🚨 BREAKING: Google just got fined €325M for breaking privacy laws.
Let's celebrate this BIG WIN for #privacy 🔒
👉 tuta.com/blog/gmail-ads-annoyi…
But know this: You don't need ad-blockers to get an ad-free email. 😉
Google may have violated your privacy and is now facing the consequences: a 525 million euro fine.Tuta
"For decades, the phrase “Year of the Linux Desktop” has been tossed around like a tech industry punchline. But now, it’s no longer a meme—it’s a movement.
This isn’t just about numbers—it’s about momentum. GNU/Linux’s desktop share hovered below 2% for years. But since 2020, it’s been climbing fast.
From the lens of @purism this shift is more than market share—it’s a cultural awakening."
puri.sm/posts/the-quiet-revolu…
#GNULinux #Linux #marketshare #yearofthelinuxdesktop #privacy #freedom #desktop
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.Purism SPC
Poll: How many screens do you work with? 🖥️
Vote + Boost 🔁 = ❤️
(Feel free to reply with how this setup helps you 👇)
#Linux #Arch #LinuxMint #Fedora #Debian #Ubuntu #Desktop #FOSS #Privacy #Security #OpenSource #Microsoft #Windows #TechNews #CyberSecurity #Tech #Technology #Apple #OS #iOS #MacOS #OperatingSystem #Monitor #Monitors #Screen #Screens #TV #OLED #2k #4k #HD #Job #Work #Productivity #Multitasking #Dev #DevOps #Development #Developers #DevLife #SysAdmin #TechCommunity
ALERT for Bluesky Bridge Users 🚨 🦋
If you are using a Bluesky bridge on Mastodon, DO NOT TAG Mastodon accounts in your posts without prior informed consent from this person.
This could end up showing a preview of this person's profile picture and bio on Bluesky without their consent.
Additionally, be careful about how the upcoming Quote Post feature could behave with Bluesky bridges.
Some of us don't want our information shared with commercial platforms like Bluesky, and have not consented to this bridge.
This practice can even endanger some Fediverse users.
If you have chosen to share your
own data with commercial platforms, make sure you leave the same choice to others.
This is important.
#Privacy #Mastodon #Bluesky #BlueskyBridge #Fediverse #Consent
Everyone is now realizing that WhatsApp is evolving towards its latest form (archive.md/L3W74). If you value secure messaging, you may want to check out @signalapp or @matrix (wich is #federated). EPFL also has its own Matrix instance at matrix.epfl.ch (use @element as a client).
#SecureMessaging #WhatsApp #WhatsappAlternative #Signal #Matrix #Element #Privacy #SelfHosted
Fourteen years ago, we started developing Tuta(nota). Check what we have achieved so far. 🤩
Including some highlights you get with Revolutionary and Legend! Are you ready to join the #privacy revolution? ❤️
⚡️ Unlimited email addresses for custom domains
⚡️ Shared calendars & mailboxes
⚡️ 20 / 500 GB storage
⚡️ 15 / 30 Tuta.com email addresses
⚡️ 3 / 10 custom domains
⚡️ Autoresponder
⚡️ Inbox rules & unlimited labels
🔐 Tuta Mail introduces key verification to strengthen end-to-end encryption and defend against MITM attacks 👥
Users can now verify contacts’ public keys via QR code or manual comparison.
If skipped, Tuta defaults to TOFU (Trust On First Use) for seamless encryption 🧩
@Tutanota
🔗 tuta.com/blog/key-verification
#Encryption #CyberSecurity #Privacy #Tuta #Tutanota #TutaMail #EmailSecurity #OpenSource #FOSS #E2EE #PGP #Email #Mail #TechNews #DataProtection #Crypto #DigitalRights #OnlinePrivacy
Key verification makes your encrypted mailbox even more secure, enabling you to prevent monster-in-the-middle attacks.Tuta
Some Facebook users have noticed new settings that let Meta analyze and retain your phone's photos. Yes, you read that right.Elyse Betters Picaro (ZDNET)
Apple: spaceship 🛸
Microsoft: glass tower 🏢
Linux: basement... still runs the internet 🐧😎
Root access > real estate.
Pic source: reddit.com/r/linuxmemes/commen…
📸👇
#Linux #Desktop #FOSS #Privacy #Security #OpenSource #Microsoft #Windows #TechNews #CyberSecurity #UserFreedom #Freedom #Tech #Technology #AI #OS #MacOS #Meme #TechMeme
LibreOffice 25.8: a Strategic Asset for Governments and Enterprises Focused on Digital Sovereignty and Privacy Overview In a time when geopolitical tensions, data localization laws, and compliance risks are reshaping the IT landscape, LibreOffice 25.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
🚨 Why We Must Stop Chat Control 🚨
Read the comment by our CEO Matthias Pfau - because if the government can have privacy, so should we!
Join us in our fight for #privacy 🔒
👉 gnulinux.ch/warum-wir-die-chat… at @gnulinux
👉 tuta.com/blog/chat-control-cri…
Die EU will private Chats scannen – auch verschlüsselte. Das bedroht die Privatsphäre und die Grundrechte von 450 Mio. Bürgern.GNU/Linux.ch
Privacy Washing is Big Tech's latest strategy to lull you into their sphere.
