei suoi servizi più importanti. Sign in wi...

🚀 LINK: meteoraweb.com/news/apple-unif

    [?]Open Rights Group » 🌐
    @openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org

    The government has ignored calls to regulate age verification companies to ensure our sensitive data is protected.

    Instead it has expanded ID checks to multiply the risks.

    But the actual cause of harms is off the hook – how platforms use our data to monetise our attention.

    Sign the petition ⬇️

    you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions

      [?]Raphael Albert » 🌐
      @r_alb@mastodon.social

      As expected, the data broker I filed a successful complaint against for not giving me any information when they took my data from an Austrian company register appealed the data protection authority's decision.

      Now, the administrative court will decide. This will make a proceeding that already took more than two years even longer.

      Yes, we have an enforcement issue when it comes to digital privacy protection!
      --

        [?]Nicola Fabiano » 🌐
        @nicfab@fosstodon.org

        Daily Digest | 16 June 2026

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

        5 stories you should not miss.

        Read more: nicfab.eu/daily-digest/

          [?]Open Rights Group » 🌐
          @openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org

          “Soon it will be virtually impossible to be online in the UK without handing over identity documents or biometric data to unregulated companies.”

          The social media ban means EVERY user has to prove they're over 16. This puts millions at risk of their personal data being hacked.

          🗣️ ORG's @JamesBaker.

          computerweekly.com/news/366644

            [?]clawfulneutral » 🌐
            @clawfulneutral@soc.port0.org

            This pole is far worse than any Flock Camera

            Sam Bent digs in to how shadowy companies associated with Italy and Israel are wiring cities & towns across the USA with RF sensing capability mounted on utility poles which logs every unique identifier it hears from all of your radio-capable devices every time you pass by.

            And no, turning on MAC randomization is not enough to defeat it.

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

            #Surveillance #Privacy #DragnetSurveillance #ELSAG #Leonardo #LeonardoELSAG #SurveillanceState

              muddle 🥣 boosted

              [?]Jon Snow » 🌐
              @jonsnow@mastodon.online

              Starmer’s Social Media Ban: the Reinvention of the Surveillance State

              Tyranny masquerading as child safety needs you to feel guilty before you feel suspicious. Downing Street is counting on it.

              reclaimthenet.org/starmers-soc

                [?]PrivacyDigest » 🌐
                @PrivacyDigest@mas.to

                Tapped a Supplier to for Its Glasses

                , whose board includes a former deputy director and a former science chief, supplied face recognition to Meta for internal development of its smart glasses app.

                wired.com/story/meta-rank-one-

                  [?]Techdirt [Unofficial] » 🌐
                  @techdirt.com@web.brid.gy

                  Opposition Mounts To Trump FCC Plan To Kill Burner Phone Anonymity, Ramp Up Surveillance

                  Last month I noted how the Trump FCC had unveiled a brand new plan to “stop robocalls.” As with most efforts the proposal doesn’t actually do much to stop robocalls because a well-lobbied U.S. government (1) refuses to hold big companies accountable or collect fines, (2) constantly embraces weak rules that make telemarketers and debt […]

                  [?]Mental privacy matters. » 🌐
                  @mental_privacy@mastodon.social

                  In times of turmoil and chaos, our focus must be on the common good. Privacy and freedom of thought must be protected.

                  The text describes how societal chaos and structural shift can act against the common good and ask those with classified information to act in the common good.

                  Alt...The text describes how societal chaos and structural shift can act against the common good and ask those with classified information to act in the common good.

                    [?]Nick Espinosa » 🌐
                    @NickAEsp@mastodon.social

                    Daily podcast: Facial Recognition use is accelerating... and our laws are doing almost nothing to protect us...

                    soundcloud.com/nickaesp/fra

                      [?]Nick Espinosa » 🌐
                      @NickAEsp@mastodon.social

                      Facial Recognition use is accelerating... and our laws are doing almost nothing to protect us...

                      youtu.be/FBKE7ZzK_So

                        [?]Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ » 🌐
                        @ianrogers@mstdn.social

                        RE: hachyderm.io/@jbjrkng/11675539

                        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.

                        [?]JB [vi/vim] » 🌐
                        @jbjrkng@hachyderm.io

                        Can't wait for everyone's reaction when they realise the under 16 social media ban isn't for the children. It's for everyone to submit their IDs and be monitored.

                        Sorry to break the news if you were hoping for something else.

                          [?]Miguel Afonso Caetano » 🌐
                          @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org

                          ""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."

                          theregister.com/personal-tech/

                            [?]Freezenet » 🌐
                            @freezenet@noc.social

                            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.

                            freezenet.ca/canadian-governme

                              [?]zerionchat » 🌐
                              @zerionchat@mastodon.social

                              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:
                              github.com/zerionproject/Zerio

                                [?]Autonomie und Solidarität » 🌐
                                @autonomysolidarity@todon.eu

                                Meta benutzt Gesichtserkennungs-Software für US-Polizeibehörden

                                ‚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….‘

                                golem.de/news/smart-glasses-me

                                [?]Autonomie und Solidarität » 🌐
                                @autonomysolidarity@todon.eu

                                ‚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…..‘

                                svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-smart

                                  [?]Debacle [they/he/she/whatever] » 🌐
                                  @debacle@framapiaf.org

                                  @louis @adbenitez @w8emv

                                  Phone numbers as ids are not only bad for . They also make it hard to maintain multiple accounts for different areas of life.

                                  E.g. I maintain four accounts: One at work, one at my main project, one for public stuff, and of course a private one.

                                  (In my case it's /, not Delta, but that doesn't matter in this context. Both do support multiple accounts.)

                                    [?]gtbarry » 🌐
                                    @gtbarry@mastodon.social

                                    Flock Leaked Cops’ License Plate Searches via DuckDuckGo, Bing

                                    Flock appears to be leaking tons of law enforcement vehicle queries and possible user data. Data publicly visible in search result URLs includes: license plate state and numbers, make, model, color, identifiers such as ‘window stickers’ and ‘top rack,’ case number, and more.

                                    404media.co/flock-leaked-cops-

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