Hacker News15h 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 ‬⁂📎🐧23h 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 Institute5d 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

Show threadJames6d 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 NewsMar 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
knoppixMar 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

Android-Based GrapheneOS Refuses Age Verification, May Exit Regions That Enforce It

The privacy-focused Android fork would rather lose market access than collect user data at setup.

It's FOSS
Show threadMs. Que BanhMar 25
@OpenMediaOrg
#ShutdownBillC22 #CDNpoli #PrivacyRights
hell \ Rebekah HellbergMar 23

fuck you they wont do what you tell them!! 🤘

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/grapheneos-refuses-to-comply-with-age-verification-laws

#grapheneos #ageverificationlaw #privacyrights

GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information

Doesn’t care if its devices can’t be sold in regions that require ID verification.

Tom's Hardware
SebastianMar 21

We went from “old man yells at cloud” to “old man has rational conversation with Claude.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3AtWdeu_G0

#BernieSanders #Claude #AI #Anthropic #PrivacyRights

Bernie vs. Claude

YouTube
🐦‍🔥nemo™🐦‍⬛ 🇺🇦🍉Mar 20

🚨 FBI confirms it's buying location data from brokers to track Americans' movements without warrants. Privacy advocates raise alarms over mass surveillance bypassing 4th Amendment protections. Thoughts? https://cyberinsider.com/fbi-confirmed-its-buying-data-that-can-be-used-to-track-people/ #FBISurveillance #PrivacyRights #BigBrother

I guess nowadays even regular people& citizens are also terrorist or a threat…? What the fck is wrong with governments…

FBI confirmed it’s buying data that can be used to track people

The FBI has resumed buying commercially available data that can be used to track people’s movements, according to Kash Patel.

CyberInsider