Google's getting downright surly that I'm not interested in sharing my information with them. Isn't "Say yes or I'll just keep asking you every three days until you do." Considered stalker level behavior?

#Google #Tech #Privacy

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Screenshot of a modal whining that I'd like Google to respect my privacy, even a little bit. It reads: You're not getting a more personalized search With Web and App activity off, you don't get - More relevant search results - More tailored discover stories - Shopping recommendations for you Followed by two options Ask me in 3 days Continue

@anewsocial to me this is an #AntiFeature cuz I explicitly chose the #Fediverse over #Shitter, #BrownSky & #NSAbook for valid reasons.

• Can you please just let me know which domains to block instead?

Thx!

Cc: @FediPact

#BlueSky #Threads #Twitter #X #Xitter #Enshittification #CorporateSocialMedia #AntisocialMedia #Fedi #Privacy #SelfDetermination

Vincent Price and Gene Tierney

Dragonwyck (1946)

#movie #horror #gif #quote #god #dogma #religion #spying #privacy #invasionofprivacy #humanrights #free #torrent #thepiratebay #classwar

here it is! finally, my big idea for a #vpn application for you #cybersecurity fokes.
https://blindsoft.net/blog/vpn.html
#cybersecurity #privacy #comsec #vpn

If you've seen my posts in the past weeks, you've seen me post about Chat Control 🗣️

In case you don't know what this is about, here's a short summary of the issue:

What is Chat Control? 🫢 👁️‍🗨️

"Chat Control" refers to a series
of legislative proposals in the European Union that would make it mandatory for all service providers (text messaging, email, social media, cloud storage, hosting services, etc.) to scan all digital communications and files (including end-to-end encrypted ones), in order to supposedly detect whatever the government deems "abusive material."

This would also affect people outside of Europe, in one way or another

🚨 This Friday, September 12th, EU countries will finalize their positions on the matter 🚨

Sadly, many countries currently support this proposition for unprecedented mass surveillance.

You can learn more about it, and what you can do to help, in this article 👇
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/09/08/chat-control-must-be-stopped/#act-now

#Privacy #HumanRights #MassSurveillance #Democracy #DigitalRights #ChatControl

@mrcopilot also all that #AI garbage and #translation stuff certainly isn't a #privacy nightmare.

#AI agents are coming for your #privacy, warns #MeredithWhittaker
The #Signal Foundation’s president worries they will also blunt competition and undermine #cybersecurity
In one sense, the problem is fundamental: there is a powerful tension between privacy and security, on the one hand, and the vision of letting a complex system with broad access to your data do whatever it wants, on the other.
https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2025/09/09/ai-agents-are-coming-for-your-privacy-warns-meredith-whittaker
https://archive.ph/Q32cJ

🚨Our governments are about to decide whether 450M Europeans deserve privacy - or not.

Help ensure your country says NO to Chat Control: Call you local representatives!

Privacy is not negotiable. Speak up now. ✊ #privacy

👉 More on how to stop Chat Control: https://tuta.com/blog/chat-control-criticism

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Map of the EU showing what countries are in favor (red), in opposition (green) and undecided (yellow) about Chat Control. The undecided ones must be contacted to stop Chat Control: Estonia, Germany, Greece, Slovenia, Luxembourg, Romania. While the Swedish government leans in favour of chat control, it needs parliamentary approval.

holy based

@ivpn fuckin made https://mailx.net

it's a competitor to addy.io or simplelogin, and theyve already gotten it audited by @cure53

#privacy #mailx

New Privacy Guides article ⛔
by me:

Chat Control is one of the
most terrifying proposal for dystopian authoritarianism the Western world has seen in years.

We need your help to fight it ✊🇪🇺

For democracy,
For privacy,
And for all other human rights,
We cannot afford to lose this battle.

📩 If you are European (EU):

Contact your MEPs this week before Friday, September 12th, to tell them to oppose Chat Control (more information in the linked article).

🗣️ If you are outside of the EU:

Spread the word! Tell your friends and family in the EU about it! Make noise on social media! This will affect you too.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/09/08/chat-control-must-be-stopped/

#PrivacyGuides #ChatControl #StopScanningMe #Privacy #HumanRights #Democracy #EUpol

More than 90% of all my communications are going through @signalapp . I don't know what I would do without it.

