Uncovering Global #Telecom Exploitation by Covert #Surveillance Actors

https://citizenlab.ca/research/uncovering-global-telecom-exploitation-by-covert-surveillance-actors/

#privacy

Getting Digital Fairness Right: #EFF's Recommendations for the #EU's #DigitalFairnessAct

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/dos-and-donts-eus-digital-fairness-act-effs-recommendation-regulating-digital

#privacy #surveillance #politics #Europe

The advocacy for privacy is kind of like a 'Silent Revolution' from the past decade till now.

More & more people are becoming aware of their #privacy rights & have concerns about #surveillance.

Even the #BigTech are compelled to add privacy features in their products. We have got great #FOSS apps.

But still, I think we have a very long way to go in this revolution.

#Tech #technology #OpenSource #Digital #software #FreeSoftware #SilentRevolution #opinion #thought #truth

🚨 911

The government has limited committee study to 3 days. This will pass next week if we don’t stop it. The “Lawful Access” bill, Bill C22 allows warrantless access to all your digital devices. The Canadian Chamber of Commerce, The Canadian Civil Liberties Union, and 25 tech & privacy orgs have written an open letter urging the government to repeal it.

Please help stop it and contact your MPs #Canada 🇨🇦

#privacy #surveillance #tech #cdnpoli #democracy

https://www.openmedia.org/StopC22-bsky

"Israeli telecom infrastructure was used to track citizens in more than ten countries over the past three years, according to a report published recently by the digital research group Citizen Lab.

The findings, reviewed by Haaretz in recent weeks, expose how efforts to upgrade phone network infrastructures built in the 1970s for the smartphone era still leave even the most advanced devices exposed to surveillance.

The report describes two separate tracking operations, each likely run by a commercial firm selling surveillance technologies to governments around the world. One was also found to have exploited Israeli geolocation technology to track targets, using networks belonging to 019Mobile and Partner Communications, although both Israeli companies denied any involvement.

A second, more sophisticated operation is linked to a Swiss firm at the center of a 2023 Haaretz investigation for supplying Israeli surveillance companies, including Rayzone, which develops and sells cyber intelligence technologies to government agencies around the world."

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2026-05-03/ty-article-magazine/ghost-operators-how-israeli-telecoms-were-exploited-to-track-citizens-worldwide/0000019d-e9c0-dd9a-a79d-ede90a450000

#Israel #Surveillance #CyberIntelligence

Uproar about the "EU mass surveillance app " and why being shocked by this means your late to the party. #privacy #EUrope #GDPR #ethics #surveillance https://privacyinsightsolutions.com/blog/eu-facial-recognition-loud-regulation-quiet-enforcement

New Week, New Privacy Goal 🎯

Goal: Don't let a parking app track your entire week before you even get to work.

In our latest episode, we expose how parking apps harvest your location, device ID, and license plate data—and how to stop it.

From "ghost" accounts to advocating for cash options, here's how to keep your Monday commute private.

🎧 Listen now: ImpracticalPrivacy.com

#MondayMotivation #DigitalPrivacy #ImpracticalPrivacy #TechTips #Surveillance #DigitalRights #PrivacyTools

Monday morning commute? Before you scan that QR code to pay for parking, ask yourself:

"Am I paying for a spot, or am I paying for a surveillance subscription?"

Your city ripped out the meters. Now you have to download an app that tracks your GPS, fingerprints your phone, and sells your plate data.

Start your week by reclaiming your privacy.

🎧 New Episode: Tagged in the City
🔗 ImpracticalPrivacy.com

#MondayMotivation #Commute #Privacy #Surveillance #ImpracticalPrivacy

Here's what nobody talks about with parking apps: The chilling effect.

When you know your movements are logged, you change your behavior. You avoid certain neighborhoods. You reroute your commute. You second-guess where you park.

That's not convenience. That's a Panopticon. You become your own guard.

In ep24 we dig into how coerced surveillance reshapes how we move through cities and how to push back.

