https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/victory-tenth-circuit-finds-fourth-amendment-doesnt-support-broad-search-0

A federal appeals court ruled that police can’t use overly broad search warrants to scrape everything on someone’s phone or digital accounts after a protest — like texts, photos, location history, or social media.

The court said those warrants were too vague and violated basic Fourth Amendment privacy protections.

#privacy #digitalrights #EFF #civilrights #surveillance

So Duo (the multifactor authentication service that #infosec loves) has integrated with Persona (the privacy destroying, Peter Thiel backed, AI-linked, facial scanning and mapping "identity verification" software)

You know the recent Discord snafu that received such massive pushback and caused so many people to leave Discord that they've dropped their identity verification?

Yeah, that Persona.

Duo integrates it into Duo Premier, Duo Advantage, and even Duo Essentials...

...which means many working class folks will have no option but to be enrolled into and use Persona...

...or be fired.

https://duo.com/docs/identity-verification

#Duo #Persona #Privacy #Discord #AI

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Identity Verification Last updated: January 23rd, 2026 Overview To help protect organizations from the ever-growing threat of social engineering attacks, Duo integrates with Persona to offer integrated identity verification (IDV) workflows which provide high-assurance of user identities before allowing critical workforce user lifecycle actions in your organization. Identity verification is part of the Duo Premier, Duo Advantage, and Duo Essentials plans.

"Huxe Will Give You a Personalized, Daily Audio Summary Powered by AI"

"It can help you spend less time scrolling, but of course, there are privacy drawbacks to consider. The app reads your email inbox and your meeting calendar, then gives you a short audio summary."

https://www.wired.com/story/huxe-personalized-daily-audio-podcasts-powered-by-ai/

#Privacy

The #AgeVerification Trap: Verifying user’s ages undermines everyone’s #DataProtection

”#AgeRestriction laws are not just about kids and screens. They are reshaping how #identity, #privacy, and #access work on the Internet for everyone.

The age-verification trap is not a glitch. It is what you get when regulators treat age enforcement as mandatory and privacy as optional.”

https://spectrum.ieee.org/age-verification

Daily Digest | 27 February 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

"Tinkerer accidentally gets access to thousands of DJI Romo robot vacuums"

"A tinkerer accidentally accessed thousands of DJI Romo vacuums, exposing live video, floor plans, and raising serious IoT privacy concerns."

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/tinkerer-accidentally-gets-access-to-thousands-of-dji-romo-robot-vacuums

#Privacy

Are you ready to fight for privacy rights? 🔒👀

#Privacy #HumanRights

#Privacy #Surveillance

Just throwing it out there that #OS level age verification is the stupidest idea I've heard in a long time.

Unless you look at it through the lens of mass population surveillance. Than it makes perfect sense.

Amodei said #Anthropic understands that the #Pentagon, “not private companies, makes #military decisions.” But “in a narrow set of cases, we believe #AI can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values.” In the case of mass #surveillance & #AutonomousWeapons are “outside the bounds of what today’s technology can safely & reliably do.”

#Trump #Hegseth #law #privacy #InfoSec #ContractLaw #democracy

#Anthropic said in a statement that the #Pentagon’s new language was framed as a compromise but “was paired with legalese that would allow those safeguards to be disregarded at will.” [shocker]

In a lengthy blog post Thursday, Amodei wrote: “I believe deeply in the existential importance of using #AI to defend the #UnitedStates & other democracies, & to defeat our autocratic adversaries.”

#Trump #Hegseth #law #privacy #InfoSec #ContractLaw #military #surveillance #democracy

#Defense Secretary #PeteHegseth told #Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Tuesday that if Anthropic does not allow its #AI model to be used “for all lawful purposes” [as if that’s what they plan to use it for], the #Pentagon would cancel Anthropic’s $200 million contract. In addition to the #contract cancellation, Anthropic would be deemed a “supply chain risk,” a classification normally reserved for companies connected to foreign adversaries, #Hegseth said.

#Trump #law #privacy #InfoSec #ContractLaw

#Anthropic is rejecting the Pentagon’s latest offer to change their contract, saying the changes do not satisfy the company’s concerns that #AI could be used for mass #surveillance or in fully #AutonomousWeapons.

