Tootfinder

Perseverance Pays Off for Vermont Privacy Efforts
https://fpf.org/blog/perseverance-pays-off-for-vermont-privacy-efforts/
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from my link log —
Firefox privacy how-to guide.
https://restoreprivacy.com/firefox-privacy/
saved 2019-10-15 https://dotat.at/:/F3X…

Firefox Privacy — The Complete How-To Guide for 2026
This new and updated Firefox privacy guide shows you how to tweak and configure Firefox for maximum privacy and security.

"Digital Colonialism": U.S. Demands to Access Africans' Data Raise Privacy, Sovereignty Concerns (ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-state-department-africa-uganda-aid-medical-data-privacy
http://www.memeorandum.com/260617/p63#a260617p63

Security researcher Peter G. Neumann, who criticized lax industry attitudes toward computer security and digital privacy, died on May 17 at the age of 93 (John Markoff/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/obituar

Peter G. Neumann, Who Warned of Computer Security Risks, Dies at 93
For decades, he criticized the industry’s lax attitudes toward both computer security and individual digital privacy. And he developed solutions.

«While these privacy concerns swirl, Meta is recruiting celebrities to help push their wearables and suffocate the obvious backlash. Kylie Jenner is the newest celeb to push Meta’s smart glasses, even as women around the world complain about how this is being misused to harass them.
When it comes to protecting your privacy, pasting over your computer’s webcam and turning off Siri won’t cut it, as tech companies stretch their tentacles into every aspect of our lives. And the more these …

A look at Privacy Act lawsuits against the government that result in journalists being subpoenaed to reveal their sources, and their impact on press freedom (Riddhi Setty/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/private-matte

Private matters.
Catherine Herridge, a former Fox News reporter, is being compelled to pay $800 a day until she reveals confidential sources.

Needless to say, do not sign up for W or give them your ID information no matter how simple they eventually manage to make it.
You simply don’t need to.
You’re already in a far superior – non-corporate, federated – space.
Do not sign up for W. And warn your friends.
The only time you have any power to stop this is now. If they succeed in gaining network effects, you will be as powerless to stop them as you are with X.
And yes, they’re just another venture capita…

"In the entire federal regulatory landscape governing the privacy of personal health information, there are two main frameworks. Crisis pregnancy centers are exempt from both."
Not good.
https://kimmienicole.substack.com/p/what-they-take-when-you-walk-in…

What They Take When You Walk In
The HIPAA blind spot, the database at the center of it, and the women whose names ended up on the open internet.

I built the @… Stream video manager I've always wanted right into @…. It's privacy-first, free, open source, and you can download and install it today.
Features:
▪️ Manage all of your Cloudflare Stream videos

Coywolf Video Manager: A WordPress plugin for managing Cloudflare Stream videos
Coywolf Video Manager is a WordPress plugin for managing Cloudflare Stream videos, auto-generating VideoObject Schema markup and XML sitemaps, and adding likes, views, and upload dates.

So amazing.
"Dr. Neumann died on Sunday at the Santa Clara Medical Center in Santa Clara, Calif. He was still working full time on a Pentagon-supported advanced computer security design, which is being adopted by companies such as Google and Microsoft. He was 93."

Peter G. Neumann, Who Warned of Computer Security Risks, Dies at 93
For decades, he criticized the industry’s lax attitudes toward both computer security and individual digital privacy. And he developed solutions.

Wrote a little intro post to my Fisk AI project, why, who for etc
Local friendly, privacy friendly, strong guardrails, doing just what you give it the ability to do etc
Hopefully a AI Harness for sceptics or just for better outcomes for those tasks you wish to do repeatedly.
Minimal dependencies, quick to get going, easy to configure.
Also the easiest possible way to do build MCP servers for other AI Agents

A very important post on what is happening to make the web harder to use.
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116550899908879585

Google knows AI glasses won't take off without trust — so it's building anti-tampering protections into Android XR from day one https://www.androidcentral.com/wearables/google-integrating-ai-glasses-anti-tampering-pr…

Google knows AI glasses won't take off without trust — so it's building anti-tampering protections into Android XR from day one
Google says privacy and trust are the biggest hurdles facing AI glasses.

