The form asked my permission to share my health data. Then it wouldn’t let me say no.

https://themarkup.org/privacy/2026/05/27/opt-out-dark-patterns

#privacy #healthcare #DarkPattern

This week's net.wars, "The sovereignty paradox", goes to Computers, Privacy, and Data Proetction 2026 #cpdp and finds a lot of discussions of European values: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/05/29/the-sovereignty-paradox/ #privacy #NetWars

Hey admins, do you regularly delete inactive users from your platforms? This prevents "zombie accounts," ensures data privacy (protection against account misuse, e.g., someone re-registering with a recycled email), and upholds the principle of data minimization.

#dataprivacy #privacy #admin

American companies after GDPR: 'We respect your privacy.' Also them: selling your data to 47 partners. #privacy #roasted

🎙️ #Recap of last week's @CPDPconferences - thank you to everyone who stopped by and took part! 🩷 Recordings will be made available by #CPDP in the coming weeks. #CPDP2026 #Brussels #Privacy #DigitalOmnibus @maxschrems

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Group photo of the panel attendees Alexandra Jaspar, Herwig Hofmann, Max Schrems, Rosalia Anna D'Agostino and moderator Jennifer Baker.

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Photo of the panel speakers: Danny Mekić of Leiden University, Michaela Gehring of European Ombudsman, Kristina Irion of the Institute for Information Law. Credits © IViR

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pictured are the hosts Martin Baumann of noyb.eu, Marie-Catherine Hochreiter-Wagner of the University of Vienna & Mariana Alicia Rissetto of the Data Protection Moot Court

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Anja Wyrobek, Magdalena Steringer, Nathalie Laneret, Felix Mikolasch, Max von Grafenstein (c) ECLD

Daily Digest | 29 May 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

The Riksdag voted in favour of the Government’s proposal to allow the Swedish Police Authority to use AI technology for real-time facial recognition.

https://www.riksdagen.se/en/news/articles/2026/may/26/police-may-use-ai-for-real-time-facial-recognition_cmsa0978678-2e7a-420e-9b39-5f36158aae2aen/

#surveillance #privacy #ai #sweden

Have been using #firefox since it was called Phoenix.

But it’s dying. Slowly.

Really like #vivaldibrowser but being based on #chromium doesn’t sit well with me. But I can live with it.

But what I’d really like to see are some serious Brave-level privacy features added, like fingerprint mitigation.

When I look at this site, you can see what browsers take #privacy seriously:

https://privacytests.org

Currently trialling #mullvadbrowser.

Age verification expanding from websites to operating systems; California’s 2027 law requires OS setup age collection sharing age ranges to apps 🔐
OS-level age signals may enable app enforcement and future ID or biometric verification, raising privacy and open-source concerns 🔒

🔗 https://me.pcmag.com/en/security/37364/your-computer-may-soon-require-an-age-check-and-it-might-not-take-no-for-an-answer

#TechNews #AgeVerification #OperatingSystems #OS #Privacy #DigitalRights #California #California #Law #Tech #DataProtection #Surveillance #OpenSource #FOSS #Biometrics #BigTech #Regulation

Apple and Google urge Canada’s Parliament to amend Bill C-22 to require court approval before ministers can compel changes to encryption or systems 🔐
Bill C-22 also mandates up to one-year metadata retention and enables secret ministerial technical-capability orders without prior court review ⚖️

🔗 https://thenextweb.com/news/apple-google-canada-c22-lawful-access-judicial-oversight

#TechNews #Apple #Google #Canada #BillC22 #Encryption #Privacy #Surveillance #LawfulAccess #Law #DataRetention #DigitalRights #CyberSecurity #Internet #Parliament #Government

Online age-verification laws are forcing users to hand sensitive identity data to third parties, creating new risks for leaks, tracking, and misuse 🔐
Expanding age-gating systems also increases censorship and surveillance powers, threatening anonymous and open access to the web 🌐

@eff

🔗 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/age-verification-privacy-nightmare

#TechNews #AgeVerification #Privacy #DigitalRights #OpenWeb #Surveillance #Internet #Freedom #Cybersecurity #DataProtection #Encryption #FOSS #Security #OnlinePrivacy #Web #Tech

Arrested by facial recognition. 98% match, wrong person #proton #privacy #surveillance #technology

https://youtu.be/MJ8yFRa_q4E?si=5ym6L23-ZrcizYaQ

Modern vehicles are increasingly collecting personal data, from location to biometric info, often without drivers' full awareness. This data can be shared with third parties like insurance companies, raising privacy concerns. As regulations push for more data collection, many consumers remain unaware of the implications. #privacy #automotive

https://wesearch.press/s/trillions-of-miles-of-data-your-car-is-spying-on-you-3284409a?utm_source=social&utm_medium=auto&utm_campaign=mastodon

This post is NOT private! I am publishing for all to see (though only a small number of people will see it).

