Privacy

#Reddit in talks to embrace Sam #Altman’s iris-scanning #Orb to verify users

https://www.semafor.com/article/06/20/2025/reddit-considers-iris-scanning-orb-developed-by-a-sam-altman-startup

#privacy #WorldCoin

#Chrome Tracking #Privacy Concerns

https://hushed.com/chrome-tracking-privacy-concerns/

7 steps to ensure online #privacy protection

https://bitwarden.com/blog/7-steps-to-create-a-secure-and-private-profile-online/

#cybersecurity #guide

#Meta unveils its #Oakley #SmartGlasses

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/20/meta-unveils-its-oakley-smart-glasses/

#privacy #IoT

‘Martyrdom or Bust:’ #Texas Man Caught Plotting #Terror Attack Through #Roblox Chats

https://www.404media.co/martyrdom-or-bust-texas-man-caught-plotting-terror-attack-through-roblox-chats/

#privacy #OPSEC

GrapheneOS version 2025062000 released:

https://grapheneos.org/releases#2025062000

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release.

Forum discussion thread:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/23292-grapheneos-version-2025062000-released

#GrapheneOS #privacy #security

Vanadium version 138.0.7204.35.0 released:

https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium/releases/tag/138.0.7204.35.0

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release and a link to the full changelog.

Forum discussion thread:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/23290-vanadium-version-13807204350-released

#GrapheneOS #privacy #security #browser

👀 YouTube’s new anti-adblock measures

｢ One thing that people have ran into is “fake buffering”, where videos will take a while to load due to a lot of buffering, but only at the very start of the video (there’s no mid-video fake buffering). As I’ll explain, the fake buffering is 80% of the length of the ads you would’ve seen, so even with fake buffering you’re still saving time using an adblocker ｣

https://iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/

#youtube #adblocking #privacy

#SocialMedia Ban Moves Closer in #Australia After Tech Trial

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-19/teen-social-media-ban-moves-closer-in-australia-after-tech-trial

#privacy #politics #AgeVerification

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#blog #sicherheit #datenschutz #security #privacy

GrapheneOS version 2025061900 released:

https://grapheneos.org/releases#2025061900

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release.

Forum discussion thread:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/23279-grapheneos-version-2025061900-released

#GrapheneOS #privacy #security

New #US #visa rules will force foreign students to unlock #SocialMedia profiles

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/18/social-media-student-visa-screening

#privacy #politics

#California #police are illegally sharing license plate data with #ICE and #BorderPatrol

https://themarkup.org/privacy/2025/06/18/california-police-are-illegally-sharing-license-plate-data-with-ice-and-border-patrol

#privacy #politics

Austrian government agrees on plan to allow monitoring of secure messaging

https://www.reuters.com/world/austrian-government-agrees-plan-allow-monitoring-secure-messaging-2025-06-18/

#Austria #privacy #Europe #cybersecurity

#SmartTV OS owners face “constant conflict” between #privacy, advertiser demands

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/tv-brands-face-inherent-conflict-over-user-privacy-advertiser-data-demands/

#IoT #advertising

#Healthcare #SaaS firm says #DataBreach impacts 5.4 million patients

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/episource-says-data-breach-impacts-54-million-patients/

#Episource #privacy #cybersecurity

Toy-maker #Mattel accused of planning “reckless” #AI social experiment on kids

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/mattel-sparks-fear-that-planned-chatgpt-fueled-toys-will-warp-kids/

#privacy

Strategies for Resisting Tech-Enabled Violence Facing #Transgender People

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/strategies-resisting-tech-enabled-violence-facing-transgender-people

#privacy

Makers of air fryers and smart speakers told to respect users’ right to #privacy

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/16/air-fryers-smart-tv-speakers-user-data-privacy-ico

#UK

#LGBT Q&A: Your Online Speech and #Privacy Questions, Answered

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/lgbt-qa-your-online-speech-and-privacy-questions-answered

#Pride #equality

TechTok #8. Knowing your enemy

https://adguard.com/en/blog/techtok-8-knowing-your-enemy.html

#privacy #AdBlocking

"In an industry full of grifters and companies hell-bent on making the internet worse, it is hard to think of a more impactful, worse actor than Meta, whose platforms have been fully overrun with viral AI slop, AI-powered disinformation, AI scams, AI nudify apps, and AI influencers and whose impact is outsized because billions of people still use its products as their main entry point to the internet. Meta has shown essentially zero interest in moderating AI slop and spam and as we have reported many times, literally funds it, sees it as critical to its business model, and believes that in the future we will all have AI friends on its platforms. While reporting on the company, it has been hard to imagine what rock bottom will be, because Meta keeps innovating bizarre and previously unimaginable ways to destroy confidence in social media, invade people’s privacy, and generally fuck up its platforms and the internet more broadly.

If I twist myself into a pretzel, I can rationalize why Meta launched this feature, and what its idea for doing so is. Presented with an empty text box that says “Ask Meta AI,” people do not know what to do with it, what to type, or what to do with AI more broadly, and so Meta is attempting to model that behavior for people and is willing to sell out its users’ private thoughts to do so. I did not have “Meta will leak people’s sad little chats with robots to the entire internet” on my 2025 bingo card, but clearly I should have."

https://www.404media.co/meta-invents-new-way-to-humiliate-users-with-feed-of-peoples-chats-with-ai/

#AI #GenerativeAI #Meta #Facebook #MetaAI #Chatbots #LLMs #DataProtection #Privacy

#TheMarkup caught 4 more states sharing personal #health data with #BigTech

https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2025/06/17/we-caught-4-more-states-sharing-personal-health-data-with-big-tech

#privacy #healthcare

Last April, @nataliabielova@hostux.social demonstrated that websites use various #tracking technologies to collect user data. Privacy regulations like the EU's #GDPR require user consent, but many use manipulative "dark patterns" in cookie banners. Technical standards, like those from @w3c@w3c.social, aim to improve #privacy, and solutions include a taxonomy of tracking purposes and standardized consent recording to enhance compliance and user control.

🎬 Watch 'Privacy regulations and the Web': https://youtu.be/nnPe8Mb30rA

#Asana warns #MCP #AI feature exposed customer data to other orgs

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/asana-warns-mcp-ai-feature-exposed-customer-data-to-other-orgs/

#privacy #cybersecurity #DataBreach