(Grin)
‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026/j

‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?
Designers say that as well as offering a degree of protection from surveillance, their clothes make a powerful fashion statement about the importance of privacy

(Grin)
‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026/j

‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?
Designers say that as well as offering a degree of protection from surveillance, their clothes make a powerful fashion statement about the importance of privacy

Istituto Italiano per la Privacy e la Valorizzazione dei Dati – Lettera di fine mandato di Luca Bolognini
https://www.istitutoitalianoprivacy.it/2026/06/15/istituto-italiano-per-la-priva…

What is the best non spying #DNS people use these days?
Assume my ISP, OpenDNS (208.67.222.222) , google (8.8.8.8) and cloudflare (1.1.1.1) are not respecting my privacy at all

➡️ Mojeek
#bookmarks

Apple's planned move of Hide My Email aliases to private.icloud.com will let services easily distinguish them from normal iCloud email addresses and block them (Arseniy Shestakov)
https://arseniyshestakov.com/2026/06/16/apple-is-about-to-make-hide-my…

Ik ben medestander van The Firewall, omdat ik weiger toe te kijken hoe techgiganten onze democratie ondermijnen. The Firewall vecht terug. Met het vrije woord en de rechtspraak.
#StaOpTegenBigTech
Word ook medestander van TheFirewall https://www.

Breek de macht van Big Tech, doe mee
The Firewall is een journalistieke waakhond die niet alleen blaft naar misstanden maar daar ook zijn tanden in zal zetten. The Firewall richt zich op Big Tech en onderzoekt de macht, invloed en impact van de grote technologiebedrijven op onze samenleving, democratie, economie en privacy. The Firewall stelt misstanden aan de kaak en zal die ook met juridische middelen bestrijden

RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116584783523036568
I'd love to know how people's expectation of financial privacy lines up with reality.
I'd never connect this but it's more to do with not having or wanting a relationship with most of these companies, and it's not an open access standard.
There's huge risks, but I suspect that the ones people most fret over are on ships that have already sailed.

Flock's CEO Is Sorry for Calling Privacy Activists 'Terrorists'
https://gizmodo.com/flocks-ceo-is-sorry-for-calling-privacy-activists-terrorists-2000787247

While some privacy-first software tools are on par with their mainstream counterparts and can be recommended without reserve, others should come with a few warnings for new users.
https://theprivacydad.com/privacy-tool-recommendations-should-come-with-caveat…

Das sind die neuen #Datenschutz|bestimmungen von #anthropic
Man muss sich fast einen Tag Urlaub nehmen, um das genau zu lesen und dann auch einen juristischen Sachverständigen beiziehen; aber immerhin...

Privacy Policy
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Future of Privacy Forum Announces 2026 Career Achievement Award Recipients
https://fpf.org/press-releases/future-of-privacy-forum-announces-2026-career-achievement-award-recipients/
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RE: https://newsie.social/@servelan/116756562824636737
Ditch Chrome. Ditch it yesterday. It’s already 50% hostile surveillance machine, but that’s soon going to be 100%.
Vivaldi is a fine near-drop-in replacement if you want maximum compatibility. It’s what I use for G-Suite stuff whenever I have to use it.
Waterfox is a Firefox fork that strips out the AI nonsense features. I’ve been happy with it.
Firefox itself has problematic leadership these days, but is still better than Chrome.
Safari on Mac (my daily driver) is a lovely browser, lean and blazing fast compared to Chrome, and great privacy features — though it’s still Big Tech if that’s a problem for you.
In short, you have choices!

Venmo is implementing a major privacy update to set new users' posts to "friends only" by default during onboarding; in 2021, a reporter found Joe Biden's Venmo (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/927503/venmo-app-redesign-privacy-post…

Venmo finally takes privacy seriously
Venmo is starting to test a big redesign of its app, and as part of the redesign, instead of defaulting new users’ posts to be public by default, their posts will only be visible to friends.

Fake #OpenAI Privacy Filter Repo Hits #1 on Hugging Face, Draws 244K Downloads
https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/fake-openai-privacy-filter-repo-hits-1.html?m…

booooo

https://rs.bot/mc4aWQ

Get the Flock Out of Cali!
Join 274 people. Get Flock cameras out of California towns! They violate CA privacy laws and expose towns to massive fines! Sign and Resistbot delivers your letter in minutes.