If I want to communicate details of something to a friend or a business client, I would use an encrypted messenger so that those details are not published for all to see.

Privacy is taking the steps limit the broadcast of information about your activities. No law can accomplish that. Only you.

#privacy

Can we stop calling these surveillance systems ALPR?

It's minimizing what they do, how they work, what data they collect, and the analysis they are capable of performing.

They are AI augmented surveillance that happens to support reading license plates. But also facial recognition, behavior analysis, location tracking, audio analysis, and who knows what else.

#Surveillance #Privacy #Flock #AI #NineteenEightyFour #DoublePlusGood

#jouRapNal #book19 day 43

20260528Thu

#3goodThings #grapheneOS #kw #pixel6 #threeGoodThings

#freeAndOpen #privacy #lightweight

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(graphene os logo sketch from memory) may pick up a GrapheneOS phone in kw sometime this week Ar installed it on a Pixel 6 said it took 5 mins the 6 is supported till Oct., but gets Security updates for 3 years.

They need C-22 to set up the surveillance infrastructure to run the surveillance on Canadians. They need the data [fusion] centres to store our data. And they need your apathy and obedience to get away with it all. It passes June 19th if we don’t stop 🛑 them.

#privacy #surveillance #tech #Canada #cdnpoli #encryption

https://fournier.substack.com/p/meet-cohere-palantirs-canada-ai-partner

Dezelfde van Weel waarvan een paar dagen terug al te lezen was over inbreken op telefoons. 🫣

"Ik wil echt samen met uw Kamer de grenzen opzoeken en verkennen om te kijken waar we nu vinden dat het recht op privacy van diegenen die helemaal niets te maken hebben met welke gewelddadigheden dan ook, volledig is gewaarborgd terwijl we uitwassen ook met gebruikmaking van dit soort technologie wel degelijk kunnen aanpakken. Dat zijn degenen die misbruik maken van de rechten die ze hebben", ging de bewindsman verder.

Online onderzoek
Tijdens het debat merkte VVD-Kamerlid Brekelmans op dat het belangrijk is dat de politie meer bevoegdheden krijgt om online onderzoek te doen. "We willen dat de politie in staat is om meer informatie openbaar te verzamelen en daar meer mee te doen, maar ook dat de politie in staat is om te infiltreren in besloten WhatsAppgroepen en Telegramgroepen waarin deze demonstraties worden gepland. Mijn vraag is hoe het kabinet hiernaar kijkt en welke stappen het hierin wil nemen."

https://www.security.nl/posting/938392/Minister%3A+continu+frictie+tussen+privacywet+en+inzet+technologie+voor+opsporing

#VVD #privacy #politie

I am getting a lot of men replying who are in #IT who falsely believe their technical abilities to protect their #encryption outsmart C-22’s legislation. I encourage them to see what world-leading encryption experts have warned about this legislation. That is not the case.
#Canada #tech #privacy #surveillance #cdnpoli

https://www.globalencryption.org/2026/04/open-letter-on-bill-c-22-an-act-respecting-lawful-access/

Pentagon Says U.S. Military Personnel Are Reportedly Being Targeted Using Location Data

(Reuters via USNews, 28 May 2026)

https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2026-05-28/exclusive-pentagon-says-us-military-personnel-are-reportedly-being-targeted-using-location-data

#surveillance #DataPrivacy #NationalSecurity #military #AdTech #LocationData #DataBrokers #DigitalRights #MediaLiteracy #privacy #edtechSR

AI, Big Data and Neuroscience is creeping into our lives - it's time to embrace the tools to fight back - Let's start public conversation about neurorights and the various ways our mental privacy can be breached.

#neurorights #mentalprivacy #physicalprivacy #ai #bigdata #neuroscience #privacy #privacymatters

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"The city of Dayton, Ohio has covered its Flock automated license plate reader cameras with black trash bags in part because police there are unsure whether the cameras are still active and the city also doesn’t seem to know whether it is allowed to take the cameras down. The move comes after months of resident outrage, a scandal in which the city was sharing Flock camera data for immigration enforcement apparently on accident, and a $30,000 audit into how the cameras are being used.