The #Pentagon & Anthropic are at odds over restrictions the company places on the use of #Claude, the first #AI system to be used in the #military #classified network.

#Trump #Hegseth #law #privacy #InfoSec #ContractLaw
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/26/tech/anthropic-rejects-pentagon-offer?cid=ios_app

Trump Regime Declares War on International Privacy Laws

A longstanding weakness in Canada and strength in Europe could soon come under heavy fire from the Trump regime.

https://www.freezenet.ca/trump-regime-declares-war-on-international-privacy-laws/

#International #News #Privacy #Security #Canada #diplomacy #Europe #GDPR #PIPEDA #Trump #US

Big Tech brought the big guns to the fight against Digital Sovereignty and Privacy. I guess the idea is that you are evil if you don't want to want Big Brother to watch you.
#digitalsovereignty #privacy #diplomacy
https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/trump-orders-diplomats-to-fight-global-data-privacy-laws

"Inside the Galaxy S26 Series: AI, Cameras, and Privacy"

"From faster charging and smarter AI to the Ultra's new Privacy Display, here’s what defines Samsung’s 2026 flagship lineup"

https://www.lifewire.com/samsung-galaxy-s26-11914313

#Privacy

discord:
- preparing for age verification
- centralized
- no e2ee
- monitored platform
- surveillance-ridden
- forced phone number validation

deltachat/chatmail:
- no logs
- e2ee
- decentralized
- federated
- relay-swapping
- multi-relay (become unstoppable!)
- no tracking
- relay operators see nothing
- no surveillance

the #deltachat and #chatmail teams are hard at work improving our ecosystem, client ui/ux, and building community!

download: https://delta.chat/en/download
run your own relay: https://github.com/chatmail/relay
bot ecosystem: https://deltachat-bot.github.io/public-bots/#/home
support forum: https://support.delta.chat/

#privacy #surveillance #discord

Olson emphasized that there was no precedent to her knowledge of a judge finding tens of thousands of simultaneous violations of federal law regarding taxpayer confidentiality.​

“I don’t know of any opinion about the #IRS like this,” she added. “The kinds of mass requests that are coming in are unprecedented.”

#Trump #law #immigration #privacy #InfoSec #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism

“This confirms what we’ve been saying all along: that the #IRS has an unlawful policy that violates the Internal Revenue Code’s protections by releasing these addresses in a way that violates the law’s requirements,” said Nina Olson, founder of the Center for Taxpayer Rights, which has sued the government over the disclosures.

#Trump #law #immigration #privacy #InfoSec #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism

In Thursday’s opinion, the judge used pointed language to describe the #IRS’s verification standard. Under the government’s process, she wrote, #ICE could have submitted a request with an address like “Don’t Care 12345” or simply “00000” & still received a taxpayer’s home address from the agency.

#Trump #law #immigration #privacy #InfoSec #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism

WaPo reported that the #IRS had improperly shared #confidential #tax information of thousands of individuals with #immigration enforcement officials. That report was confirmed by a subsequent court filing by Dottie A. Romo, the IRS’s chief risk & control officer.

#DHS officials have defended the data-sharing agreement as necessary to crack down on illegal #immigration. [but you can’t break a law because you think another law was broken.]

#Trump #law #privacy #InfoSec #WhiteSupremacy

“The #IRS violated the [#IRC] approximately 42,695 times by disclosing last known taxpayer addresses to #ICE ... without confirming that ICE’s request set forth the ‘address of the taxpayer with respect to whom the requested return information relate[d],’” the judge’s opinion stated.

The case is now before the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, where the government is appealing Kollar-Kotelly’s November order that blocked the data-sharing arrangement.

#Trump #law #immigration #privacy

The ruling finds that #DHS did not follow this #law. The judge wrote that the vast majority of the nearly 47,300 taxpayer addresses the #IRS shared with #ICE in August were disclosed without the IRS confirming that ICE provided a valid address for the person whose records it was seeking.

#Trump #immigration #privacy #InfoSec #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism

Federal #law requires that before the #IRS hands over a taxpayer’s address, a requesting agency must first provide the IRS with the name & address of the person it’s looking for. The requirement exists to ensure that the government can access confidential tax records only for individuals it has already specifically identified.

