Tootfinder

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.

OpenAI says it has been working with Anthropic and Google for several weeks on AI safety, and it does not need an antitrust waiver to coordinate on safety (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-…

OpenAI Says It’s Working With Anthropic, Google on AI Safety
OpenAI is working on steps to address artificial intelligence safety issues with its top competitors Anthropic PBC and Google DeepMind, escalating industry efforts to respond to a groundswell of concern that the technology poses an economic and security threat.

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, …

➡️ Mojeek
#bookmarks

Signal – Don’t forget to configure for privacy
In a business or non-profit environment, there is a good chance that your management team is using Signal. And why not? It brings security and privacy to messaging, file sharing, video and phone calls. Not only can you do one-to-one communications, you can create and manage groups. Sensitive business conversations can remain secret. What’s not to like about that?
Out-of-the-Box Signal needs attention to the configuration settings to get the best privacy. If you are a CISO or IT specialist, you can help your management team configure Signal for the best privacy.
After installing Signal on a mobil phone or desktop, review the configuration settings and adjust them as needed. Here is a free guide that will get you started:
#Security #Privacy #Signal

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.

Georgia State University has rescinded a job offer given to a high profile activist
who is currently fighting a case in which he allegedly wiped a security-focused Android phone
before Customs and Border Protection (CBP) could search it.
The case, which 404 Media first covered and has now received widespread and national attention,
has important ramifications for privacy
and when someone can still be charged with an offense even if authorities don’t have suspic…

University Rescinds Job Offer to Activist Who Allegedly Wiped Phone Before DHS Could Search It
Samuel Tunick allegedly wiped his GrapheneOS phone before CBP officials could search it, in what has become a high profile civil liberties case. Now Georgia State University has rescinded a job offer to him.

- All of us who don't store our shit on big companies' computers: Oh no! Anyway...
- The rest of humanity: (panic)
#privacy
Source: https://gatissluka.com/

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.

Die Instanz https://bayerwald.social läuft jetzt mit Softwareverson v4.7.2
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r

Release v4.7.2 · mastodon/mastodon
Changelog Security Temporarily disable HEIF support Fixes Fix relative privacy policy links in subscription emails (#40486 by @crafkaz) Fix canonical email blocks interfering with freezing or ap...

"Think of a wheelchair user who must share her PIN with a stranger to use an out-of-reach payment kiosk. Or a blind person who can’t independently access their own medical records because access is lacking…
Any system designed to be used independently is a #privacy and #security risk without

(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

My new vocal coach has diagnosed me as a tenor. Please respect my privacy in the wake of this bewildering news.

pgp_strong: PGP web of trust (2009)
Strongly connected component of the Pretty-Good-Privacy (PGP) web of trust among users, circa November 2009.
This network has 39796 nodes and 301498 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/pgp_strong

@… Apple is an ad company, has been since the Jobs days. Of course they care about your privacy. Just like the cattle rancher cares about his cows, until the day he sends them to the slaughterhouse.

A look at Western Australian police's first live facial recognition trial, which has scanned 130,000 people since June, raising accuracy and privacy concerns (ABC)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-11/ai-police-face-screening-tria…

Police mass AI surveillance pilot draws rebuke from privacy experts
More than 130,000 faces have already been scanned under WA Police's landmark facial recognition trial. The privacy watchdog, experts and Aboriginal advocates are raising concerns about who could be caught in its net.

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.

Garante Privacy: un’interpretazione differente sul termine dei 120 giorni per le sanzioni
https://www.istitutoitalianoprivacy.it/2026/09/11/garante-privacy-uninterpretazione-differente-sul-termine-dei-1…

Schiff, Wyden demand Flock CEO explain privacy safeguards (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/09/17/congress/schiff-wyden-demand-flock-ceo-explain-privacy-safeguards-01082509
http://www.memeorandum.com/260917/p106#a260917p106

Meta is handing 15,000 camera glasses to Ireland's blind adults, and the camera is the whole product https://vr.org/articles/meta-vision-ireland-15000-ray-ban-glasses-accessibility-2026 Unfortunately Ray-Ban Meta glasses cannot run The vOICe visi…

Meta Is Handing 15,000 Camera Glasses to Ireland's Blind Adults, and the Camera Is the Whole Product
Meta is donating 15,000 Ray-Ban Meta glasses to Vision Ireland, enough for every blind and visually impaired adult the charity supports, with funded in-person training. The camera-free tier that has taken over the privacy argument cannot do any of this.

