cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/6179…

In February, a Swedish newspaper reported that contractors in Kenya were reviewing Meta glasses footage without the wearer’s knowledge. The workers were made to watch uncensored videos of people going to the bathroom, getting undressed, and having s*x. Lots of the footage seemed to be taken without the wearer knowing they were recording.
Then at the beginning of June, WIRED uncovered that Meta was quietly adding facial recognition technology for its smart glasses to every single iPhone. The feature, called “NameTag,” would identify people captured by the glasses and share information about them.

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EXCLUSIVE: EU could announce social media ban for kids in September

Von der Leyen is expected to use her annual State of the Union speech to unveil plans for EU-wide age restrictions on social media

European institutions seem to be all in when it comes to introducing age verification mandates for citizens in member states: digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/…

I now have daily anxiety thinking about the future of the fediverse.

So how do I channel this fear and turn it into something constructive? I'm going back to writing #selfhosting guides for newbies.

It's a great distraction, which gives me a bit of hope. Especially the next guide, which will cover my favorite fediverse software - #GoToSocial (which is powering this instance) - and how to install and configure it. Your own little home on the fediverse! Lightweight and features-packed.

Surely something like this would fall outside the scope of regulation. Right? Right?

#MySoCalledSudoLife #YunoHost #VPS #AgeVerification #privacy #EUBigTech

“Google wants a look at your hands before it lets you through. The company’s newest reCAPTCHA check, rolling out now as a test, asks you to switch on your camera and wave at it so an algorithm can decide whether you’re a human or a bot.

That wave is less casual than it looks. The system records a short video of your hand and pulls 21 hand-landmark coordinates from it, mapping your finger joints, your palm geometry, and the way you move in real time.

Google describes the purpose as liveness detection, a way for websites to fend off automated account creation, credential-stuffing, and other fraud. But this is still a biometric scan, collected so you can prove you’re a person and still involves turning on your cameras for Google.”

reclaimthenet.org/googles-new-…

#Google #ReCAPTCHA #Biometrics #Privacy

Google's New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand

The same company that monetizes everything you do online would like to switch on your camera.

^{Ken Macon (Reclaim the Net)}

I love how Signal pretends we're using it for book clubs and not for fighting facism. I'm sure they know and this is just tongue-in-cheek.

About a year ago we decided to stop tracking website visitors altogether, and completely remove Matomo Analytics.

During the gradual overhaul of our website, we discovered an unmerged Pull Request that updates our Privacy Policy that reflects this change.

#Privacy #DataRetention

Reddit has begun rolling out mandatory age verification for any NSFW content, as well as for some social media functions, if the AI determines you might be under a certain age.

Another good day to be on Lemmy... until the surveillance capitalist tech overlords lobby enough to get their great firewall of the West, anyway.

Further reading:
- support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-u…
- cybernews.com/security/eu-age-…
- piunikaweb.com/2026/02/19/pers…
- support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-u…

Source code and details: git.anarchists.space/NanoChat/…

Features

• Small codebase
• Messages expire after 30 days
• Panic button to delete all messages in a room
• WebSocket for communication
• Docker support

Technical details

• AES-256-GCM for client-side encryption
• Key is not sent to server

Oh shit, here we go again...

#GDPR #Privacy #USpol #EUpol #Schrems

noyb.eu/en/us-supreme-court-ju…

Also, dear @mullvadnet, you of all companies should know that you don't get to pick-and-choose the human rights you like and to whom they can apply. Your CEO (and in extension the company) is either supporting *all* human rights universally for *all people*, including the right to asylum and to live free of discrimination, or you don't support them at all.

You can't just support #privacy and #FreeSpeech, shit on the rest and claim to be pro-human rights.

We don't get a lot of privacy wins. Ya know? I'll take whatever we can get.

I linked the wiki page for this court case. As of me typing now, page hasn't been updated with the court decision. Prob will be soon. If you want the rawdog court document, it's here.

TLDR. SCOTUS just decided that geofence warrants require 4th amendment protection. For the non-USA peeps, 4A is protection against gov searches without a warrant granted with probable cause. The court decided that since everyone now carries a smartphone everywhere, and loc data is highly personal, police geofence requests require a judicial warrant. In the same way one is required for the police to search your home.