Joe Parlette, the deputy city manager of Dayton, said at a city commission meeting last week that the “Dayton Police Department agreed to work with Public Works to put bags over the cameras” as a stop-gap measure until Flock cameras could be removed entirely. I spoke to multiple people in Dayton who said they had seen bagged cameras in the last few days. The Dayton Daily News first reported on the baggings.

Bagged Flock cameras in Dayton. Image: Melissa Bertolo
Dayton is not the first city to cover its Flock cameras with trash bags because they can’t figure out how to immediately terminate the use of the cameras. Late last year, the city of Evanston, Illinois also covered its cameras with trash bags while it was waiting for the company to remove them from the city. Cities around the country have been reconsidering their relationship with the surveillance company after reporting from 404 Media and local news outlets that showed data from the cameras was making its way to Immigration and Customs Enforcement through Flock’s national camera network."

https://www.404media.co/cities-are-covering-flock-cameras-with-trash-bags/

#USA #Surveillance #Flock #Privacy #DataProtection #PoliceState

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116653708492312016

Completely on brand for this fascist regime.

Many of my criticisms of certain tech and all surveillance capitalism have to do with my fierce belief in the importance of privacy and other individual rights, and the tech co’s determination to strip everyone of privacy and destroy individual rights.

We can’t have #democracy without #privacy and #humanrights. So of course the Trump regime and supporting Republican and tech fascists would label people who care about and advocate for both as “extremists” to try and sully and dismiss the message while hoping to chill public discourse. Everyone who heard “censorship” wave your hand. 1st Amendment, lol.

Also helps loot the American people and Treasury more easily if payments can be made with taxpayer monies for [ahem] “necessary!!” “AI!!”.

Anyway, I’m sure this will totally help the US recover the billions it is losing in decreased visitors to the US, and lucky for them tech doesn’t cross borders more easily than people.

#TrumpFascism

Our law makers are begging the Government to take their time on Bill C-22 so they are able as non-tech experts to properly study this bill and the government is determined to ram it through and install mass surveillance. This is not how a democracy is supposed to function. #cdnpoli
#polcan #Canada #privacy #surveillance
#encryption

The Video is here Mastodon won’t let me post it:

https://bsky.app/profile/lalegault.bsky.social/post/3mmwrzrcbb22w

The Public Safety Minister & police are claiming they need these surveillance powers in C-22 in order to combat trafficking & it has been revealed he has not been reading the reports on trafficking & they are no longer offering French services to survivors calling in to report it. #cdnpoli #polcan #Canada #privacy #surveillance
#encryption

The Video 🧵 is here Mastodon won’t let me post it:

https://bsky.app/profile/lalegault.bsky.social/post/3mmwt6p37tk2w

Canadian Privacy Lawyer:
#Canada #cdnpoli #tech #surveillance #privacy #encryption

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David TS Fraser @privacylawyer.ca • 15m Wow. The RCMP witness at #SECU just said encryption is the problem and Bill C-22 Lawful Access is the solution. 4 • 6 ... •

AI Browsers & Agentic Search: Easier Internet or New Privacy Risk?

AI browsers can summarize pages, compare options, plan tasks, and sometimes take actions for you.

That is useful — but it also creates new privacy and trust risks.

The key question is not just “Can AI browse for us?”

It is:

What can it see, trust, and act on?

Read more:
https://validatefacts.com/articles/ai-browsers-and-agentic-search-easier-internet-or-new-privacy-trust-risks

#AI #AIBrowsers #AgenticSearch #Privacy #CyberSecurity

Stop feeding the machine! ✊

Big AI profits from token bloat & subscription traps, hiding real utility behind opaque paywalls. Privacy shouldn't be a luxury you trade for convenience.

I’m fighting back with Searchbase v1.0.0: a sovereign, self-hosted search layer for LLMs. No ads, no tracking, just clean Markdown to stop token waste & reclaim autonomy. Open source & privacy-first, forever. 🏴‍☠️

Deploy it now: https://searchbase.md

#SelfHosted #Privacy #OpenSource #AI #Decentralize

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Solidarity over surveillance: The time is now to rein in the surveillance state

https://thenexusofprivacy.net/solidarity-over-surveillance/

#surveillance #privacy #activism

FBI procurement records show the agency wants nationwide access to automated license plate reader networks from vendors like Flock and Motorola. 🚔
Expanded ALPR access could enable broad vehicle tracking without warrants, as public opposition to mass surveillance systems grows across the U.S. 📷

🔗 https://www.404media.co/the-fbi-wants-to-buy-nationwide-access-to-license-plate-readers/

#TechNews #FBI #ALPR #Flock #Motorola #Surveillance #Privacy #CivilLiberties #Tracking #Security #Transparency #FOSS #Data #Rights #Technology #MassSurveillance #US #USA #Trump

Posthog announces they went with the nuclear AI option, a new AI policy that makes Copilot look like a champion for privacy.