#Trump #immigration #privacy #InfoSec #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism

A federal judge has found that the #IRS violated federal law “approximately 42,695 times” when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses with #immigration enforcement officials last summer.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued the ruling Thursday as part of ongoing litigation over a data-sharing arrangement between the IRS & the #DHS.

#Trump #law #privacy #InfoSec #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism

Judge rules #IRS broke #law ‘approximately 42,695 times’ in giving #DHS data

A court on Thursday issued an opinion on a data-sharing agreement between the taxpayer agency & federal #immigration authorities.

#Trump #law #privacy #InfoSec #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/26/irs-data-federal-judge-dhs-illegal/

In response to an actual threat from a centralised service being used for discussion of a particular privacy and security focused project, I set up a secure p2p chat group using #Jami yesterday. It quickly had five users and continues growing.

Already one person is pasting swathes of text from DeepSeek and following my complaint about that, another suggested he set up a Google Drive for sharing such stuff. 🤦‍♂️

These are #privacy aware people. We don't stand a chance.

"Everything Samsung revealed at its Galaxy Unpacked event"

"Samsung's new privacy screen feature on Galaxy S26 Ultra was the most notable feature of the event."

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/26/everything-samsung-revealed-at-its-galaxy-unpacked-event/

#Privacy

Age walls could be erected at the UK government's whim.

New Henry VIII powers would give Ministers the ability to impose age verification way beyond social media.

We'll have to surrender our ID to unregulated providers to access information and services. It only makes Big Tech more powerful – data is their lifeblood.

We must stand up for #privacy! It starts with protecting VPNs.

Sign our petition ➡️ https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-government-protect-vpn-use-uk

https://peertube.openrightsgroup.org/w/87PRaAiX1qKCMSk3RRLPYZ

#vpn #ageverification #ukpolitics #ukpol

🇪🇺 It could soon become easier for companies to train their #AI on your data – at least if the #EU Commission's #DigitalOmnibus proposal passes. 🤖

👤 featuring data protection lawyer and AI specialist Kleanthi Sardeli

#law #lawyer #GDPR #privacy #dataprotection #EC

Terminal Phone – E2EE Walkie Talkie from the Command Line

https://gitlab.com/here_forawhile/terminalphone

#HackerNews #TerminalPhone #E2EE #WalkieTalkie #CommandLine #OpenSource #Privacy

Daily Digest | 26 February 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

Effective cybersecurity requires more than just data privacy measures. New technologies demand thorough privacy impact assessments (PIAs) to ensure regulatory compliance and operational security. Don't view PIAs as mere "compliance theater" – they're a crucial step in protecting your organization from security breaches and reputational damage. Get the inside scoop on why effective PIAs are essential for tech development and how to implement them successfully.

Read more: https://steelefortress.com/fortress-feed/forget-what-youve-heard-the-overemphasis-on-data-privacy-in-tech-development-leads-to-misguided-assessments

#CyberSecurity #Privacy #InfoSec #Security #DataProtection #Tech #Technology

Delta Chat is a messaging platform that works over email.

Setup is similar to a email client.
Messaging is decentralized and interoperable.

Supports end-to-end encryption via PGP.
PGP encryption keys are created automatically.

Default desktop client is based on Electron.
Electron is based on the Google Chromium web browser.

Website: https://delta.chat
Mastodon: @delta

#DeltaChat #Messaging #Privacy #InfoSec #E2EE #OpenPGP #PGP #OpenSource #FOSS #CyberSecurity #Encryption #FreeSoftware

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Delta Chat logo.

Because Amazon has really shown that they really care about yours and everyone else's privacy.

Amazon Change Means Wishlists Might Expose Your Address

https://www.404media.co/amazon-wishlist-address-private-third-party/

#Amazon #Wishlist #Address #Privacy #Security #Tech

Honestly nauseating this is even being considered. The fact the US is sliding into fascism indeed makes it worse, but is beside the point. This pertains to fundamental rights.

The US admin would never accept the inverse terms, which is to say handing over the biometric data of every US citizen to another nation state, for any reason.

Yielding to bullying never ends well. They take miles & hand out inches, if at all.

This needs to be fought down

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/587964/government-deciding-whether-us-should-get-access-to-new-zealanders-biometric-data

#privacy #aotearoa