Mastodawn

Another data scandal, this time it's LinkedIn... Send it to people that use LinkedIn on work computers...

#BrowserGate #linkedin #privacy #privacyrights

LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer

Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm. The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it. Because LinkedIn knows each user’s real name, employer, and job title, it is not searching anonymous visitors. It is searching identified people at identified companies. Millions of companies. Every day. All over the world.

BrowserGate

Hacker News 1d ago

The FAA "Temporary" Drone Restriction Blatant Attempt to Criminalize Filming ICE

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/faas-temporary-flight-restriction-drones-blatant-attempt-criminalize-filming-ice

#HackerNews #FAA #Drone #Restrictions #FilmingICE #CivilLiberties #PrivacyRights

The FAA’s “Temporary” Flight Restriction for Drones is a Blatant Attempt to Criminalize Filming ICE

Legal intern Raj Gambhir was the principal author of this post.The Trump administration has restricted the First Amendment right to record law enforcement by issuing an unprecedented nationwide flight restriction preventing private drone operators, including professional and citizen journalists,...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Debby ‬⁂📎🐧

1d ago

RE: https://techhub.social/@rayckeith/116338182555614323

#Perplexity's “Incognito” mode still shares your chats, email, and identifiers with Meta/Google. It’s surveillance with better branding.
#Privacy #AI #DigitalRights #PrivacyRights #TechAccountability

Linux Professional Institute 5d ago

Different institutions frequently collect people’s private data. This episode of the series “What Everybody Knows About You” by Andrew Oram focuses on governments.

Check it out: https://lpi.org/xqlz

[Disclaimer: This post includes an image generated using AI.]

#datacollection #dataprivacy #governmentdata #personalinformation #surveillance #privacyrights #whateverybodyknowsaboutyou #LPI

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James 6d ago

The facial recognition infrastructure is already everywhere:

Clearview AI — billions of scraped social media photos
Flock Safety — cameras in 49 states, 6,000+ communities
Amazon Ring — facial recognition on 27M+ doorbell cameras

No public vote. No consent. No reliable system to catch errors before someone loses their freedom.

#Surveillance #AIPolicy #PrivacyRights #FacialRecognition

Hacker News Mar 26

End of "Chat Control": EU Parliament Stops Mass Surveillance in Voting Thriller

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/end-of-chat-control-eu-parliament-stops-mass-surveillance-in-voting-thriller-paving-the-way-for-genuine-child-protection/

#HackerNews #EndOfChatControl #EUParliament #MassSurveillance #ChildProtection #PrivacyRights

End of “Chat Control”: EU Parliament Stops Mass Surveillance in Voting Thriller – Paving the Way for Genuine Child Protection!

The controversial mass surveillance of private messages in Europe is coming to an end. After the European Parliament had already rejected the indiscriminate and blanket Chat Control by US tech companies on 13 March, conservative forces attempted a democratically highly questionable maneuver yesterda

Patrick Breyer

knoppix Mar 25

GrapheneOS announces it will refuse to comply with age verification laws, even if it means losing market access in certain regions. 📱
The privacy-first Android fork remains committed to not requiring personal data or accounts, keeping its services available worldwide. 🌍

🔗 https://itsfoss.com/news/grapheneos-refuses-age-verification/

#TechNews #GrapheneOS #Privacy #OpenSource #Android #AgeVerification #DataPrivacy #UserControl #Tracking #Security #FOSS #PrivacyRights #Transparency #DigitalRights #DigitalFreedom