All #posthog data outside the EU, across all paid usage tiers, will be used to train a #ai new model. Organizations like mine woke up to find they were already automatically enrolled. Oh, but you can opt-out of course. "Why this is opt out, not opt in... Put simply, because otherwise we will not have enough data to train a model that's actually useful" (https://posthog.com/blog/training-ai-models). While on their own account management page, "you are responsible for ensuring your use complies with applicable laws and regulations."

If your business model depends on violating customer #privacy and exposing your clients to novel legal/PR/ethical risks, then you have a bad business. I chose to pay posthog instead of free #google analytics because of their stronger privacy position. Guess I got that one wrong.

Amnesty International: *Datastromen voor generatieve AI schenden massaal onze privacy*

"Bedrijven verzamelen enorme hoeveelheden online gegevens zonder onze toestemming. Ze gebruiken deze data om generatieve kunstmatige intelligentie (GenAI) te bouwen. Deze aanpak maakt een grootschalige inbreuk op onze privacy mogelijk. Hierdoor zijn deze systemen van meet af aan onrechtmatig, stelt Amnesty International vandaag in nieuw onderzoek. ..."

https://www.amnesty.nl/actueel/datastromen-voor-generatieve-ai-schenden-massaal-onze-privacy

#AI #GenAI #privacy #Amnesty

"U.S. says troops were targeted with location data, as senator warns ad industry is a ‘national security threat’"

"One leading privacy lawmaker said it was time to "start treating the adtech industry as a national security threat.""

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/28/u-s-says-troops-were-targeted-with-location-data-as-senator-warns-ad-industry-is-a-national-security-threat/

#Privacy

#Dutch police arrests suspect linked to #Ajax #football club hack

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dutch-police-arrests-suspect-linked-to-ajax-football-club-hack/

#cybercrime #cybersecurity #privacy #DataBreach #soccer #Netherlands

Surveillance tech coming to a virtual couch near you!

Headway Therapy Patients Forced to Scan Their Faces to Keep Getting Care

https://www.404media.co/headway-therapy-facial-scan-biometric-data-identity-verification/

#Headway #Therapy #Security #Privacy #Surveillance #Health #Tech

Hi, my employer is sponsoring an academic research on parenting and flexible working. A lot of sensitive questions are asked and the university researcher has circulated these questions on Google Forms to all employees. I am really anti-Google when it comes to privacy (got rid of every Google link years ago and currently use GOS, etc.) so I raised this concern with the HR team. They were sympathetic with my view and have encouraged me to send my view to the university. However, I don’t want to go down the rant, and want to provide constructive feedback. So, first thought I would to consult with privacy focused members of this list. Here are my questions:

a) are there independent research papers out there that demonstrate (rather than speculate) that Google Forms is not fully respecting privacy and is not fully GDPR compliant?

b) are there more robust, privacy and GDPR compliant alternatives I could recommend? I’ve done quick searches on the web and alternatives like JotForm and AidaForm seem to be more privaci and GDPR focused. Anyone used these before?

Am I being too anal about this …?

"Age Verification is a Privacy Nightmare"

"In the rush to block young people from certain parts of the internet, lawmakers are creating a privacy and security nightmare for everyone."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/age-verification-privacy-nightmare

#Privacy

#UK #Visa Portal spilled thousands of applicants’ passports and selfies online — and hasn’t fixed the leak

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/26/uk-visa-portal-spilled-thousands-of-applicants-passports-and-selfies-online-and-hasnt-fixed-the-leak/

#privacy #passport #travel #DataBreach #cybersecurity #immigration

You can't encrypt your physical face. So how do you fight back when police treat a flawed AI guess as divine truth?

Episode 28 of Impractical Privacy is out NOW.

