Eric deRuiter

@ridogi
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💻 Apple and 🔐 Security IT Consultant

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Your medical provider might be recording your mental health care visits – The Markup

Mental health providers are increasingly using AI technology to record conversations, raising privacy concerns among patients and practitioners.

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At least 3 gay bars in the historic LGBTQ+ district in San Francisco are using face scan tech, often without patrons knowing.

This data collection, especially as Trump admin are pushing to generate ‘lists’ of trans people, is highly dangerous.

https://gomag.com/article/san-francisco-gay-bars-are-scanning-patrons-faces-and-collecting-their-data/

San Francisco Gay Bars Are Scanning Patrons’ Faces and Collecting Their Data - GO Magazine

Several bars in the Castro are now using facial recognition technology that records a person's name, address, and even their gender.

GO Magazine

“This subreddit exists to create a space where therapists can help therapists through both the logistical and emotional aspects of practice ownership outside of VC platforms.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/LeavingThePlatforms/

#autism #privacy #identityverification #ageverification #mentalhealth #persona #IDverification #biometricdata

“…a community for psychotherapists who are considering, planning, or actively transitioning away from venture capital-backed therapy platforms such as Headway, Alma, Grow Therapy, Rula, SonderMind, and similar services.”

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#autism #privacy #identityverification #ageverification #mentalhealth #persona #IDverification #biometricdata

The proposed change would drastically shake up how people obtain phone plans in the U.S., and have all sorts of privacy and cybersecurity knock-on effects. https://www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to-kill-burner-phones-by-forcing-telecoms-to-get-all-customers-ids/
FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers’ IDs

The FCC wants to legally force telecoms to collect new and renewing customers’ government issued identity number and physical address, impacting everyone from the privacy-conscious to domestic abuse survivors. “We never thought that would happen here.”

404 Media
New by me for Amateur Photographer: In my opinion, Apple is about to take a dangerous step towards fake photography – here’s why https://amateurphotographer.com/latest/opinion/in-my-opinion-apple-is-about-to-take-a-very-dangerous-step-towards-fake-photography-heres-why/
In my opinion, Apple is about to take a very dangerous step towards fake photography - here's why

During its developer conference keynote at WWDC 2026, Apple unveiled take two of it's AI implementation changing photography forever.

Amateur Photographer

#fastmail would be a better competitor against Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 with a few changes.

1. Give admins control over requiring 2FA for users, as well as which methods of 2FA are allowed.

2. Give admins control over if users can set up account recovery, and what methods they can use if allowed such as not allowing recovery by phone.

It also wouldn’t hurt to fix that moving a message to the spam folder should train the spam filter. https://mastodon.social/@ridogi/114740682281274010

Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.

https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06-08-uk-surveillance-is-not-safety.pdf

Thanks a lot for downloading Loupe. It's now ranked 3rd in its category across many countries 🤩