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Seriously, I cannot emphasize this enough Canadian friends:
Bill C-22 SHALL NOT PASS! ⛔️
If you are Canadian, you must contact your representative ASAP to tell them you strongly oppose Bill C-22.
We cannot have this kind of authoritarianism in Canada (or anywhere else frankly).
More information here: action.openmedia.org/page/1887…
Contact your representative(s) directly without the form by finding their contact information here: ourcommons.ca/members/en/searc…
#BillC22 #Privacy #HumanRights #DigitalRights #Canada #Authoritarianism #MassSurveillance #CanPoli #CndPoli
Stop the Surveillance State: Stop Bill C-22!
🚨 Bill C-22 forces every Canadian internet provider, messaging app & cloud service to build surveillance backdoors and store a year of your data. Foreign state hackers exploited similar legislation in the US. Shut the backdoor: https://openmedia.action.openmedia.org
🚨 New post alert 📝
A deep dive into #WSocial with some fascinating findings: candid statements about their motives, a Greta Thunberg connection, potential AI plans (!!!)
Why write about it again? I still had so many questions after publishing my first article.
I spent 3 weeks watching every interview I could find and connecting the dots.
I hope you'll enjoy this piece:
🔗 : blog.elenarossini.com/the-unto…
#blog #longread #privacy #DataMining #Europe
The Untold Story About W Social: Unconventional Beginnings, Strategic Pitches and Conflicting Signals
A deep dive into the origin story of W Social, an analysis of the strategic arguments they have been using to appeal to government officials, media companies and advertisers... and the discussion of conflicting signals they have been sendingElena Rossini
German outlets are reporting about a study done by lobbyists that (miraculously) found that businesses are unhappy with the GDPR.
Obviously, this still hasn't been said enough: the GDPR's purpose isn't making businesses happy! Its purpose is to protect our rights. It's necessary because far too many businesses won't respect our privacy unless they're forced to!
If running their business responsibly is such a huge burden for them, maybe they should let someone else do it.
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#privacy #GDPR
🚨 LAST CHANCE 🚨
The UK government's online safety consultation closes TODAY.
We must push back against more and more online ID checks. Making every adult hand over sensitive data to unregulated providers is itself UNSAFE.
Let's take on Big Tech business models instead!
Have your say ➡️ gov.uk/government/consultation…
#onlinesafety #privacy #ageverification #bigtech #digitalID #ukpolitics #ukpol
Growing up in the online world: a national consultation
We are consulting on further measures to prepare children for the future in an age of rapid technological change.Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (GOV.UK)
I've worn a Garmin for 10+ years and logged thousands of runs, rides, hikes...you name it. That data can also tell you where I live, where I've traveled, and when I've been under stress.
After reading @zackwhittaker 's recent story on Oura ring's lack of transparency reporting, I was curious about the current state of other wearables.
I looked at 12 major wearable brands to see who publishes transparency reports (aka the documents that tell you how often a company hands your data to the government).
2 out of 12 do: Apple and Google/Fitbit.
whyli.me/blog/wearable-transpa…
emilyaustin.github.io/wearable…
Wearable Device Government Data Transparency Tracker
Tracking which wearable health and fitness device companies publish transparency reports on government data requests.emilyaustin.github.io
“This is an important public service announcement related to your right to privacy … We the people have 1 day 16 hours 33 minutes 13 seconds to take action and influence this outcome.
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For now, your encrypted messages have a lock on them.
Only you, and the person you're talking to, hold the key. Not the app. Not the company. Not the government. You probably don't think about it. That's the whole point — it just works.
Until, possibly, the end of this summer.
WHAT BILL C-22 WOULD DO
Every messaging app in Canada would be required to build a second key.”
Another effort to destroy end-to-end encryption, and thus your privacy, this time from Canada.
#canada #privacy #endToEndEncryption #backdoor
Canada is about to end private digital conversation — Bill C-22
Bill C-22 would force every messaging app in Canada to build a backdoor — and track all your activity for one year. Apple says no. Signal says they'll leave.dontsurveil.me
1 DAY TO GO ⏰️
💭 Tell the UK government to rethink online safety.
