🇳🇱🤷♂️ Oh, look, the Dutch parliament is trying to shield
#DigiD secrets from the big, bad Americans. Spoiler alert: it's 2026, and they just discovered the concept of "data protection." Meanwhile, the US is busy reading everyone's emails for fun and profit. 📧💼
https://nltimes.nl/2026/01/21/parliament-tells-dutch-govt-keep-digid-data-american-hands #DutchParliament #DataProtection #PrivacyIssues #USDataCollection #HackerNews #ngated
Parliament tells Dutch gov't to keep DigiD data out of American hands
A parliamentary majority has asked the current caretaker and upcoming new Cabinet to do everything in their power to prevent Dutch DigiD data from ending up in the United States government’s hands.
NL Times😒 Ah, the classic "nothing to hide" argument - because who wouldn't want their life to be a non-stop open book? 🤦♂️ In a world where privacy is obviously overrated, let's just surrender our rights and pretend it's for the greater good. 🕵️♀️ Because, you know, transparency is only scary when it's not in your favor. 🙄
https://thompson2026.com/blog/deviancy-signal/ #privacyissues #transparencyrights #dataethics #digitalfreedom #surveillancestate #HackerNews #ngated
The Deviancy Signal: Having "Nothing to Hide" is a Threat to Us All
A sharp indictment of the “nothing to hide” mindset and its role in building the very surveillance state that will one day turn against you.
Nicholas A. Thompson 2026The more tech savvy you are, and if you are a millennial or are more educated, the more digital concerns you have over privacy 🔒, misinformation 📰, and work-life balance ⚖️ in the digital age, finds a new study of nearly 50,000 people in 30 countries.
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Tech savvy users have most digital concerns - Taylor & Francis Newsroom
Digital concerns around privacy, online misinformation, and work-life boundaries are highest among highly educated, Western European millennials, finds a new study from researchers at UCL and the University of British Columbia. The research, published in Information, Communication & Society, also found individuals with higher levels of digital literacy are the most affected by these concerns. For the study, the […]
Taylor & Francis Newsroom🤔 Ah, because everyone just *knows* sheet metal parts scream "photochemical machining" when they need to be precise! 🎥 According to this YouTube guide, apparently, the secret to metal wizardry lies in drowning it in a sea of legal disclaimers and privacy policies. 🙄🔍
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR9EN3kUlfg #photochemicalmachining #metalwizardry #legaldisclaimers #privacyissues #YouTubeGuide #HackerNews #ngated
How to make precise sheet metal parts (photochemical machining)
YouTubeAh, the epic quest for the elusive hotel bathroom door 🏨🚪—it's like the Indiana Jones of modern inconveniences. Who needs privacy when you can have open-air acoustics and a front-row seat to your partner's digestive adventures? 🤦♂️ The real mystery isn't door removal; it's why someone thought this was worthy of an article. 🕵️♂️✨
https://bringbackdoors.com/ #hotelbathroomdoor #moderninconveniences #privacyissues #humorousarticle #quirkyadventures #HackerNews #ngated
Bring Back Doors
Bring Bathroom Doors Back to Hotels
Bring Back DoorsAppLovin's sneaky app installs without user consent? Oh, shocker! 🎉 Turns out they might have confused the term "user consent" with "user surprise party" 🎈, but hey, who needs permission when you're on an
#adtech power trip? 🚀
https://www.benedelman.org/applovin-nonconsensual-installs/ #AppLovin #scandal #userconsent #privacyissues #surpriseparty #HackerNews #ngatedAppLovin Nonconsensual Installs – Ben Edelman

Have I Been Pwned: Vietnam Airlines Data Breach
In October 2025, data stolen from the Salesforce instances of multiple companies by a hacking group calling itself "Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters" was publicly released. Among the affected organisations was Vietnam Airlines, which had 7.3M unique customer email addresses exposed following a breach of its Salesforce environment in June of that year. The compromised data also included names, phone numbers, dates of birth, and loyalty program membership numbers.
Have I Been Pwned
City sends cease-and-desist after Flock reinstalls license plate cameras
Private surveillance vendor Flock Safety reinstalled all of its stationary license plate cameras in Evanston that had previously been removed, apparently
Evanston RoundTable🔒🚫 In a plot twist worthy of an IKEA instruction manual, Denmark's Justice Minister labels encrypted messaging a "false civil liberty"—because who needs privacy when you have the joy of government oversight? 😂🔍 Meanwhile, they forgot to mention the importance of enabling JavaScript on
#Mastodon. Priorities, right? 🤦♂️📉
https://mastodon.social/@chatcontrol/115204439983078498 #encryptedmessaging #privacyissues #governmentoversight #Denmark #JusticeMinister #HackerNews #ngatedIn today's riveting tech exposé, we learn that the next Google-killer is apparently being conjured up amidst a pile of dirty socks and detergent bottles 🧦🧺.
#FastCompany ensures we disable our ad blockers to witness this laundry room revolution 🌪️, because who needs privacy when you can have the scent of freshly washed cotton instead? 🧼✨
https://www.fastcompany.com/91396271/searcha-page-seekninja-diy-search-engines #technews #laundryrevolution #Googlekiller #privacyissues #HackerNews #ngated
Thanks to AI, this guy is running a Google rival from his laundry room
Large language models aren’t just making mainstream search engines worse; they’re making the next generation of search engines easier to develop.
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