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

Taking a break from digital privacy news, online engagement in discussion groups and testing new privacy tools can be a positive, healthy experience.
https://theprivacydad.com/its-ok-to-take-a-break-from-thinking-about-digital-privacy/

pgp_strong: PGP web of trust (2009)
Strongly connected component of the Pretty-Good-Privacy (PGP) web of trust among users, circa November 2009.
This network has 39796 nodes and 301498 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/pgp_strong

Zum heutigen #DiDay möchte ich euch gerne meine Privacy Guide ans Herz legen. Mit den beschriebenen Tipps erhöht ihr eure Privatsphäre und stoppt die fiesen Spione und Tracker schon am Eingangstor.
https://gnulinux.ch/privacy-guide

FPF Hosts Frontiers Workshop on Privacy, AI, and Emerging Infrastructure
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-hosts-frontiers-workshop-on-privacy-ai-and-emerging-infrastructure/
@…

I read 'Disrupting the Digital Status Quo: Why and How to Staff for Privacy in Academic Libraries' (2023) https://publish.illinois.edu/licensingprivacy/staffing/

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 ...

HTC Vive Eagle smart glasses review: useful controls, lightweight, and focused on privacy, but inessential, expensive at $499 , and imaging needs to improve (Daniel Cooper/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2257186/htc-vive-eagle-review/

HTC Vive Eagle review: Pricey smart glasses that fail to impress - Engadget
HTC's pricey Vive Eagle smart glasses are a credible alternative to Meta, but you'll still struggle to find a reason to buy a pair.

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.

Privacy Gateway: Filter entfernt sensible Daten, bevor sie ChatGPT erreichen
Einzelne Informationen können Rückschlüsse auf Personen zulassen. Das stellt besonders für Firmen ein Risiko dar. Eine neue Lösung soll das Problem beheben.

Privacy Gateway: Filter entfernt sensible Daten, bevor sie ChatGPT erreichen
Einzelne Informationen können Rückschlüsse auf Personen zulassen. Das stellt besonders für Firmen ein Risiko dar. Eine neue Lösung soll das Problem beheben.

beyond #cookie : how much your browser leaks about you.
definitely open it on your #mobile!
#privacy

I didn't set a cookie.
Everything this page knows about you, it learned in under two seconds. Without a cookie, a permission prompt, or a click.

Anyone else wondering how things like the apple recap thing is okay... I'm guessing because public places users don't rly need to say but still...
#apple #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.

"Connected #cars pose #privacy issues"
https://lethbri…

RE: https://mstdn.social/@990000/117067854976565667
And when Mark Zuckerberg buys a house, he also buys the three houses around his house. When folks like him tell you “privacy is dead”, they’re talking about your privacy, not theirs.

🔍 Advanced analytics with funnels, cohorts, user profiles and session history, plus real-time dashboards with live data updates and interactive charts
🎬 Session replay records and replays user sessions with privacy controls built in — and without the session caps of #Mixpanel's free and paid tiers

Updating the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act: The “First State” Becomes the Latest to Get a Privacy Refresh
https://fpf.org/blog/updating-the-delaware-personal-data-privacy-act-the-first-state-becomes-the-lat…

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

WIRED: Is it possible to make smart glasses that aren't creepy? https://www.wired.com/story/is-it-possible-to-make-privacy-friendly-smart-glasses/ (archived at

Is It Possible to Make Smart Glasses That Aren’t Creepy?
As more big companies invest in glasses that record audio and video and pack AI on board, privacy concerns are only getting louder.

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.

