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Hacker Accesses Internal ‘Tile’ Tool That Provides Location Data to Cops (www.404media.co)

Chat control vote postponed: Huge success in defense of digital privacy of correspondence! (www.patrick-breyer.de)

Today EU governments will not adopt their position on the EU regulation on “combating child sexual abuse”, the so-called chat control regulation, as planned, which would have heralded the end of private messages and secure encryption. The Belgian Council presidency postponed the vote at short notice.

Tails - Tails 6.4 (tails.net)

Chat control: Politicians, industry raise alarm over EU’s unprecedented messenger surveillance plans (www.patrick-breyer.de)

A tool for uploading/downloading files anonymously with client-side encryption (lemmy.world)

github.com/umutcamliyurt/Anon-File-Upload

YouTube downloader is looking for a maintainer (www.jwz.org)

Seen on jwz’s site. Be super careful before posting anything low-effort over there!

Is there a simple way to severly impede webscraping and LLM data collection of my website?

I am working on a simple static website that gives visitors basic information about myself and the work I do. I want this as a way use to introduce myself to potential clients, collaborators, etc., rather than rely solely on LinkedIn as my visiting card....

Campaigns Can Now See What You Watch on TV. (www.notus.org)

Televisions that can stream platforms like Hulu or Max usually come loaded with technology that collects information on what viewers are watching, and buyers consent to have their viewing tracked when they open their new TV and click through terms of service agreements. Sometimes, data firms can connect those viewing habits to a...

Leak: EU interior ministers want to exempt themselves from chat control bulk scanning of private messages - EU Reporter (www.eureporter.co)

EFF Dice-Generated Passphrases | Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org)

This is really good for encrypted content such as a hard drive, password vault or gpg key

SimpleX Chat Group about Privacy & Security

If you want to join the group, please send me a PM with the reason you want to and your favourite animal.

Is there a Google maps proxy app? (Like startpage but for maps)

It saddens me to admit, but google maps is by far the best maps app, ig all that stalking does come in handy. OSM just doesn’t have nearly as much data or information about certain places...

Putting Privacy Focused Free Speech VPS Providers To The Test. (crippled.media)

For those that couldn’t be bothered to read the full article, their conclusion is:...

Build Your Community on Nostr (soapbox.pub)

Amazon-Powered AI Cameras Used to Detect Emotions of Unwitting UK Train Passengers | WIRED (www.wired.com)

Which Email provider Tuta or Proton?

Hey guys,...

Stop playing games with online security, Signal president warns EU lawmakers (techcrunch.com)

Follow-up to last week’s story:...

The EU are voting on Chat Control this Wednesday 19th June (blog.cryptpad.org)

What you can do: patrick-breyer.de/…/messaging-and-chat-control/#W…...

How much is privacy actually worth?

I can’t seem to find an actual currency estimate of how much privacy is actually worth. I see a ton of articles talking about why privacy should be worth more to people or what people would pay for privacy services or how much people would sell their privacy for, but I don’t see anything that gives a value for the privacy...

Is the Proton (Mail, VPN, Password Manager) ecosystem any good?

Due to the recent announcement of Proton moving to a non-profit structure (although not becoming fully non-profit) I’ve decided to take another look at them and really, Proton Unlimited is an enticing offer. However, the fact of everything from mail, to accounts, to storage being in one place is somewhat disconcerting. Also I...

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