I'm so scared anything could happen to it. That's why I give them money every month, and you should too if you can 💙👇

Support Signal: https://signal.org/donate/

#Privacy #Signal #Messaging #E2EE

The growing debate over expanding age verification laws

As age and identity verification laws become more mainstream, this legislation could have a dire impact on privacy.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/06/the-growing-debate-over-expanding-age-verification-laws/

#Privacy

Europeans 🇪🇺👇

If your country is supporting or undecided regarding Chat Control, contact your representatives TODAY to tell them to oppose.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, visit this website: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

#ChatControl #StopChatControl #EUpol #Privacy #MassSurveillance #HumanRights #StopScanningMe

👊 Patients Furious at Therapists Secretly Using AI

"He was taking what I was saying and putting it into ChatGPT."

https://futurism.com/patients-furious-therapists-using-ai

#ai #mentalhealth #privacy

I wrote that my Pixel 10, maybe the first phone capable of detecting IMSI catchers, has issued many alerts throughout the day in my apartment building to warn me that my phone has given up information to a potential rogue cell tower. Sometimes hours apart, sometimes minutes apart.

A lot of what I've read is blaming this on either a hardware issue with the Pixel 10 or a software issue. However, I downloaded the Network Cell Info Lite app, and I've been looking at the raw cell data. Normally I see I'm connected to a T-Mobile tower with a TAC (Tracking Area Code) that is static. I see the TAC of my neighboring cell towers too.

But suddenly I'm connected to a completely unknown TAC, 5633280, not a neighbor, just long enough for my device information to be collected. Then the connection breaks, and I'm back on my normal tower. This coincides exactly with the Pixel alerts!

Here's how this works:

The IMSI catcher broadcasts a signal with a strong "fake" TAC, which it knows my phone's network has not assigned to any legitimate tower in the area.

My phone, which is constantly looking for the strongest signal, sees this new, powerful signal. Because the TAC is different from the one it's currently on, my phone is tricked into initiating a "Location Update" procedure. This is the exact moment when my phone sends its IMSI and IMEI to the "new" tower and alerts me.

The IMSI catcher logs my phone's IDs and then immediately drops the connection, causing my phone to revert to the legitimate cell tower.

A rogue tower or IMSI catcher is the only explanation, as this is the classic attack. The changing unknown TAC, for just a moment that coincides with the alert, is a smoking gun.

Is it far-fetched to believe that the government is tracking everyone's phones so they know who was in an area where a crime is committed or who is attending a protest? Remember that Edward Snowden alerted us to the U.S. government illegally recording phone calls of millions of people. Tracking phones could have been a covert operation for years since nobody had a way to detect it.

I wrote more about it here: https://jerry.hear-me.blog/pixel10_deviceid_access_warning/

#CyberSecurity #Pixel #IMSICollectors #RogueCellTowers #Privacy

"Claude’s update relies on a striking pop-up with a large, black "Accept" button. The data sharing toggle is tucked away, switched on by default, and framed positively ("You can help..."). A faint "Not now" button and hard-to-find instructions on changing the setting later complete the manipulative design.

These interface tricks, known as dark patterns, are considered unlawful under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and by the European Court of Justice when used to obtain consent for data processing. Pre-checked boxes do not count as valid consent under these rules.

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has also stressed in its guidelines on deceptive design patterns that consent must be freely given, informed, and unambiguous. Claude’s current design clearly fails to meet these standards, making it likely that Anthropic will soon draw the attention of privacy regulators."

https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-uses-a-questionable-dark-pattern-to-obtain-user-consent-for-ai-data-use-in-claude/

#EU #AI #GenerativeAI #Anthropic #LLMs #Chatbots #Claude #DarkPatterns #Privacy #DataProtection

