#WhiteHouse App Is a Terrifying #Security Mess

From a hidden #GPS tracker polling your location every 4.5 minutes to JavaScript loaded from a random GitHub account, no SSL certificate pinning, and an in-app browser that silently strips cookie consent dialogs and paywalls from every page you visit, the new White House app seems to have a little bit of everything. A security researcher pulled the #APK apart to discover the #cybersecurity #vulnerabilities. "
#privacy

https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/05/06/0424251/white-house-app-is-a-terrifying-security-mess?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Google & Microsoft publish transparency reports on government
data requests 2x/year. But behind the country subpoenas
lies a second layer: FISA 702, the CLOUD Act, and EO 12333:
US laws that no data residency commitment can neutralise.

In H1 2025, FISA content requests alone affected 177,000+
Google and 33,000+ Microsoft accounts.

We analysed how these laws work and what they mean for Belgian
and EU sovereignty.

👉 https://belibre.be/en/blog/sovereignty/us_regulations/

#DigitalSovereignty #FISA #Privacy #GDPR #Belgium

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@technadu/116527410843875957

My country is NOT a free country. Any democratic nation would allow use of VPNs and understand why people use them. "Age checks for VPNs" is code for "We're making a database of those purchasing/using a VPN so there can be no online anonymity. We don't care about children, only control"

#dystopian #dystopia #privacy #tech #technology

I'm in the process of evaluating different browsers (Firefox user). For now, I'm testing Chrome, and I've read some reviews and comparisons (2026).
In one article I read that Google was "selling personal data", and in others articles I read what I've been reading and told since years about Chrome and privacy.
I think there are some misunderstandings and legends circulating, including in online press. I want to judge with facts, so I made some searches about that:

Google make "money with ads, not by selling personal data", as they tell themselves:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/10400210?hl=en

Then I found information on how this whole monetization process works:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/google-says-it-doesnt-sell-your-data-heres-how-company-shares-monetizes-and

On Firefox I used ublock origin for privacy and adblock, on Chrome there is the "lite" version, as their website explains:
https://ublockorigin.com/

#chrome #browsers #privacy

Proton Mail adds post-quantum encryption to future-proof your email

https://yoota.it/en/proton-mail-adds-post-quantum-encryption-to-future-proof-your-email/

Proton Mail introduce la crittografia post-quantum per proteggere le email del futuro

https://yoota.it/proton-mail-introduce-la-crittografia-post-quantum-per-proteggere-le-email-del-futuro/

Google Chrome silently installs a 4GB AI Model on desktop systems without user consent. Learn how to find and delete it to reclaim your disk space.

Full details here: https://ostechnix.com/google-chrome-4gb-ai-model-weights-bin-file/

#GoogleChrome #GeminiNano #WeightsBin #AI #LLM #Privacy #Security #Gdpr #Browser