It's important to celebrate the small victories. No matter how small. Do not minimize them.

Remain skeptical and ready to fight again soon, of course. But take the time to enjoy this little dopamine hit. Your brain needs it to survive the long battle for privacy rights 💚🔒

Be happy today,
your actions helped! Yay!  🎉
You can wait tomorrow to be angry again ✊

#Privacy #PrivacyWin

YES! This is AMAZING! 🎉

Keep pushing against abusive practices, and keep fighting for your privacy rights!

IT WORKS! ✊🔒

https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/24/discord-just-canceled-its-planned-age-verification-rollout-for-now/

Edit: Just to be clear, I still encourage everyone to move to better platforms and delete your Discord accounts (even if there was no age verification at all). Discord isn't a privacy-respectful platform.

But this small victory means we should keep pushing for better privacy practices, everywhere.

This means they are listening. This means you have the power to make things better, for yourself and for others.

Celebrate that. And keep pushing back.

#Privacy #AgeVerification #Discord #PrivacyWin

A big #PrivacyWin today as my band #Slugmilk asked me for an alternative to the band's #discord server. They are NOT infosec folks, so I was some proud when they decided enough is enough.

We now have a private #matrix server which we #selfhost. Everyone has their own slugmilk.org username and everything!

Matrix is far from perfect, but this is exactly what we need, and it is under our ownership and control.

Now to get them all on the #Fediverse!

California launches DROP platform, letting residents send one deletion request to 500+ data brokers! 🔒 Launched Jan 1 under 2023 Delete Act—verify via state ID & reclaim privacy from data sales. Enforcement ramps up Aug 2026. https://cyberinsider.com/california-launches-tool-enabling-mass-opt-out-from-data-brokers/ #PrivacyWin #DataBrokers #CalPrivacy #Newz

Lol — twenty years later after #FCKGAFAM already stole all the data. xD #opinion well beter late then never… #amirite  ✨ 💫

🔐 The European Parliament stands up for digital privacy! They've just rejected the CSAR proposal for mass scanning of private messages, defending our rights in the digital age. A win for privacy advocates! #DigitalRights #PrivacyWin #EU

https://edri.org/our-work/csar-european-parliament-rejects-mass-scanning-of-private-messages/

Earlier this year, I submitted a comment to the Colorado #privacy rulemaking, based on my experience with meaningless responses to #CCPA #RtK

"The revised regulations also require companies to 'avoid incomprehensible internal codes' and to 'include explanations' for the data that is provided in an access request. Both changes could dramatically increase the burden on businesses when responding to access requests." #privacyWin

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/tis-season-colorado-attorney-general-releases-new-draft-cpa-regulations