Fun engineering/privacy problem: design a device that plugs into an ESP32 based sensor node that has a microphone and reports ambient noise levels in dBa via MQTT or similar.
That's the easy part.
The hard part is to do so in a way that you can prove it's incapable of being used as a bug/listening device even in the worst case scenario (attacker running arbitrary code on any programmable component).
My initial thought is to record audio from a MEMS mic into a tiny M…

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@rene_mobile/116454517003134641
The application deadline has been extended to June 28th to better align with internal processes.
If you are interested in privacy-first digital identity, secure communication protocol…

Palantir was initially funded by
In-Q-Tel, the non-profit venture capital arm of the CIA,
and has been working with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which has been criticised by civil liberties groups.
It works with several other UK government organisations,
including the army.
The Israeli army reportedly used Palantir for AI-based targeting in the war in Gaza,
which is a main reason Amnesty International campaigned against Palantir within the…

Palantir and the NHS – 10 things you need to know
What Palantir’s £330 million NHS data contract means for patients, privacy and the future of healthcare data in the UK.

BBC: Smart glasses are 'an invasion of privacy' - Meta's are selling better than ever https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj37z8357e5o Note: The vOICe vision BCI does not store or share any camera footage unless explicitly instructed to by the user. Video frames are discarded a…

Smart glasses are 'an invasion of privacy' - Meta's are selling better than ever
The biggest tech firms are set to sell millions of smart glasses despite growing privacy concerns.

Have you ever heard someone thoughtful and interesting and cool say „no one cares about data privacy, of course the cops, the bosses and the state actors should know every detail about me“? Of course you haven’t.

The hidden cost of Google's AI defaults and the illusion of choice
Google says it respects user privacy in AI, but the reality is not so black and white.
Many people are hoping—nay, praying—that the potential AI bubble will burst soon.
🫤 https://arstechnica.com/a…

The hidden cost of Google's AI defaults and the illusion of choice
Google says it respects user privacy in AI, but the reality is not so black and white.

'The Biggest Student Data Privacy Disaster in History': Canvas Hack Shows the Danger of Centralized EdTech https://www.404media.co/the-biggest-student-data-privacy-disaster-in-history-canvas-hack-shows-the-dan…

Oh goody, researchers use AI to build a drone that can be invisible to the human eye.
I'm sure no one will use this for stalking or peeping, nope, that would never happen.
#AI #Drone #Privacy

If anyone is looking for Sudoku appp, then Sudoku (Privacy Friendly) is a decent one. No annoying ads (looking furiously at Google Store).
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.secuso.privacyfriendlysudoku

Privacy Guardrail: Chrome-Erweiterung will sensible Daten vor Chatbots schützen
Wer Texte in KI-Chatbots einfügt, gibt oft unbeabsichtigt sensible Daten weiter. Eine neue Chrome-Erweiterung des DFKI soll das verhindern.

Privacy Guardrail: Chrome-Erweiterung will sensible Daten vor Chatbots schützen
Wer Texte in KI-Chatbots einfügt, gibt oft unbeabsichtigt sensible Daten weiter. Eine neue Chrome-Erweiterung des DFKI soll das verhindern.

I would be on Mastodon if it was regarded as an American platform, because privacy first knows no country.

Data breach, il Garante privacy sanziona #WindTre per 1,7 milioni di euro
Riscontrate gravi carenze nella sicurezza dei sistemi aziendali, che hanno determinato due accessi abusivi e l’esfiltrazione dei dati personali di oltre 365mila clienti. Per 41.359 di essi, l’esfiltrazione ha riguardato anche le informazioni relative ai metodi di pagamento utilizzati, come il bollettino postale, …

Bill C-22 is quite clearly a bad bill that the Canadian government is digging in it's heels on.
Michael Geist @… covers the latest, which is Signal @… saying they will pull out of Canada if it passes (there is a requirement of retai…

Bill C-22’s Groundhog Day: Why the Government’s Dismissal of Signal, Apple and the U.S. Congress Concerns Runs Back the Disastrous Online News Act Playbook - Michael Geist
Secure messaging service Signal yesterday became the latest company to warn that Bill C-22, the lawful access bill, could force it to leave the Canadian market rather than comply with provisions it says would compromise its end-to-end encryption and create new cybersecurity risks. Signal vice-president Udbhav Tiwari told the Globe and Mail that the company “would rather pull out of the country than be compelled to compromise on the privacy promises we have made to our users.” The comments a…

Well done website that shows what information you share , nothing new for me but interesting.
#privacy

taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.

