Canadian Government Recommends VPNs as it Drives Them Out of the Country

VPN services are saying they will leave Canada thanks to warrantless wiretapping. Guess what the Canadian government recommended people use.

https://www.freezenet.ca/canadian-government-recommends-vpns-as-it-drives-them-out-of-the-country/

#News #Privacy #Security #BillC22 #Canada #government #NordVPN #ProtonVPN #Signal #VPN #WarrantlessWiretapping #Windscribe

Ventoy is a free and open-source tool that lets you boot multiple operating systems from a single USB drive without reformatting.

Install Ventoy once, then simply copy ISO files to your USB drive. It supports Windows, Linux, Secure Boot, persistence, and many rescue and diagnostic tools.

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

#OpenSource #Linux #Windows #USB #SysAdmin #Privacy #Tech

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Screenshot of the Ventoy project page showing the Ventoy logo and a brief description. It explains that Ventoy is an open-source tool for creating bootable USB drives for ISO, WIM, IMG, VHD(x), and EFI files without repeatedly formatting the USB. Users can simply copy multiple image files to the drive and choose which one to boot from a menu. The page also displays project badges including version 1.1.16, GPL-3.0 license, 78k GitHub stars, 16 million downloads, and a passing build status.

"We didn’t receive anything in the mail. I double checked to make sure that there was no emails or anything about it."

The post Woman Surprised When Flock Surveillance Tower Appears in Her Yard Without Warning appeared first on Futurism.

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Woman Surprised When Flock Surveillance Tower Appears in Her Yard Without Warning

This game could be used as a huge explainer into how surveillance capitalism works and how people are exploited on both sides of the screen.

MajorOffline: Hae Stack – MajorLinux

https://majorlinux.com/majoroffline-hae-stack/

#Gaming #HaeStack #Investigation #PointAndClick #Political #Privacy #Puzzle #Steam #SteamNextFest #Surveillance #Capitalism #Tech #YouTube

🚨 The EU's controversial "Chat Control" proposal is back.

EU governments are reportedly trying to revive rules that could allow private messages to be scanned for child sexual abuse material, reigniting the debate over encryption, privacy, and mass surveillance. The proposal remains highly controversial and has not become law.

Read more: https://digitalescapetools.com/2026/06/eu-chat-control-revival-private-messages.html

#Privacy #Encryption #CyberSecurity #EU #ChatControl #DigitalRights

The Guardian: ‘It’s dangerous and it’s going to erode trust’: redesign of US government websites stokes surveillance fears

The National Design Studio, staffed by Doge veterans, installed visitor-tracking software on vital federal websites

"...An opaque White House office staffed largely by veterans of Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) has quietly rebuilt some of the federal government’s most sensitive websites – for passport applications, voter registration, prescription-drug pricing and children’s savings – in ways critics say appear to violate federal law...."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/28/government-website-visitor-tracking-surveillance-fears

#cybersecurity #privacy #bigbrother #doge #fascism

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‘It’s dangerous and it’s going to erode trust’: redesign of US government websites stokes surveillance fears The National Design Studio, staffed by Doge veterans, installed visitor-tracking software on vital federal websites

❗ Logic of surveillance capitalism discourages asking questions and public sharing of information, the one constant is the push for more data and less scrutiny, less regulation.

#privacy #privacymatters #mentalprivacy #physicalprivacy #brain

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The text explains brain science equipment becomes miniaturised.

🔮ArcaneChat Spoilers✨

for the next version of #ArcaneChat the message input bar got redesigned!

now it looks more modern, similar to #Telegram & #WhatsApp 's, and more in line with #Android 's edge-to-edge design

💜 if you like ArcaneChat and what we do, please consider making a donation, no amount is too small!
https://arcanechat.me/#contribute

#ArcaneChatSpoilers #privacy #encryption #security #decentralization #opensource #e2ee #european #europe #autonomy #digitalindependence #family #chatapp

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screenshot of arcanechat, showing the new input bar, looking pill-like instead of the old rectangular input bar

I'm glad we left the EU.

Chat Control alone is enough to push it over the line of being a malign autocracy the size of a continental empire. Chat Control and democracy cannot co-exist.

Its kinetic support of genocide, and crushing of its own democratic norms in service of zionism, was enough for me personally. I don't want the economic benefits of the EU if it is blood soaked money.

#europe #brexit #eu #ukpol #security #privacy #democracy #chatcontrol #surveillance

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EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/double-threat-to-private-communications-undemocratic-chat-control-backroom-deals-and-imminent-concessions-spark-relaunch-of-fightchatcontrol-eu/

#HackerNews #EU #Chat #Control #Privacy #Legislation #Backroom #Deals #Communication

Bristol's "Think Family" database exposes the modern institutional panopticon: predictive profiling and algorithmic surveillance of 500k citizens hidden under the guise of welfare. When data aggregation outpaces state transparency, control is institutionalized silently. #MassSurveillance #Privacy #BigData

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A cold, abstract composition representing digital surveillance and data flows, featuring linear geometries and code patterns that evoke an invisible system of algorithmic monitoring and tracking.

