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EU Brings Back Chat Surveillance, Even As More MEPs Vote No
1+ hour, 34+ min ago (391+ words) " Front "/" Privacy Every empty chair in Strasbourg counted as a vote for the surveillance nobody in the room had the numbers to stop. Europe's biggest platforms can once again scan your messages without a warrant or any reason to suspect…...
Apple Hide My Email Vulnerability Exposes Real Email Addresses
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (495+ words) " Front "/" Privacy Apple sells Hide My Email as a shield. You switch the feature on and i Cloud+ hands you a random alias, so the companies you deal with never see the address tied to your real identity. But a…...
Brave 1. 92 Adds Built-In Containers for Desktop
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (277+ words) " Front "/" Privacy Two accounts, one window, and none of the awkward mingling your logins usually do behind your back. Brave shipped Containers this week. Version 1. 92 of the browser lets you wall off tabs from one another so that cookies and…...
Volkswagen Punishes the Phones That Trust Google Least
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (475+ words) " Front "/" Privacy The same company that leaked the parking spots of 800, 000 cars last year now says privacy-focused Graphene OS phones aren't trustworthy enough for its app. Graphene OS wants Volkswagen drivers to start making noise. The privacy-focused Android project has…...
Google's New re CAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand
1+ week, 5+ day ago (288+ words) " Front "/" Privacy The same company that monetizes everything you do online would like to switch on your camera. Google wants a look at your hands before it lets you through. The company's newest re CAPTCHA check, rolling out now as…...
Brussels Could Reopen the Fight to Scan Your Private Chats
1+ week, 5+ day ago (471+ words) " Front "/" Privacy Lawmakers killed this in March but Brussels is back four months later asking for a do-over. Europe's governments lost a fight over surveillance three months ago, and now they want a rematch on their own terms. EU ambassadors…...
Canada's Bill C-8 Explained
1+ week, 5+ day ago (876+ words) " Front "/" Privacy One signature now lets the government collect your location, your browsing history, and your metadata without ever asking a judge. Canada's new cyber-security law gives a cabinet minister the power to order any telecom provider to cut off…...
Texas Just Leaked 3 Million Driver's Licenses and Passports
2+ week, 6+ day ago (550+ words) " front "/" privacy The same government now demanding digital ID to enter websites just proved it can't guard the identity documents it already holds. Texas spent the past two years building the legal machinery to make you prove who you are…...
Google Removes the Final Workaround for Full Ad Blocking in Chrome
3+ week, 1+ day ago (889+ words) Stand against censorship and surveillance: join Reclaim The Net. When Chrome 150 ships on June 30, the browser will delete a hidden setting called the Extension Manifest V2 Disabled flag, a switch that power users had been toggling to keep old-style extensions running…...
France's Own Hack Is the Best Argument Against Its War on Encryption
3+ week, 5+ day ago (724+ words) The encryption on Tchap did exactly its job, which is more than can be said for the government running it. Stand against censorship and surveillance: join Reclaim The Net. Brussels and a run of European governments, France loud among them,…...