Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control

they prevent all young people from finding community online, and that they violate young people and adults' First Amendment rights.

#ageverification #surveillance #privacy #censorship #freespeech #technology #tech

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/rep-finke-was-right-age-gating-isnt-about-kids-its-about-control

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/19/fbi_patel_location_data/

#FBI buys tracking data?

Great

Oh look in the same day
#Microsoft #teams says it is helpfully updating #location

#surveillance #privacy #security #snooping #sneakyBarStewards

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The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux

｢ Dylan, useful idiot with commit access, pushed age verification PRs to systemd, Ubuntu & Arch, got 2 Microslop employees to merge it, called it 'hilariously pointless' in the PR itself, then watched Lennart personally block the revert. Unpaid compliance simp ｣

https://www.sambent.com/the-engineer-who-tried-to-put-age-verification-into-linux-5/

#systemd #ageverification #opensource #privacy

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"The lasting damage was knowing it could happen at all: that a single contributor with no stated organizational backing could submit compliance infrastructure for surveillance law directly into the software that boots your computer, get it merged by two Microsoft employees, and have the creator of systemd personally block the removal."

Sheesh.

https://www.sambent.com/the-engineer-who-tried-to-put-age-verification-into-linux-5/

#ArchLinux #linux #microsoft #privacy #security #systemd #Ubuntu

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A Top #Democrat Is Urging Colleagues to Support Trump’s #Spy Machine

Congressman #JimHimes claims a sweeping #surveillance authority should stay intact because he hasn't seen abuses by #KashPatel 's #FBI , according to internal messaging obtained by WIRED.
#privacy #security

> an #authoritarian administration loves to #abuse surveillance. Either he’s not looking or I start wondering if they have something on him

https://www.wired.com/story/a-top-democrat-is-urging-colleagues-to-support-trumps-spy-machine/

New Episode:
Papers, Please 💳🛑

Are you being forced to "show your papers" just to look through a digital fence?
In Episode 18, I'm diving into the 2026 age verification gold rush and how it’s being used as a backdoor for global identity tracking.

In this episode:

🛡️ The Identity Buffet
🛡️ The Middleman Problem
🛡️ Technical Self-Defense

Listen now and join the resistance: ImpracticalPrivacy.com

#Privacy #CyberSecurity #DigitalRights #DataPrivacy #FOSS #PrivacyMatters

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A cybernetic-style digital illustration for a podcast titled "Impractical Privacy: Episode 18 - Papers, Please." The image features a central "Age-Gate Checkpoint" machine being operated by a robotic hand. The machine includes a slot for "Government ID," a screen displaying a human face alongside "biometric hash" and "age estimation" readouts, and an output for "credit card vouching" with a virtual card. In the background, large watchful eyes look over a glowing "Global Identity Network". Floating UI elements highlight privacy concepts from the episode, such as "Zero-Knowledge Proofs," "Graphene Profile Sandbox," "Scrambled EXIF," and "Browser Fingerprint". The overall aesthetic is a neon-lit, dystopian tech environment with a "Sudo" signature in the corner.

Mark Zuckerberg really can’t be bothered to pretend to be a good guy anymore.

Meta kills its end-to-end encryption on Instagram DMs so it can mine ever more personal & private information so they can sell you things you don’t need.

Be wary of how you communicate on any Meta apps even WhatsApp.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-danger-behind-metas-decision-to-kill-end-to-end-encrypted-instagram-dms/

#BigTech #RootesNews #meta #fascism #privacy #surveillance

"Congress Is Dropping the Ball with a Clean Extension of FISA"

"Two years ago, Congress passed the “Reforming Intelligence and Securing America” Act (RISAA) that included nominal reforms toSection 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/congress-dropping-ball-clean-extension-fisa

#Privacy

#Trump’s #AI framework targets state laws, shifts child safety burden to parents

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/20/trumps-ai-framework-targets-state-laws-shifts-child-safety-burden-to-parents/

#privacy #parenting #politics

#Amazon plans #smartphone comeback more than a decade after #FirePhone flop

https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-plans-smartphone-comeback-more-than-decade-after-fire-phone-flop-2026-03-20/