#^Google's New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand

Google wants a look at your hands before it lets you through. The company’s newest reCAPTCHA check, rolling out now as a test, asks you to switch on your camera and wave at it so an algorithm can decide whether you’re a human or a bot.

That wave is less casual than it looks. The system records a short video of your hand and pulls 21 hand-landmark coordinates from it, mapping your finger joints, your palm geometry, and the way you move in real time.

Google describes the purpose as liveness detection, a way for websites to fend off automated account creation, credential-stuffing, and other fraud. But this is still a biometric scan, collected so you can prove you’re a person and still involves turning on your cameras for Google.

Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast

https://www.engadget.com/2203000/flock-cameras-recording-license-plate/

#HackerNews #FlockCameras #LicensePlate #Privacy #Surveillance #Technology

"Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast"

"Mounting privacy and security issues have residents and activists concerned."

https://www.engadget.com/2203000/flock-cameras-recording-license-plate/

#Privacy

The European Court of Human Rights ruled GCHQ's mass surveillance UNLAWFUL.

14 judges dissented. Three quoted Orwell's 1984:

"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment."

https://thomaster.substack.com/p/gchq-mass-surveillance-declared-unlawful

#GCHQ #Surveillance #ECHR #Privacy #BigBrotherWatch #Liberty #Orwell #InvestigatoryPowersAct #Snowden #HumanRights

OpenShot is a free and open-source video editor available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

It features unlimited tracks, timeline editing, keyframe animations, transitions, titles, audio editing, chroma key, speed controls, hardware encoding, and support for hundreds of formats through FFmpeg.

A privacy-friendly alternative to subscription-based video editors.

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

#OpenSource #OpenShot #VideoEditing #Linux #Windows #macOS #FOSS #Privacy

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Screenshot of the OpenShot Video Editor project page. The page describes OpenShot as a free and open-source video editor for Linux, macOS, and Windows focused on high-quality video editing and animation. Below, a "Build Status" section shows GitHub CI badges for openshot-qt, libopenshot, and libopenshot-audio, all marked as "passing," along with a Discord badge showing 131 users online.

@rysiek Also, dear @mullvadnet, you of all companies should know that you don't get to pick-and-choose the human rights you like and to whom they can apply. Your CEO (and in extension the company) is either supporting *all* human rights universally for *all people*, including the right to asylum and to live free of discrimination, or you don't support them at all.

You can't just support #privacy and #FreeSpeech, shit on the rest and claim to be pro-human rights.

Reminder: the EU’s final Chat Control negotiation is today.

If you’re in the EU, contacting your representative still counts in these final hours. It takes two minutes: https://fightchatcontrol.eu

Whatever happens today, this is exactly why we built Zerion with no server to scan.

https://zerion.chat

#chatcontrol #privacy #foss

UK launched largest facial recognition programme in British history: 27 police forces, £26m, LFR in knife crime hotspots. Algorithm has documented racial bias, scans everyone, 50 vans deployed. Mainstream coverage: almost none.

https://thomaster.substack.com/p/the-uks-largest-facial-recognition

#FacialRecognition #LFR #Surveillance #Police #KnifeCrime #Privacy #AI #UKPolitics

Meet ArcaneChat: a secure and #decentralized private messenger

Anonymous: No SIM card needed! No phone numbers required for registration, just set a name and start chatting!

Private: All your conversations are end-to-end encrypted

Discreet: No one can discover you or know that you are using the app! only people you share your invitation link or QR with can contact you

#digitalindependence #privacy #security #family #encryption #autonomy #european #openSource #europe #diday #decentralization

My take on the Mullvad mayhem from today:

https://markwrites.io/if-your-company-funnels-money-to-fascists-youre-a-fascist-company

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But hate speech isn’t free speech. It demands violence against marginalized people. There is no “both sides” to it. It’s not okay to “fundamentally disagree” on it. If you are a company who earns income, and that income is funneled to a fascist political party, it is absolutely part of your mission. Even if it’s turning a blind eye to a teammate with whom you disagree.
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It saddens me to have to walk away from @mullvadnet, but I have a zero tolerance policy for fascism.

I hope they learn from this and reconsider their position.

#Privacy #Mullvad #VPN #DanielBerntsson #OrebroParty #Antifascism #Capitalism #Sweden

The acronym GAFAM specifically refers to the following five major American technology companies:

Google (Alphabet)
Apple
Facebook (Meta)
Amazon
Microsoft

Ask yourself:
Do you live outside their control? Probably not.

#gafam #google #apple #facebook #amazon #microsoft #technology #company #american #privacy #bigdata #surveillance