Electronic Frontier FoundationGreat event last night at @powells in #Portland #PDX with EFF’s Cindy Cohn! The “Privacy’s Defender” tour continues next week in #Seattle, Silicon Valley, and #Denver - get all the details at https://www.eff.org/Privacys-Defender
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Hanging out on Mastodon to get away from big tech and big business. Linux user. Remember to Own less. Do more!
Mullvad VPNWhat do you do when you get banned on British TV?
F-DroidNot sure where #Google asked for feedback about their developer verification program, but they surely didn't talk with #FLOSS devs, civil society, privacy organisations or their #Android users
#FDroid did since September, and interacted with folks in the Fediverse, forum, email and in person
They all voiced one opinion: "developer verification must be stopped"
@marcprux has written an open letter, signed by likeminded organisations who want to #keepandroidopen
Click: https://f-droid.org/2026/02/24/open-letter-opposing-developer-verification.html
Keep Android OpenThe first week of our Open Letter to Keep Android Open has been a resounding success! Our signatories list has grown to nearly 50 organizations from 20 countries around the world, including the
@eff, @OpenMediaOrg, @brave, @Vivaldi, and many more!
Online behavioral advertising isn’t just creepy–it’s dangerous. https://eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/targeted-advertising-gives-your-location-government-just-ask-cbp
Taylor LorenzI wrote about the House hearing today, how Congress is trying to strip anonymity from the Internet, and the devastating effects that has for journalists, whistleblowers, LGBTQ ppl, immigrants, civil rights activists, abortion providers and anyone challenging power for @theintercept https://theintercept.com/2026/03/05/kosa-online-age-verification-free-speech-privacy/
stux⚡️@taylorlorenz @theintercept I host all my services from Europe so never ever is "Congress" gonna make me do anything 
I won't comply anyways and if they start blocking, well.. we always find ways around that if it has to come to that
Like playing chess with a todler
@Watch out for anyone wearing Meta glasses and looking at your credit card or any other kind of sensitive information
https://bsky.app/profile/lukerussert.bsky.social/post/3mgd4e6pwq22f
404 MediaProton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester
A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the FBI.https://www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/
BrianKrebsWhoops. The data broker giant LexisNexis has suffered another data breach. LN says the data taken was no big deal. The group claiming credit for the breach claims otherwise, of course.
This brings back memories of previous breach stories. One of my first big scoops that made the WaPo dead tree edition's front page involved a breach at LexisNexis in 2005 that exposed >300k consumer records. That breach was from a group of 15-18y/os in the US who also social engineered T-Mobile into giving them access to Paris Hilton's cell phone and the nudes w/in.
In 2013, I published a scoop about a LexisNexis breach that came from group of criminal hackers who had seized control over ssndob[.]ru, then the largest ID theft service in the underground. In that months-long investigation, we found the hackers had installed backdoors on servers at LexisNexis, Dun & Bradstreet, and Kroll and were using them as part of a small and custom data broker botnet.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/09/data-broker-giants-hacked-by-id-theft-service/
