Google’s QR-code reCAPTCHA now requires approved Android or iOS devices, blocking some deGoogled and privacy-focused operating systems from verification 📱
@GrapheneOS says the system expands hardware attestation and increases dependence on Apple or Google-controlled mobile ecosystems 🔒

🔗 https://cybernews.com/privacy/google-qr-code-recaptcha-requires-approved-phone/

#TechNews #Google #reCAPTCHA #GrapheneOS #Android #Apple #iPhone #iOS #Privacy #OpenSource #FOSS #Cybersecurity #Encryption #Linux #Surveillance #Freedom #Security #CAPTCHA #DeGoogle

Counterterrorism Czar’s Blueprint Targets Leftists, Ignores Far-Right Violence and Heaps Praise on Trump
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Sebastian Gorka’s anti-terror plan makes no mention of long-established threats posed by far-right militants and instead villainizes the president’s political enemies. “This administration is not paying attention to the data,” one expert said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-counterterrorism-plan-ignores-far-rights-gorka?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Terrorism #Trump #USPolitics #Violence #Security #Extremism

Age Verification is Now Mutating into General ID

Surveillance creep is once again striking in the age verification debate. This is happening at the FCC this time.

https://www.freezenet.ca/age-verification-is-now-mutating-into-general-id/

#Censorship #News #Privacy #Security #AgeVerification #CellPhone #FCC #US

Gizmodo: FCC Attempts to Solve Robocall Problem by Potentially Creating Even Bigger Privacy Problem. “Among other sweeping changes, the era of the burner phone could end with the rollout of new ‘Know Your Customer’ rules voted on by the FCC on April 30, as noted by the blog of the D.C. telecom law firm Wiley Rein. Customers would, according to the proposed rules, have to present a government […]

Future of Privacy Forum: The EU Commission’s Approach to Age Verification: Mobile Apps, DSA Enforcement, and Challenging National Social Media Bans. “This blog post outlines the Commission’s emerging strategic approach to the implementation of EU-wide age verification measures, provides an analysis of the legal framework envisioned for their deployment, and includes notes on the […]

20 million people! The New jim Crow has a list of 20 million people, but y'all stay mad at people for just surviving!

ICE Agents Have List of 20 Million People on Their iPhones Thanks to Palantir

https://www.404media.co/ice-agents-have-list-of-20-million-people-on-their-iphones-thanks-to-palantir/

#ICE #Palantir #AI #Security #Privacy #Surveillance #ACAB #Tech

Google’s new QR-based reCAPTCHA ties web verification to Play Integrity and Apple attestation systems instead of traditional CAPTCHA check 🌐
Privacy-focused Android variants like GrapheneOS and LineageOS risk losing access as device approval becomes part of web authentication 🔐

@GrapheneOS
@lineageos

🔗 https://www.heise.de/en/news/Google-s-new-reCAPTCHA-Potential-hurdle-for-Google-free-Android-variants-11288619.html

#TechNews #Google #reCAPTCHA #Captcha #GooglePlay #PlayIntegrity #GrapheneOS #LineageOS #Privacy #OpenWeb #Android #Security #FOSS #Telemetry #Web #Freedom #OpenSource

Apple and Google enabled end-to-end encrypted RCS chats, extending interoperable private messaging across iPhone and Android.
EFF’s Encrypt It Already campaign urges Meta, Telegram, Ring and others to expand encryption as defaults keep user data exposed. 🔐

@eff

🔗 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/victory-end-end-encrypted-rcs-comes-apple-and-android-chats

#TechNews #RCS #E2EE #Apple #Google #iOS #Samsung #Pixel #Smartphone #EFF #Privacy #Encryption #OpenSource #Security #Messaging #Android #iPhone #SocialMedia #Meta #Telegram #Ring #Signal

Would you pass a background check?

#EvanPoll #poll #security #backgroundcheck

The alarming data point is: "Genomic data generation is projected to reach 40 exabytes annually by 2025, surpassing the data output of astronomy and social media platforms combined." To mitigate this threat, organizations must prioritize establishing a dedicated genetic data privacy officer as a distinct leadership position within their organization, ensuring that they have the necessary expertise to proactively manage the growing volume and velocity of genetic information.

Where would breaking news: the uncharted intersection of biotech... break first in your environment?

Read more: https://steelefortress.com/fortress-feed/breaking-news-the-uncharted-intersection-of-biotechnology-data-privacy-and-genetic-information-revealed-in-groundbreaking-2025-study

CyberSecurity #Privacy #InfoSec #Security

🎥 Watch Teaser: https://steelefortress.com/05kzda

Honestly over the year, i tested many app for chat, and one of them i unfairely refused to test, because it was a "ridiculous idea", fast forward a years, and it's now my default app, and the most stable one i had (even more stable than the Liar Signal).

This app is @delta

Please Try it, use it as much as possible, and go out the Signal's LIAR that try to maintain you in the GAFAM server ecosystem by telling it's impossible to run a chat otherwise Delta is the living proof they lied.

#endtoend #endtoend_encryption #chat #email #privacy #security #sovereinty #foss #selfhosting

Meduza: Yandex subsidiary fined for transferring Yango taxi users’ personal data to Russia. “A Dutch-registered subsidiary of technology company Yandex has been fined 100 million euros for transferring the personal data of users of the Yango taxi service to Russia, Finland’s Data Protection Ombudsman announced. The company, MLU B.V., is part of the Yandex group and registered in the […]

Tech companies seem to be running a cycle:

1. They don't realize how much they're relying on volunteer-maintained projects.
2. Something bad happens and they suddenly decide they need to support this critical infrastructure, often by hiring some people behind it and making its maintenance part of their dayjob.
3. They realize they could save money by exploiting volunteers to maintain these #OpenSource projects. They lay workers off or move them to other projects.
4. Go to 1.