Journalist Recounts How Border Agents Targeted Him Over Coverage Of Ayatollah's Funeral https://thedissenter.org/journalist-recounts-how-border-agents-targeted-him-over-coverage-of-ayatollahs-funeral/

On Website Technicals (2026-07) - Tech updates: noon dump sooner, winter prep, red grid, edge cases, more net export, plug-in PoC, micro-optimisation, privacy. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-110.html

On Website Technicals (2026-07)
Tech updates: noon dump sooner, winter prep, red grid, edge cases, more net export, plug-in PoC, micro-optimisation, privacy...

"Over the past few months, a spate of Wisconsin towns and cities have withdrawn from Flock deals over privacy and trust concerns. As they did so, another issue revealed itself: **With each city that leaves, the Flock network becomes less useful to the cities that remain. And cities are starting to notice.**"
As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/as-wisconsin-cities-flee-flock-its-shared-camera-network-loses-value/

If you're using #Windows and a #VPN service in order to get some #privacy, you may probably re-think and switch to a modern #Linux

Never a dull day in cybersecurity, so check out today's Metacurity for the most critical developments you should know, including
--Anthropic restores Fable 5 and Mythos 5, launches Sonnet 5,
--China's Mythos rival fuels AI arms race,
--Taiwan probes claimed PChome hack,
--Alberta voter leak sparks lawsuit,
--Hackers breach DHS sharing network,
--Apple privacy feature exposes emails,
--Adobe fixes critical ColdFusion bugs,
--Crypto thieves…

Anthropic restores Fable 5 and Mythos 5, launches Sonnet 5
China's Mythos rival fuels AI arms race. Taiwan probes claimed PChome hack, Alberta voter leak sparks lawsuit, Hackers breach DHS sharing network, Apple privacy feature exposes emails, Adobe fixes critical ColdFusion bugs, Crypto thieves stole $76m in June, much more

Dienstag und ihr habt nichts zu erzählen? Hitze ist ausgelutscht und zu Sonnenfinsternis habt ihr nichts Neues? Hier unser #DNIPBriefing!
1️⃣ Verschiedene Anbieter verkaufen Kleidungsstücke, mit welchen Kamera-basierte Überwachungssysteme in die Irre geleitet werden sollen (in Deutschland beispielsweise Urban Privacy). Man muss sich allerdings bewusst sein, dass diese Kleidungsstücke…

Apple is trying to get consumers to accept,
and even welcome,
a new reality:
Your tech is always listening.
At Wednesday’s Surprise and Shine event,
where the company introduced its new hardware lineup,
the real surprise turned out not to be the foldable iPhone,
but how the privacy-sensitive tech giant has decided its watches will now be able to process live audio
and transcribe what was said.
Does this mean you’re always being recorded i…

Apple Watch's new AI features are normalizing the idea that technology is always listening | TechCrunch
Apple says its new watches won’t save raw audio, but features that can transcribe recent speech and summarize ambient conversations raise new questions about consent, privacy, and how people behave when they know they could always be recorded.

Una pšgina muy interesante para leer... #noChatControl #chatControl #ExitChatControl

Privacy campaigners are pressuring the EU to begin dismantling its data transfer agreement with the US, arguing a recent US Supreme Court ruling undermines the pact’s legal foundations.
https://www.

In my latest article for Inquirer.net, I talk about @… and its 15-year history despite being only 1 year old. (I also talk a bit about data privacy and @….)

CoMaps and the right to fork
CoMaps, my favorite OpenStreetMap-based mobile app, is now one year old! This Google Maps alternative first became available on Google Play and the Apple App Store on July 3, 2025. What

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.

https://exitchatcontrol.org/

Have just started using Ente for secure, privacy focused photo back up and organisation.
So far I am actually pretty impressed. It's lightning fast and very easy to navigate - and I have tens of thousands of photos that it's definitely helping me to organise and search through easily. And share with non-Ente users too.
It's miles better than Flickr as a UI experience.
This is a test period before I decide if I migrate rest of family too.
However, I was under the impression the company was German/Dutch but it unfortunately appears to be US incorporated - even though the servers are supposed to be in NL, F and DE. It just makes me very suspicious that at some point the company will be sold off and the creeping enshittification will start again.
It is very frustrating. I could but am not very keen to self host. I have far too many other things going on in my life for that. But it does look like immich or memories for nextcloud is the only other good option. And this probably epitomises why most people just stick with (mostly US) big tech. It is so much easier and less effort than working out what the alternatives are.

