ClawBox has a new home: clawbox.com 🦀

Your always-on AI assistant — on hardware you own. Local models for privacy, optional cloud power, browser automation that works.

Launch week: 10% off with code CLAWBOX10 (until July 20).

#ClawBox #clawboxcom #AI #SelfHosted #Privacy #FOSS

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ClawBox — website now live at clawbox.com, 10% off with code CLAWBOX10

Alarm over launch of #FacialRecognition in #UK shops that instantly alerts #police

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/10/facewatch-facial-recognition-uk-shops-instantly-alerts-police-civil-liberties

#privacy #surveillance #FRT

At some point, every application became a landlord—and the rent included my privacy, data and increasingly creative interpretations of consent.

So I rented two bare-metal servers, deployed far too many databases, and built one very expensive way to say: my life is not an untapped dataset.

https://augustini.wtf/blog/why-i-built-a-bare-metal-cluster/

#SelfHosting #Privacy #DigitalSovereignty #BareMetal #OpenSource

"Thought smart glasses were creepy? These bone conduction headphones have a tiny 4K camera — but luckily they're aimed at cyclists"

"The W&O X1 put a recording camera right by your ear, which is great for action cam videos but worrying for privacy."

https://www.techradar.com/audio/headphones/thought-smart-glasses-were-creepy-these-bone-conduction-headphones-have-a-tiny-4k-camera-but-luckily-theyre-aimed-at-cyclists

#Privacy

SimpleX servers are reliable. That’s not enough.

Its whole point is privacy + identity isolation: no shared phone number, no account ID tying your contacts together.

But that removes the usual escape hatch. On other apps, if things break you just call or SMS to reconnect. SimpleX has no such fallback, by design.

So resilience must be built in. Automatic backup routing isn’t a nice-to-have; it’s mandatory because privacy leaves you nothing else to fall back on.

#SimpleX #Privacy #SecureMessaging #Redundancy #SimpleXChat

I built IMXSO in Rust – a tool for autonomous media organization using neural network ONNX and BLAKE3 hashing. It handles massive archives by being hardware-aware.

100% privacy, local-only, and free to use.

https://codeberg.org/wbezs/imxso

#rustlang #opensource #linux #privacy #imxso

“Chat control? No grazie”: Lega e FdI si dicono contrari, ma 9 giorni prima il governo aveva espresso parere favorevole, con riserva. E l'ex eurodeputato tedesco attivista per i diritti digitali Patrick Breyer sottolinea: “Pazzesco! L'Italia avverte sui pericoli del Chat Control, ma vota A FAVORE!”

@sicurezza

https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2026/07/14/chat-control-governo-meloni-voto-consiglio-ue-notizie/8447567/

#ChatControl #Sicurezza #Internet #Privacy #Lega #FdI #FratelliDItalia #GovernoMeloni #Breyer #PatrickBreyer

Surveillance got cheap. Awareness shouldn't be a subscription product.
Red Fox builds offline gadgets: plate-reader approach alerts and cellular mass-surveillance detection you own.
https://www.tindie.com/stores/garden/
https://lectronz.com/stores/thegarden
#privacy #opensource

PixelRAG is an open-source visual RAG framework that helps local AI models understand documents by analyzing screenshots instead of relying only on extracted text.

It preserves tables, charts, diagrams, and page layouts for more accurate retrieval, and can run locally with your own PDFs and webpages.

More details: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=pixelrag

#OpenSource #AI #RAG #LLM #SelfHosted #Privacy

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Screenshot of the PixelRAG project page. At the top is the PixelRAG logo with the tagline "Web Screenshots Beat Text." Below, an overview explains that PixelRAG renders web pages, PDFs, and images as screenshots so AI models can preserve visual elements like tables, charts, layouts, and infographics for more accurate document retrieval and question answering.

Today we’ve joined over 20 organisations to urge the UK Government to protect children online without making the internet less secure by restricting VPNs.

Child safety and security aren’t competing objectives – we need both.

