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Unified Attestation is another anti-competitive system being pushed by multiple European companies. It will similarly lock people out from using arbitrary hardware and software. That's not a solution and is far worse than Android's much more open hardware attestation API.

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116239523775374959

GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch https://cyberinsider.com/grapheneos-fixes-android-vpn-leak-google-refused-to-patch/
GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch

GrapheneOS has released a new update that fixes a recently disclosed Android VPN bypass flaw capable of leaking a user’s real IP address.

CyberInsider
Fedora Sealed Bootable Container Images, Possibly Opening the Door to a “Fully Verified Boot Chain”

Fedora 44 has released, and with it comes a new offering: sealed bootable container images, which “include all the components needed to create a fully verified boot chain.”

Privacy Guides

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/

> No consent dialog. No opt-out UI. Re-installs itself if the user removes it manually.

That is the true definition of malware.

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it. The pattern is identical to the Anthropic Claude Desktop case I wrote about last month, but the scale is between two and three orders of magnitude larger. This article does the legal analysis and, for the first time, the environmental analysis. The numbers are not small.

That Privacy Guy!

Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. Each generation grows up with a more depleted environment and calls it “normal,” simply because it’s all they’ve ever known.

Researchers warn that this shift lowers our expectations, increases our tolerance for decline, and reduces our urgency to protect what’s left.

#climatechange #climate #timeisup #theworstisyettocome

On Press Freedom Day, let's remind everyone that journalists need protection, also online. 📰 🌐

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#PressFreedomDay26

Age verification laws forcing platforms to restrict content access have been multiplying exponentially.

The problem is, implementing such measures necessarily requires identifying every user accessing the content, one way or another.

This is bad news for everyone.

If these regulations continue
to proliferate, this could lead to the end of pseudonymity online, and much worse.

I wrote this article last year,
but unfortunately this problem has only become worse, and it is sadly still very relevant.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/06/age-verification-wants-your-face/

#Privacy #AgeVerification #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism

Age Verification Wants Your Face, and Your Privacy

Age verification laws forcing platforms to restrict access to content online have been multiplying in recent years. The problem is, implementing such measure necessarily requires identifying each user accessing this content, one way or another. This is bad news for your privacy.

Privacy Guides

RE: https://mastodon.social/@danyork/116511753802210926

the company that pretends to protect kids by lobbying for age verification at OS level very hard also introduced these Meta glasses with AI that record everything and send back to its server. Is anyone seeing irony in it? Does Meta understands what they are doing?

And so it begins.

Chrome is shipping a Prompt API - giving websites access to the browser's built-in LLM.

This is the scope creep I wrote about... websites can now pass your page content, inputs and browsing context to an AI baked into the browser itself.

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/iR6R7-nQeHI/m/gb9zDAMqAwAJ?pli=1

[blink-dev] Intent to Ship: Prompt API