🔗 ImpracticalPrivacy.com

#Privacy #Psychology #Surveillance #Urbanism #DigitalRights

Uncovering Global #Telecom #Exploitation by #Covert #Surveillance Actors- CitizenLab

2 sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns &, for the 1st time, links real-world attack traffic to mobile operator signalling #infrastructure. The findings expose how suspected commercial surveillance vendors #exploit the global telecom interconnect ecosystem, leverage private operator networks, & conduct covert location tracking operations that can persist undetected for years.

https://citizenlab.ca/research/uncovering-global-telecom-exploitation-by-covert-surveillance-actors/

Greece plans to require social media users to verify real identities, limiting anonymity to curb abuse and misinformation, raising privacy risks ⚖️
Officials say pseudonyms may remain but tied to real identities, highlighting tensions between state oversight, platform control, and user anonymity 🔐

🔗 https://www.euractiv.com/news/greece-to-ban-anonymity-on-social-media/

#TechNews #Greece #SocialMedia #Privacy #DigitalRights #Cybersecurity #Surveillance #FOSS #Security #Data #Internet #Freedom #Censorship #Regulation #Tech #Europe #EU #Greek

Turkey plans to ban unlicensed VPNs and require approved providers to log user activity and share data with authorities, restricting anonymous access. 🚫
VPN signups surged as users seek privacy tools amid blocks, highlighting tensions between state control, surveillance risks, and user autonomy online. 🔐

🔗 https://reclaimthenet.org/turkey-to-ban-anonymous-vpns

#TechNews #Turkey #VPN #Cybersecurity #Privacy #Surveillance #FOSS #Security #Data #Internet #Freedom #Censorship #Encryption #Tech #Europe #EU #Türkiye #Anonymity

The Authoritarian Stack

How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

https://www.authoritarian-stack.info/

#USA #Europe #Surveillance #Technology #Capitalism #TechnoFacism

“Parents and Kids Safe AI Coalition” is an organization that smells suspiciously to me like yet another astroturfed effort to legally require age-gating (i.e. deanonymization) on the internet.

Their “policy principles” page purports to require parental controls “safeguards”, based on classifying individual users using “age estimation technology”, but “When age cannot be determined, default to protective safegaurds [sic].” IMO this is a thin veil over the actual system that most operators will choose to implement, i.e. traditional identity verification #surveillance.

#OpenAI is a member of this organization, which is a red flag to me.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/openai-child-safety-artificial-intelligence/4053453/

https://parentsandkidssafeai.com

Trump Has OFFICIALLY Turned The US Into A Surveillance State!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=SKJSaYALb-8&si=eTXmH0KYeGrzSSzm

#surveillance
#surveillancestate

#DualUseTech: the #BAESystems example

https://privacyinternational.org/report/5766/dual-use-tech-bae-systems-example

#privacy #surveillance #military

#Meta cuts contractors who reported seeing #RayBan Meta users have sex

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/meta-cuts-contractors-who-reported-seeing-ray-ban-meta-users-have-sex/

#privacy #surveillance #AI

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Le #Grand #Continent : La coalition de #Trump se fissure autour de la #surveillance par l' #IA

legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/04/3...

La coalition de Trump se fissu...”

https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:epi5fsta2mfja2jqbua4dl2f/post/3mkshrqv34c2e

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"The Sandbox", about the border industrial #surveillance machine, on tomorrow morning at #HotDocs #Toronto https://boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=607610~cd63fa6a-1569-492d-89ae-a73ea714567e&epguid=0c9e30f5-b8d3-43f6-9b42-146989f9d91a&mdy=5/2/2026&

"Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says"
"Federal Bill Would Bring OS-Level Age Verification to the Entire U.S."
"Japan relaxes privacy laws to make itself the ‘easiest country to develop AI’"
"City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children’s Gymnastics Room as a Sales Pitch Demo, Renews Contract Anyway"

Check out the full list headlines I caught for April.

https://theprivacycloud.substack.com/p/april-2026-privacy-news-roundup

#privacy #surveillance #AI #anonymity #technology

#DualUseTech: the #LockheedMartin example

https://privacyinternational.org/report/5764/dual-use-tech-lockheed-martin-example

#surveillance #military #privacy

Open Records Laws Reveal #ALPRs’ Sprawling #Surveillance. Now States Want to Block What the Public Sees.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/open-records-laws-reveal-alprs-sprawling-surveillance-now-states-want-block-what

#privacy #politics

Smart glasses or spy glasses: #Meta may let people see too much

https://adguard.com/en/blog/smart-glasses-meta-face-recognition.html

#privacy #AI #surveillance

Mickey Mouse is watching you: Disneyland deploys facial recognition

Disney said on its website that “technical, administrative and physical measures” had been implemented to protect visitors’ information. But the company also noted: “please be aware, despite our best efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable.”

