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𝗥𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗮’𝘀 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘀𝗔𝗽𝗽 𝗖𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻: 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲?
The fundamental trade-off between national security and personal digital privacy has come into sharp focus once again, as Russia implements what it calls “restrictive measures” against WhatsApp.
https://medium.com/pivx/russias-whatsapp-crackdown-security-or-surveillance-6c605a70f716?postPublishedType=initial

#PIVX #PrivacyMatters

🔒 "Chat Control (CSAR), il compromesso europeo e le questioni ancora aperte. La sicurezza dei nostri dati rimane un dilemma." #PrivacyMatters #EuropaDigitale

🔗 https://www.tomshw.it/business/chat-control-csar-il-compromesso-europeo-e-le-incognite-ancora-aperte

Protest Against Bulldozer Action in Bihar.

https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news/display/bh_protest_bulldozer_raj_nda

#bihar #patna #india #news #press #NDA #BJP #CPIML #SocialJustice #BiharProtests #BulldozerAction #HousingRights #DalitRights #UrbanPoor #StreetVendors #StopDemolitions #RightToHousing #ProtestIndia

Enjoy tracker free reading with us. #privacy #privacymatters

Re-sharing this brilliant article from @Em0nM4stodon! Privacy is only dead if we let it die.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/02/17/privacy-is-not-dead/

#Privacy #PrivacyGuides #privacyMatters

Wisconsin lawmakers push to ban VPNs in age verification bill A.B. 105, claiming to “protect children” by blocking privacy tools. But it’s technically impossible & harms businesses, students, journalists. “What the actual fuck?”

#VPNBan #PrivacyMatters #TechFail #Censorship

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/01/lawmakers-want-to-ban-vpns-and-they-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing/

The free software movement shaped by GNU/Linux reminds us that control over our digital tools is essential to our freedom. Today, at the heart of this ongoing struggle, Jami embodies this philosophy by offering a genuinely free way to communicate.

Read our article Jami and the GNU/Linux Spirit: https://jami.net/jami-and-the-gnu-linux-spirit/

#Jami #OpenSource #P2P #PrivacyMatters

Ritu Raman Film Production Makes Yet Another Splash in the Bhojpuri Music Industry.

https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news/display/bh_bhojpuri_music_ritu_raman

#bihar #patna #india #news #press #Bhojpuri #BhojpuriMusic #Music #SatavaJani #AnshumanRajput #SapnaChauhan #CBRaman

Enjoy tracker free reading with us. #privacy #privacymatters

I just made my own private, secure, backwards-compatible and future-proof, no-code note-taking app that automatically syncs across every platform ever.

I'm releasing it for free under no license whatsoever.

Here you go.

#Enshittification #Privacy #PrivacyMatters #FountainPens #SorryIhadToItWasRightThere

Literally a (fountain) pen and paper. Ha, gotem.

Danh sách 150+ công cụ AI cục bộ vừa ra mắt, không cần đăng ký API, chạy hoàn toàn offline. Bảo vệ quyền riêng tư và kiểm soát dữ liệu. #AICụcBộ #LocalAI #TríTuệNhânTạo #AI #PrivacyMatters #ĐảmBảoBảoMật

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1paf1hm/just_launched_ultimate_20252026_list_of_150_local/

Is that why I hated to follow your substack? Actually I just found it to be another spam trap. I had a email one use for it, like all websites I have an account with. But they expect you to have one email for all the people who you also have an acoount with. F that, my oppsec doesn't make room for that BS. #substack #substacknazis #spammer #privacymatters

@regendans https://todon.eu/@regendans/115633940266884228

F*ck you Petco...