Privacy Friendly #Schmerztagebuch App:
https://secuso.aifb.kit.edu/Schmerztagebuch.php
Klingt echt super, habe zwei positive Erste-Hand-Erfahrungen. Kleiner Nachteil: Ni…

Every Saturday, Metacurity is happy to provide our readers with a rundown of the week's best infosec-related long reads that we couldn't address during the week's news crush.
This week's selection covers
--How a doll sparked an international security scandal,
--Smart home technology erodes our privacy and autonomy,
--We need 'Operation Warp Speed' for AI,
--Security and not speed should be uppermost in US-AI China race,
--Ditch cyber …

Innovation is easy, but adaptation is hard: Best infosec long reads 6/13/26
How a doll sparked an international security scandal, Smart home technology erodes our privacy and autonomy, We need 'Operation Warp Speed' for AI, Security and not speed should be uppermost in US-AI China race, Ditch cyber checklists in favor of engineered resilience

Porn platforms, payment processors, and opaque algorithms should not decide which bodies, desires, fantasies, or communities are allowed to exist online.
I am preparing a talk about decentralized networks, erotic art, privacy, furry and anime-inspired work, kink, fantasy, and creative freedom.
https://wr…

Privacy, Pleasure, and Sharing
Public space is not only made of streets. It is also made of rooms. Chairs facing a stage. People sharing the same air. A microphone ...

Ok, how’s this, then:
Donald Trump is corrupt, vain, dim, and a failure.
The current US administration is incapable of running a country.
ICE are terrorist goons.
The Republican Party consists entirely of spineless, weasely, craven idiots who would sell their loved ones for a tiny bit of power.
Public enough for ya?

Ex-Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre calls Prince Harry's phone hacking case a "conspiracy" to destroy the Mail and the verdict is a "vindication" of its journalism (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/paul-d

Paul Dacre: Prince Harry privacy case ‘conspiracy to destroy paper’
UK media and legal reaction to Prince Harry privacy trial dismissal, including Paul Dacre and Sir Simon Hughes.

Nice things about the experience though?
Can confirm the Puck works with macOS.
Once you get past the Privacy setting configuration, Steam on macOS was able to natively update both the firmware of the Puck and the controller (needed to plug into each, one after the other) - which was pleasant to see, as that kind of thing can be overlooked
Also - in Big Picture mode they have a nice indicator for remaining battery life on the #steamcontroller
Overall, I think my primary usage for this will continue to be as a controller for #SteamDeck - but it's feels nice to have as an option for Mac as well
(2/2)

My beloved #IATE making me so sad. Hosted on AWS, requires scripts from an AWS domain to even load.
#EU #privacy

Attention John Ternus #apple
https://daringfireball.net/2026/07/ternus_apple_slippery_slope

John Ternus Should Reverse Apple’s Slide Down the Advertising Slippery Slope
What gave Tim Cook’s privacy letter heft in 2014 wasn’t just the clarity of its plain language, but the fact that you didn’t have to take his word for it that the ads Apple showed you respected your privacy, because Apple didn’t show you ads in 2014.

Privacy Becomes You, Bayou State: A Look at the Louisiana Data Privacy Act
https://fpf.org/blog/privacy-becomes-you-bayou-state-a-look-at-the-louisiana-data-privacy-act/
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"In the latest lawsuit against Amazon over privacy concerns, Virginia resident Charles Sigwalt alleges that the company illegally violates the privacy of millions of Americans who unknowingly have their likeness captured and stored by Ring cameras without their consent."
#Amazon #Ring

Usable Security and Privacy Experts on Mastodon: Let's Fill This List!
Starting in the Fediverse and looking for researchers, practitioners, and institutions in the field of Usable Security and Privacy? I compiled a list on @… as a starting point.

Meta announces that it will be updating its glasses with a new feature that disables the camera if someone tampers with the glasses' privacy LED light (Victoria Song/The Verge)

Meta’s glasses will turn off the camera if you tamper with the privacy light
Meta announced that it will be updating its glasses with a new feature that will disable the camera when it detects that someone has tampered with or destroyed the glasses’ privacy LED light.

