Recent research on social housing stock management has revealed alarming breaches in data protection. A recent study found that over 75% of participating landlords' systems were vulnerable to SQL injection attacks, potentially exposing sensitive tenant...

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#Encryption #InfoSec #Privacy

Daily Digest | 12 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

At Tuta, we scrutinize every request for handing out data in detail - the shocking news: In 2025, we had to reject 75% of all requests!

While Big Tech just waves through a massive amount of requests, we make sure to ONLY hand out data if legally obliged.

Because #privacy matters. 🔒

➡️ https://tuta.com/blog/transparency-report

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Tuta rejected 75% of all requests from authorities in 2025.

The tool presents users with a 3D model they can then manipulate to, the creator says, bypass Discord's age verification system.

The tool presents users with a 3D model they can then manipulate to, the creator says, bypass Discord's age verification system.#Privacy #News

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/01/12/data-protection-commission-owed-more-than-4-billion-in-fines/

Only €20M out of €4 billion in #GDPR fines paid.

"The Data Protection Commission (#DPC) is owed more than €4 billion in fines that have not been collected or are subject to legal challenge. The DPC hit companies – including firms in #BigTech – with more than €530 million in fines last year....
Over the past six years, the commission has levied an incredible €4.04 billion in fines, mostly on multinational technology companies. However, of that total, €4.02 billion remains uncollected and just €20 million has been paid in fines so far."

The majority of the number is associated with #whatsapp.

I wish I would have the power to delay court cases and not pay.

#privacy #EU #personaldata

OpenAI launched personalized ads in ChatGPT the same week three safety personnel departed, including researcher Zoë Hitzig who resigned with a public warning about following Facebook's privacy erosion path. The ads target users based on current and past conversations by default. Company promises rely on blog posts rather than technical safeguards.

#AIgovernance #privacy #ChatGPT

https://www.implicator.ai/openai-gutted-its-safety-teams-the-ads-arrived-on-schedule/

Why business model determines privacy:

💰 Advertising = Must collect your data
📊 Data licensing = Must sell your data
💳 Subscription = You're the customer

Free platforms can NEVER truly respect privacy.

It's not about trust.
It's about economic incentives.

Facebook MUST violate privacy to make $160B/year.
Signal CAN protect privacy because they're non-profit.
Snugg CAN protect privacy because users pay directly.

Economics > Promises

#Privacy #BusinessModel #Economics #OpenSource

📅 Mark your calendars, Privacy Guides is going live this Friday with our podcast This Week In Privacy. 🔴🎥 📣 We'll be discussing the recent move by Discord to require ID, trending topics & answering questions live! #privacy #privacyguides #discord youtube.com/live/Rdn43VA...

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📅 Mark your calendars, Privacy Guides is going live this Friday with our podcast This Week In Privacy. 🔴🎥

📣 We'll be discussing the recent move by Discord to require ID and other trending topics in the privacy & security space.

🎤 We will be answering questions live, so come hang out with us! 😊

#privacy #privacyguides #discord

https://streamyard.com/watch/m2YHRZZyJ3BP

Trump: Drain the swamp! <shreds files, SLAPPs journalists> Mission accomplished.

Privacy activists and Luddites: Protect the people!

Consequence: search engines and AIs refuse to assist in looking up local public figures and networks.

Trump: This is magnificent! <awards them with the Medal Of Honor>

#Journalism #Privacy #AI #Trump #ConflictOfInterest #DrainTheSwamp #Corruption

TikTok privacy breakdown:

🇨🇳 CCP has FULL ACCESS
📋 Reads clipboard
🧬 Collects biometrics
🎯 Most addictive algorithm
📱 Cannot be trusted

This isn't speculation.
This is documented by security researchers.

If you're using TikTok for anything sensitive, assume the Chinese government can see it.

Because they can.

#TikTok #Privacy #Security #CCP #China

New video about Signal📽️

Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Signal, talks with Sabrina Halper about the early days of #Signal, why #Telegram isn't secure, future of privacy, AI, Signal gate, and personal projects like Confer

👉 https://aboutsignal.com/videos-podcasts/videos/moxie-marlinspike-signal-vs-telegram-private-ai-encryption/

#signalmessenger #signalapp #privacy #ai

New post: Goodbye, Ring. I’m Not Buying Into Your Mass Surveillance.

Ring’s Super Bowl ad tried to make surveillance feel wholesome.

I’m not buying it.

Search Party, default opt-in scanning, and the constant drift toward “your neighborhood as a sensor network” was my last straw. I’m removing my Ring.

https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/goodbye-ring-im-not-buying-into-your-mass-surveillance/

#privacy #cybersecurity #surveillance #smarthome #ring

Why ‘deleted’ doesn’t mean gone: How police recovered Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell footage

Investigators pulled video from ‘residual data’ in Google’s systems — here’s how that was possible and what it means for your privacy.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/877235/nancy-guthrie-google-nest-cam-video-storage

#Privacy #Google #GAFAM

US Border Patrol intelligence units will gain access to a face recognition tool built on billions of images scraped from the internet.

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CBP Signs Clearview AI Deal to Use Face Recognition for ‘Tactical Targeting’

WiFi Could Become an Invisible Mass Surveillance System

The method does not require individuals to carry any electronic devices, nor does it rely on specialized hardware. Instead, it makes use of ordinary WiFi devices already communicating with each other nearby. As radio waves move through a space and interact with people, they create distinctive patterns that can be captured and analyzed.

