Links — #privacy

• Google broke its promise to me. Now ICE has my data. (Apr 26, 2026)
  An EFF account of Amandla Thomas-Johnson's data being handed to ICE without notice, abandoning Google's decade-long policy to alert users first.
  #news #politics #privacy
• It is time to ban the sale of precise geolocation (Apr 26, 2026)
  The case for treating commercial sale of fine-grained location data the way we treat other privacy-corrosive markets: outright prohibition.
  #essays #politics #privacy
• Little Snitch for Linux (Apr 26, 2026)
  Objective Development bring their per-app outbound firewall to Linux — long-time Mac users have been waiting for this for years.
  #privacy #security #tools
• German EUDI Wallet will require an Apple or Google account (Apr 26, 2026)
  The architecture spec for Germany's national digital identity wallet pins trust to the two phone-OS vendors instead of the citizen.
  #politics #privacy #security
• Age verification as mass surveillance infrastructure (Apr 26, 2026)
  Findings from monitoring age-verification rollouts: the systems being deployed function more like population-scale identity registers than the targeted controls they're sold as.
  #essays #politics #privacy
• Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI (Apr 26, 2026)
  Atlassian flips the default for customer data to opt-in for AI training. The change is the kind of policy move that previously required, at minimum, an email.
  #ai #news #politics #privacy
• A stable Firefox identifier linking your private Tor identities (Apr 26, 2026)
  Fingerprint.com found that Firefox and Tor's IndexedDB ordering is stable across private windows — enough to fingerprint a user across origins.
  #privacy #security #web
• You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings (Apr 26, 2026)
  Eclectic Light Co. demonstrates how to access privacy-protected folders even when System Settings claims they're locked down.
  #essays #privacy #security
• Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs (Mar 1, 2026)
  Research on how LLMs can deanonymize users from writing style at scale.
  #privacy #security #ai
• LocalSend (Feb 7, 2026)
  Open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop. Nearby sharing over local Wi-Fi, no internet required.
  #tools #privacy
• Secluso (Feb 7, 2026)
  Privacy-preserving home security camera with end-to-end encryption. No cloud, no third-party access.
  #tools #privacy
• Briar - How it works (Mar 14, 2025)
  Messaging without a central server — syncs directly between devices via internet, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or memory cards.
  #tools #privacy

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