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#Trump Risks Key #Surveillance Authority Over ‘Unqualified’ Spy-Chief Pick

https://www.wired.com/story/trump-risks-key-surveillance-authority-over-unqualified-spy-chief-pick/

#Pulte #Section702 #FISA #privacy #surveillance #politics

🚨 This Week In Privacy #57 will be live in 30 minutes, we'll be talking about Flock automated license readers framing innocent people and covering the latest privacy & security news.

Join us live and chat with the community! 😊

https://streamyard.com/watch/JqtW9B8AV6uD

#Privacy #PrivacyGuides #TWIP

Controversial #FISA spying law expires tonight. The #spying will continue.

Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence #Surveillance Act (FISA) is set to expire at midnight tonight after Congress failed to pass an extension of the controversial spying law. But that doesn't mean the government's spying powers will disappear.

Surveillance under #Section702 of FISA "operates under yearlong certifications approved by the FISA Court," the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law explained this week. The current certification will remain in place until March 2027 under the yearlong certification issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on March 17, 2026.
#privacy #security

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/controversial-fisa-spying-law-expires-tonight-the-spying-will-continue/

‘You Will Not Speak on #Flock Tonight’: County Commissioner Refuses to Let Residents Opposing Flock Speak at Meeting

A County Commissioner in #NorthCarolina refused to let dozens of residents speak opposing Flock #surveillance at a public meeting this week, instead forcing the group to designate one single spokesperson.

“How many people are here for public comment dealing with license plate readers AKA Flock?,” Michael Garrison, the chairman of the Madison County Board of Commissioners began the public meeting by saying. Nearly everyone in the audience’s hand went up. “Probably most everybody. Per our county policy, I’m going to respectfully ask that you guys take a few minutes to converse with each other, designate one person to speak … we’ll move forward with only one person, whoever that happens to be.”

“What? No. We all want to speak on this,” someone in the crowd said; others can be heard trying to object as well.
#privacy #alpr

https://www.404media.co/you-will-not-speak-on-flock-tonight-county-commissioner-refuses-to-let-residents-opposing-flock-speak-at-meeting/

We wrote an honest comparison of Zerion against Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram, Threema, Wire, Session, Cwtch and Tox.

Honest meaning: Signal gets credit for pioneering post-quantum key exchange, Cwtch is genuinely close in spirit, and each app is the right call for some threat model.

Where Zerion stands alone: post-quantum encryption on every single message, and everything (including calls) over Tor.

https://zerion.chat/blog/zerion-vs-mainstream-messengers.html

#privacy #tor #encryption #grapheneos #fdroid #android #p2p

Dennis E. Powell: "Many people own 'smart' televisions, which is to say sets or boxes connected to the internet. Practically none of those people have read their televisions' privacy policies. If they had, they would be horrified." https://ofb.biz/sa1424

#SmartTV #openSource #FreeSoftware #Privacy

Dennis E. Powell writes, "As has been noted here many times, it is not possible to do anything online (and often elsewhere) without being tracked." But there are things we can do 👉🏻 https://ofb.biz/sa1426

#Privacy #Security #Android

BigBlueButton is a powerful open-source platform built specifically for online learning.

It combines video conferencing, screen sharing, whiteboards, breakout rooms, polls, chat, and recordings in one self-hosted solution designed for classrooms and remote education.

A great alternative to proprietary meeting platforms for schools, educators, and training organizations.

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

#OpenSource #BigBlueButton #EdTech #OnlineLearning #SelfHosted #Privacy #FOSS

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Screenshot of the BigBlueButton project page describing the open-source virtual classroom platform, highlighting features such as video conferencing, screen sharing, whiteboards, chat, polls, breakout rooms, recordings, and learning analytics.

Dit was ook al door Microsoft opgemerkt zag ik in een Tweakers artikel, maar het bewaartermijnen beleid van Anthropic betekent eigenlijk dat ze alles oneindig kunnen bewaren:
"After 30 days, the data is deleted automatically, except in the rare cases where it's part of a safety investigation or we're legally required to keep it. Eligible organizations also have the option to add customer-managed encryption keys and access transparency audit logs."
https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15425996-data-retention-practices-for-mythos-class-models
#AI #privacy

ADAMS: Bill C-34 is mostly scaffolding, but still a threat to privacy and vulnerable kids

#Canada #cdnpoli #privacy #surveillance #C34

https://provincialtimes.ca/adams-bill-c-34-is-mostly-scaffolding-but-still-a-threat-to-privacy-and-vulnerable-kids/

"End-to-end encryption, in which data is encoded so that only users on either “end” of a conversation can decrypt their communications—and not the server that relays that information or any other interloper—has become the standard for modern privacy on the internet. But its very name suggests a kind of simple pipe with two openings. The metaphor, and often the encryption technology that has enabled that model, doesn't fit neatly onto the world of Slack, Discord, Google Docs, and the other multiuser, complex, collaborative software where people now live and work.

So one group of cryptographers has built what they describe as the foundation for a new generation of end-to-end encrypted apps, with a new metaphor: Instead of a mere pipe, they want to create “spaces” where users can hold group conversations, host information on a server, collectively make changes to it, invite in new collaborators or kick them out, all while maintaining the same strong encryption protections that prevent the server or network eavesdroppers from accessing their data.