Read our letter ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/joint-letter-protect-vpns/

#SafeAndSecure #ProtectVPNs #vpn #cybersecurity #onlinesafety #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol

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Protecting children online is an objective we all share. The challenge is ensuring measures strengthen child safety without weakening the privacy and security millions of people rely on every day, including children. As organisations committed to a safe, secure, and rights-respecting internet, we are concerned by suggestions that the Government restrict virtual private networks (VPNs). VPNs are cybersecurity tools. They help people protect personal information on public Wi-Fi, enable secure remote working, allow students to access education networks safely, and help small businesses protect their systems. VPNs are essential for human rights defenders and journalists, domestic abuse survivors, the LGBTQ+ community, and others at heightened risk online. The evidence does not support assumptions that young people use VPNs to bypass age restrictions. Ofcom’s research found that only around 3% of children had used VPNs to access content meant for older audiences. Evidence from Australia shows children are much more likely to get around age checks by not being asked, giving false information, or even drawing on a moustache. Restricting VPNs would undercut the security and privacy of millions, without making children safer. Age-gating VPNs would require everyone to surrender sensitive personal information simply to access tools designed to protect privacy. Blocking VPN traffic reliably is technically unfeasible, and risks blocking employers, schools and public authorities using

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Children deserve an Internet that is safe, private, and secure. Those objectives should reinforce one another, not come into conflict. Yours sincerely, • Amnesty International • Big Brother Watch • Defend Digital Me • ExpressVPN • Global Partners Digital • Index on Censorship • Internet Infrastructure Coalition • Internet Society • Internet Society UK • lnternews • IPVanish • Liberty • Mozilla • Mullvad VPN • Mysterium VPN • NordVPN • Open Rights Group • Proton • Reporters Without Borders • Stop Killing Games • Stop Killing Internet • Surfshark • Tuta • VPN Trust Initiative

An independent security audit is the single thing standing between “trust us” and “verified.” It’s also what Privacy Guides, journalists and security reviewers rightly ask for before recommending any messenger.

We’re raising funds to have Zerion audited by Radically Open Security. Every finding gets published, good or bad. That’s the deal.

If Zerion is useful to you, this is the most direct way to push it forward:

zerion.chat/donate.html

BTC, XMR and ETH accepted.
#privacy #foss #tor #monero

New EU report details age verification plans and ID requirements for accessing the internet

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1uvzw1z/new_eu_report_details_age_verification_plans_and/

#EU #AgeVerification #idVerification #privacy #surveillance #dystopia #technology #government #socialmedia #Europe

A fake tower can harvest phone IDs while your handset still shows "LTE".
RayHunter is a hotspot with EFF's detector onboard — it watches for Stingray-style mass surveillance on the air link.
https://www.tindie.com/products/garden/rc400l-rayhunter-hotspot/
#privacy #infosec

Daily Digest | 14 July 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

Most apps keep a log of what you get up to in them. Catchlight keeps one too, built so it can never hold your notes.
When sync or storage hits a snag, it records the event, a timestamp, a category, a short message, and never the content of a note or your key. You can read the whole history in Settings and export it to attach to a bug report.
A diagnostics log that knows nothing about you is the only kind a privacy app should keep.
#Privacy #FOSS #BuildInPublic

The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public

https://tech.yahoo.com/wearables/articles/backlash-strong-people-pervert-glasses-165000816.html

#Meta #RayBan #pervertglasses #smartglasses #privacy #surveillance #technology

The goal of Meta’s RayBan camera glasses is not simply, to make profit on that product line in the traditional sense. The goal is to open up a whole new channel of data mining to train AI. Privacy is just collateral roadkill for these bastards.

“The creeps are just the funding source for the AI glasses project. The purpose is to generate training data. Zuckerberg wants normal people recording their lives to feed his AI.”

Meta’s new AI creep glasses will record 24-7 without a light
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/09/metas-new-ai-creep-glasses-will-record-24-7-without-a-light/ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/09/metas-new-ai-creep-glasses-will-record-24-7-without-a-light/

#privacy #ai #meta

ALPR vans and roadside boxes are reading plates while you commute. Quietly. Constantly.
FlockU Alert: dash GPS + local camera map. Lights up on approach. No app. No account. No trip log leaving the device.
https://www.tindie.com/products/garden/flocku-alert/
#privacy #ALPR

Age verification laws are spreading fast, and it’s a massive privacy trainwreck. Forcing users to hand over IDs or biometric scans kills anonymity & builds giant honeypots for hackers.

Track the creep with @proton.me’s map: https://proton.me/age-verification

#Privacy #GDPR #AgeVerification #CyberSecurity

EU Parliament Chat Control 1.0 Vote

The Facts

Against 314
For 276
Abstained 17

How It Passed

EU parliamentary procedure requires an absolute majority of all 720 MEPs (361 votes) to reject legislation, but no such threshold to pass it.

Result: A minority imposed mass surveillance on 450 million people.

