New in Tails 6.18: Support for WebTunnel bridges!
This helps users in places like China and Russia connect to the Tor network – even when obfs4 bridges are blocked.
https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-6_18/
#Tor #TailsOS #Privacy
no more music for U-18s in UK 
#Neko Self-Hosted Virtual #Browser #opensource #docker #webrtc #privacy #collaboration 
Run fully-functional browser in virtual environment with #WebRTC streaming technology
Secure and isolated browsing environment accessible from anywhere with complete privacy
Multiple users can access simultaneously making it perfect for team collaboration
Host watch parties and interactive presentations without in-person gatherings
In this week's Linux Update newsletter, Chris Binnie explores OnionShare and shows you how to leverage @torproject network to keep file access anonymous
https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2025/295/OnionShare?utm_source=mlm
#privacy #security #OpenSource #OnionShare #TorProject #tools
@eff Last year, Republican Sen. Susan Collins supported a Maine electric company's proposal to report high electric bills to police to root out marijuana grow operations in homes. https://oldfriends.live/@paul/112924201084142278
#privacy #law
An article pops up every now and then in Ohio. I remember reading recently about it.
A search led back more than a decade to this article:
High electric bills led investigators to Cuyahoga Falls [Cleveland] marijuana growing operation
https://www.cleveland.com/akron/2015/05/high_electric_bills_led_invest.html https://archive.ph/njHoO
Call for Papers: @w3c and @intarchboard / @ietf are hosting a joint workshop on "Age-Based Restrictions on Content Access", 7–9 Oct 2025, London 
#cfp #privacy 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/agews/about/
With rising interest in stronger age checks online, the workshop aims to explore technical and architectural aspects to age-based content restrictions, building on RFC 7754.
Submit talk proposals by 8 August!
“You can’t have privacy without cybersecurity.”
In this clip from #ThisWeekInNET, Cloudflare’s privacy team — Emily Hancock and Rory Malone — explain why privacy certifications matter, and what builders should know.
Full episode: https://youtu.be/HFWMoodfg9U
#Cloudflare #Privacy
A list of Digital Service Providers located outside the jurisdiction of the United States of America:
https://codeberg.org/Linux-Is-Best/Outside_Us_Jurisdiction
This is an ongoing group project — so if you have any suggestions, corrections, or new information to share, feel free to reach out!
Government-approved digital credentials (driver license, etc.) are becoming more commonly used online. The @w3c Digital Credentials #API enables websites to request credentials, and for users to consent to return credentials that they carry around in #DigitalWallets https://www.w3.org/TR/digital-credentials/
#FPWD #timetogiveinput
@simone explains how this API advances #privacy-preserving Web identities: https://www.w3.org/blog/2025/w3c-digital-credentials-api-publication-the-next-step-to-privacy-preserving-identities-on-the-web/ #gdc25
Feedback welcome: https://github.com/w3c-fedid/digital-credentials/
A variety of US federal and state laws give cops the power to get your data from online services. This overview goes over how they work, and how they can be mitigated.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/how-cops-can-get-your-private-online-data
#privacy #police #security #encryption
I have been testing the new 25.06 update for PostmarketOS on my OnePlus 6T and I must say the team has done an amazing work! Camera, GPS, Android apps and general system works well and is now, in my opinion daily driveable. Everything I personally wanted!
Thank you, @postmarketOS@treehouse.system! 
Last April, @nataliabielova demonstrated that websites use various #tracking technologies to collect user data. Privacy regulations like the EU's #GDPR require user consent, but many use manipulative "dark patterns" in cookie banners. Technical standards, like those from @w3c, aim to improve #privacy, and solutions include a taxonomy of tracking purposes and standardized consent recording to enhance compliance and user control.
Watch 'Privacy regulations and the Web': https://youtu.be/nnPe8Mb30rA
@eff @legind @verge
There are better ad-free alternatives that respect #user #privacy such as #Signal and #Line.
#BoycottMeta
#whatsappSucks
#Suckerberg
At the @w3c meeting in April 2025, co-chairs @torgo and @jyasskin gave an overview of @tag 's ongoing and new work. After the publication of two W3C statements -- the #ethical web principles and the #privacy guidelines --, the TAG is notably working on an "explainer explainer" and new findings, such as a finding on #AI. The group has also started a "TAG Associates program" to include external experts in their work.
Watch "Technical Architecture Group (TAG) Update": https://youtu.be/xdRveCDlay4
Last April, @dontcallmeDOM stressed the need for the web community to address #AI's growing impact on the Web. Previous @w3c report highlighted challenges like synthetic content, bias, #security, #sustainability, and data consent. https://www.w3.org/reports/ai-web-impact/
Progress has been made with ML-based #APIs such as #WebNN and Prompt API. New concerns include AI agents, which pose risks to trust, #privacy, #safety, and the web economy.
Watch "AI Impact on the Web: updates": https://youtu.be/dniPpsCRQgI
Last April, @domenic reported that 7 AI LLM-based APIs are being developed in the @w3c web machine learning #CommunityGroup. https://webmachinelearning.github.io/incubations/
These APIs raise new #privacy and #security concerns and must keep pace with rapid #AI advances. As part of the #Chrome team, he suggests prioritizing high-level APIs, improving testing methods, and engaging ML experts in web standards to broaden AI accessibility for #developers.
Watch 'LLM-based APIs in browsers': https://youtu.be/N_4TUhsApHI
Last week the @tag published the Privacy Principles as a W3C Statement. This document elaborates on the privacy principle from the Ethical Web Principles: "Security and privacy are essential."
Privacy is an essential part of the web. The document provides definitions for privacy and related concepts that are applicable worldwide as well as a set of privacy principles that should guide the development of the web as a trustworthy platform. #privacy
Read more at:
https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/STMT-privacy-principles-20250515/
A bit late to the party, but... 
Happy 5th Anniversary to the Global Encryption Coalition (GEC)!
From 37 members in 2020 to a global network of 466 organizations across 108 countries today.
In 5 years, we've advocated for strong encryption in 93+ countries, protecting digital privacy worldwide.
#Encryption #Privacy #GlobalEncryptionDay
https://www.globalencryption.org/2025/05/celebrating-5-years-of-the-global-encryption-coalition/
Yes; exactly! So many people who should know better are not just ill-informed, but aggressively incurious about what is available.
I was recently told that there is *no way* to collaborate on a document that is not #privacy invasive, with the added smug fillip "sometimes, you just have to live in the world."
The occasion for this insight was a call for signatures to an open letter to the Trump Administration calling for better privacy protections---using Google docs. :)
The W3C @tag has published the Privacy Principles as a W3C Statement. Privacy is an essential part of the web.
This document provides definitions for privacy and related concepts that are applicable worldwide as well as a set of privacy principles that should guide the development of the web as a trustworthy platform.
People using the web would benefit from a stronger relationship between technology and policy, and this document is written to work with both. #privacy
https://www.w3.org/news/2025/privacy-principles-is-a-w3c-statement/
