Tech Policy Press fellow Tatiana Dias reports on X’s efforts in Brazil to distance itself from Grok after the AI tool generated millions of sexualized images. Brazilian regulators aren’t buying it, and now X Brasil is facing demands for technical safeguards backed by the threat of daily fines.
A huge win for corruption over excellence and corporate surveillance over privacy in UK: But now the British Medical Association has told its members that they should not use the #Palantir products pluralistic.net/2026/02/12/p...
Age verification is spreading like cancer.
First they came for adults site and social media; now they are already discussing about putting VPNs and app stores behind #AgeVerfication 🇬🇧🇦🇺
What’s sold as “online safety” means #surveillance via IDs checks or face scans.
👉 tuta.com/blog/age-ver...
X has become the Everything App that Elon always wanted, if “everything” means all the tools you need to fuck up someone’s life, in one place. www.404media.co/grok-ai-sexu...
Screenshot of Gmail tweet saying: Welcome to the Gemini era, reposting a Google tweet that explains the latest update on Gemini.
Gmail welcoming the Gemini era?
That's it. Guide to disable Gemini everywhere: tuta.com/blog/how-to-...
Logos of app to replace: Microsoft - Linux; Office - Tuta Mail; WhatsApp - Signal
Logos of app to replace: Outlook Calendar - Tuta Calendar, Google Password Manager - KeePassXC; Google Search - Ecosia
❌ New Year, New Me ❌
✅️ New DIDay, Better Privacy ✅️
For the first #DigitalIndependanceDay of this year: Share which of these Big Tech apps you replaced & with what!
#NewYearNewMe #PrivacyMatters #DIDay #DigitalIndependenceDay
➡️ More info on #DIDay: di.day initiated by the Chaos Computer Club
If you’re planning to hit the streets, here’s what you need to know.
Google's Android with a red cross symbol, alternatives with a green tick symbol: Volla, Fairphone, Punkt, Shift, Murena
Ready to #deGoogle 💯 per cent?
We've reviewed the top five smartphones that help you go Google-free in 2026.
Which one is your favorite?
➡️ tuta.com/blog/degoogl...
To protect my right for privacy, to avoid the lack of transparency and thus lack of respect for my human right for privacy and countermeasuring the logic of lives as commodities
Read our new report The Internet Coup.
The Great Firewall Export investigation is a joint collaboration with @amnesty.org, @papertrailmedia.de, @justiceformyanmar.org, @theglobeandmail.com,
@ftm.eu, @derstandard.at and @torproject.org
interseclab.org/research/the...
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What nobody wants to talk about huh.
Online age verification isn't the same as a quick ID flash: it's surveillance. These systems collect your data and undermine your ability to anonymously access and discuss sensitive topics online. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Instagram is generating headlines for Instagram posts that appear on Google Search results. Users say they are misrepresenting them.
Truecaller's Family Protection will be rolled out widely in the first quarter of 2026.
Tategate: How a Human Trafficking Suspect Was Protected by Trump’s Whitehouse. #SpookyConnections #3E #EndImpunity
Yoodli counts Google, Snowflake, and Databricks among its customers.
Your conversations with AI chatbots are private and require a warrant. AI companies must commit to having your back. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Well, some folks said that the XXI Century wasn‘t poetic enough so, here you go.
The pursuit of 'superintelligence' is a project that should immediately lead people to question the motives of the techno-optimists and their political objectives, writes Cole Donovan. Their political project has clear goals; their emerging technology does not.
Text: Your next office snitch above the Microsoft Teams logo.
New Office Snitch Alert! 🙄
Starting tomorrow, Microsoft Teams will be rolling out its new feature which can track your location using the office Wi-Fi.
Will this make knowing whose in office or surveillance easier? We say both.
More: www.tomsguide.com/computing/of...
Attacks on VPNs are attacks on digital privacy and digital freedom. And that battle is being fought by people who clearly have no idea how any of this technology actually works. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.
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Happy apocalypse using children as pretext. The adultists forgot to ask the children if they want it for their mums and dads first place. It’d be a cute youtube vid.
www.compliancehub.wiki/eu-chat-cont...
CISA warns that spyware operators are targeting Signal and WhatsApp accounts of high-value users. They bypass encryption using spoofed apps and zero-click exploits to compromise these accounts.
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Robocop meets Chucky on Black Mirror
Cloudio likes cats. Meowdy.