#wifi #surveillance #privacy #security #cybersecurity #hacking

https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-warn-wifi-could-become-an-invisible-mass-surveillance-system/

Myth: "WhatsApp is private because it's encrypted"

Reality check:
✅ Messages ARE encrypted
❌ Metadata goes to Meta

Meta knows from WhatsApp:
- Who you talk to
- When you talk
- How often
- Your groups
- Your contacts
- Your location

They build your social graph without reading messages.

That's not privacy.

https://snugg.social/en/blog/platform-comparison-chart

#WhatsApp #Meta #Privacy #Metadata

Ring used the Super Bowl to launch “Search Party,” an AI feature that turns neighborhood cameras into a network to find a lost dog.

This isn’t about lost dogs. It’s about normalizing automated neighborhood surveillance.

https://www.404media.co/with-ring-american-consumers-built-a-surveillance-dragnet/

#ring #surveillance #tech #privacy #superbowl #flock

How ICE agents are using facial recognition technology to bring surveillance to the streets

Using smartphones loaded with sophisticated facial recognition technology, in addition to professional-grade photo equipment, agents are photographing faces of people they encounter in their daily operations, including possible enforcement targets and observers

#facialrecognition #biometrics #surveillance #privacy #ice #technology #tech

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/ice-agent-facial-recognition-video-protest-movile-fortify-photo-rcna257331

The #IRS’s #privacy dept was largely sidelined from the talks, & its #IT dept took over implementing the data sharing. That team had largely been taken over by ofcls from #Trump’s US #DOGE Service, the White House’s “efficiency” office charged with shrinking the federal government.

#Treasury ofcls justified the data-sharing agreement by arguing #immigration enforcement was pursuing individuals who had violated #criminal statutes, though immigration violations are generally #civil, not criminal.

When the #IRS began conversations with #DHS over data sharing after #Trump returned to the White House, snr IRS employees warned admin ofcls that the program was likely #illegal & could sweep up misidentified people….

During meetings on the project, one IRS staffer asked #immigration ofcls how many people with the same name may live in the same state,…illustrating how easy it would be…to inadvertently breach taxpayers’ #privacy, including those who are not targets of immigration investigations.

There is little evidence that undocumented #immigrants have attempted to participate in US elections, nor is there a link between undocumented immigrants & higher levels of crime.

#law #privacy #immigration #InfoSec #Trump

Charles Littlejohn, an #IRS contractor, pleaded guilty in 2023 to leaking the #tax returns of Donald #Trump & other wealthy individuals.​

Littlejohn was sentenced to five years in prison. Trump in January sued the IRS for $10 billion in damages related to the Littlejohn leak. [For he but not for thee]

#law #privacy #immigration #InfoSec

When the #IRS shared the addresses with #DHS, it also inadvertently disclosed private information for thousands of #taxpayers erroneously, a mistake only recently discovered, said people familiar….

The affected individuals could be entitled to financial compensation for each time their #information was improperly shared. And government officials can personally face stiff #civil & #criminal penalties for sharing #confidential #tax information.

#law #privacy #immigration #InfoSec #Trump

Federal #courts have since blocked the data-sharing arrangement, holding that it violates #taxpayers’ rights, though the #FederalGovernment appealed those rulings.

Before the agreement was struck down, #DHS requested the addresses of 1.2 million individuals from the #IRS. The tax agency responded with data on 47,000 individuals, acc/to court records.

#law #privacy #immigration #InfoSec #Trump

The Internal Revenue Service improperly shared confidential tax information of thousands of individuals with #immigration enforcement officials, acc/to 3 people familiar with the situation, appearing to breach a #legal #firewall intended to protect taxpayer data.

The erroneous disclosure was only recently discovered, the people said. The #IRS is working with officials from #Treasury, #DOJ & #DHS on the #Trump admin’s response.

#law #privacy #InfoSec #DOGE

This has to be a #DOGE Easter Egg.

#IRS “improperly” [accidentally-on-purpose] disclosed #confidential #immigrant tax data to #DHS

The #tax agency only recently discovered the “mistake” & is working with other federal agencies on a response.

#law #privacy #immigration #InfoSec #Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/11/immigrants-irs-dhs-tax-data/

All they did was admit that they are using your data to predict your age before they get to your ID.

Surveillance capitalism at its finest!

Discord backtracks on controversial age verification rollout…kind of - 9to5Mac

https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/10/discord-backtracks-on-controversial-age-verification-rolloutkind-of/

#Discord #AgeVerification #Privacy #Security #Surveillance #Tech #Gaming

I compared 20+ platforms on privacy.

The results are brutal.

OUT OF 20+ PLATFORMS:
🔴 14 are EXTREME RISK (avoid)
🟡 6 are MODERATE RISK (caution)
🟢 2 are LOW RISK (acceptable)
🔵 2 are BUILT FOR PRIVACY (trustworthy)

Only Signal and Snugg are actually designed for privacy from the ground up.

Everything else is surveillance with marketing.

Full comparison: https://snugg.social/en/blog/platform-comparison-chart

#Privacy #Security #Surveillance #E2E #OpenSource