Penpot is a full design & prototyping platform that’s fully open-source and self-hostable.

Browser-based, built on open web standards (SVG, CSS, HTML, JSON), and designed to bridge the gap between designers and developers.

👉 https://github.com/penpot/penpot

Discover more tools like this at https://digital-escape-tools-phi.vercel.app/

#OpenSource #FOSS #DesignTools #SelfHosting #Privacy #DigitalFreedom

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A screenshot of the Penpot open-source design tool homepage. The Penpot logo is at the top left, followed by navigation links: MPL 2.0 license info, Discourse community with 18k posts, and links to Taiga.io and Gitpod. Below, a row of buttons reads: Website · User Guide · Learning Center · Community. Social media icons include YouTube, Peertube, LinkedIn, Instagram, Mastodon, Bluesky, and X. A video thumbnail titled “Penpot_OpenYourEyes_.mp4” is shown. The description below reads: “Penpot is the first open-source design tool for design and code collaboration. Designers can create stunning designs, interactive prototypes, design systems at scale, while developers enjoy ready-to-use code and make their workflow easy and fast. And all of this with no handoff drama.

This curated blocklist (1000+ domains) helps reduce AI-generated and low-quality content in your search results.

Works with uBlock Origin, uBlacklist, Pi-hole, and AdGuard — giving you more control over what appears in Google, DuckDuckGo, or Bing.
Cleaner results. Less noise. More signal.

👉 https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

👉 More tools like this: https://digital-escape-tools-phi.vercel.app/

#Privacy #OpenSource #uBlockOrigin #PiHole #AdGuard #digitalminimalism

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Screenshot of “uBlockOrigin & uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist.” The preview card explains it’s a manually curated list of 1000+ domains containing AI-generated content, designed to clean up search results on Google, DuckDuckGo, and Bing using uBlock Origin or uBlacklist. Hashtags include Privacy, OpenSource, and uBlockOrigin.

Daily Digest | 2 March 2026

Your daily dose of Privacy, Data Protection, AI & Cybersecurity news.

5 stories you should not miss.

Read more: https://www.nicfab.eu/daily-digest/

#Privacy #AI #GDPR #Cybersecurity #TechLaw

My favorite site to learn about data privacy is datarade dot ai.

Just put yourself in the shoes of an anti "fraud" product sourcer that's looking to purchase data.

#privacy

solidtime is a modern open-source time tracking app built for freelancers and teams.
Track work hours without sending productivity data to SaaS platforms , a privacy-respecting alternative to traditional trackers.
GitHub : https://github.com/solidtime-io/solidtime

More privacy-friendly tools curated at https://digital-escape-tools-phi.vercel.app/

#Privacy #OpenSource #FOSS #TimeTracking #SelfHosting #DigitalFreedom

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An image of the solidtime open-source time tracker dashboard. The top bar shows the license (AGPL-3.0), test coverage (8.9%), build status (passing), and PHPStan level 7. The main interface is divided into sections. On the left, “Recently Tracked Tasks” lists tasks like “Competitive Research” and “Change Button Color” under “Landing Page Design.” In the center, an “Activity Graph” shows tracked hours for “Today” (6h 25min), “Yesterday” (2h 59min), “Tomorrow” (4h 25min), “Next Week” (1h 03min), and “Last 7 Days” (26h 59min). On the right, “Team Activity” displays tasks assigned to Gregor Vorstek, Konstantin Graf, and John Doe. Below, the tagline reads: “solidtime is a modern open-source time tracking application for Freelancers and Agencies.

#OpenAI is now officially data supplier for the Pentagon and is very proud of it!

Your Data flows directly to the U.S. Department of War! #ChatGPT

--> Delete your Account!

https://openai.com/index/our-agreement-with-the-department-of-war/

#US #Surveillance #KI #AI #Technology #Tech #War #Data #Privacy

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Prohibition sign with crossed-out OpenAI logo in a red circle

Leak confirms #GrapheneOS & #Motorola partnership for non-#Pixel hardware

https://piunikaweb.com/2026/02/27/leak-confirms-grapheneos-motorola-partnership-for-non-pixel-hardware/

#Android #privacy #cybersecurity #FOSS

US federal judge rules #IRS violated federal law by disclosing thousands of taxpayers’ confidential information to #ICE

https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/us-federal-judge-rules-irs-violated-federal-law-by-disclosing-thousands-of-taxpayers-confidential-information-to-ice/#

#taxes #privacy #politics

The @EUCommission wastes our tax payer money to team up with #Microsoft the #gatekeeper and notorious #antitrust villain and sue the EU data protection agency @EDPS@social.network.europa.eu because the Commission wants to continue to use the #M365 software #security shitshow.

How low can this institution sink?

https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/112722381771336529

#privacy #gdpr #dataprotection #edps

The Privacy Cloud's monthly news roundup for February is available to read now. See the privacy headlines that I caught throughout the month.