#privacy #Alexa #AI #Transformer

The FBI is buying data that can be used to track the whereabouts of U.S. citizens. The federal agency purchases location data from the same companies that power the online advertising ecosystem, potentially giving them the location of citizens with a phone connected to the internet. Read more from @Engadget:

https://flip.it/Y8GUq9

#Tech #FBI #Privacy #USA #Technolgy #Security

#FBI is buying #location data to track #US citizens, director confirms
When asked by Sen #RonWyden, if FBI would commit to not buying Americans’ location data, Patel said that agency “uses all tools … to do our mission.”
“We do purchase commercially available information that is consistent with the Constitution and the laws under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act — and it has led to some valuable intelligence for us,” Patel testified Wed.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/18/fbi-is-buying-location-data-to-track-us-citizens-kash-patel-wyden/
#privacy #surveillance

Ach…. Die #Chatkontrolle soll also anlasslos, d.h. ohne Verdacht, weitergeführt werden… Wer hat denn wirklich gedacht, die lassen sie einfach mal so fallen?

‚Die EU-Mitgliedstaaten gingen schon vor den Verhandlungen zur Verlängerung der freiwilligen Chatkontrolle mit dem EU-Parlament von einem Scheitern aus. Man wollte keine Kompromisse und fürchtet Vorfestlegungen für die Verhandlungen zur permanenten Chatkontrolle. Das zeigen eingestufte Protokolle, die Netzpolitik veröffentlichen……‘

https://netzpolitik.org/2026/verlaengerung-der-ausnahmeregelung-rat-liess-chatkontrolle-verhandlungen-sehenden-auges-scheitern/

#Chatkontrolle #ChatkontrolleStoppen #EU #Überwachung #Daten #Datensicherheit #Privacy #Netzpolitik

Ex-data analyst stole company data in $2.5M extortion scheme

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/data-analyst-found-guilty-of-extorting-brightly-software-of-25-million/

#Brightly #cybersecurity #SchoolDude #privacy #DataBreach

‚In einer Debatte um die Chatkontrolle fordert SPD-Innenpolitiker Sebastian Fiedler eine Form extremer Überwachung. Auf Fragen, wie diese Überwachung technisch und grundrechtskonform umgesetzt werden soll, hat der Bundestagsabgeordnete offenbar keine Antwort….‘

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/anlasslose-massenueberwachung-spd-politiker-fordert-inhaltskontrolle-auf-allen-endgeraeten/

‚Der Vorschlag würde eine extreme Form von Zensur und Inhaltskontrolle erfordern. Die Technologie und das Vorhaben wären noch weit eingriffsintensiver als die verpflichtende Chatkontrolle, die in Europa vier Jahre lang diskutiert wurde und nun vorerst vom Tisch ist. Zensurtechnologien auf Endgeräten, wie die von Fiedler vorgeschlagene Version, sind eher aus Ländern wie Nordkorea bekannt.‘

#Chatkontrolle #Überwachung #Germany #Deutschland #SPD #Privacy #Datenschutz #Daten

cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/40170883

What’s at stake is whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control over the internet to enforce specific moral and religious judgments—judgments that deny marginalized people access to speech, community, history, and truth—into law.

Session co-founder has announced that Session may close its doors next month due to missing additional funding, we must ensure we support it before it's too late, privacy it's everything and we can't afford to lose it. #session #shutdown #privacy

A rogue #AI led to a serious security incident at #Meta

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/897528/meta-rogue-ai-agent-security-incident

#cybersecurity #privacy

📣 Advice requested ☮️

📻 The NGO I am with has begun recording a #podcast. The project is not managed by me.

I am tasked with avoiding technical & privacy pitfalls; also, identifying best practices.

❓ Do you have any suggestions for podcast #hosting?

(⭐ BONUS: free or discounted fees for nonprofit orgs)

I will share your feedback at today's Advisory Board meeting. TIA! 🧡

#podcasts #nonprofit #privacy #advice #askfedi #help #foss #BestPractices #tech #media #NGO

#Navia discloses #DataBreach impacting 2.7 million people

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/navia-discloses-data-breach-impacting-27-million-people/

#cybersecurity #privacy #healthcare

#Google details new 24-hour process to #sideload unverified #Android apps

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/google-details-new-24-hour-process-to-sideload-unverified-android-apps/

#KeepAndroidOpen #privacy #cybersecurity