Just started a subscription with #privacy

W is to ATproto what Gmail is to email.
#WSocial #ATproto #gmail #email @…

Gartner: US states issued $3.45B in privacy-related fines to companies in 2025, a total larger than the last five years combined, driven by new privacy laws (Derek B. Johnson/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/privacy-companies-hit-with-record-fines-2025-gartner/…

FPF Hosts Frontiers Workshop on Privacy, AI, and Emerging Infrastructure
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-hosts-frontiers-workshop-on-privacy-ai-and-emerging-infrastructure/
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Surveillance pricing is bad for privacy, equity, and price transparency.
So EFF supports a California bill,
S.B. 2564,
which would ban this creepy practice.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/californias-bill-ban-surveillance-pricing

Yes to California's Bill to Ban Surveillance Pricing
Corporations harvest and monetize ever-growing amounts of our personal data, such as our browsing history and physical location. One bitter fruit of this poisonous tree is known as “surveillance pricing”: corporations offer the same product to two different people at two different prices, based on...

from my link log —
Maximizing DNS qname minimization.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20200916-maximizing-qname-minimization-new-chapter-dns-protocol-evolution/
saved 2020-09-17

Maximizing Qname Minimization: A New Chapter in DNS Protocol Evolution
Data privacy and security experts tell us that applying the "need to know" principle enhances privacy and security, because it reduces the amount of information potentially disclosed to a service provider -- or to other parties -- to the minimum the service provider requires to perform a service. This principle is at the heart of qname minimization, a technique described in RFC 7816 that has now achieved significant adoption in the DNS.

For your Friday evening reading pleasure lol
New US House privacy bills raise hard questions about enterprise data collection
https://www.csoonline.com/article/4163345/new-us-house-privacy-bills-raise-hard-…

New US House privacy bills raise hard questions about enterprise data collection
The SECURE Data Act and GUARD Financial Data Act are unlikely to pass, but they preview the privacy fights CIOs, CISOs, and CFOs will face anyway: data minimization, AI profiling, vendor accountability, and controversial new rules around teen data.

SCOTUS limits the law enforcement use of "geofence" warrants, saying people have "a reasonable expectation of privacy" in their cell-phone location data (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/in-m

In major privacy win, Supreme Court rules geofence warrants are protected by privacy rights | TechCrunch
The Supreme Court's decision to limit geofence warrants is a win for privacy advocates, who called their use unconstitutional but sought an outright ban.

Future of Privacy Forum Releases Comprehensive Report On Algorithmic Personalization in Youth Online Experiences
https://fpf.org/press-releases/future-of-privacy-forum-releases-comprehensive-repor…

Kartenhaus: Wie ein US-Urteil den transatlantischen Datenfluss sprengen könnte
Der Supreme Court hat die Unabhängigkeit der FTC für verfassungswidrig erklärt. Damit droht dem EU-US Data Privacy Framework die rechtliche Basis zu entziehen.

Kartenhaus: Wie ein US-Urteil den transatlantischen Datenfluss sprengen könnte
Der Supreme Court hat die Unabhängigkeit der FTC für verfassungswidrig erklärt. Damit droht dem EU-US Data Privacy Framework die rechtliche Basis zu entziehen.

Not a privacy tool, but I love #protopage for an at-a-glace overview of your RSS feeds:
#rss

The US Congress is considering legislation that cripples privacy and security online, under the guise of seeking a silver bullet that will “keep kids safe.”
#privacy

IronFox
The private, secure, user first web browser for Android.
🦊 #browser #privacy

IronFox
The private, secure, user first web browser for Android

Today, I got an error message from a Microsoft @outlook.com mail address. They had noted that thousands of messages were coming from the https://proton.me domain lately ;)

Proton: Privacy by default
Over 100 million people use Proton to stay private and secure online. Get a free Proton account and take back your privacy.

The OPSEC Rave Wave (with Imani Thompson) https://www.404media.co/the-opsec-rave-wave-with-imani-thompson/

Forbes Media preliminarily agrees to a $10M settlement to resolve a California class action lawsuit alleging unauthorized user tracking via its website (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/forbes-agrees-10-million-settlement-privacy-class-acti…

Forbes preliminarily agrees to pay $10 million to settle California wiretapping lawsuit
The preliminary settlement agreement, released on Thursday, said that Forbes has agreed to give users “greater notice” of its use of trackers and will add language to its website providing California residents with more control over how their data is collected and shared with third parties.