#disneyland #entertainment #facialrecognition #surveillance #privacy #technology #tech

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

City Learns #Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Pitch Demo, Renews Contract Anyway

https://www.404media.co/city-learns-flock-accessed-cameras-in-childrens-gymnastics-room-as-a-sales-pitch-demo-renews-contract-anyway/

#privacy #surveillance

ICYMI: noyb sues Hamburg DPA as PimEyes keeps scanning faces unhindered: Privacy group noyb today sued Hamburg's data watchdog for refusing to act against PimEyes, a facial recognition engine holding billions of biometric records. https://ppc.land/noyb-sues-hamburg-dpa-as-pimeyes-keeps-scanning-faces-unhindered/ #Privacy #FacialRecognition #DataProtection #BiometricData #Surveillance

The New York Childrens Online Safety Act will ban anyone under 18 from chatting online.

The bill specifically states that all online platforms, including video games which have a live chat feature for their users, are required to implement age verification measures, and ban anyone under the age of 18 from using communication features.

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S4609/amendment/original

#AgeVerification #IDVerification #privacy #surveillance #dystopia #socialmedia #gaming #technology #NewYork #USA

Deep reporting by the Wall Street Journal on the heavy surveillance the U.S. government is doing on people, ignoring limits set historically and aggressively crossing legal and ethical boundaries of privacy and citizen surveillance.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/immigration-ice-arrests-surveillance-6f1cef64

#surveillance #privacy #journalism

Utah’s New Law Targeting VPNs Goes Into Effect Next Week

Instead of realizing that mass #surveillance and age gates aren't exactly crowd favorites, #Utah lawmakers have decided that VPNs themselves are the real issue.

Next week, on May 6, 2026, Utah will become, to EFF’s knowledge, the first state in the nation to target the use of VPNs to avoid legally mandated age-verification gates.
#VPN #privacy #security #ageverification

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/utahs-new-law-regulating-vpns-goes-effect-next-week

EU-funded programs and institutions are financing spyware firms like Intellexa and Paragon, despite use against journalists and activists in Europe. 🕵️‍♂️
Reports cite weak oversight and transparency, raising risks to privacy, encryption, and democratic rights. 🚨

🔗 https://edri.org/our-work/its-not-just-spyware-scandals-eu-is-funding-the-industry-that-spies-on-europeans/

#TechNews #EU #Europe #Spyware #Privacy #Surveillance #Intellexa #Paragon #Cybersecurity #Encryption #FOSS #OpenSource #DataProtection #DigitalRights #Security #Transparency #Journalism #Activism

Proton CEO Andy Yen warns global age-verification laws could end anonymity via ID or biometric checks and centralized databases. 🔐
He calls for open-source, on-device, encrypted checks, warning they could expand controls, reducing user control and enabling tracking. ⚠️

@protonprivacy

🔗 https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/proton-ceo-warns-global-age-verification-push-will-mean-the-death-of-anonymity-online

#TechNews #Proton #Privacy #AgeVerification #Cybersecurity #Encryption #FOSS #OpenSource #DataProtection #Surveillance #BigTech #Security #DigitalRights #Anonymity #Internet

Sur #LaRevueDePressive

ChatGPT : OpenAI officialise la surveillance de vos conversations dans un billet de blog surréaliste - Les Numériques
https://www.lesnumeriques.com/intelligence-artificielle/chatgpt-openai-officialise-la-surveillance-de-vos-conversations-dans-un-billet-de-blog-surrealiste-n255180.html
> Dans un très curieux billet de blog, OpenAI détaille pour la première fois l'infrastructure qu'elle déploie pour scanner, analyser et potentiellement signaler aux autorités les échanges de ses abonnés. Sous couvert de p…

#Surveillance #CyberSurveillance #BigBrother #IA #IArienQuiVa

https://lesliensde.jeey.net/shaare/0JSQCw

Free software offers trust and privacy; #Ring offers mass surveillance: https://u.fsf.org/4aw #Flock #privacy #surveillance

#Webloc and ad-based #surveillance: How everyday app data fuels a global intelligence effort

https://adguard.com/en/blog/weblock-location-tracking-surveilliance.html

#advertising #adblocker #adblocking #SDK #Cobwebs #Spire #Penlink #Quadream

Met Police's #Palantir deployment has its own officers watching their backs - https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/30/met_police_palantir_deployment_cop_probe/ #surveillance is surveillance