LAPD wants to remotely access 10,000 public and private security cameras (boingboing.net)
Google settles $5 billion privacy lawsuit over tracking people using 'incognito mode' (apnews.com)
A year of surveillance in France: a short satirical tale by La Quadrature du Net (video.lqdn.fr)
Fighting against surveillance has never been easy. But in the past year it has been specially tough in France. This talk is about shedding light on the many situations where the French State used surveillance to increase repression, mainly against activists, during the last months. Not to despair of this, but willing to provide...
Indian journalists targeted by Israeli spyware again: What do we know? (www.aljazeera.com)
This looks like a honeypot, doesn't it? (archive.is)
A Palestinian student deleted her social media. Israel revoked her permit (www.972mag.com)
Unblocking User Freedom: the right to use adblockers - FSFE (fsfe.org)
Trump Allies Are Giddy About House Intelligence Committee's Surveillance Bill (theintercept.com)
Activists are voicing concerns over Atlanta’s proposed ski-mask ban (itsgoingdown.org)
Olvid - Secure Messaging (olvid.io)
Online Atrocity Database Exposed Thousands of Vulnerable People in Congo (theintercept.com)
Israeli Spyware Firm NSO Demands “Urgent” Meeting With Blinken Amid Gaza War Lobbying Effort (theintercept.com)
Israel's ‘thought police’ law ramps up dangers for Palestinians (www.972mag.com)
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The end of anonymity on Chinese social media (restofworld.org)
Is there any point not using WhatsApp if I use Instagram already?
I use Instagram as the one social media platform that all my friends are on, plus I sometimes watch reels to kill time. However, as a privacy-conscious person, this is obviously not great for privacy. Is there, then, any good reason to still abstain from using WhatsApp?
YouTube blames ad blockers for slow load times, and it has nothing to do with your browser (www.androidauthority.com)
Mullvad: Moving our Encrypted DNS servers to run in RAM. Is cost-free, and available to anyone that wishes to have a trustworthy, audited Encrypted DNS service with optional content blocking. (mullvad.net)
Oregon Police Obsessively Spied on Activists for Years, Even After Pipeline Fight Ended (theintercept.com)
Cryptographers Devise an Approach for Total Search Privacy (www.quantamagazine.org)
"Use an ad blocking extension when performing internet searches." - United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (www.ic3.gov)
WhatsApp used to be one of my favorite apps. Now, I can't stand it | Digital Trends (www.digitaltrends.com)
AI Cameras Took Over One Small American Town. Now They're Everywhere (www.404media.co)
The UK’s controversial Online Safety Bill finally becomes law (www.theverge.com)
Historic agreement on child sexual abuse proposal (CSAR): European Parliament wants to remove chat control and safeguard secure encryption (www.patrick-breyer.de)
This week, the European Parliament’s negotiators reached a broad majority agreement on a common position concerning the controversial EU chat control bill. The Commission’s bill proposes bulk scanning and reporting of private messages for allegedly suspicious content by using error-prone algorithms, including „artificial...
Goodbye Chrome. It was great while it lasted. (lemmy.ca)
I’m fucking done with Chrome. Fuck this.