@… arguably following redirects could lead to invasion of privacy, in that if the redirect embeds a cookie in the URL, it could be used to persistently track a reader.

from my link log —
Reducing metadata leakage from encrypted files with PURBs.
https://nikirill.com/publication/purbs/
saved 2019-12-31 https://d…

Reducing metadata leakage from encrypted files and communication with PURBs | Kirill Nikitin's Personal Page
Most encrypted data formats leak metadata via their plaintext headers, such as format version, encryption schemes used, number of recipients who can decrypt the data, and even the recipients’ identities. This leakage can pose security and privacy risks to users, e.g., by revealing the full membership of a group of collaboators from a single encrypted e-mail, or by enabling an eavesdropper to fingerprint the precise encryption software…

Yeah, good luck with that for Safari users...
These are the top and bottom parts of 2 loads of that page a few seconds apart. Not private windows, no browser restart or other trickery. It can’t even settle on a CPU or screen size in the same load. It is apparently using 2 different sources for CPU type and for screen dimensions. I have not told Safari to claim that it is on Intel, that appears to be an Apple choice.

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/
@…

Great test to view all the identifying details you share while you're on the Internet.
✅ MySysInfo — See What Your Browser Reveals About You
#privacy

MySysInfo — See What Your Browser Reveals About You
See the IP address, location, browser, OS, and device data your browser sends to every website you visit — live, no login required.

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 being able to afford privacy will result in you having even less disposable income, which will mean that you'll have to sell even more of your privacy. Lather, rinse, repeat."
"…private information isn't 'mispriced' - it shouldn't _be_ priced."
https://plurali…

Using tools like Face ID or fingerprint unlocking to get into your phone and log in to accounts is certainly easy,
but if you're concerned about your privacy, you should avoid them.
Thanks to a 5th Amendment loophole, law enforcement can compel you to use biometric data to unlock your devices,
but they can't force you to give them a password or passcode.
We saw this earlier this year, when a Washington Post reporter's home was raided by the FBI.

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

Finally after a decade of thinking, I have a new website. I'd love if you can give me some feedback: https://talkweb.eu/

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/…

On Website Technicals (2026-07) - Tech updates: noon dump sooner, winter prep, red grid, edge cases, more net export, plug-in PoC, micro-optimisation, privacy... - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-110.html

On Website Technicals (2026-07)
Tech updates: noon dump sooner, winter prep, red grid, edge cases, more net export, plug-in PoC, micro-optimisation, privacy...

The cyber news machine never stops cranking away, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you must know, including
--OpenAI discloses six new incidents of AI models behaving badly,
--US intelligence flags China spying risk in $24B Saudi F-35 deal,
--Chinese hackers-for-hire evolve into private spy agencies,
--FBI seizes NightmareStresser DDoS domains,
--Judge transfers Radaris domains to privacy plaintiffs,
--Hackers demand $3m over alleged Revolut data breach,
--Illinois universities spend $450k on Flock surveillance,
--China-linked FamousSparrow targets Latin American governments,
--Cisco warns critical ISE flaw is under active attack,
--Cybercrime crew weaponizes safety-disabled AI agent,
--CISA urges critical infrastructure to deploy cyber decoys,
--DC region grows wise to Flock,
--Maybe CISA shouldn’t tell Trump about election security plans,
--AI safety researchers should stop snubbing cyber folks,
--Sometimes an editor is just what the doctor ordered,
--Famous last words on Hong Kong’s “AI city brain”
https://www.metacurity.com/openai-discloses-six-new-incidents-of-ai-models-behaving-badly/

Yes
https://this.weekinsecurity.com/reframing-smart-glasses-as-pervert-glasses/

Reframing smart glasses as 'pervert glasses'
Smart glasses equipped with cameras, microphones, and AI are a creeping privacy and security nightmare, prompting backlash.

