Most people who check have found their home address listed on at least 5 data broker sites. Have you checked? https://indigoprivacy.com/audit #databrokers #privacy #indigoprivacy

Nearly a million #passports just exposed on the public internet—and anyone could access them with a simple URL

A journalist typing a few letters and numbers into a web browser pulled up the #passport of a young woman from Germany. Then a Spanish man’s passport. Then another man’s driver’s license. All of it sitting on the public internet with no password, no encryption, no access control whatsoever.
#privacy #security

https://cambridgeanalytica.org/data-breaches-scandals/passports-driver-licenses-exposed-public-internet-2026-51096/

🚨 NEWS: WhatsApp inizia la prenotazione degli username: ecco come ottenere il tuo handle unico

Ecco i punti chiave in breve:
💡 WhatsApp introduce finalmente la possibilità di riservare un nome utente univoco, un cambiamento atteso da anni che migliora la privacy e la praticità della messaggistica. A partir...

🚀 LINK: https://meteoraweb.com/news/whatsapp-inizia-la-prenotazione-degli-username-ecco-come-ottenere-il-tuo-handle-unico?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=auto_share

#privacy #messaggistica #whatsapp #username

SCOTUS ruled that law enforcement "looking to obtain sweeping data on cellphone users in the vicinity of a crime scene must have a warrant."

"...broad 'geofence' surveillance equals a search" under the Constitution's Fourth Amendment, "which protects people against unreasonable searches and seizures."

The #Trump admin had argued that police "didn't need a warrant for the information at all..."

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#USA #law #privacy #4thAmendment
#SurveillanceState
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https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/06/29/supreme-court-rules-geofence-searches-require-warrant/5381782764680

Voicebox is a free and open-source AI voice studio that runs entirely on your computer.

It lets you clone voices, generate speech, transcribe audio with Whisper, and use voice dictation without sending recordings to the cloud. It also supports multiple TTS engines and MCP integration for AI assistants.

More details: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=voicebox

#OpenSource #AI #Privacy #SelfHosted #Linux #Windows #macOS #SpeechToText #TextToSpeech

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Screenshot of the Voicebox project page featuring a gold microphone icon and the title "Voicebox." The page describes it as an open-source AI voice studio that runs entirely on your computer, allowing users to clone voices, generate speech, dictate into any application, and interact with AI agents using custom voices. Project badges show approximately 1.4 million downloads, version 0.5.0, 36k GitHub stars, an MIT license, and a link to DeepWiki.

🌎 Tech bros dreaming of a bot & drone filled world while the climate catastrophe quietly destroys our planet, privacy and living standard.

#privacy #privacymatters #physicalai

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The text describes how the dream of physical ai driven bot and drone filled world does not match with our current climate reality.

Heads up for #golang Chatmail bots developers:

The Chatmail API for Go library got a new release to support the latest chatmail core 2.53.0

https://github.com/chatmail/rpc-client-go

#chatmail #deltachat #bots #dev #devs #developer #api #e2ee #privacy #security #opensource #go #programming #automation

"In a Win for Privacy, Supreme Court Rules Geofence Warrants Are a ‘Search’ Under 4th Amendment"

"The court stopped short of declaring geofence warrants unconstitutional."

https://gizmodo.com/in-a-win-for-privacy-supreme-court-rules-geofence-warrants-are-a-search-under-4th-amendment-2000778986

#Privacy

Reminder that our #cfp for the 14th annual SeaGL is closing very soon. You have until Tuesday, June 30th 11:59:59pm PDT to submit your talk!!

Submit yours now!

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2026/cfp

#SeaGL2026 #linux #FLOSS #FOSS #OSS #libre #opensource #ophw #privacy #ai #art #security #devops

American privacy rights just got a little stronger. The Supreme Court has limited the use of “geofence” search warrants in a major legal ruling that is likely to have broad ramifications for individuals and law enforcement officers. The top court said that “an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in his cell-phone location information.” So, does this mean authorities will have to get a warrant when asking tech companies for user location data? Read more from
@Techcrunch:

https://flip.it/LMSs4_

#Tech #Privacy #SupremeCourt

"A little white box would sit under a table or chair and silently monitor for danger. It seemed like an easy way to help my dad preserve his independence and give me peace of mind from Europe."

Steven Blum for Architectural Digest and WIRED: https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/sensi-ai-seniors-homecare-aging-in-place

#Longreads #Aging #Surveillance #AI #Privacy #Elderly

🚨 NEWS: WhatsApp apre le prenotazioni degli username a livello mondiale per una maggiore privacy degli utenti

Ecco i punti chiave in breve:
💡 Da oggi, WhatsApp ha avviato il processo di prenotazione degli username a livello globale, consentendo agli utenti di assicurarsi un nome unico prima del lancio ufficiale della fun...

🚀 LINK: https://meteoraweb.com/news/whatsapp-apre-le-prenotazioni-degli-username-a-livello-mondiale-per-una-maggiore-privacy-degli-utenti?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=auto_share

#privacy #whatsapp #username #prenotazione

In major privacy win, Supreme Court rules #geofence warrants are protected by #privacy rights | TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/in-major-privacy-win-supreme-court-rules-geofence-warrants-are-protected-by-privacy-rights/

Well it finally happened, I got notified that my medical records, which were in the custody of a third party company without my knowledge, were involved in a big medical data breach last year. This breach apparently went back as far as January 2025 but law enforcement prevented notification of victims until now. Absolute fuckery. I am incandescent. 🤬 🤬 🔪 #privacy #infosec

"In major privacy win, Supreme Court rules geofence warrants are protected by privacy rights"

"The Supreme Court's decision to limit geofence warrants is a win for privacy advocates, who called their use unconstitutional but sought an outright ban."