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

#privacy #security #technology #news

LA Times:

"...After previously denying it had federal contracts, Flock Chief Executive Garrett Langley admitted in interviews in recent months that the company has worked with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security Investigations. ..."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-03-01/surveillance-company-flock-safety-los-angeles

#privacy #surveillance #bigbrother #flock #ICE

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Much of the backlash has been aimed specifically at Flock — a heavyweight in the surveillance market that contracts with a reported 5,000 U.S. policing agencies. The company’s data-sharing with federal authorities and cybersecurity lapses have been documented by 404 Media and other outlets. After previously denying it had federal contracts, Flock Chief Executive Garrett Langley admitted in interviews in recent months that the company has worked with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security Investigations. The company has since said that it has severed ties with both agencies, and responded to other concerns by giving communities more power to decide whom to grant access to state or nationwide lookup networks.

"Let’s explore the best alternatives to Discord"

"With many users feeling uneasy about Discord's new age verification requirement, here are some alternatives that could be worth exploring."

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/01/best-discord-alternatives-age-verification-identity-privacy/

#Privacy

Don't Trust END to END Encryption
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaQT1e6SBM8&t=1339
#privacy

Al Gore Invented the Internet.
Joe Biden invented PGP encryption.
Cypherpunks write code.

Joe Biden gifted humanity with PGP encryption (in a roundabout way). Phil Zimmermann created PGP in response to a anti-privacy bill clause proposed by Senator Joe Biden.

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/cypherpunks-write-code

"In 1990, the FBI launched an over-the-top crackdown on computer hackers, known as Operation Sundevil. This was swiftly followed, in early 1991, by a proposed piece of U.S. Senate legislation that would force electronic communications service providers to hand over people’s personal data. (The key clause, S.266, was pushed by the then chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Joe Biden.)"

"On learning of Biden’s S.266 clause, Zimmermann feverishly set out to complete the project, almost losing his house in the process. When he finished his software in 1991, he published it all online, free for anyone who wanted to use it. He called it “Pretty Good Privacy,” or PGP for short, and within weeks it had been downloaded and shared by thousands of people around the world. “Before PGP, there was no way for two ordinary people to communicate over long distances without the risk of interception,” said Zimmermann in a later interview. “Not by phone, not by FedEx, not by fax.” It remains the most widely used form of email encryption to this day."

https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-congress/senate-bill/266

"SEC. 2201. COOPERATION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROVIDERS WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT. It is the sense of Congress that providers of electronic communications services and manufacturers of electronic communications service equipment shall ensure that communications systems permit the government to obtain the plain text contents of voice, data, and other communications when appropriately authorized by law."

#Biden #JoeBiden #PGP #Cypherpunks #Cypherpunk #PhilZimmermann #Privacy #Cybersecurity #Cryptography #GPG #Email #Senate #Law #Government #Panopticon #Hackers #Hacking #Security #Encryption

Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs
From Cornel University Computer Science

We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and Anthropic Interviewer participants at high precision, given pseudonymous online profiles and conversations alone, matching what would take hours for a dedicated human investigator. We then design attacks for the closed-world setting. Given two databases of pseudonymous individuals, each containing unstructured text written by or about that individual, we implement a scalable attack pipeline that uses LLMs to: (1) extract identity-relevant features, (2) search for candidate matches via semantic embeddings, and (3) reason over top candidates to verify matches and reduce false positives. Compared to classical deanonymization work (e.g., on the Netflix prize) that required structured data, our approach works directly on raw user content across arbitrary platforms. We construct three datasets with known ground-truth data to evaluate our attacks. The first links Hacker News to LinkedIn profiles, using cross-platform references that appear in the profiles. Our second dataset matches users across Reddit movie discussion communities; and the third splits a single user's Reddit history in time to create two pseudonymous profiles to be matched. In each setting, LLM-based methods substantially outperform classical baselines, achieving up to 68% recall at 90% precision compared to near 0% for the best non-LLM method. Our results show that the practical obscurity protecting pseudonymous users online no longer holds and that threat models for online privacy need to be reconsidered.

Simon Lermen, Daniel Paleka, Joshua Swanson, Michael Aerni, Nicholas Carlini, Florian Tramè

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602

#computerscience #cornelluniversity #AiResearch #privacy #anonymity #llm #HackNews #athropic #pseudonymity
#deanonymization

Video doorbells are handy, but they’re a threat to privacy. I spoke to experts about why you might ditch your doorbell, and how to safeguard your video.

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Video Doorbell Advice and Settings for Opting Out of the Surveillance State

"Video Doorbell Advice and Settings for Opting Out of the Surveillance State"

"I spoke to experts about why you might ditch your doorbell, and how to safeguard your video. Video doorbells are handy, but they’re a threat to privacy."

