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At times, it can feel like the privacy community is niche and isolated. The battle for privacy rights is difficult, and its defenders are often scattered. This is why it's essential to support each other.
🙌 Learn more on how you can lift your allies up, and help to grow the movement.
🧰 Check our Privacy Activist Toolbox tip to Lift Your Allies Up: privacyguides.org/en/activism/…
#PrivacyGuides #Activism #PrivacyActivistToolbox #Privacy
Lift Your Allies Up - Privacy Guides
The battle for privacy rights is difficult, and its defenders are scattered. This is why it's essential to support and uplift each other, every time we can.Privacy Guides
Instagram will remove end‑to‑end encrypted chats on May 8, 2026 🔓.
Without E2EE, private messages could become accessible for data analysis or AI training, raising serious privacy and user‑trust concerns 🤔.
🔗 proton.me/blog/instagram-end-t…
#TechNews #Facebook #Instagram #Meta #Privacy #Encryption #Security #DataProtection #SocialMedia #Chat #Policy #AI #Surveillance #UserRights #FOSS #DigitalRights #Technology #E2EE
Instagram quietly drops end-to-end encrypted chats
Instagram will drop end-to-end encrypted chats on May 8, 2026, reversing years of Meta’s push for stronger privacy. Here's what it means.Edward Komenda (Proton)
"Your driving privacy expires with your current car’s lifespan"
"Your car simply watches and decides whether you’re fit to drive"
Using technology to save lives is one thing, but this data will be in the hands of bad people.
yahoo.com/news/articles/federa…
#driving #cars #AI #surveillance #surveillancetech #biometrics #infrared
#privacy #surveillancecapitalism #bigbrother #enshittification
A redditor (Ok_Lingonberry3296) traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and lobbying records across 45 states to figure out who's behind the age verification bills.
The answer is Meta - a company that profits from your data writing laws that collect more of it.
Page: github.com/upper-up/meta-lobby…
Page backup: archive.ph/2026.03.13-193015/g…
Reddit discussion: web.archive.org/web/2026031314…
#Meta #Facebook #AgeVerification #privacy #surveillance #dystopia #socialmedia #technology
GitHub - upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings
Contribute to upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
OK, here we go. The 4th run of the Tunnel training.
Learn best-practice server security & computer networking fundamentals while building up your own high-performance, censorship-resistant VPN in Iceland. Generate configs as easy-to-use QR codes to give out to friends, family & your activist mates to protect them in this mad era of runaway surveillance, automated attacks and account theft.
March 27. 4x4hrs. No prior skills required.
#selfhosting #sysadmin #privacy
Is this the first time a major service has removed end-to-end encryption instead of adding it? Why Instagram?
#instagram #socialmedia #privacy #infosec #technology #enshittification
The problem with having a surveillance state is not that they will know everything about you. The problem is that they will assert that they know everything about you. And you’re screwed either way; no matter if they’re right or wrong.
theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…
Via @yawnbox
#privacy #humanRights #democracy #surveillance #surveillanceState #policeState
Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud
Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail after AI software linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud caseMarina Dunbar (The Guardian)
The age-assurance industry shouldn't exist.
Stop age verification now, and tell your governments and service providers they cannot trust these predatory corporations.
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
The UK Information Commissioner's Office and Ofcom are pushing for tech companies to strengthen age checks.
It's disastrous that the ICO wants to somehow 'protect children’s data' by compelling 13-18 year olds to use poorly regulated digital identification products that could put their biometric data at risk.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/home…
#ageverification #privacy #digitalid #ofcom #ico #onlinesafety #ukpolitics #ukpol
Watchdogs call on big tech to ‘urgently’ do more to protect children online
The regulators accused tech platforms of ‘failing to put children’s safety at the heart of their products’Nicole Wootton-Cane (The Independent)
DHS Seeks Access to Massive Employment, Salary and Family Database Legally Restricted to Use in Child Support Cases
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The Trump administration’s immigration enforcers are requesting unfettered access to the government’s “most powerful people-finder system,” which contains sensitive information on children and victims of domestic violence.
propublica.org/article/dhs-tru…
#News #Trump #DHS #Data #Children #Privacy #Government #USPolitics #Law #DomesticViolence
Whenever you hear "ban for kids" on the internet, read in reality "ID collection by a sketchy third-party company that will definitely use it or leak it or both for every adult."
Because that's what this truly means.
Also, it doesn't even help the kids.
#AgeVerification #Privacy #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism
If enough Canadians contact
their local representatives, as well Mark Carney's office this week, we might be spared from this authoritarian mass-surveillance measure called "Age Verification" in Canada.
The time to fight back is NOW: ctvnews.ca/politics/article/so…
Privacy is a human right essential to safety and democracy. If we do not fight to protect it, we will lose it.
#AgeVerification #MassSurveillance #Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights #Canada #CanPoli
Social media ban for kids under consideration in online harms bill: Carney
While there should be “debate” in Canada about a social media ban for children, Prime Minister Mark Carney says he has not made up his own mind on the issue yet.The Canadian Press (CTVNews)
Good News! 🚨👀
I am delighted to finally announce today what I've been working on in the past few weeks:
Privacy Guides' new Activism section! 
privacyguides.org/activism/
The Activism section offers a new way to empower the digital rights community. It will progressively grow with more tools to support the community in its privacy activism effort, both for individuals and organizations 💛
As Privacy Guides' new Activism & Outreach Lead, I will be working hard on developing this section even further in the coming weeks, adding many more tools to support our community.
I hope this can be a helpful resource for anyone who is ready to fight for privacy rights ✊🔒
#PrivacyGuides #Activism #Privacy #DigitalRights #HumanRights
Guides and Tools for Privacy Activists
Privacy Guides' Activism section contains tools to support the community in its privacy advocacy and activism effort, both for individuals and organizations.Privacy Guides
Hundreds of scientists say stop! ✋🚨
Governments should pause plans for mandatory #AgeChecks on online services until serious #privacy and #security concerns are addressed.
As countries push to ban children from social media, the risk to everyone’s privacy is growing. 🔐🌍
👉 Read more on #AgeVerification, why scientist say NO & whether your country wants it: tuta.com/blog/age-verification…
Age Verification: What countries require you to perform ID checks & for what websites and platforms? | Tuta
Will the age verification era kill anonymity? More countries are passing age verification laws, now also for social media apps as seen in Australia and upcoming in the UK, France, Spain, and Turkey.Tuta