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@aarontom5.bsky.social
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Tuta @tuta.com · 11/09/2026
"I have nothing to hide." False. You have medical history You have financial behavior You have location patterns You have political views You have relationship data Privacy was never about hiding crimes. It was always about owning your life.
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404 Media @404media.co · 27/08/2026
The deputy resigned after an investigation uncovered an alleged history of racism, stalking, and sexual abuse.
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Florida ‘Deputy of the Year’ Used Flock to Stalk Ex, Held Gun in Her Mouth, Did a Nazi Salute
The deputy resigned after an investigation uncovered an alleged history of racism, stalking, and sexual abuse.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Please note that even after being caught using Flock to stalk a woman, he dehumanizes her as a "shiny thing," and describes her as "teasing" and "leading him on." www.404media.co/i-saw-a-shin...
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'I Saw a Shiny Thing': Cop Explains Why He Used License Plate Reader to Stalk Woman
Body camera footage shows police surveillance abuse is common: "We’ve told them over and over again: 'You see a hot chick, you don’t look them up in a database.'"
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
When you target security researchers with malware, getting caught and written up is honestly one of the less unpleasant possible outcomes: techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/s...
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Someone targeted security researchers using a fake crypto conference as a lure | TechCrunch
A hacker pretending to work for a leading cryptocurrency news website targeted several cybersecurity professionals using Google Docs as a way to deliver malware.
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 17/08/2026
We apologize for yesterday’s service problems. Bluesky experienced a DDoS attack—a flood of junk traffic meant to knock servers offline—over a period of 24 hours. We have upgraded our defenses in response, and we continue to monitor the situation. Follow @status.bsky.app for any updates.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14/08/2026
They used to call this malware.
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ChatGPT just learned to watch everything you do on your Mac
ChatGPT Computer History tracks your Mac activity to build a searchable timeline, no screenshots involved.
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Operation Safe Escape @safeescape.org · 15/08/2026
A Georgia woman finally learned how her ex always knew where she was: he was a police chief, and he had run her plate roughly 600 times. At least 50 officers have been accused of the same thing. Flock's new safeguards catch misuse after the fact. Survivors are still never told they were searched.
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Flock Cameras: Public Safety or Stalking Tool? - Operation Safe Escape
A Georgia woman finally learned how her ex always knew where she was: he was a police chief, and he had run her plate roughly 600 times. At least 50 officers have been accused of the same thing. Flock's new safeguards catch misuse after the fact. Survivors are still never told they were searched.
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EPIC @epic.org · 16/12/2025
In a key win for consumer privacy, the FTC has upheld a 2021 consent decree against Scott Zuckerman, CEO of the stalkerware app SpyFone. Zuckerman had petitioned to reduce his obligations, which include a permanent ban on selling surveillance products. epic.org/ftc-denies-s...
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FTC Denies Stalkerware CEO’s Attempt to Evade Consent Decree, Citing to EPIC Comments
<p>On December 8, the Federal Trade Commission denied the petition of Scott Zuckerman, CEO of the stalkerware app SpyFone, who sought to vacate or reduce his obligations under a 2021 FTC Consent…
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EPIC @epic.org · 14/08/2026
A 13-year-old's phone was searched at school without a warrant and with a police officer standing right there. Evidence from the search was used to criminally charge the teen. The Fourth Circuit said this was fine. We think the Supreme Court should say otherwise. 🧵
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The CDC director’s push for expanded “abortion surveillance” raises serious concerns about weaponizing healthcare data to track abortion care and those seeking it. Medical records should protect patients—not put them at risk. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Rest assured, the new CDC director thinks ‘abortion surveillance’ is essential | Arwa Mahdawi
An exchange between Dr Erica Schwartz and Senator Josh Hawley during her confirmation hearing is alarming
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Signal @signal.org · 11/08/2026
Introducing Automatic Key Verification! Complementing the existing safety number system, automatic key verification provides an additional, streamlined way to confirm the privacy of your chats. signal.org/blog/automat... TY @cloudflare.social and @trailofbits.bsky.social our independent auditors 💙🙏
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Introducing Automatic Key Verification
Signal now offers a feature called “automatic key verification” which complements the existing safety number system. Signal is always end-to-end encrypted, and automatic key verification provides an a...
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 08/08/2026
Apple’s new complaint with a UK tribunal shows that private cloud storage cannot be taken for granted. To get started with end-to-end encrypted storage, journalists with Apple devices should try Advanced Data Protection. Read our newsletter to get started.
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Apple fights UK government’s iCloud backdoor, again
While available elsewhere, Apple is still working to give UK users end-to-end encrypted iCloud
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Aaron @aarontom5.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
If you use Proton Drive and you share photos or folders, the urls to your shared sessions are being leaked on DuckDuckGo. @proton.me
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Lindsay Deibler-Wallace, assistant head of Upper School, took no action to protect them after telling parents that “boys will be boys.” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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High school defends staying silent while boys made AI nudes of 59 classmates
Gaps in laws may help Pennsylvania high school escape AI nudes scandal.
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Aaron @aarontom5.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This is my newest vulnerability writeup on my findings of a Face ID bug that allowed an attacker to view Private Tabs of Brave without authentication. infosecwriteups.com/peeklist-how...
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PeekList: How Brave’s Playlist bypassed FaceID Protection for Private Tabs
TL;DR
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns. www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
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Scoop: TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after yearslong saga
The deal would end a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.