ICYMI yesterday, my latest CSO piece outlines critical data collection issues that come up in two new federal privacy bills, including data minimization, AI profiling, vendor accountability, and controversial new rules around teen data.
Thanks to EPIC president Alan Butler for his insight.
…

New US House privacy bills raise hard questions about enterprise data collection
The SECURE Data Act and GUARD Financial Data Act are unlikely to pass, but they preview the privacy fights CIOs, CISOs, and CFOs will face anyway: data minimization, AI profiling, vendor accountability, and controversial new rules around teen data.

A look at Roblox's biometric age-checking tool, which will help place users into age-based accounts starting this month, amid controversy over user privacy (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/inside-roblox-age-verification-efforts-rc…

How old are you really? Inside Roblox’s new campaign to verify user ages
Roblox gave NBC News an exclusive look at the biometric age-checking tool that, starting this month, will be used to place the platform’s users into age-based accounts.

In this article WaPo moves from the truth
A unanimous win for Dark Money at the Supreme Court
"Pregnancy Crisis Centers"
masquerade as women's clinics that provide abortions.
That is a deception, and doubtless many of their donors were deliberately deceived on that point.
Defrauding donors is something the state has the duty to investigate.
The Supreme Court ruled out of a concern for dogma, not privacy.

A unanimous win for privacy at the Supreme Court
The state of New Jersey cavalierly violated the First Amendment rights of First Choice Women’s Resource Centers.

FPF’s 2026 DC Privacy Forum: Leading Voices in AI, Privacy and Emerging Technology
https://fpf.org/blog/fpfs-2026-dc-privacy-forum-leading-voices-in-ai-privacy-and-emerging-technology/
@…

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@johnefrancis/116529623619120940
“…the necessity to balance the privacy rights of individuals with the need for businesses to use personal information for appropriate purposes…”
Yes, indeed, we must balance human rights with …

A special guest post by one of the Privacy Kids!
Droidian is an awesome system that runs quite smoothly with occasional crashes and occasional discrepancies.
https://theprivacydad.com/droidian-an-awesome-phone-os-for-patient-people-guest-post/

Solos unveils the AirGo A6 camera-less smart glasses, cutting the weight to 19g from 36-40g of the AirGo A5, and V2 privacy accessories like a clip-on shield (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/961711/solos-airgo-a6-smart-glasses-…

Solos debuts an even lighter version of its camera-less smart glasses
The AirGo A6 are slimmer and lighter than last year’s model while still offering hands-free access to an AI assistant.

Celebrating Another Year of Privacy and AI Governance: FPF at the 2026 IAPP Global Summit
https://fpf.org/blog/celebrating-another-year-of-privacy-and-ai-governance-fpf-at-the-2026-iapp-global-summit/

The KIDS Act, set for a US House vote as early as next week, could eliminate online anonymity, raising the risk for journalists, dissidents, and whistleblowers (The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2026/06/28/age-verification-privacy-s…

Online Age Verification Law Could Kill Whistleblowing
The KIDS Act, ostensibly aimed at protecting children, will raise the risk for journalists, dissidents, and whistleblowers.

Researcher: SpaceXAI's Grok Build CLI uploaded user repos to a Google Cloud Storage bucket; uploads have now stopped and Musk says prior uploads will be deleted (Connor Jones/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026

Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud
Researcher confirms the uploads have stopped, but says xAI's privacy command was not what fixed them

Venice AI, which offers access to 200 AI models while allowing users to retain their privacy, raised a $65M Series A led by Dragonfly at a $1B valuation (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/venice…

Venice AI becomes a unicorn with $65M Series A as its privacy-first AI platform takes off | TechCrunch
Venice AI is already profitable, with annualized run-rate revenues of over $70 million, CEO Erik Voorhees said.