Before anybody goes off about how "this doesn't matter"... This does not restrict commercial data collection. Even so, it does matter. It is a step in a good direction, and will have real world impacts. It might even change the landscape around Flocks. Another positive step happened a while ago, in Carpenter vs the United States, about historical cell site location data.

Wrote a blog post: Getting my photos Google-free - how to easily move from Google Photos to @pixelunion and host your photo albums in Europe.

It's a short guide on how and why it was totally worth it, plus an overview of PixelUnion's features.
rolle.design/google-photos-to-…

#Photos #Privacy #GooglePhotos #PixelUnion #Google #GoogleFree #DeGoogle #BigTech #Europe #Immich

From Google Photos to PixelUnion

Super fast and easy way to migrate from Google Photos to EU-based PixelUnion. A more private and better alternative for storing your photos.

^{Rolle Laukkarinen (@rolle / Web designer, web developer)}

Qoute:

A shocking backroom deal is underway to revive Chat Control 1.0 this Friday — and on Monday 29 June, the final trilogue for permanent mass scanning takes place. We face a double-attack on private communication. Take two minutes now: e-mail your MEPs and Permanent Representation to stop this!

Just met my first #glasshole in person

Asked him why he was wearing them

He said he'd "the feeling he needs them" because you can hear music with them ¯\(°_o)/¯

And saw no problem with #privacy at all - from what he'd said he didn't know the concept...

Got a bit pissed that I asked him, bc he saw it as "his decision" & "freedom" to wear a piece of surveillance tech in his face

How do you guys act in situations like this? Or am I too 2010ish ;)?

#tech #surveilance #resistance #rayban

We Can Still Stop California’s 3D Printer Surveillance Scheme

eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/we-c…

#tech #technology #news #technews #security #privacy #3dprinting #Surveillance

We Can Still Stop California’s 3D Printer Surveillance Scheme

Ignoring EFF’s warnings about the dangers and impossibility of implementing a new mandate for 3D print surveillance software, the California State Assembly has signed off on legislation to do just that.

^{Electronic Frontier Foundation}

“Your kids will grow up in a world with no ‘off the record’,” he writes to any parents reading his post. “Teach them that the best privacy strategy is integrity, living so that being seen costs you nothing. And fight, hard, for a world where the watching goes both ways.”

Xprize founder says 'humans behave better when they’re being watched' | TechCrunch

Peter Diamandis is the latest tech executive to argue that global surveillance will make the world a better place, following Larry Ellison's comments in 2024.

^{Sean O'Kane (TechCrunch)}

It took me about 2 days to transfer over 250 GB of photos from Google Photos to @pixelunion with their migration tool. Now my photos are safe and sound in Europe.

The face recognition works even better than Google's, and Immich is an awesome piece of software. I would have hosted this entirely on my own like my Nextcloud, but paying a couple of bucks for 450 GB of storage and a fast server is a real bargain and saves me the hassle. Well done, PixelUnion!

#Privacy #Photos #GooglePhotos #PixelUnion #Immich

Daniel Berntsson, founder of Mullvad, gave a personal donation of 5 million SEK (roughly 450,000€) in 2025 to Örebropartiet. This enormous donation accounted for 72% of the party’s revenue in 2025.

How does this affect Mullvad’s legitimacy as a company advocating for a free and open internet, while also funding a political party whose agenda seem to contradict these values? The official party website (in Swedish) can be found via the link below.

orebropartiet.se/om-oss/

Techprofil ger miljoner till Örebropartiet

It-bolaget Mullvads grundare donerade fem miljoner – till parti som vill se ”storskalig återvandring”

^{Jacob Lundberg (Flamman)}

• 4 States Opposing
• 23 States Supporting
• 0 States Undecided

🚨 They are bringing back #ChatControl 🚨

Metsola doesn't understand that no means no.

Discussion is scheduled for Monday, so act now: fightchatcontrol.eu/

#No2Surveillance #Privacy #Security