I know its pretty rich for an American to be shouting about doing democracy wrong, but I don't care where you are from, that is messed up.

Euronews Next: https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/07/10/chat-control-10-passed-the-european-parliament-through-the-back-door

Patrick Breyer (former MEP, privacy advocate): https://patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-parliament-greenlights-chat-control-1-0/

#ChatControl #EU #Privacy #DigitalRights #Democracy

The privacy news cycle is noisy. We send one story a week, and it's the one that actually matters.

#privacy #indigoprivacy

The privacy news cycle is noisy. We send one story a week, and it's the one that actually matters.

#privacy #indigoprivacy

Another JavaScript nightmare has just been released.

Cloudflare states that "Precursor is [...] built with privacy in mind [...]". The privacy guarantees?

"The event listeners capture the minimum information needed to be a useful signal for detecting automation and abuse. For example, keyboard activity is captured as timing and rhythm, not as the actual keys pressed."

Really?!

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-precursor/

#Privacy #Cloudflare #JavaScript #Precursor

The Angela Collective is hosting an event to discuss the disastrous ramifications of Bill C-22 in so called Canada which is slated to pass sometime later this year 😬

This bill may see the end of @signalapp availability in Canada and the death of any centralized service offering even a veil of privacy

Join us in discussing plans and alternatives to pre-existing standards in the leftist community and how we can pivot our use of technology to benefit us rather then our corporate and governmental overlords who seek to make 1984 look like a privacy utopia.

Technology by and for the people in a better world 🏴

@eff #privacy #surveillance #c22

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Urgent Discussion on Bill C-22 & Surveillance 2-4:30pm July 25th Atelier@95 clegg st > Bill C-22 proposes to add back-door access for CSIS into EVERY centralized software available in Canada > This back door is an open invitation for mass surveillance and data thieves based on the C-22 Mandated 1 year worth of metadata on everyone who uses any online service > It has now been rushed through the house and is expected to pass in the senate sometime in the fall > Gather for a discussion of the bill and its implications and alternatives for activists moving forward

It's crazy what a strong wind is capable of, it is almost like dystopian surveillance devices are not meant to be there.

Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1uvorfo

#surveillance #politics #resistance #resist #usa #authoritarianism #fascism #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #pedo47 #epsteintrump #releasetheepsteinfiles #ice #policestate #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #nokings #abolishice #privacy #flock #palantir #4thamendment #Chatrie_v_United_States

🚨PSA: If you think you're a targeted individual, don't install macOS apps from the web. macOS code signing and TCC are broken. We accidentally found a bug that lets any command modify the binaries of other apps, including Signal, Brave, Chrome, and even Xcode. Watch the demo👇

#privacy #Apple #security #infosec #cybersecurity

cross-posted from: infosec.pub/post/49422613

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Punchbowl News is reporting that Senate Commerce is looking at July 29 for a "kids and AI" markup -- likely to include KOSA as well as Cruz' chatbot bill and perhaps some other AI bills. The date isn't finalized yet, so keep your eyes peeled!

(Via Ben Brody on Xitter)

#KOSA #AI #privacy #USpol

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Today 4:01PM, From Punchbowl News Tech. The Senate Commerce Committee is eyeing July 29 for a markup on kids digital protections and measures related to artificial intelligence, according to two people familiar with the planning. The date hasn't been finalized. The closely watched session is likely to take up measures including the Kids Online Safety Act and priorities of panel ChairTed Cruz (R-Texas), like his chatbots bill. It could potentially even take on what Cruz has called "catastrophic risk" due to Al.

"Los Angeles law enforcement will stop using Flock cameras"

"The Los Angeles police department did not renew its contract with Flock due to data privacy concerns."

https://www.engadget.com/2214135/los-angeles-law-enforcement-will-stop-using-flock-cameras/

#Privacy

#Mobile #SIM #Cape for #Privacy #Security

= Identifier Rotation,
= Secondary Numbers,
= Disappearing Call Logs

https://www.cape.co/get-cape

#AltText says:

Unlimited Talk and Text
Unlimited 5G and 4G Data
Minimal Data Collection →
Identifier Rotation →
Secondary Numbers →
SIM Swap Protection →
Network Lock →
Encrypted Voicemail →
Secure Global Roaming →
Mobile Hotspot
No contract - cancel any time

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List of features: Unlimited Talk and Text Unlimited 5G and 4G Data Minimal Data Collection → Identifier Rotation → Secondary Numbers → SIM Swap Protection → Network Lock → Encrypted Voicemail → Secure Global Roaming → Mobile Hotspot No contract - cancel any time

Virginia’s State of Surveillance - The Daily Signal
#privacy #surveillance #news

https://share.google/Tq9gTzuEKRKbmXxZh

Last week, the House voted on the KIDS Act, a disjointed package of legislation that seeks to control Americans’ web browsing and private messaging. The package combines a revised version of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), with several other internet bills, study bills, reporting requirements, and new regulations. Different parts of the bill pressure online services to impose different age-gating schemes, using different standards. EFF opposed this bill, along with many of our members and supporters.

