#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

#NHS prescribes half a million #Copilot licenses for its paperwork headache

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/08/nhs-prescribes-half-a-million-copilot-licenses-for-its-paperwork-headache/5252214

#healthcare #privacy #AI #Microsoft

ATT limited some tracking. Meta Pixel was a workaround. Fingerprinting is another one — and it doesn't need any permissions at all. While this isn't limited to just iOS — Android can be mined as well, Loupe is an open source iOS app that shows you the raw data your phone hands out by default. The third tier of signals is genuinely creepy.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/what-your-phone-is-handing-out-before-youve-said-a-word

#privacy #fingerprinting #adtech #apple #android #bigtech #ios #tracking #userhostile #infosec #metapixel #blog

Which country do privacy advocates argue is putting the greatest pressure on end-to-end encryption among the following?

#Privacy #Encryption #CyberSecurity #DigitalRights #InfoSec #Technology #OnlinePrivacy #DataProtection

How and Why to Fight Back Against #SocialMedia Bans

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/how-and-why-fight-back-against-social-media-bans

#privacy #AgeVerification #SocialMediaBan

New on AboutSignal ✨

Signal Security & Privacy Guide 🔒: A complete guide to Signal’s encryption, metadata protection, and privacy features

👉 https://aboutsignal.com/signal-security-privacy-guide/

#signal #signalapp #signalmessenger #aboutsignal #tech #privacy #security

Daily Digest | 11 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

Signal and Mullvad warn the UK’s proposal to force device-level scanning of smartphones risks “mass surveillance” and “government spyware,” threatening user control and privacy. Read: https://cyberinsider.com/signal-and-mullvad-warn-about-the-uks-plans-to-scan-peoples-phones/ 🔍📱 #UK #Privacy #TechPolicy

France's DINUM has begun moving 250 workstations from Windows to NixOS-based Sécurix and Bureautix, prioritizing reproducible deployments and open-source control 🐧
Sécurix adds ANSSI-aligned hardening and FIDO2 authentication, while Bureautix uses KDE Plasma, Git-managed configs and open-source apps 🔐

🔗 https://www.tech2geek.net/france-moves-to-linux-inside-securix-and-bureautix-the-governments-open-source-strategy/

#TechNews #France #French #EU #Europe #DINUM #NixOS #Linux #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #KDE #KDEPlasma #FIDO2 #LibreOffice #Cybersecurity #Privacy #Government #OSS

Let's talk architecture, not anecdotes. 🧱

Centralization is fragile. In Ep. 30 of Impractical Privacy, we are stripping back the myths:

🔗 Public Blockchains & CEX Funnels

💬 Metadata Whispers & E2E Fallacies

📡 P2P Mesh Networks

🌐 The math behind NAT Hole Punching and sovereignty.

Tune in for the deep dive into truly resilient networking.
👇
ImpracticalPrivacy.com

#P2P #CryptoPrivacy #Networking #Cybersecurity #Meshtastic #Privacy #Surveillance #Metadata #Decentralization #PrivacyMatters

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Authentik is an open-source identity provider that brings single sign-on (SSO) to your self-hosted services.

Manage access to apps like Jellyfin, Immich, Nextcloud, Vaultwarden, and more from one place, with support for OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, LDAP, and other authentication standards.

A powerful tool for anyone running a homelab or self-hosted infrastructure.

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

#OpenSource #SelfHosted #Authentik #SSO #Homelab #Privacy #FOSS

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Screenshot of the Authentik project page featuring the Authentik logo and status badges for build health, version information, code coverage, and community activity. The page describes Authentik as an open-source identity provider (IdP) for modern single sign-on (SSO), supporting OAuth2/OIDC, SAML, LDAP, RADIUS, and other authentication protocols for self-hosted environments.

US lawmakers are alarmed that Bill Pulte, a housing official with no intelligence experience, is poised to take charge of one of the government's most powerful surveillance tools.

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

Built something I’ve wanted for a while...
An open-source Docker container that makes running a Tor relay actually simple and reliable.

One command. Self-healing. Multi-arch. Runs everywhere from Raspberry Pi to VPS

🔗 https://github.com/r3bo0tbx1/tor-guard-relay

If you care about privacy infrastructure:
🧱 Try it out
🐛 Report bugs
💡 Suggest features
⭐ Star it to help others discover it

Maintaining this in my free time, donation info’s in the README (and please support @torproject, @eff and @privacyguides too).

Protecting privacy, one relay at a time ✨

#Tor #Privacy #OpenSource #Docker #FOSS #SelfHosting #Infosec

#Starmer gives tech firms ultimatum to block explicit images on children’s phones

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/08/starmer-tech-firms-ultimatum-block-explicit-images-children-phones

#privacy #censorship #cybersecurity #politics #UK #AgeVerification

Oh, no!

How'd that get in there?!

One day after discovery, Meta pulls facial recognition code from its smart glasses

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/one-day-after-discovery-meta-pulls-facial-recognition-code-from-its-smart-glasses/

#Meta #FacialRecognition #Code #SmartGlass #Privacy #Tech

#FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers’ IDs

https://www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to-kill-burner-phones-by-forcing-telecoms-to-get-all-customers-ids/

#privacy

#Apple’s #AppStore rolls out personalized recommendations

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/09/apples-app-store-rolls-out-personalized-recommendations/

#privacy #advertising #ads