Don’t fall for Big Techs fake “we care about your privacy” claims.
Privacy Washing:
❌ Destroys trust
❌ Puts your data at risk
❌ Delays real protections
Find out more here: tuta.com/blog/big-tech-privacy…
Welcome to the age of "Privacy Washing": Big techs like Google and Microsoft now appear privacy-focused, but this is a facade. What is "Privacy Washing", and why is it happening? We explain below.Tuta
And it will encourage more people to seek out alternatives, including #AutonomiDweb
This can't be censored and is end to end encrypted so you don't need a VPN.
Using dweb you can publish websites to Autonomi and view them in a standard browser. This includes dynamic apps storing and fetching data directly on Autonomi.
This will give vulnerable people, including children access to vital information and safe spaces.
codeberg.org/happybeing/dweb/s…
#privacy #p2p #censorship #foss
Publish and view websites on the decentralised web of the Autonomi peer-to-peer networkCodeberg.org
🚨 Porn censorship is going to destroy the entire internet 🚨
🫣 IDs link you to every click
🫣 Centralized databases risk leaks & abuse
❌ No anonymity possible
Politicians want to trade #privacy for “protection.”
Read more: mashable.com/article/age-verif…
Age verification isn't just for adult websites.Anna Iovine (Mashable)
Since we published our blog post on the future of Accrescent, donations have increased dramatically.
According to the rates in that post, we should now be able to fund full-time development through at least May 2026!
Thank you to our community for your monumental support!
Because of you, we can dedicate ourselves fully to our mission of building a modern Android app store focused on security, privacy, and usability.
If you want to read the original blog post: blog.accrescent.app/posts/the-…
Or if you want to see our plans: blog.accrescent.app/posts/prog…
#accrescent #security #privacy #android #appstore
Accrescent is a novel Android app store focused on security, privacy, and usability. We’ve been building Accrescent since 2021 to improve the security and freedom of everyday Android users by providing an alternative to Google Play which doesn’t comp…Logan Magee (Accrescent Blog)
Today is the day! Read all about our development progress, view our roadmap for the future, and check out the new projects we're releasing as open source in our new blog post!
blog.accrescent.app/posts/prog…
Check out our new repositories:
github.com/accrescent/android-…
github.com/accrescent/director…
github.com/accrescent/director…
github.com/accrescent/ina
#android #security #privacy #accrescent #appstore
In our recent post about Accrescent’s financial future and sustainability, we announced that to build trust and transparency with our community, we’d be publishing a follow-up blog post about what we’ve been working on lately and where we’ve been set…Logan Magee (Accrescent Blog)
Keep an eye out for tomorrow's blog post! We'll be posting a development progress update for the past months and a roadmap for the next few.
❗📢 PSA: Allowing AI into your mailbox threatens your privacy.
🔗 Find out why AI should not be used in your mailbox here: tuta.com/blog/ai-email-writers…
AI email generators can help write your emails quicker, but the risks often outweigh the benefits when granting them access to your private mailbox. Here’s why not to use AI email writers.Tuta
ACLU: Surveillance Company Flock Now Using AI to Report Us to Police if it Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are “Suspicious”
"...the company is also now apparently analyzing our driving patterns to determine if we’re “suspicious.” That means if your police start using Flock, they could target you just because some algorithm has decided your movement patterns suggest criminality...."
aclu.org/news/national-securit…
#privacy #policing #alpr #algorithms #crime
Company crosses a dangerous line by beginning to offer AI suspicion-generation functionsJay Stanley (American Civil Liberties Union)
Even though I don't have Tuta Mail, I absolutely respect everything they stand for!
🎉 We're almost at 40K followers 🎉
Thank you to you all for your support and engagement with us on Mastodon! ❤️
Let's continue to spread #PRIVACY 💪
We recently discovered a large Monero donation was received in the short time after we updated our article's reported income but before it was posted. We've now updated it to reflect this.
We'll post an update soon on what this means for the project. Thank you for your support!
***infosec specialists are needed in the resistance ***
The world needs tech security specialists to run workshops at public libraries for all ages & abilities to remove spyware, AI, reduce surveillance, understand the issues, & for more advanced, move to Linux, degooglefy, etc.
Libraries will pay good wages for these workshops.
If you have these skills, please consider offering them.
#libraries #library #tech #infosec #privacy #security #activism #antifa #resistance
"Let’s be crystal clear about what this law actually accomplishes: It makes it harder for adults to access perfectly legal (and often helpful) information and services. It forces people to create detailed trails of their online activity linked to their real identities. It drives users toward less secure platforms and services. It destroys small online communities that can’t afford compliance costs. And it teaches an entire generation that bypassing government surveillance is a basic life skill.
"Meanwhile, the actual harms it purports to address? Those remain entirely unaddressed. Predators will simply move to unregulated platforms, encrypted messaging, or services that don’t comply. Or they’ll just use VPNs. The law creates the illusion of safety while actually making everyone less secure."
