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  Huntington, West Virginia's city council approved a Flock contract. now residents are collecting signatures for a ballot initiative that would void it and bar a replacement the mayor calls opponents "a very loud and vocal minority" lol #privacy #Flock #Surveillance #usa https://www.theverge.com/features/1017836/flock-huntington-west-virginia-surveillance-ballot-measure

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  Seoul police: a former pentester and his group breached 90+ South Korean organisations, incl. hospitals and schools, and stole 8.2 million records from late August he used an AI pentesting framework police: "Even individuals who are not professional hacker organizations can now hack on a large scale with the help of AI." the less readable data sits on other people's servers, the less there is to steal 🔐 #CyberSecurity #infosec #privacy #ai #encryption https://www.b...

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  leaked audio: Flock's CEO told police chiefs at a private conference that the nationwide backlash against his company isn't real online opposition? mostly Russian bots, he said. no evidence offered also: his wife advised him never to apologize 🙃 people at city council meetings: exist Flock: no lol, it's all bots bots #privacy #Flock #Surveillance #usa https://www.404media.co/in-leaked-audio-flock-ceo-tells-cops-backlash-to-the-company-isnt-real/

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  welcome to the land of the free, passcode please 🛂 US border agents went through 52k phones and laptops in 9 months. on track to beat last year's record (55k) busy bees 🐝 47.5k of those were "basic" searches: no suspicion needed. don't feel like handing over your passcode? cool, they'll keep your phone for up to 5 days the less readable stuff on your phone, the less there is to scroll through 🔐 #privacy #encryption #europe #usa #Surveillance https...

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  the people training AI for Meta, OpenAI and Google are being surveilled while doing it 🙃 noyb: Scale AI's Outlier (900,000+ "freelance" workers) puts TikTok, LinkedIn and Facebook trackers on workers' devices and makes them send a face video + ID to get paid the ID check runs via Persona, where ~70,000 ID photos were exposed in 2025 every company holding a readable copy of you is one breach away from leaking it #privacy #ai #GDPR #europe #encryption https:/...

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  Sony's ISP So-net: 2.5 million customer records accessed. 54k email addresses leaked together with their account passwords and it's one of many: Japan's government held urgent meetings on Monday over the rate of breaches every database holding your readable files is a future headline. hand over as little as you can stay private, encrypt your important files #privacy #encryption #CyberSecurity #japan https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/sony-isp-subsidiary-d...

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  nobody broke Signal's encryption ICE agents went undercover INTO activists' Signal groups add data brokers, PayPal transfers, driver records and website traffic end-to-end encryption protects messages on the way, it can't protect you from who's in the chat or client-side risks stay private #privacy #Signal #Surveillance #encryption #usa #chryptor https://www.wired.com/story/ice-is-running-one-of-the-largest-anti-left-surveillance-operations-in-us-history/

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  "Google Drive Is Not Private" 👀 if the provider can read your files, so can anyone who gets to the provider the other option: encrypt files yourself before they go into ANY cloud. then the provider only gets ciphertext 🔐 #privacy #encryption #cloud #europe #chryptor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaXVcAeBjDk

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  Kickstarter successfully finalized🚀 Thank you for your confidence in us! We're thrilled and humbled to be able to work on this project! It's something we truly believe in: increase #privacy for everyone (and pissing off big tech) Stay tuned for release in December #encryption https://chryptor.com/

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/117512901773783118 was never a surprise that Google spies on people sometimes it is difficult to move your life to other providers we understand don't switch, just encrypt the private files you keep on the platform own your privacy #encryption #privacy #ai #chryptor

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  Russia has added Apple and Microsoft to its state surveillance registry meaning: store users' messages, audio and video communications, and hand them to Russian security agencies on request Google Meet joined the list in January unreadable messages are useless even if a provider hands them over encrypt your private stuff yourself own your privacy #privacy #encryption #russia #chryptor https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-28/russia-adds-apple-and-microsoft-to-state-surve...

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  Canada's bill C-22: sweeping scope, constitutional and human rights risks, dangers to encryption and cybersecurity advice: withdraw several parts entirely with AI-powered hacking on the rise, fix the holes "rather than drilling more holes in our every day communications systems" remember: C-22 can only force a company to unlock data if it holds the key so encrypt your private things yourself and keep the key🔐 own your privacy #privacy #Canada #encryption #chrypto...

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  Swiss cyber agency NCSC: "another significant increase" in hijacked WhatsApp accounts 👀 the trick: a fake "please vote for me" link. enter the code or scan the QR code, and you either lose your account or give scammers access "from another device without realising it" messages you encrypted on your own phone before sending? on their device it's gibberish. the key never left your phone 🔐 #privacy #europe #CyberSecurity #encryption...

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  NIST just published its roadmap for moving to post-quantum encryption (NISTIR 8547) their warning: today's encrypted data is already at risk from "harvest now, decrypt later". collect it now, decrypt it once quantum computers are ready your chats from today could still matter in ten years 👀 use post-quantum encryption wherever you can #encryption #quantum #privacy https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/10/nist-report-provides-guidelines-transition-post-quantum...

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  this week in "your inbox is our inbox" lol: Chrome's new AI autofill can use Gmail to suggest your flight confirmation number, order numbers, address, even your credit card number convenient and your emails just became AI input you may keep notes to self or other documents as reminders/back up in your Gmail - this is one more reason why you should be careful about what you keep unencrypted in the Google ecosystem #privacy #ai #encryption #chryptor https://techcrunc...