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.

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.

Someone else wrote a positive review of #uruky privacy search engine!
https://blog.sulimans.space/my-review-of-uruky/

Oops, scotus ruins thing without realizing.
"EU treaty law…requires…oversight over data protection…be done by…'independent' authority…So far…US has appointed…'independent' FTC to be…US privacy regulator to meet…EU's requirement…
…conservative majority in…US Supreme Court has now decided…independence of…FTC is unconstitutional…Given that…#EU relied on…'independence' of…FTC as a privacy watchdog…entire structure of…EU-US Data

US Supreme Court just blew up EU-US Data Transfers
The US Supreme Court decided that the US Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) may not be independent anymore - with major implications for EU-US Data Transfers.

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.

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.

Public Records Show FBI Secretly Extracted Data From ICE Protesters’ Phones
They used Cellebrite, of course.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/cellebrite-phone-protest-ice-dhs-spokane-fbi-conspiracy-su…

Public records show FBI secretly extracted data from ICE protesters’ phones
Previously unreported documents reveal “extractions” from at least 13 devices after a Washington state protest last June.

At a time when the Trump administration seeks to expand the definition of terrorism to encompass a wide range of dissenting views,
Americans’ fears of abuse of government surveillance of their communications are more justified than ever;
15 activists in Minneapolis were recently indicted based largely on Signal chats, for example.

Public records show FBI secretly extracted data from ICE protesters’ phones
Previously unreported documents reveal “extractions” from at least 13 devices after a Washington state protest last June.

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/

pgp_strong: PGP web of trust (2009)
Strongly connected component of the Pretty-Good-Privacy (PGP) web of trust among users, circa November 2009.
This network has 39796 nodes and 301498 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/pgp_strong

I am challenging the status quo today (Jun-26) and submitted a physical (yes, offline) product at ProductHunt. Feel free to support me there!
#privacy
https://www.producthunt.com/products/paint

Paint the Cameras Dead: Postcards for pushing back against surveillance. | Product Hunt
Not every project needs an app, an AI model or another screen. Paint the Cameras Dead is a physical set of postcards made for the street, not the cloud. Each card helps you notice surveillance cameras hiding in plain sight, ask who controls them and map what you find. Print them, share them, leave them in cafés, libraries or community spaces, and use them today. No download, no account, no update cycle. Just paper, attention and a small act of resistance.

New Survey: Privacy Concerns Are A Top Barrier to AgeTech Adoption Among Older Adults
https://fpf.org/press-releases/new-survey-privacy-concerns-are-a-top-barrier-to-agetech-adoption-among-older-adults/

The KIDS Act Will Lead to Mandatory Age Checks 
Many of the bills in the KIDS Act share the same premise:
that children and teenagers should have different experiences online than adults.
In practice, that requires websites and apps to determine who is under 18
—and who isn’t.
That’s where the problems with the KIDS Act start. 
EFF certainly supports giving all users better privacy and safety tools online.
But those protections should not,
and …

The House Passed The KIDS Act—The Senate Should Reject It 
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,...

Some experts say Siri Recap and Live Rewind, always-listening AI features in new Apple Watches, could test eavesdropping laws despite privacy protections (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

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.

The High Court in London rules against Prince Harry and six other claimants in the privacy lawsuit against Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/de057c0d-ba47-43c7-9dc1-889e66299c84

I did my thesis on using tvs to locate people using malware.
Glad others are researching smart tv privacy abuses.
-- ViolentOrchid
https://youtu.be/6IFVTcM28KA

The American Federation of Teachers and Microsoft agree on AI privacy standards for schools, with legal protections that hold Microsoft liable for breaches (Madina Touré/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/09/aft-union-microsoft-ai-deal-01068544

A coalition of privacy and civil liberties advocates filed a federal lawsuit Friday
accusing the Trump administration of secretly collecting and keeping personal information about people who monitor U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations,
arguing that the practice violates federal privacy law and threatens constitutionally protected speech and association.
The lawsuit
— filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
— was brought by i…

Lawsuit Challenges Trump's Illegal Spying and Retaliation Targeting ICE Monitors | Common Dreams
“The federal government cannot build secret dossiers on people because they exercise their First Amendment right to peacefully observe, document, or criticize its actions," said the head of Democracy Forward.