#AusPol #Privacy
techdirt.com/2025/08/04/didnt-…
Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what do you kno…Techdirt
Accrescent depends completely on donations to run. Today we share a significant update in our new blog post on the future of Accrescent: blog.accrescent.app/posts/the-….
New releases of Accrescent and our developer console are also out, with Android 16 updates and Material 3 changes. Check them out!
github.com/accrescent/accresce…
github.com/accrescent/parcelo/…
github.com/accrescent/console/…
#security #privacy #accrescent #android #appstre
Accrescent is a novel Android app store focused on security, privacy, and usability. We’ve been building Accrescent since 2021 to improve the security and freedom of everyday Android users by providing an alternative to Google Play which doesn’t comp…Logan Magee (Accrescent Blog)
This is bad, on its face, but there is also zero chance it won't be abused to block other content that whatever TPTB deem undesirable. #torrent #privacy #indieweb
torrentfreak.com/u-s-senators-…
Efforts to introduce pirate site blocking to the United States continue with the introduction of the "Block BEARD" bill in the Senate.Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)
The UK Online Safety Act has erected an age wall through the Internet 🚧
UK users are forced to accept censorship or hand over sensitive data to unregulated providers.
The government’s response? You’re a predator 🤨
Enough. Tell your MP to fix it now ⬇️
action.openrightsgroup.org/tel…
#OnlineSafetyAct #OnlineSafety #privacy #OSA #ageverification #agegate #ukpolitics #ukpol #censorship #spotify #reddit
What's the problem? The Online Safety Act has been a disaster. Rather than protect children, millions of adults are facing widespread censorship, and teenagers are having their freedom of expression restricted.Open Rights Group
I'm your (not so) private dancer 🔞
Spotify users in the UK have to verify their age to listen to Parental Advisory music due to the Online Safety Act.
We're being infantalised for something that's already manageable by parental controls.
It could even end up in accounts being deactivated 🤯
Bad law makes for bad, incoherent outcomes. That's the #OSA for you.
404media.co/spotify-uk-age-che…
#OnlineSafetyAct #ageverification #agegate #ukpol #ukpolitics #spotify #privacy #onlinesafety #censorship
Submit to biometric face scanning or risk your account being deleted, Spotify says, following the enactment of the UK's Online Safety Act.Samantha Cole (404 Media)
Age verification is creating an information desert.
The Online Safety Act sets every UK user to child as default.
Teenagers? Blocked. Adults? Content denied unless we do age checks with unregulated companies.
It's not just porn! News on Gaza and Ukraine is being scrubbed from view, threatening #freedomofexpression as well as #privacy ⛔
404media.co/uk-users-need-to-p…
#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #palestine #gaza #ukraine #reddit #ageverification #ageassurance #censorship #ukpolitics #ukpol
“If visibility of r/IsraelCrimes is being restricted under the Online Safety Act, it’s only because the state fears accountability,” moderators say.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
So…who hates those Google log-in pop-ups that are seemingly everywhere now? Wanna make them go away?
1. Get uBlock Origin (which you should have already been using):
2. Open the plugin and click the settings button.
3. Click on the “my filters” tab and paste this into the input:
||accounts.google.com/gsi/*$xhr,script,3p
That’s it! Worked flawlessly for me.
(Updated URL. Thx @IceWolf
and @emz!)
#Google #Privacy #Security #PopUps #InfoSec #BadGoogle
uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean. - gorhill/uBlockGitHub
Don't trust cloud services with your creative work.
#enshittification #privacy #infosec #security #cybersecurity #writing #art
Windows market share in Germany drops to 69.78%, down nearly 10 points in a year 📉
Meanwhile, macOS rises to 19.59%, driven by user demand for privacy & seamless integration 🍏
Linux more than doubles to 5.49%, reflecting growing interest in open-source, secure, and flexible systems 🐧
#Linux #Desktop #FOSS #Privacy #Security #OpenSource #Microsoft #Windows #TechNews #CyberSecurity #UserFreedom #Freedom #Tech #Technology #AI #OS #MacOS
🔐💬 Zajímá mě názor ostatních:
Používáte ještě e-mail s PGP?
Osobně mám klíče na YubiKeyu, používám je na Git podpisy a trochu souborů, ale u e-mailu si už nejsem jistý, jestli to vůbec někdo na druhé straně ještě čte/umí.
Budu rád za vaše zkušenosti ✉️🛡️
Privacy is a marathon, not a sprint.
It's common to be overwhelmed by the constant attacks on privacy we read about every day, and to burn out trying to fix every problem all at once.
This is by the attackers' design, of course. Big tech companies and governments want to paralyze you with choices and actions, so you give up on the fight entirely.
It's okay to take a breath, clean up slowly, and train yourself over the long-term to improve your data privacy health over time.
privacyguides.org/articles/202…
#Privacy #PrivacyHabits #PrivacyGuides #HealthyHabits #PrivacyTraining #Training #SelfImprovement #Article
Improving privacy can get overwhelming at first. It's important to move one step at a time, but remain persistent. Good privacy is like good health habits.Privacy Guides