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Operation Safe Escape @safeescape.org · 02/12/2025
Just a reminder: Your voice matters. Your feelings matter. You matter.
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Operation Safe Escape @safeescape.org · 01/12/2025
When reviewing your digital devices, start by checking which accounts and apps are logged in. Remove any access you do not recognize and change passwords to something you've never used before. A strong password should not be based on personal details that someone else could easily guess.
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Operation Safe Escape @safeescape.org · 27/11/2025
Today, we like to reflect on the things we're thankful for. We're thankful for the amazing people that trust us to help them stay safe. We're thankful for the heroes that volunteer their time to make it all possible. We're thankful for the support of people like you. Happy Thanksgiving.
"Thank you and wishing you a happy thanksgiving"
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 08/11/2025
We feel that the time was right to take a more up-to-date snapshot of how well the anti-virus companies are performing. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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EFF Teams Up With AV Comparatives to Test Android Stalkerware
EFF has, for many years, raised the alarm about the proliferation of stalkerware—commercially-available apps designed to be installed covertly on another person’s device to exfiltrate data from that
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
EFF teamed up with AV Comparatives to see how well anti-virus apps detect stalkerware on Android phones. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
A chart showing how well 13 different Android AV apps detect 17 stalkerware products.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I think TikTok culture has done more than anything else to normalize casual surveillance / leveraging commercial surveillance against your friends/partners/colleagues/random strangers than anything else I've ever seen
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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
BREAKING: S.T.O.P. Report Shows Family Surveillance Apps Used for Probation, Enable Abuse "We don’t make our children and partners wear ankle monitors, but demanding they use family surveillance apps isn’t all that different." @corinneworthington.bsky.social www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...
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S.T.O.P. Report Shows Family Surveillance Apps Used for Probation, Enable Abuse — S.T.O.P. - The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Sometimes my interest in state spying and my interest in stalkerware overlap in weird ways. For example, Kenya arrested four journalists, seized their devices and returned them with FlexiSpy installed: cpj.org/2025/09/spyw...
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Spyware installed on Kenyan filmmakers' phones in police custody - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, September 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely alarmed by the installation of spyware on two Kenyan filmmakers’ phones while the devices were in police custody, and calls...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 26/08/2025
We know very little about how cell-site simulators (CSS), devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, are being deployed in the US or globally, but with Rayhunter, we hope to change that. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular
Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of technical skill, to help search out cell-site simulators
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 13/08/2025
"This is really the first time, that I’m aware of, where a U.S. court has found that it has jurisdiction over a spyware victim when the spying was done at the behest of a foreign government," EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told @courthousenews.bsky.social.
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Federal judge advances Saudi activist’s lawsuit against Emirati cybersecurity firm
Saudi activist Loujain al-Hathloul says that three former U.S. intelligence officers working for DarkMatter Group helped hack her phone and track her movements, leading to her arrest and torture.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
It turns out that the kind of people who write and launch an app in less than two weeks are not the kind of people who feel the need to implement secure coding practices and strong privacy protections for the sensitive user data they ask you to upload. techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/a...
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A rival Tea app for men is leaking its users' personal data and driver's licenses | TechCrunch
The newly launched app, now trending on Apple's App Store, contains at least one major security flaw that exposes the private information of its users, including their uploaded selfies and government-...
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Website/device age verification is a privacy and security nightmare and everyone who tells you that this is a solved problem is lying to you.
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Tor Project @torproject.org · 25/06/2025
🚨 We're still in need of more #snowflake extensions to help keep Iranians connected during this critical time. Please consider running a Tor Snowflake proxy. This simple and safe action can make a difference in ensuring Iranians stay online. #KeepItOn To get started, visit: snowflake.torproject.org
Powered by volunteers. Donate your bandwidth and help Tor users circumvent censorship by deploying your own Snowflake.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
If you have an iPhone, make sure you always have the latest security update. If you are concerned that you might be targeted by government spyware, enable Lockdown Mode.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 29/05/2025
Signal is making it harder for your private messages to get pulled into Microsoft's new Recall AI feature, which records Windows users' activities and could be a gold mine to attackers. Learn more in our digital security newsletter (and subscribe):
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Signal blocks Microsoft Recall from recalling
Signal is making it harder for your private messages to get pulled into Microsoft’s new Recall AI feature
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The Verge @theverge.com · 21/05/2025
Signal says no to Windows 11’s Recall screenshots
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Signal says no to Windows 11’s Recall screenshots
Signal uses the same tech Netflix does to block screenshots.
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WIRED @wired.com · 21/05/2025
The judge sided with law enforcement, and the teens’ fate looked sealed—until the Colorado Supreme Court agreed to hear the defense’s appeal. The case had now become something that could reshape Americans’ right to search online without fear of retribution. www.wired.com/story/find-m...
“Even a single query can reveal deeply private facts about a person, things they might not share with friends, family, or clergy. ‘Psychiatrists in Denver;’ ‘abortion providers near me;’ ‘is my husband gay;’ ‘does God exist;’ ‘bankruptcy;’ ‘herpes treatment’ … Search history is a window into what people wonder about—and it is some of the most private data that exists," the legal team for one of the
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 05/05/2025
Update May 5, 2025: In a win for privacy and encryption, the Florida Legislature ended its regular 2025 session on May 2 without passing SB 868 / HB 743.
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