Oooof
#privacy expectations versus reality

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Some participants believed their mental health disclosures were HIPAA-protected (MC7). We also uncovered a common misconception among seven participants (7/21) that LLM-enabled mental health conversations were governed by health regulations such as HIPAA. P7 assumed that, “…the chatbot, since it’s got a database of research, should also have access to all the same procedures and laws, like HIPAA.” P21 similarly equated ChatGPT with a licensed professional, remarking: “Anytime I’ve done a therapist, I’ve always signed documents [that say] the therapist can’t say any of this information… I’ve never done that with ChatGPT, but I assume that’s on what I click to agree and submit.” In reality, HIPAA only applies to specific healthcare providers and business associates; most LLM-based chatbot services do not qualify as covered entities [56]. While some mental health apps have FDA approval, many position themselves as “wellness” tools to avoid clinical oversight [28]. This confusion left several participants unaware that their data might not receive the legal safeguards they assumed.

@wyatt nodds in agreement

The fact that every #BEV (or any car made and/or sold in the #EU after 2016) is a regression in terms of #Repairability, #Reliability, #Afforability, #Pricing, #UserExperience and #Privacy is shit.

You know what my Corsa D 1.0 needs to get going? Enough 5W-30 and ROZ95E5 to run!

@alice How about people #Camover that shit?

Last time I checked Paintball markers were legal to buy without ID and same goes for T4E markers as well as their paintballs...

#Sarcasm #USpol #WeKeepUsSafe #SurveillanceState #Facism #PoliceState #MassSurveillance #Privacy #Cameras

🛡️ Who Owns, Operates, and Develops Your VPN Matters: An analysis of transparency vs. anonymity in the VPN ecosystem, and implications for users

New research: Eight popular, commercial VPN apps operate deceptively and put more than 700 million users at risk of authoritarian surveillance.

https://www.opentech.fund/news/who-owns-operates-and-develops-your-vpn-matters-an-analysis-of-transparency-vs-anonymity-in-the-vpn-ecosystem-and-implications-for-users/

#vpn #privacy #security

GrapheneOS version 2025090300 released:

https://grapheneos.org/releases#2025090300

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release.

Forum discussion thread:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/26117-grapheneos-version-2025090300-released

#GrapheneOS #privacy #security

New Privacy Guides article 🔒 🚩
by me:

They all claim:
"Your privacy is important to us."
But how can we know if that's true?

With all the privacy washing and disinformation around, it becomes increasingly difficult to evaluate who we can trust with our data.

There are red flags, and green(ish) flags, we can look for to help us assess who to trust, or not 🚩

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/09/03/red-and-green-privacy-flags/

#PrivacyGuides #Privacy #Security #PrivacyWashing #SecurityTheater #Disinformation

As "privacy washing" becomes more and more prevalent, being able to distinguish fact from marketing fiction is an essential skill for you to have. Our latest article covers the red flags and the green flags you should look out for when evaluating any service.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/09/03/red-and-green-privacy-flags/

#PrivacyWashing #RedFlags #Privacy #Security #GreenFlags #Evaluation #RedFlag #GreenFlag #Article #PrivacyGuides

I Switched to Linux for 30 Days - Samtime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ20JXCuK9k

#linux #fedora #privacy

so, we had some guest speakers from a law enforcement agency.
I won't comment who they are or what class this was.
but I asked the #law #enforcement #agency a very simple, not misunderstood question. actually, I asked them a set of questions.
but at about the last question, they were very hesitant in answering.
and what I asked was, can you gather data from public records, buy it in order to bypass the forth amendment?
now their tone sounded like they didn't want to answer that, but their initial answer is yes.
they absolutely can.
so they just admitted, yeah we can break your #privacy with no problem.
they don't even have to put a hole in the #constitution because they know there is a loophole.
this is by their own admission in front of 30 students, btw.
but they ultimately admitted it, and I made sure to ask in no unclear terms.
I can't believe I just got a state-wide law enforcement agency to admit what they can do

Guter Artikel im @untergrundblaettle darüber, was die #EPA ("elektronische Patientenakte") und nur die Möglichkeit eines Opt-Outs eigentlich bedeuten in Hinblick auf Überwachung und Kontrolle.
Zumindest bleibt noch die Möglichkeit eines Widerspruchs.

Die ePA reiht sich ein in den zunehmenden Digitalisierungszwang
EPA – mit dem Opt-Out-Verfahren zum gläsernen Patienten?