New opt-in Apple Watch Siri audio features can listen to and transcribe conversations all day; Apple says raw audio is inaccessible and deleted after processing (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-doesnt-want-you…

Apple Doesn’t Want You to Worry About the New Apple Watch's Listening Features
The new Apple Watch includes several “intelligent” listening features that have privacy and security baked in. But the protections can’t change the facts of what the tools do.

Ignoring EFF’s warnings about the dangersand impossibility of implementing a new mandate for 3D print surveillance software,
the California State Assembly has signed off on legislation to do just that.
In the process, legislators amended the bill to make it even more confusing,
while failing to address the risks to privacy, speech, and consumer rights.
We must renew our call on legislators to drop this bill as it heads to the state senate,
and protect the to…

We Can Still Stop California’s 3D Printer Surveillance Scheme
Ignoring EFF’s warnings about the dangers and impossibility of implementing a new mandate for 3D print surveillance software, the California State Assembly has signed off on legislation to do just that. In the process, legislators amended the bill to make it even more confusing, while failing to address the risks to privacy, speech, and consumer rights. We must renew our call on legislators to drop this bill as it heads to the state senate, and protect the tools of creators in the state.

New Mexico, the only US state taking the Cambridge Analytica case to trial, accused Meta of failing to protect Facebook user data in its opening statements (Mikella Schuettler/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/facebook-meta-new-…

PrismML says it ran a 27B-parameter Qwen 3.6 model on an iPhone 17 Pro, bigger than any prior on-device model; sources: Apple held talks with PrismML about it (Aaron Tilley/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/kh

Khosla-Backed Startup Claims Breakthrough With Largest-Ever AI Model on an iPhone
Apple is on a quest to shrink powerful AI models to run on iPhones, which could cut down on cloud computing costs and enhance user privacy. But a small startup that emerged from stealth mode earlier this year says it recently got an AI model running on an iPhone bigger than any previous mobile ...

If you're a resident of California, make a DROP request.
(That's Delete Request and Opt-out Platform).
This one bit of paperwork lets you tell every data broker registered in the state of California that you'd like them to delete your information from their databases and request they stop selling and sharing your information. 
Head to the California Privacy Protection Agency's DROP website to start your request.
Before you start, there are a few piece…

Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP)
The free and fast tool that helps Californians delete the information data brokers have about them.

Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Muse, the data center backlash, Meta's recent youth-safety settlement, privacy concerns about Meta's smart glasses, and more (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/mark-zuckerberg-meta-muse-ai-podcast-interview

Sources: Apple may have delayed AI glasses launch partly over privacy concerns that Meta's glasses created for the category, as it works to address the issues (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Meta Fury, Meta Adventurer, and Meta Glasses by Kylie all sport EssilorLuxottica branding; Meta executives say dropping Ray-Ban helps keep the price down (Victoria Song/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/954052/meta-glasses-ha…

Meta launches cheaper smart glasses without Ray-Ban
Meta announces the $299 Meta Glasses. They’re not Ray-Bans, but feature an updated AI, adjustable nosepads and temple tips, and a model designed by Kylie Jenner.

Filing: GoDaddy challenges a New Delhi court ruling requiring domain sellers to stop offering privacy by default, saying it could expose website owners globally (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/worlds-biggest-domain-…

Q&A with Proton CEO Andy Yen on Proton's story, dislodging "a hundred million people" from Google, AI backlash, privacy, US politics, EU Chat Control, and more (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-andy-yen-proto…

Can AI Coexist With Privacy? Proton’s Andy Yen Says It Will Have To
Proton’s CEO is a champion of encryption for everyone. So why is he going all in on un-encryptable AI?