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/in-major-privacy-win-supreme-court-rules-geofence-warrants-are-protected-by-privacy-rights/

#Privacy

Democrats & Republicans’ KIDS Act would push online age verification, forcing platforms to collect more identity data—undermining anonymity for everyone, especially journalists and whistleblowers. Mandating verification can hand government a “skeleton key” to sources, not make kids safer. 🗞️🔍🚫 https://theintercept.com/2026/06/28/age-verification-privacy-surveillance-journalists-whistleblowers/ #FirstAmendment #Privacy #PressFreedom #Whistleblowing

This is a very important bi-partisan privacy issue, and for anyone who is interested in free journalism, a must-read. It also has a section about Vimeo.

🚨 NEWS: WhatsApp permette di prenotare un username per non condividere il numero di telefono

Ecco i punti chiave in breve:
💡 WhatsApp ha introdotto una nuova funzionalità che consente agli utenti di prenotare un username univoco, un passo significativo verso una maggiore privacy. Gli username potranno es...

🚀 LINK: https://meteoraweb.com/news/whatsapp-permette-di-prenotare-un-username-per-non-condividere-il-numero-di-telefono?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=auto_share

#privacy #messaggistica #whatsapp #username

"Enhance your identity security and privacy protection with $70 off LifeLock Total — identity theft protection, data removal, and social media monitoring for complete privacy control"

"Up to $1 million in ID theft and stolen funds reimbursement, financial account activity alerts, data removal, and 24/7 customer phone support."

https://www.techradar.com/pro/enhance-your-identity-security-and-privacy-protection-with-usd70-off-lifelock-total-identity-theft-protection-data-removal-and-social-media-monitoring-for-complete-privacy-control

#Privacy

#ATF cancels phone tracking contract after lawmakers raise concerns

https://apnews.com/article/atf-surveillance-wyden-cloud-566f702fe6082310d6b7c64e5b2de009

#privacy #surveillance #politics #Webloc

Google's new CAPTCHA asks you to wave at your camera. It records your hand movements, extracts 21 joint coordinates, then deletes the video. Google says it's safe. But normalizing camera checks for basic website access is a privacy line worth noticing. #privacy #captcha #google #biometrics #indigoprivacy

Google's new CAPTCHA asks you to wave at your camera. It records your hand movements, extracts 21 joint coordinates, then deletes the video. Google says it's safe. But normalizing camera checks for basic website access is a privacy line worth noticing. #privacy #captcha #google #biometrics #indigoprivacy

new channel for #ArcaneChat, #DeltaChat and other #chatmail clients (encrypted email newsletter!)

Pluralistic - Daily links from Cory Doctorow

The channel is auto-generated from @pluralistic 's #RSS feed

here is the invite link 👇️
https://i.delta.chat/#EB87F92DC57303205E7F3ACB6DAA06D8FE761414&v=3&x=qGsBzEyxwfXZHdC3c_xgTSt4&j=dfmqdw31uNWGhZOWTmC9kt6m&s=V-0OT8cqMFvtYK5kH7E2Phcy&a=6j2tb0xyz%40arcanechat.me&n=ChannelsBot&b=Pluralistic

#newsletter #encryption #e2ee #privacy #decentralization #email #blog

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99% of "No-Logs" VPNs are straight up lying. They hoard your emails, connection tokens, and payment histories. The moment a court order hits, they fold and sell you out.

I built Celestride to kill this scam. Passwordless OTP only—there is physically no user database to hand over to anyone. Your traffic is fully wrapped in VLESS-Reality, blending into normal HTTPS streams.

Stop buying corporate privacy theater: https://celestride.pro

#privacy #infosec #vpn #VLESS

#DataBreach exposes up to 14.2 million #email logins at six ISPs

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/data-breach-exposes-up-to-142-million-email-logins-at-six-isps/

#ISP #privacy #cybersecurity #STNet #JCOM #Chubut #NIFTY #BIGLOBE

❗Attacks on our privacy continue. Although this might not seem like much, actions like this try to erode our right to communicate without private corporations / governments / third-parties watching.

📝 Take the time and write your representatives: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

The article that triggered this post: https://www.politico.eu/article/president-vs-parliament-roberta-metsola-overrides-meps-bid-force-child-abuse-law/

#cybersecurity #security #infosec #privacy #humanrights

Call For Papers: Special Issue on One Decade of GDPR – Contributions to Data Protection and Future Challenges

https://www.computer.org/digital-library/magazines/sp/cfp-one-decade-gdpr-challenges

#privacy #gdpr #law #tech

It’s exhausting how wanting basic privacy now makes you look suspicious. Block tracking? Suspicious. Use a stealth protocol? Suspicious. Refuse to give your phone number to a basic app? Access denied. Privacy isn't about hiding something illegal; it’s about human dignity and drawing a boundary. The fact that we have to actively fight a war just to exist online without being tracked is insane.

#privacy #surveillance #tech

„A Double Threat“: The EU Revives Chat Control 1.0 in the Same Week That Negotiations on Version 2.0 Are Wrapping Up

Last week, I wrote about Monday’s final meeting on the „Chat Control“ regulation. At that time, there was only one outstanding issue on the table. It was…

https://vsx.global/a-double-threat-the-eu-is-reviving-chat-control-1-0-in-the-same-week-that-negotiations-on-version-2-0-are-wrapping-up/

#infosec #privacy #opensource #digitalsovereignty

Remember when the internet was a vast web of independent sites made by actual humans? Now it’s just five corporate silos filled with tracking scripts, ad tech, and AI-generated slop. We didn't build the network to turn it into a digital strip mall where our attention and data are harvested every single second. Decentralization and privacy aren't geek hobbies anymore; they are a survival strategy.

#internet #BigTech #privacy #enshittification