That cryptographer team, including contributors from Harvard, Microsoft Research, and former developers of the end-to-end encrypted messenger Signal, today release a “preview” of Encrypted Spaces, an early version of a set of open-source code libraries, which is part of an architecture they've designed to allow anyone to easily build a rigorously end-to-end encrypted app that nonetheless enables all of the complex collaboration features that users demand from software today."

https://www.wired.com/story/signal-alums-release-encrypted-spaces-a-new-system-for-building-private-collaboration-apps/

#Signal #Encryption #Privacy #Cryptography #CollaborativeSoftware #EncryptedSpaces

#Soccer Fans, You’re Being Watched

https://www.wired.com/story/us-world-cup-2026-alpr-camera-stadiums/

#football #WorldCup #sports #privacy #surveillance

Mullvad warns that age-verification rules are expanding worldwide, often requiring ID-based checks that reduce online anonymity. 🔐
The article highlights risks of OS-level enforcement and VPN restrictions, while EU zero-knowledge age credentials may still fall back to identity-linked systems. 🧱

@mullvadnet

🔗 https://mullvad.net/en/blog/age-verification-for-social-media-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-a-free-internet

#TechNews #Privacy #AgeVerification #Surveillance #VPN #DigitalRights #DataPrivacy #OnlineSafety #Censorship #Identity #Freedom #FOSS #Encryption #EU #TechPolicy

Mapping Every #Flock License Plate Reader Near US #WorldCup Stadiums

https://www.wired.com/story/us-world-cup-2026-alpr-camera-stadiums/

#football #soccer #sports #privacy #surveillance #ALPR

Massachusetts lawmakers advanced a privacy bill to Gov. Maura Healey requiring tech firms to delete sensitive personal data and stop selling location data. 🔒
The Senate-backed measure would limit data brokerage and targeted ads by firms including Meta and Google for 7 million residents. 🏛️

🔗 https://www.inc.com/moses-jeanfrancois/tech-giants-may-soon-be-forced-to-wipe-your-data-if-you-live-in-this-state-heres-why/91357761

#TechNews #Massachusetts #DataPrivacy #Meta #Google #Location #Data #Privacy #DataProtection #Surveillance #Transparency #DigitalRights #Security #Technology #Policy #Law

#AmnestyInternational Warns That #WorldCup Fans Face Potential Human Rights Violations

https://www.wired.com/story/amnesty-international-world-cup-human-rights/

#football #soccer #sports #privacy #surveillance #protest #censorship #activism #FreeSpeech #politics

Meta's Disastrous Month. Privacy, Security and Trust issues abound... they need to be shut down.

#News #TechNews #Meta #Privacy #Security #Trust #Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp

https://youtu.be/NNmXlHpEN7c

Daily podcast: Meta's Disastrous Month. Privacy, Security and Trust issues abound... they need to be shut down.

#News #TechNews #Meta #Privacy #Security #Trust #Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp #podcast

https://soundcloud.com/nickaesp/dmm

#tech #technology #BigTech #data #security #privacy #safety #InfoSec #IT #surveillance #computing #digital #online #internet #web #cloud #meme

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Meme, showing a continuous circle of data breach messages from corporations… Ahaha you're not gonna believe this but we had a bit of a data breach. Your data is probably for sale online now. That means someone could easily impersonate you. Going forward we're gonna need more of your data to make sure its you.

Tell Congress: Just Say No to #NOFAKES

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/tell-congress-just-say-no-no-fakes

#privacy #AI #copyright #deepfake

I can't seem to delete my ProFlowers account. The option to do so was removed from their UI at some point. Calling in to their helpless desk results in me being told "I can't delete accounts, someone will call you back."

I never get a call back. IM chat: same result.

Just Delete Me has no pointers for this one.

Suggestions?

#askfedi #justdeleteme #proflowers #privacy #security #darkpatterns

#ServiceNow discloses security incident exposing customer data

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/servicenow-discloses-security-incident-exposing-customer-data/

#cybersecurity #privacy #DataBreach

#OpenClaw #AI agent found falling for #phishing attacks, spills user data

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/openclaw-ai-agent-found-falling-for-phishing-attacks-spills-user-data/

#cybersecurity #privacy

#EU Says Decision Not to Launch #Siri #AI in Europe Is #Apple's Alone

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/09/eu-says-decision-not-to-launch-siri-ai-in-europe-is-apples/

#privacy #DMA

Whoops.

"Automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company Flock exposed the reasons cops conducted searches, and sometimes the specific searched license plates, in common search engines like DuckDuckGo and Bing, according to tests by privacy advocates and 404 Media and a statement from the company."

https://www.404media.co/flock-leaked-cops-license-plate-searches-via-duckduckgo-bing/

#privacy #surveillancecapitalism

From Global News:
Grok AI broke Canada’s laws, created 6K sexual deepfakes per hour

"The investigation has found that X Corp and xAI violated Canada’s federal private sector privacy law by launching the Grok AI-powered image generation tool without implementing appropriate safeguards at the outset," privacy commissioner Philippe Dufresne said in a press conference in Ottawa Thursday.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11899687/grok-sexual-deepfake-report/

#NoAI #Grok #Privacy #Consent #CanPoli

#Meta will use your activity on other websites to personalize your feeds

https://www.theverge.com/tech/946744/meta-website-activity-personalize-feeds

#privacy #Facebook

FISA short-term extension fails, 198-218. Good news!!!!!

Here's Demand Progress' take:

"Adding warrant requirements to FISA is a path forward that has clear, bipartisan support. The only reason we’re up against the deadline now is that congressional leaders and the White House keep ignoring this obvious reality and obstructing privacy reforms from getting a fair vote.”

https://demandprogress.org/house-yet-again-rejects-warrantless-fisa-bill/

#privacy #surveillance #FISA