"This contract is not being renewed because of serious concerns around civil liberties and civil rights issues."

The post LAPD Abandons Flock Contract After Making a Horrifying Discovery appeared first on Futurism.

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LAPD Abandons Flock Contract After Making a Horrifying Discovery

"The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is reportedly ending its deal with Flock Safety, a surveillance company that helps law enforcement track vehicles using thousands of its license plate cameras placed across the United States.

A senior LAPD official told news outlets, first reported by ABC7 and the Los Angeles Times, that the police department would allow its three-year contract with Flock to expire when it ends on Saturday. The department cited “serious concerns” around civil liberties and privacy. Flock’s cameras are operated by the Atlanta, Georgia-based company and not the LAPD.

“This contract is not being renewed because of serious concerns around civil liberties and civil rights issues, particularly around privacy and the data that is being collected from these cameras,” LAPD’s chief information officer Dean Gialamas was quoted as saying. “The LAPD had to make a difficult decision, in this case discontinuing using Flock services until we can get those data, privacy, security and sharing concerns ironed out through a contractual relationship.”

A spokesperson for the LAPD did not respond to a request for comment from TechCrunch over the weekend, and it’s unclear if Flock’s cameras will continue recording in absence of an active contract. According to ABC7, the police department is seeking new language in its contract addressing privacy and data storage concerns."

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/lapd-lets-contract-with-surveillance-giant-flock-expire-citing-serious-concerns-over-civil-liberties-and-privacy/

#USA #LA #LosAngeles #Flock #LAPD #Privacy #Surveillance #CivilLiberties

Your name, address, and phone number are on dozens of sites right now. The guides show you how to remove them, one at a time, for free.

#privacy #optout #indigoprivacy

This update represents much more than a visual change. Midori 11.9 incorporates a revamped Control Center, new themes and textures, significant improvements to vertical tabs, more stable workspaces, optimized web panels, and deeper visual integration with Midori New Tab. It also updates Midori Privacy.

https://astian.org/midori-en/midori-browser-11-9-news/

#browser #privacy #tech #web #technology #windows #linux #debian #fedora #manjaro

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Midori Browser 11.9 New design, privacy, and speed

#LAPD Regularly Pulled Over #Innocent People Because #LicensePlateReaders Flagged Their Cars As Stolen

The #LosAngeles Police Department (LAPD) announced it will let its #surveillance contract with automated license plate reader company (#ALPR ) #Flock expire, becoming the largest police department in the country to drop its contract. Notably, the decision came after an audit of ALPR technology found that, in a two-month period, the LAPD had improperly "investigated" 161 people whose cars were flagged as stolen in the LAPD’s ALPR system but were not actually stolen.

The news that LAPD pulled over 161 innocent people in two months because of improper tagging in the department’s system comes after several high-profile incidents in which people in other states were accosted by police because of data entry or clerical errors in ALPR systems.
#privacy #security

https://www.404media.co/lapd-regularly-pulled-over-innocent-people-because-license-plate-readers-flagged-their-cars-as-stolen/

There’s a camera in my flight’s setback display. Thanks to the overt surveillance from companies like Google and Meta, my knee-jerk reaction was that the airline is recording all passengers. Thanks for the paranoia, Zuck. #privacy #surveillance #travel

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Airplane seat back display with built-in camera.

Good News, although only temporary until they "can get those data, #privacy, security and sharing concerns ironed out through a contractual relationship":

»The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is reportedly ending its deal with #Flock Safety, a #surveillance company that helps law enforcement track vehicles using thousands of its license plate #cameras placed across the United States. […]

“This contract is not being renewed because of serious concerns around civil liberties and civil rights issues, particularly around privacy and the data that is being collected from these cameras,” #LAPD’s chief information officer Dean Gialamas was quoted as saying. «

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/lapd-lets-contract-with-surveillance-giant-flock-expire-citing-serious-concerns-over-civil-liberties-and-privacy/

#ALPR