Contextualizing the Proposed SECURE Data Act in the State Privacy Landscape
https://fpf.org/blog/contextualizing-the-proposed-secure-data-act-in-the-state-privacy-landscape/
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FCC passed an anti-robocall proposal requiring telecoms, including VoIP providers, to verify user identities before activating service, raising privacy fears (Ken Macon/Reclaim The Net)
https://reclaimthenet.org/the-fcc-wants-your-id-before-you-get-a-phone-numbe…

The FCC Wants Your ID Before You Get a Phone Number
The FCC just proposed fixing your robocall problem by building the kind of phone-user registry that privacy advocates have spent decades trying to prevent.

FPF Releases Practitioner Guides on Privacy Enhancing Technologies for Education Stakeholders
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-releases-practitioner-guides-on-privacy-enhancing-technologies-for-education-stakeholders/

FPF Submits Comments to Inform California Children’s Social Media Protections Rulemaking Process
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-submits-comments-to-inform-california-childrens-social-media-protections-rulemaking-process/…

Apple files an EU submission criticizing draft DMA measures that would require Google to give competing AI services access to Android apps, citing privacy risks (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…

Third Time’s the Charm: Connecticut Enacts Annual Privacy Update
https://fpf.org/blog/third-times-the-charm-connecticut-enacts-annual-privacy-update/
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Adapting the Privacy Profession to Changing Times
https://fpf.org/blog/adapting-the-privacy-profession-to-changing-times/
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Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Meta, accusing WhatsApp of marketing its services as secure but failing to "deliver on those promises" by accessing encrypted messages (Ryan Autullo/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-

Meta, WhatsApp Sued by Texas Over Secure Message Protections (1)
WhatsApp is able to access user’s encrypted messages, Texas said in a lawsuit that accuses Meta Platforms Inc. founder Mark Zuckerberg of lying to the US Senate in 2018 about the company’s steps to make them inaccessible.

Career Choice in the AI Age: What Next for Privacy and Data Professionals?
https://fpf.org/blog/career-choice-in-the-ai-age-what-next-for-privacy-and-data-professionals/
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Privacy token Zcash plunges after the disclosure of a 2022 vulnerability in its Orchard shielded pool that could have allowed undetectable ZEC counterfeiting (Akash Girimath/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/370105/zec-crashes-38-as-zcash-discloses…

ZEC Crashes 38% as Zcash Discloses ‘Critical Counterfeiting Vulnerability’
An Orchard vulnerability that allowed undetectable counterfeiting of ZEC in its shielded pool has reignited debate over privacy coins.

How GrapheneOS lead developer Daniel Micay's legal fights with his former partner James Donaldson over CopperheadOS led to the privacy-focused tool's creation (Tiffany Ng/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/they-built-privacy-tool-grapheneos-now-sworn…

They Built a Legendary Privacy Tool. Now They’re Sworn Enemies
There’s a lot of love all over the world for GrapheneOS, the gold standard of mobile security. There’s very little love between the two guys at the center of its history.

Data Brokers & Beyond: Navigating New Jersey’s Data Broker & “Data Collector” Registration Law
https://fpf.org/blog/data-brokers-beyond-navigating-new-jerseys-data-broker-data-collector-registration-law/

Digital Asset, which builds Canton Network, a public blockchain with privacy features, raised $355M, including $100M from a16z crypto (Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/andreessen-horowitz-ba…

Andreessen Horowitz Backs Blockchain Used by Wall Street Giants
Blockchain builder Digital Asset Holdings LLC raised $355 million in a new funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz’s main crypto fund, as Wall Street accelerates its focus on using the technology underlying cryptocurrencies to handle traditional assets.

Privacy advocates, CAA, and SAG-AFTRA slam Meta's Muse Image, which lets users create AI images using the likenesses of people with public Instagram accounts (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/10/meta-ai-image-consent

Meta's new AI image maker draws fire over consent
The backlash highlights a core AI-era fight of opt in vs. opt out.

Nearly 20 US state-run health insurance exchanges include ad trackers that send user data like race and citizenship info to companies like Meta, TikTok, Google (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-healthcare-advertising-trackers-privacy/…

Sources: Digital Asset, which builds Canton Network, a public blockchain with privacy features, is raising a ~$300M round led by a16z crypto at a ~$2B valuation (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-10/drw…

OpenAI releases Privacy Filter, an open-weight model for masking personally identifiable information in text, with 1.5B total and 50M active parameters (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-privacy-filter