❌️ Creating a privacy timebomb with surveillance-based information blockades isn't the way.
✅️ We need user choice and better platform design, NOT mandatory ID checks.
Have your say on a better way by 26 May ➡️ gov.uk/government/consultation…
#onlinesafety #ageverification #digitalID #privacy #interoperability #bigtech #ukpolitics #ukpol
Growing up in the online world: a national consultation
We are consulting on further measures to prepare children for the future in an age of rapid technological change.Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (GOV.UK)
📝🚨 New blog post: How a bug in Archive Utility allowed access to protected app data (including iMessage and WhatsApp chats, and Safari cookies) without any permissions.
The bug could also be exploited to hijack installed apps such as Signal and 1Password to perform phishing attacks.
Apple fixed the issue in macOS 26.4 as CVE-2026-28910, five months after we reported it
#Apple #macOS #privacy #security #cybersecurity #infosec
mysk.blog/2026/05/19/cve-2026-…
CVE-2026-28910: Breaking macOS App Sandbox Data Containers, TCC, and Hijacking Apps Using Archive Utility
Until macOS 26.4, Archive Utility had nearly unrestricted filesystem access. Combined with a drag-and-drop sandbox quirk, this let an attacker bypass App Sandbox data containers, Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC) protections, and hijack third-…Mysk Blog – In-Depth Cybersecurity & Mobile App Privacy Research
😎🔬 Proton VPN just got updated. When iOS updated the app with the kill switch on, it was a total mess: iOS blocked internet for nearly 6 minutes, then terminated the app and its VPN tunnel, exposing iPhone traffic and IP. The VPN required a manual restart 😠.
Watch this demo:
More context:
mastodon.social/@mysk/11647334…
#privacy #security #infosec #iOS #VPN #Apple
😱 iOS 26.4.2 still leaks the real IP when updating VPN apps. Motivated by Mullvad's recent blog, we made a website that logs the iPhone IP every second. We started Mullvad VPN, opened the website, then let Mullvad update in the background. See the leaks in action.. 🤯Link to Mullvad blog post:
mullvad.net/en/blog/force-all-…
#privacy #iOS #security #infosec
Force all app traffic into the tunnel
Apple's networking stack are preventing the iOS app from being as secure as possible, we have now secured our app to mitigate this.Mullvad VPN
FYI: FaceTime calls expose your IP to other participants. In Settings → Privacy & Security → App Privacy Report you can see recent call IPs, and others can see yours. Unlike Signal and WhatsApp, Apple offers no option to relay calls through its servers to hide your IP
🚀🤘Introducing Psylo: A New Kind of Private Browser
After 9 months of development, we're super excited to finally launch Psylo, a new kind of private web browser for iOS and iPadOS.
In Psylo, each tab is its own “silo” with isolated storage, cookies, and even its own IP address. Psylo introduces advanced anti-tracking and anti-fingerprinting features that go beyond what a VPN can offer.
Full announcement: mysk.blog/2025/06/17/introduci…
Introducing Psylo — A New Kind of Private Web Browser
We're super excited to finally launch Psylo, a new kind of private web browser for iOS and iPadOS. In Psylo, each tab is its own *silo* with isolated storage, cookies, and even its own IP address.Mysk Blog – In-Depth Cybersecurity & Mobile App Privacy Research
“This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. The file is named weights.bin. It lives in OptGuideOnDeviceModel. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it.”
thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome…
#Google #AI #Chrome #Privacy #Law #Surveillance
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.
Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it.Alexander Hanff (That Privacy Guy! — Hanff & Co. AB)
Love the map visuals on this one 😍
🔒mullvad-tui — TUI for Mullvad VPN
💯 Control the Mullvad daemon, switch settings & monitor status
🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs
⭐ GitHub: github.com/d10n/mullvad-tui
#rustlang #ratatui #tui #vpn #privacy #linux #terminal
GitHub - d10n/mullvad-tui: Full-featured terminal user interface for Mullvad VPN, with mouse support
Full-featured terminal user interface for Mullvad VPN, with mouse support - d10n/mullvad-tuiGitHub