„Ab dem 15. Januar 2025 bekommen alle Kassenpatienten automatisch eine elektronische Patientenakte (ePA). Hintergrund ist, dass sich bisher nur ca. 1 Prozent der Versicherten für die ePA entschieden haben…..“

https://www.xn--untergrund-blttle-2qb.ch/politik/epa-mit-dem-optoutverfahren-zum-glaesernen-patienten-008615.html

#Digitalisierung #Patientenakte #überwachung #Datenschutz #Privacy

Nochmal der Hinweis auf den Widerspruchsgenerator zur elektronischen Patientenakte #ePA

Da viele Menschen nicht wissen, wie der Widerspruch funktioniert und auch nicht umfassend über die Konsequenzen der überwachungskapitalistischen Ausbeutung von Gesundheitsdaten informiert werden, scheinen viele Menschen keinen Widerspruch gegen die ePA einzulegen, obwohl sie ihr sonst auch nicht zustimmen würden.
Für die herrschende Politik könnten damit opt-out-Modelle, die gezielt mit Hürden zu Wissen und Handlungsmöglichkeiten arbeiten, um so attraktiver werden, während sie den fehlenden Widerspruch als "großen Zuspruch" etc. umzudeuten versuchen.

https://widerspruch-epa.de

#Überwachung #Datenschutz #Datensicherheit #Gesundheit #Deutschland #Privacy

Europaweiter Zugriff auf deutsche Patientendaten?

Bislang können Patienten in Deutschland der Einrichtung einer elektronischen Patientenakte widersprechen. Eine neue EU-Verordnung könnte dieses Recht SWR-Recherchen zufolge aushebeln. Datenschützer warnen…..

https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/swr/elektronische-patientenakte-datenschutz-eu-deutschland-100.html

#Datenschutz #ePA #Privacy #EU #Europe #Daten #Data #Gesundheit #Digitalisierung #Technology

Polizei Hamburg will #KI mit Videos von Passant*innen trainieren

"Ab dem 1. September will die Polizei Hamburg eine künstliche Intelligenz (KI) mit Videos von Passanten an zwei öffentlichen Orten trainieren. Manche dieser Aufnahmen sollen monatelang gespeichert werden - das hat die# Polizei jetzt bestätigt.

Das neue polizeiliche KI-Überwachungssystem soll Gewalttaten schneller erkennen. Dafür muss es beispielsweise Faustschläge von normalen Armbewegungen unterscheiden können.
Aufzeichnungen von Hansaplatz und Hachmannplatz

Das lernt die KI laut der Polizei aber nur mithilfe von Aufzeichnungen echter Menschen. Die sollen von den Kameras am Hansaplatz und Hachmannplatz kommen. Jetzt hat die Polizei NDR 90,3 auf Anfrage mitgeteilt, dass die KI ab Anfang September mit den Aufnahmen gefüttert werden soll...."

https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/hamburg/polizei-hamburg-will-ki-mit-videos-von-passantentrainieren,kameraueberwachung-102.html

#Überwachung #Hamburg #KI #Technology #Digitalisierung #Massenüberwachung #Privacy #BiometrischeDaten

Die #Bundespolizei kann bald #Staatstrojaner einsetzen, um Personen auch ohne Verdacht präventiv zu überwachen. Das will zumindest Bundesinnenminister #Dobrindt.....

Bundespolizei soll Handys und Rechner hacken dürfen

https://www.heise.de/news/Dobrindt-Gesetzentwurf-Bundespolizei-soll-Handys-und-Rechner-hacken-duerfen-10507629.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Überwachung #Deutschland #Repression #Polizei #Datenschutz #Privacy

If you don't know what Chat Control is,
or still struggle to understand why it's a horrible idea that will not protect the children, watch this excellente video by @StopScanningMe

It's less than 4 minutes.
Watch it. Share it👇
https://stopscanningme.eu/video/csar-explainer.mp4

#ChatControl #StopScanningMe #Privacy #HumanRights

Jury rules Meta stole your menstrual data ...

with emphasis on "stole". Why does anyone still use Meta applications?

https://tuta.com/blog/meta-guilty-flo-app-controversy

#Privacy #CyberSecurity #Meta