🎧 Stream telemetry-free: https://ImpracticalPrivacy.com
#Privacy #FacialRecognition #MassSurveillance #Podcast #DigitalPrivacy #PhyiscalPrivacy #Police #PoliceTech #Surveillance #SurveillanceState #ImpracticalPrivacy #PrivacyTools #PrivacyMatters #DigitalSelfDefence

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Headscale is an open-source self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server built for privacy-focused users and homelabs.

It lets you create your own WireGuard-based mesh VPN while keeping control of the coordination server instead of relying entirely on Tailscale’s infrastructure.

A powerful option for selfhosters who want more control over their network.

👉 https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=headscale

#OpenSource #SelfHosting #Privacy #WireGuard #VPN #Homelab

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#DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ #Google’s #AI Search

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/26/duckduckgo-installs-are-up-30-as-users-reject-being-force-fed-googles-ai-search/

#privacy

Telegram AI Editor – jeho využití, nevýhody a otázka soukromí

https://infoek.cz/telegram-ai-editor-jeho-vyuziti-nevyhody-a-otazka-soukromi-2026/

Telegram AI Editor – its uses, disadvantages and privacy issues

https://infoek-cz.translate.goog/telegram-ai-editor-jeho-vyuziti-nevyhody-a-otazka-soukromi-2026/?_x_tr_sl=cs&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=cs&_x_tr_pto=wapp

#AIEditor #LLM #Telegram #Cocoon #Decentralization #Privacy

More License Plate Reader Mission Creep: School Residency Verification, Background Checks, and Noise Complaints

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/more-license-plate-reader-mission-creep-school-residency-verification-background

#privacy #ALPR #schools #education

Remember, cash still exists.

For many things, you can go into a shop, pay with cash, and leave with your purchase.

If people in your circles have mobility challenges, you can offer to pick things up for them.

This might not be a cure-all for systemic issues with identity verification and privacy concerns, but it does help push back. And it supports your local businesses.

#cash #privacy #buyLocal

🚨Warning: #Discord age verification is going live any day now.

While huge public backlash put Discord's plans on hold, they were never abandoned.

👉 Learn here what's next & how to protect your #identity: https://tuta.com/blog/discord-plans-age-verification-globally

#IDcheck #anonymity #privacy #AgeVerification

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#Charter confirms #DataBreach after #ShinyHunters extortion threat

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/charter-confirms-data-breach-after-shinyhunters-extortion-threat/

#privacy #cybersecurity #ISP

#FBI agent explains how easy it is to ID people posting #AI #porn without consent

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/fbi-easily-nabs-man-selling-sexy-deepfakes-who-used-his-own-photo-in-profile/

#privacy #deepfake #cybercrime #nsfw

More #LicensePlateReader Mission Creep: #School Residency Verification, #BackgroundChecks , and Noise Complaints
#alpr #privacy #surveillance

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/more-license-plate-reader-mission-creep-school-residency-verification-background

https://Enkrypted.Chat

This is intended to introduce a unique approach in client-side managed secure cryptography. We can avoid registration of any sort.

Features:

PWA
P2P
End to end encryption
Signal protocol
Post-Quantum cryptography
Multimedia
File transfer
Video calls
Local-first
No registration
No installation
No database
TURN server

https://www.reddit.com/r/positive_intentions

#Privacy #OpenSource #P2P #WebRTC #Decentralization #DigitalSovereignty #CyberSecurity #FOSS #SelfHosted #NoCloud #AntiCorp #Encryption #WebDev #TechLiberty #PrivateMessaging #Networking #DataPrivacy #InternetFreedom #LocalFirst #SoftwareEngineering #WebApps #ZeroKnowledge #PrivacyTech #IndieDev #NoSignup #NoInstall #DecentralizedWeb #SecureMessaging #BrowserApp #TechEthics #P2P #WebRTC #PeerJS #ZeroData #EphemeralData #Encryption #E2EE #BrowserToBrowser #NoInstall #Privacy #Security #Decentralized #Messaging #VideoCall #NoTracking #PrivateMessaging #Prototype #Demo #WorkInProgress #CloseSource #OpenSource #WebDev #GitHub #TechDevelopment #WhatsApp #ChatApp #InstantMessaging #PWA

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Send Messages Securely. No cloud. No trace. Decentralized P2P encrypted messaging - No setup required

Looper Player porta su Linux e Android un lettore musicale locale con audio ad alta fedeltà, interfaccia glassmorphism e totale privacy.

#musica #linux #android #opensource #audiophile #musicplayer #privacy #desktoplinux

https://www.linuxeasy.org/looper-player-musicale-locale-privacy/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social