Australian privacy watchdog refuses to investigate employer that allegedly accessed worker’s personal emails (www.theguardian.com)
A Civil Rights Firestorm Erupts Around a Looming Surveillance Power Grab (www.wired.com)
In Africa’s first ‘safe city,’ surveillance reigns (www.codastory.com)
Nairobi boasts nearly 2,000 Huawei surveillance cameras citywide. But in the nine years since they were installed, it is hard to see their benefits.
Most private crypto wallet? (kbin.social)
The whole point of me making certain payments with crypto is for it not to be attached to my name. obviously the crypto service company has my cc details. whats the most privacy friendly one? ty :)
Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records (www.wired.com)
A WIRED analysis of leaked police documents verifies that a secretive government program is allowing federal, state, and local law enforcement to access phone records of Americans who are not suspected of a crime.
Google Resuming the transition to Manifest V3 - Chrome for Developers (developer.chrome.com)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/6008113...
Signal details costs of keeping its private messaging service alive | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
SimpleX Self-Host Script, Tutorial, on Monero Provider (monero.town)
cross-posted from: monero.town/post/1084048...
SimpleX Self-host Script & Tutorial Video (video.simplifiedprivacy.com)
SimpleX is a private encrypted messenger that creates new identities for each conversation. However, when you first install the app, it’s all the developer’s own servers. This has metadata and centralization risks. This can help…...
Alleged RCMP leaker says he was tipped off that police targets had 'moles' in law enforcement (www.cbc.ca)
According to Ortis, briefed him about a “storefront” that was being created to attract criminal targets to an online encryption service. A storefront, said Ortis, is a fake business or entity, either online or bricks-and-mortar, set up by police or intelligence agencies....
Meta, YouTube face criminal spying complaints in Ireland (www.theregister.com)
Perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call logs (www.theregister.com)
List of experts advising the EU in support of CSAM legislation has been published (digitalcourage.social)
Indian journalist targeted with NSO spyware, anti-corruption group says (www.reuters.com)
US lawmakers introduce surveillance reforms intended to curb FBI spying (www.reuters.com)
A bipartisan team of U.S. lawmakers has introduced new legislation intended to curb the FBI’s sweeping surveillance powers, saying the bill helps close the loopholes that allow officials to seize Americans’ data without a warrant....
As YouTube Declares War on Ad Blockers, Google Sponsors Ad Blocking Conference (www.404media.co)
ICE faces heat after agents install thousands of personal apps, VPNs on official phones (www.theregister.com)
New Ecosia search features (blog.ecosia.org)
29 Countries Reach Agreement On AI Risks and Opportunities (www.huntonprivacyblog.com)
Irish DPA to Ban Meta from Processing Personal Data for Behavioral Advertising Following EDPB Urgent Binding Decision (www.huntonprivacyblog.com)
AI facial recognition scanned millions of driver licences. Then an innocent man got locked up (www.abc.net.au)
Google abandons “Web Environment Integrity” (simplifiedprivacy.com)
Google has abandoned the “Web Environment Integrity” API that was supposed to allow websites to only allow approved and verified browser environments. The plan would allow websites to reject browser or even OS modifications that were “unattested” for the purpose of supposedly stopping bots, piracy, ad-blocking, and other...
How to stay safe on Strava (cyclingmagazine.ca)
Some good tips to preserve a bit of privacy for those who use the Strava platform....
India's biggest data breach? Hacking gang claims to have stolen 815 million people's personal information (www.bitdefender.com)
German court declares “Do Not Track” to be legally binding (www.vzbv.de)