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-secure-your-video-doorbell/

#Privacy

Banning children from VPNs and social media will erode adults' privacy | New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516996-banning-children-from-vpns-and-social-media-will-erode-adults-privacy/

> Legislation working its way through the UK parliament would ban children from using social media and virtual private networks – but the proposals would endanger online privacy and may not make children safer, say legal experts

#privacy

SFist: Lawsuit Says Flock Allowed Out-of-State Agencies Access to SFPD Cameras 1.6 Million Times

A local law firm filed a lawsuit against Flock alleging that out-of-state agencies were given access to the SFPD’s database more than 1.6 million times, and a recent audit by the El Cerrito's police department found that several federal agencies were briefly given access to its database.

https://sfist.com/2026/02/28/lawsuit-says-flock-allowed-out-of-state-agencies-access-to-sfpd-database-1-6-million-times/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

#flock #privacy #bigbrother

The Tumbler Ridge Shooting Was Tragic. Making it an Excuse for Government Surveillance Would Be Too

OpenAI has been in the news here in Canada for a while thanks to the Tumbler Ridge shooting and how much it should disclose to the government.

https://www.freezenet.ca/the-tumbler-ridge-shooting-was-tragic-making-it-an-excuse-for-government-surveillance-would-be-too/

#News #Privacy #Security #AI #BC #Canada #government #LawfulAccess #LLM #OpenAI #TumblerRidge #WarrantlessWiretapping

Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/25/hackers-expose-the-massive-surveillance-stack-hiding-inside-your-age-verification-check/

‚Mandatory age verification creates massive, centralized honeypots of sensitive biometric data that will inevitably be breached. Every single time. And every single time it happens, the politicians who mandated these systems and the companies that built them act shocked—shocked!—that collecting enormous databases of government IDs, facial scans, and biometric data from millions of people turns out to be a security nightmare....‘

#Surveillance #AgeVerification #Privacy #Data #technology #AI #KI

Dass es den europäischen Regierungen und der EU bei den von ihnen vorangebrachten Alterskontrollen (= Identitätsdatenkontrollen) im Internet nicht um den Jugendschutz sondern um die Kontrolle von Informationszugängen und Kommunikationsräumen geht, zeigt sich gerade wieder beim Vorhaben Frankreichs, auch das dezentrale Fediverse/Mastodon als "Pornographieplattform" einzustufen um es entsprechenden Kontrollen unterwerfen zu können.

Mit dem Argument, dass diese oder jene Kanäle, Plattformen, Programme oder Angebote dafür genutzt werden könnten, neben anderem auch nicht jugendfreie Inhalte zu teilen, wird so ein Vorwand geschaffen, der die umfassende Kontrolle von alledem rechtfertigen soll.

https://www.heise.de/news/Paris-plant-Social-Media-Verbot-fuer-Kinder-Alterskontrollen-auf-Bluesky-Co-10439513.html

#Bluesky #Mastodon #SocialMedia #EU #Alterskontrollen #Frankreich #Fediverse #Datenschutz #Daten #Privacy

We must fight age verification with all we have

#AgeVerification laws exploit the moral panic over social media and mental health to repackage old censorship tactics under the guise of protecting children.

'I’ve been talking a lot over the past couple weeks about what an unmitigated disaster the rollout of identity verification has been in the U.K. I wrote a whole piece about it for The Guardian and a story about how these “child safety” crackdowns are a gift to big tech in Zeteo.

The UK’s rollout shows how #digitalID systems lead to mass censorship. They serve those in power, harm human rights, and we have to do everything we can to fight their expansion in the U.S.

Today, I’m excited to present a guest post by Cynthia Conti-Cook, Rebecca Williams, and Pratika Katiya. These three women are doing incredible work fighting back against the surveillance state....'

https://www.usermag.co/p/we-must-fight-age-verification-with

#Tech #Technology #AI #UK #EU #Surveillance #Privacy #Data

OpenAI strikes deal with Pentagon after Anthropic blacklisted by Trump

#OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on X that his company has come to terms with the Defense Department for use of its models "in their classified network."

The announcement landed hours after rival Anthropic was shut out by the Trump administration. #privacy

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/27/openai-strikes-deal-with-pentagon-hours-after-rival-anthropic-was-blacklisted-by-trump.html

Ars Technica: OpenClaw security fears lead Meta, other AI firms to restrict its use. “A Meta executive says he recently told his team to keep OpenClaw off their regular work laptops or risk losing their jobs. The executive told reporters he believes the software is unpredictable and could lead to a privacy breach if used in otherwise secure environments. He spoke on the condition of anonymity […]

About the Age Verification bills in California and Colorado:

It seems few people are actually bothering to read the bills and instead just want to scream while running around in circles. Neither of the bills are mandating you give your ID/Face-Scan/Transactional Documents/etc. to be able to setup your computer.

The only thing you give is your birth-date/age, you are assigned an age-category, and apps and websites respond accordingly.

Don't get me wrong, there are still valid concerns about these bills, but few are actually discussing those concerns. Most are just assuming the worst and panicking.

Also, I don't know how these bills would be enforceable on Linux (or any decentralized, FOSS ecosystem).

#Privacy #FreeSpeech #Censorship #DigitalRights #Internet #AgeVerification #US #UnitedStates #California #Colorado