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Seeing family for the holidays? Remember to help your loved ones install Privacy Badger to stop online trackers from following them around the web. privacybadger.org

Beware the Bundle: Companies Are Banking on Becoming Your Police Department’s Favorite "Public Safety Technology” Vendor When your local police department buys one piece of surveillance equipment, you can easily expect that the company that sold it will try to upsell them on additional tools and upgrades. At the end of ...

Police tech providers want to ensnare their cop customers in a web of surveillance tools and software. Read more about how these companies are locking your communities into years of privacy-invading technology.

Privacy on the Map: How States Are Fighting Location Surveillance Location data is highly sensitive, and without proper protections, it can be used to harm those who are already vulnerable. The digital trail we leave behind can reveal far more than we think, and wit...

Your location data isn’t just a pin on a map. It can reveal where you work, worship, protest, or seek healthcare—and it’s being harvested, sold, and weaponized. Lawmakers must act now to protect our privacy.

Mark Klein, a former AT&T technician who exposed mass surveillance by the U.S. government, has died at age 79.

Klein went public in 2006 with documents revealing that the NSA was using a secret room in an AT&T hub in SF to tap into the backbone of the internet.

Read more here: tcrn.ch/3FuVKpL

Amazon confirms employee data stolen after hacker claims MOVEit breach Amazon has confirmed that employee data was compromised after a “security event” at a third-party vendor. In a statement given to TechCrunch on Monday, Amazon spokesperson Adam Montgomery confirmed that employee information had been involved in a data…

Amazon confirms employee data stolen after hacker claims MOVEit breach

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🚨 Ever spoken about something and the next minute you're getting an advert about it on your smartphone?

Well, evidence claims that Meta, Microsoft, Google and Amazon could all be listening!

For more details 👉 👉https://www.404media.co/heres-the-pitch-deck-for-active-listening-ad-targeting/

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🚨 BREAKING: Were all social security numbers in the US leaked? Find out more - and how to protect yourself!

👉 Tips to protect yourself
tuta.com/blog/how-to-...

👉 More details here
www.latimes.com/business/sto...

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#ssn #databreach #socialsecurity #securitytips

Defend Privacy and Free Speech We're building a better web together. Donate to help out Certbot and all of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's public interest software development, activism, and legal work. Your support...

What's Certbot? It's EFF's free, open source tool for automatically using Let’s Encrypt certificates on millions of domains across the web. It's also part of a growing number of EFF technology projects designed to protect your freedom online. Help support this work today!

Is This the End of Geofence Warrants? Google announced this week that it will be making several important changes to the way it handles users’ “Location History” data. These changes would appear to make it much more difficult—if n...

Finally! Google will be changing how it stores location data, effectively ending its ability to respond to dangerous geofence warrants (we hope).

appleinsider.com/articles/23/...

www.itsecuritynews.info/consumer-rig...

www.pcmag.com/news/google-...

A screenshot showing that you can enable Proton Sentinel in the 'security and privacy' settings area.

Proton Pass Plus subscribers now have access to Proton Sentinel — our high-security program for account protection, even if your Proton credentials have been stolen.

🛡️ Protect against account takeovers
🧑‍💻 AI & human security analysts
🔄 Monitoring & enhanced detection

proton.me/blog/sentine...

Doorbell cameras offer high-tech solution to porch piracy. Do they work? Increasingly popular doorbell cameras like Ring may be one solution to porch piracy.

Ring customers can enable encryption so only they can view their camera’s videos, EFF’s @mguariglia.bsky.social told NewsNation—an option made available in part because people "did not feel comfortable having all that footage sitting on Amazon’s servers unprotected.”

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Today, we’re happy to announce we’re launching the Proton Drive app for Mac!

Thank you to our community members who gave us feedback for the Mac OS beta.

#ProtonDrive is now available on #iPhone, #Android, #Windows, the web, and now #Mac:

Download it here: proton.me/drive/download