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Mercury News: EFF, ACLU sue San Jose over warrantless access to license plate data
https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/18/civil-liberties-groups-sue-san-jose-over-warrantless-access-to-license-plate-reader-data/
Mercury News: EFF, ACLU sue San Jose over warrantless access to license plate data
https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/18/civil-liberties-groups-sue-san-jose-over-warrantless-access-to-license-plate-reader-data/
AP: Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with ‘suspicious’ travel patterns
"...The predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched and in some cases arrested. A network of cameras scans and records vehicle license plate information, and an algorithm flags vehicles deemed suspicious based on where they came from, where they were going and which route they took. ..."
AP: Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with ‘suspicious’ travel patterns
"...The predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched and in some cases arrested. A network of cameras scans and records vehicle license plate information, and an algorithm flags vehicles deemed suspicious based on where they came from, where they were going and which route they took. ..."
Dear companies,
your right to do business isn't more important than anyone else's right not to be bothered by you doing business!
And by the way, we must stop the Digital Omnibus!
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#privacy #DataProtection #GDPR
Dear companies,
your right to do business isn't more important than anyone else's right not to be bothered by you doing business!
And by the way, we must stop the Digital Omnibus!
--
#privacy #DataProtection #GDPR
📰 " #Privacy activists are predictably outraged. Billboards urging Ursula von der Leyen to put Europeans over #American tech CEOs lined the street outside the #Commission HQ, the Berlaymont, throughout Wednesday morning."
👉 Continue reading: https://www.euractiv.com/news/eus-digital-law-cuts-spark-fears-and-doubts-on-competitiveness/
📰 " #Privacy activists are predictably outraged. Billboards urging Ursula von der Leyen to put Europeans over #American tech CEOs lined the street outside the #Commission HQ, the Berlaymont, throughout Wednesday morning."
👉 Continue reading: https://www.euractiv.com/news/eus-digital-law-cuts-spark-fears-and-doubts-on-competitiveness/
I feel this needs to be repeated 🍪
The annoyance of cookie banners
doesn't come from the regulations, but from the malicious compliance of the corporations who want to exploit your personal data.
No data-harvesting cookies = No banner.
Simple.
My websites have no cookie banners,
because they don't use any non-essential cookies and don't track visitors.
Yours shouldn't either.
I feel this needs to be repeated 🍪
The annoyance of cookie banners
doesn't come from the regulations, but from the malicious compliance of the corporations who want to exploit your personal data.
No data-harvesting cookies = No banner.
Simple.
My websites have no cookie banners,
because they don't use any non-essential cookies and don't track visitors.
Yours shouldn't either.
Quad9 welcomes global governance and digital infrastructure leader Sylvie LaPerrière to our governing board.
https://quad9.net/news/press/sylvie-laperri%C3%A8re-appointed-to-quad9-foundation-council/
Quad9 welcomes global governance and digital infrastructure leader Sylvie LaPerrière to our governing board.
https://quad9.net/news/press/sylvie-laperri%C3%A8re-appointed-to-quad9-foundation-council/
"Vienna researchers retrieved all #WhatsApp numbers. The 3.5 billion profiles represent the largest data leak in history"
"...downloaded all 77 million profile pictures visible to everyone—a proud 3.8 terabytes in total. In a random sample of half a million images drawn from this, a facial recognition routine found a human face in two-thirds of cases."
Australia: eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant called to testify before US Congress by Donald Trump ally over ‘threat’ to Americans’ free speech | Sky News
https://alecmuffett.com/article/124487
#4chan #AgeVerification #FreeSpeech #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #australia #censorship #esafety #privacy #surveillance #vpns
"Vienna researchers retrieved all #WhatsApp numbers. The 3.5 billion profiles represent the largest data leak in history"
"...downloaded all 77 million profile pictures visible to everyone—a proud 3.8 terabytes in total. In a random sample of half a million images drawn from this, a facial recognition routine found a human face in two-thirds of cases."
Chrome now wants to store and autofill your driver’s license and other ID info.
From a cybersecurity perspective, that is a hard no from me. Info-stealer malware already targets browser autofill, and you cannot rotate a driver’s license number like a password. Putting high value IDs in the most targeted consumer app on the planet is a bad trade for a little convenience.
I wrote up why this feature is such a risky idea and what I recommend instead:
🔗 https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/chromes-new-drivers-license-autofill-is-a-terrible-idea/
Chrome’s New Driver’s License Autofill Is a Terrible Idea
Chrome now wants to store and autofill your driver’s license and other ID info.
From a cybersecurity perspective, that is a hard no from me. Info-stealer malware already targets browser autofill, and you cannot rotate a driver’s license number like a password. Putting high value IDs in the most targeted consumer app on the planet is a bad trade for a little convenience.
I wrote up why this feature is such a risky idea and what I recommend instead:
🔗 https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/chromes-new-drivers-license-autofill-is-a-terrible-idea/
Chrome’s New Driver’s License Autofill Is a Terrible Idea
come over, warm up. coffee?
