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"“I’m here to tell you if you’ve ever been on a dating app that wanted your location, or if you ever granted a weather app permission to know where you are 24/7, there’s a good chance a detailed log of your precise movement patterns has been vacuumed up and saved in some data bank somewhere that tens of thousands of total strangers have access to,” writes Tau.

Unraveling the story of how these strangers—everyone from government intelligence agents and local law enforcement officers to private investigators and employees of ad tech companies—gained access to our personal information is the ambitious task Tau sets for himself, and he begins where you might expect: the immediate aftermath of 9/11.

At no other point in US history was the government’s appetite for data more voracious than in the days after the attacks, says Tau. It was a hunger that just so happened to coincide with the advent of new technologies, devices, and platforms that excelled at harvesting and serving up personal information that had zero legal privacy protections.

Over the course of 22 chapters, Tau gives readers a rare glimpse inside the shadowy industry, “built by corporate America and blessed by government lawyers,” that emerged in the years and decades following the 9/11 attacks. In the hands of a less skilled reporter, this labyrinthine world of shell companies, data vendors, and intelligence agencies could easily become overwhelming or incomprehensible. But Tau goes to great lengths to connect dots and plots, explaining how a perfect storm of business motivations, technological breakthroughs, government paranoia, and lax or nonexistent privacy laws combined to produce the “digital panopticon” we are all now living in."

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/23/1118401/privacy-book-reviews-surveillance-higher-education/

#Surveillance #Privacy #DataProtection SurveillanceCapitalism #AdTech #DataBrokers

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The Prime Reasons to Avoid #Amazon (mastodon.thenewoil.org)

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The Prime Reasons to Avoid #Amazon

https://blog.thenewoil.org/the-prime-reasons-to-avoid-amazon

#AmazonPrime #PrimeDay #privacy #cybersecurity #police #politics #CivilRights #HumanRights #WorkersRights #FreeMarket #blog

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GrapheneOS version 2025070600 released: (grapheneos.social)

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GrapheneOS version 2025070600 released:

https://grapheneos.org/releases#2025070600

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release.

Forum discussion thread:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/23751-grapheneos-version-2025070600-released

#GrapheneOS #privacy #security

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#Filen: "We're #hiring: Mobile Developer (React Native)(m/f/d, 10–40 hrs/week, 0-100% Remote)" (mastodon.thenewoil.org)

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#Filen: "We're #hiring: Mobile Developer (React Native)(m/f/d, 10–40 hrs/week, 0-100% Remote)"

https://filen.io/hub/were-hiring-mobile-developer-react-native-m-f-d-10-40-hrs-week-0-100-remote/

#privacy #FOSS #GetFediHired #job

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Hacker leaks #Telefónica data allegedly stolen in a new breach (mastodon.thenewoil.org)

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Hacker leaks #Telefónica data allegedly stolen in a new breach

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacker-leaks-telef-nica-data-allegedly-stolen-in-a-new-breach/

#DataBreach #privacy #cybersecurity #Spain #telco

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"EU law enforcement bodies could be capable of decrypting your private data by 2030. (tldr.nettime.org)

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"EU law enforcement bodies could be capable of decrypting your private data by 2030.

This is one of the ambitious goals the EU Commission presented in its Roadmap on June 24, 2025. A plan on how the bloc intends to ensure police officers' "lawful and effective" access to citizens' data.

The Roadmap is the first step forward in the ProtectEU strategy, first unveiled in April 2025 – but privacy experts have already begun raising the alarm."

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/the-eu-wants-to-decrypt-your-private-data-by-2030

#EU #Privacy #DataProtection #Encryption #Backdoors #Surveillance #CyberSecurity

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GrapheneOS version 2025070500 released: (grapheneos.social)

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GrapheneOS version 2025070500 released:

https://grapheneos.org/releases#2025070500

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release.

Forum discussion thread:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/23724-grapheneos-version-2025070500-released

#GrapheneOS #privacy #security

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"The government has too often viewed the tech sector primarily as a source of revenue for policy projects – “make web giants pay” – while overestimating the attractiveness of the Canadian market and (tldr.nettime.org)

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"The government has too often viewed the tech sector primarily as a source of revenue for policy projects – “make web giants pay” – while overestimating the attractiveness of the Canadian market and underestimating the risks of costly regulation.

There is an obvious need for smart tech regulation, starting with doing a better job of protecting the things that matter – Canadians’ privacy, data sovereignty and marketplace fairness through robust competition laws. But the strategic blunders that culminated in the embarrassing decision to cave on the DST must lead to internal acknowledgment of a failed approach. When even your marquee policy for collecting revenues from the world’s leading tech companies crashes, it is time to admit that Canada desperately needs a tech regulation reset."

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-how-much-longer-will-ottawa-keep-blundering-on-tech-policy/

#Canada #USA #TechPolicy #Privacy #DigitalSovereignty

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Tenderloin, of course! I already miss this neighborhood - not to mention SF... One can always dream of returning there after Republicans left the White House... :) (tldr.nettime.org)

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Tenderloin, of course! I already miss this neighborhood - not to mention SF... One can always dream of returning there after Republicans left the White House... :)

"Cindy Cohn, an attorney who is the executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation — a digital-rights nonprofit based in San Francisco — said she sees her work fighting heavy-handed and intrusive government surveillance and defending technology users’ privacy, free speech and ability to innovate as fundamentally intertwined with principles that are at the core of U.S. democracy.

“Free speech is a cornerstone,” Cohn said, citing the practice of casting anonymous election ballots as an example. “Privacy is a cornerstone right. Privacy goes hand-in-hand with a democratic, self-governing system.”

Whether challenging restrictive federal rules equating cryptography with munitions, mass telecommunications spying by the National Security Agency, search-and-seizures of electronic materials or the use of surveillance technologies by the San Francisco Police Department, Cohn’s organization has long been at the center of civil-liberties controversies involving technology.

“Almost all the fights about rights and freedoms and democracy have a technical, have a digital element right now,” Cohn said.

Currently based in the Tenderloin, EFF was founded in 1990 before the mass adoption of web-browsing technology and the spectacular growth of the internet later in the decade.

The nonprofit today has about 125 employees, with the largest chunk being lawyers who engage in litigation and advocacy, Cohn said."

https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/technology/electronic-frontier-foundation-head-right-at-home-in-sf/article_e5e83983-5348-4e26-926c-7ba2b9862ce6.html

#EFF #DigitalRights #USA #California #SF #SanFrancisco #Privacy #Surveillance #FreeSpeech

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#CBP Wants New Tech to Search for Hidden Data on Seized Phones (mastodon.thenewoil.org)

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#CBP Wants New Tech to Search for Hidden Data on Seized Phones

https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-wants-new-tech-to-search-for-hidden-data-on-seized-phones/

#privacy #cybersecurity

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