Except now they're trying to replace workers with slop machines, deskill everyone and basically they're not only poisoning the well, but killing the whole water cycle. And they're realizing that they just gave the bad people a tool that can quickly find just how vulnerable their critical infrastructure is.

Really appreciate the long-term thinking there.

#FreeSoftware #FLOSS #TechBros #AI #LLM #NoAI #NoLLM #Linux #security

End-to-end encryption is one of the most important foundations allowing children and youth to remain safe online.

#encryption #privacy #security #children #youth #technology

This dependency security initiative is awesome! I didn't know that @packagist was taking these steps: well done!

https://phpunit.expert/articles/the-bouncer-in-the-dependency-resolver.html

For me, that means that I'll keep maintaining @roave /security-advisories ( https://github.com/Roave/SecurityAdvisories ) for the foreseeable future, but that most new users won't need it anymore. #php #composer #security

#ICE Plans to Develop Own #SmartGlasses to ‘Supplement’ Its #FacialRecognition App

…“supplement” the agency’s facial recognition #MobileFortify application, which lets officers scan someone’s face to verify their #citizenship, according to a Department of #HomelandSecurity ( #DHS ) official. Another person who attended a conference where a senior ICE official spoke about the plans also described them to 404 Media.
#privacy #security #biometrics

https://www.404media.co/ice-plans-to-develop-own-smart-glasses-to-supplement-its-facial-recognition-app/

"... If I sold Google some data cables, and months later sent them an email “btw in 5 business days your cables will start sending all the data going through them to me, even though you specifically told me not to enable this feature, unless you re-disable it”, I would go to jail for hacking."

#Surveillance #Panopticon #SpyWare #Google #Gemini #Privacy #Security #Email

No more back doors!

Apple Warns Canada's Bill C-22 Could Force Encryption Backdoors

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/08/apple-warns-canada-bill-force-encryption-backdoors/

#Apple #Canada #Encryption #Vulnerability #Privacy #Surveillance #Security #Tech

Privacy Commissioner Investigating Centurion Project. Strongly Worded Letter Could Follow

The lack of any real privacy laws could play a role in the Centurion Project scandal that exposed millions of Alberta voters.

https://www.freezenet.ca/privacy-commissioner-investigating-centurion-project-strongly-worded-letter-could-follow/

#News #Privacy #Security #Alberta #Canada #CanPol #CenturionProject #DataLeak #JasonKenney #politics #PrivacyCommissioner #PrivacyReform

An investigator (with access to very sensitive information) with Switzerland’s Federal Police (+/- equivalent to the FBI), was found to have been working for the mafia.
Meanwhile, the government wants to update the existing surveillance law and significantly expand state surveillance in the country.
what could go wrong ?

#switzerland #privacy #surveillance #security #cyber

Meta removed E2EE from Instagram DMs today, May 8, ending private encrypted chats and enabling broader message scanning for abuse detection 📩🔓
The change follows global pressure tied to CSAM enforcement, raising transparency and user-control concerns around private communication 🕵️‍♂️⚠️

🔗 https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/instagram-removes-end-to-end-encryption-in-messages-your-dm-chats-are-longer-private-2908633-2026-05-08

#TechNews #Instagram #Facebook #Meta #E2EE #Privacy #Encryption #Messaging #CyberSecurity #WhatsApp #ChatControl #Surveillance #FOSS #Security #SocialMedia #DataPrivacy

Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/07/8

This is a report on "Dirty Frag", a universal LPE that allows obtaining root privileges on all major distributions. This vulnerability has a similar impact to the previous Copy Fail.

#linux #security

Engadget: Canadian officials claim OpenAI violated federal and provincial privacy laws . “Philippe Dufresne, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, has found OpenAI was ‘not compliant with’ Canadian federal and provincial privacy laws in the training of its AI models. “

I am starting to think that the only way to protect ourselves from privacy and data theft is to pollute the datasphere with fake information connected to you.

Start filling forms with the wrong birthdates, addresses, phone numbers. Let the data brokers have to do some work to make money selling your information. If it’s corrupted, they won’t be worth much.

Thoughts?

#Privacy #Security #DataBroker

Mickey Mouse is watching you: Disneyland deploys facial recognition

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/28/disneyland-entrance-facial-recognition

#privacy #security #surveillance #facialrecognition #disney #disneyland #california

Everyone loves jeering at vibecoded #GitHub being down all the time. Yet for some reason people still neglect to question making #Microsoft the primary guarantor of their software's supply chain #security. And the whole attestation nonsense that doesn't really protect against the most likely attack vectors.

To stop children from bypassing its age checks, Meta is revamping its age-verification tools with an AI system that analyzes images and videos for “visual cues,” such as height and bone structure.

Alt...

A Kid With a Fake Mustache Tricked an Online Age-Verification Tool

Instagram will no longer encrypt chats starting this Friday

Meta announced that IG will officially discontinue end-to-end encryption feature on May 8th.

All DMs will be decrypted once it reaches Meta's servers.

https://cybersecuritynews.com/instagram-end-encryption-direct-messages/

#Meta #Instagram #privacy #surveillance #security #enshittification #messaging #socialmedia #technology

So, you may want/need to adjust which browsers you're deeming as being a 'good' standard recommend for use:

* MS Edge browser is storing (all) passwords it manages in clear text in memory. A memory dump can be created very easily using on-board Windows (or other) tools to compromise them from user account level.
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/32954
* Google is to install a 4 GB in size local LLM silently on Chrome browsers (No consent dialogue. No opt-in. No opt-out. Reinstalls itself if the user removes it manually.)
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/

🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

#browsers #LLM #GenAI #enshittification #privacy #security #BigTech