#PrivacyMatters

Central Committee Meeting of CPI–ML Begins in Patna.

https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news/display/bh_cpiml_post_election_meeting

#bihar #patna #india #news #press #CPIML #BiharElections #ElectionAnalysis #JEEViKA #PoliticalReview #IndiaPolitics #ElectionIrregularities #CashTransfers #SIRInfluence

Enjoy tracker free reading with us. #privacy #privacymatters

Sharenting creates digital footprints before kids take their first selfie. By 2030, 2/3 of minor identity theft will trace back to parental oversharing. Can you celebrate your child online without building a past they'll resent? Pause before posting.
https://theurb.co/sharenting

#Sharenting #DigitalParenting #OnlinePrivacy #ChildSafety #ParentingTips #DigitalFootprint #SocialMediaParenting #PrivacyMatters #ConsciousParenting #DigitalWellness #CyberSafety #OnlineSafety #ParentLife #Privacy

EDIT:

Tl;dr:
FediBlock mastodon dot cloud
W E I R D

I've become aware of something, and I need to edit this to reflect that. I'm not, however, changing my story or my decision, and I am in fact even more convinced that blocking mastodon dot cloud is a good idea, now, in light of this. Someone just told me they're seeing the same message in Chrome on Android. I asked them "VPN?" and they said no, and that they get the same result with Tailscale turned on or off. I tried visiting the site outside of Tor myself, using a number of different browsers, and I got the same message again every time. Frankly, this is even more weird to me now. Why would an instance not want people to be able to look at their site in a web browser at all‽ That's definitely not suspicious. /s /s /s

I think it's relevant to mention: I made this discovery by trying to look at the original page for someone's profile, whose account is on mastodon dot cloud.

As a privacy advocate myself (putting it quite charitably, lol), my public posts here are—please sit down—public. There's actually an option on GoToSocial to have your profile show no posts whatsoever, to include public posts. So I could hide everything if I wanted to, and I don't want to. I take pride in my silly instance; I want people to see it for what is, and then cringe, in that order and not the other way around.

Whatever they're doing over there is basic Fediverse functionality, missing, on purpose.

What this post originally said, prior to this update, follows.

Defederate mastodon dot cloud if you can, or domain block them if you can't.

They, in effect, block Tor but without saying it outright. Whenever I try to visit the site via the Tor browser, it automatically redirects to a page showing a message that says "We currently do not provide services in your area." which can be found here: https://media.mastodon.cloud/cloud-093img.html

Decidedly not respecting Tor is at odds with everything that makes the Fediverse so much better than the other platforms we all left for it. Ironic case in point, Reddit, a site where I will never make an account ever again because of how bad it is, has an Onion: https://old.reddittorjg6rue252oqsxryoxengawnmo46qy4kyii5wtqnwfj4ooad.onion/

That should tell you something.

Also, before anyone asks, here's mine: http://ultracrepidarian.pz6brg4ulhwpaf7wwhlpv3ush63zpntxuswi5mxgtswe33jti6oghbqd.onion/

I expose this instance to the normal Internet via Cloudflare Tunnel and I have their "Onion routing" feature enabled. If you look at the normal site either using the Tor browser or in a Tor window in the Brave browser, you'll see the Onion offered in the URL bar.

Included are two screenshots from when I tried to access their site via Tor, from my phone and my computer respectively. Not that there's any reason why there would be, at this point, but you'll notice that no Onion is being offered in the URL bar in either screenshot, and so that is, unsurprisingly, also not an option.

There is absolutely no excuse for an instance actively preventing Tor users from accessing their site. It should probably go without saying, but you are always more than welcome to visit my site via Tor.

#FediBlock #Tor #Privacy #PrivacyMatters #AndAsOfTheLastEditDeliberatelyNoWebsiteWhichIsInsane

Trying to access mastodon dot cloud via the Tor browser on my phone.

Trying to access mastodon dot cloud via the Tor browser on my computer.

france shame on you, try to kill so gorgeous project

https://proton.me/blog/grapheneos-france

#grapheneos #france #privacymatters

«Privacy is necessary for an open #society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn’t want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn’t want anybody to know. Privacy is the #power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.» - Eric Hughes (1993)

There is nothing more beautiful than the possibility of choosing how to present oneself to the world. Those who do not understand #privacy do not respect themselves.

#privacyMatters

Briliant, just brilliant!

Ireland’s "Pause Before You Post" campaign aims to raise awareness about the risks that come with sharing excessive #personalinformation on the #internet.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/xzksuF6mzM

#security #OnlineSafety #ThinkBeforeYouPost #DigitalAwareness #PrivacyMatters #StaySafeOnline #CyberSafety #ProtectYourData #InternetAwareness #SafePosting #InfoSecurity #privacy #bigdata #survaillance #socialmedia