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Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth research from @ConsumerReports, @AspenDigital, @GlobalCyberAlliance finds 9 in 10 Americans are targeted by digital scams as AI fuels personalized fraud. Read CR’s report & tips: www.consumerreports.org/media-room/p...

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New Study by Consumer Reports reveals 9 in 10 Americans targeted by a cyberattack or digital scam attempt

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The term artificial intelligence (and yes, the term ‘super intelligence’ too) actively distorts our cognitive understanding, misdirects public concern, and derails legal and policy frameworks, says Amber Sinha, contributing editor at Tech Policy Press.

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Artificial or ‘Super Intelligent’? The Broken Metaphors of AI

To construct effective technology regulation, we must dismantle the mythological language surrounding AI, argues Amber Sinha.

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Free Software Foundation @fsf.org · 02/10/2026

"But think about the artists!" is a favorite refrain of so-called "intellectual property" enthusiasts (aka corporations.) Hear from one #DefectiveByDesign (DBD) guest writer and musician about how #DRM totally cramped his style: u.fsf.org/1rx #EndDRM #Music

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 01/10/2026

mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “⌗FBI Hackers Say They Won’t Publish Massive Trove of FBI Employee Data 404media․co/fbi-hackers-s…”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 29/09/2026

mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Pay for your ⌗Tuta subscription via the ⌗Google ⌗PlayStore! tuta․com/blog/tuta-supports-…”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 24/09/2026

mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “⌗Muse, ⌗Meta ’s extraordinarily privileged ⌗AI assistant, has a serious 0-day arstechnica․c…”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 22/09/2026

mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “⌗FBI, ⌗CoastGuard boarded hacked ⌗oil tankers heading toward US coast techcrunch․com/2026/…”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 17/09/2026

mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Hackers hijack ⌗HBOMax ⌗Reddit account to push ⌗malware in ⌗ClickFix ads bleepingc…”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 15/09/2026

mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “⌗Meta Sued Over Training Data for Its ⌗AI and Face-Recognition Systems wired․com/story/meta-…”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 14/09/2026

www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Apple's new watches are always listening with their new Live Rewind feature, GrapheneOS plans to ov…”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 10/09/2026

mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Attackers conceal ⌗phishing lures using invisible ⌗Unicode characters bleepingcomputer․com…”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 08/09/2026

mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Confused about which ⌗VPN is right, US senator asks the ⌗NSA for guidance arstechnica․com/…”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 07/09/2026

www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “The GrapheneOS team has discovered that the Pixel 11 devices appear to have a key security feature …”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 03/09/2026

mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “⌗Broadcom pledges to lock down ⌗OpenSource ⌗Python, ⌗Java libraries theregister․com/vi…”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 01/09/2026

mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “More Americans oppose police license plate cameras than support them: survey techcrunch․com/2026/0…”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 31/08/2026

www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “X․com has sent a cease and desist letter to Nitter, the privacy focused frontend for Twitter, deman…”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 28/08/2026

mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “⌗X sends cease-and-desist to open source project ⌗Nitter over alleged scraping techcrunch․co…”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 24/08/2026

www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Microsoft’s Copilot had a one-click vulnerability that let attackers quietly exfiltrate data, no us…”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 20/08/2026

mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “⌗PokémonCenter ⌗DataBreach exposes customer info, cancels some orders bleepingcomputer․com/n…”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 18/08/2026

mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “⌗Google Announced the ⌗Pixel11 With Their New ⌗TitanM3 'Quantum-Safe' Secure Boot privac…”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 17/08/2026

www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Google has announced it's new chip the Tensor G6 which brings serious security upgrades to the new …”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 14/08/2026

www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Researchers have discovered a host of issue's with Apple's iCloud Private Relay, namely one that al…”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 13/08/2026

mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “⌗BdThemes plugins supply-chain hack creates rogue ⌗WordPress admins bleepingcomputer․com/new…”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 11/08/2026

mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Chinese ⌗AI model ⌗Kimi escaped its ⌗cybersecurity testing environment, researchers say…”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 10/08/2026

www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “An activist has been charged with a felony for providing a 'duress code' which wiped his GrapheneOS…”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 07/08/2026

www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Mullvad's Co-owner Daniel Berntsson has made a large political donation from Mullvad's profits, lea…”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 06/08/2026

mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “The Youth ⌗AI ⌗Privacy Act’s Privacy Paradox eff․org/deeplinks/2026/08/youth-ai-privacy-ac…”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 04/08/2026

mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “The ⌗CHATBOTAct Forces One Parenting Model On Every Family eff․org/deeplinks/2026/07/chatbot-a…”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 03/08/2026

www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Microsoft just fixed a record number of vulnerabilities this patch Tuesday, but a 0 day exploit dro…”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 03/08/2026

mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “⌗Chrome may get faster updates with no restart required arstechnica․com/ai/2026/07/chrome-may-ge…”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 03/08/2026

www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “A security researcher has discovered that the iOS App Store saves all keystrokes and ties it to you…”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 31/07/2026

www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “CalyxOS is officially back with a stable release, A researcher has discovered Apple's Hide My Email ...”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 30/07/2026

mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “# Arista patches # VeloCloud # Orchestrator zero-day exploited in attacks www. b...”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 28/07/2026

mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a ‘duress’ password during border search ...”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 30/06/2026

mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Lawmakers Must Act Now to Prevent Armed # Police Drones www. eff.org/deeplinks/2026/0...”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 29/06/2026

www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “It's a quiet news week, so we're diving into questions from the community and discussing a few less ...”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 25/06/2026

mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “# WhatsApp # phishing attack uses fake business docs to hack PCs www. bleepingcompu...”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 23/06/2026

mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “# Amazon Retaliated Against Workers Who Supported Regulating Data Centers, Complaint Says https...”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 22/06/2026

www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Android 17 has officially launched and GrapheneOS has just announced an experimental build with a st...”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 18/06/2026

mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “# UK ’s # SocialMediaBan for children: the # privacy problems # Australia already exposed ...”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 16/06/2026

mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Over 73,000 French govt employees affected in # Tchap messenger breach www. bleepingc...”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 15/06/2026

www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Automated license readers by Flock have tied a person who was miles away to a violent crime effectiv...”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 11/06/2026

mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “New # ShaiHulud attack trojanizes 19 # science -focused # PyPI packages www. ble...”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 09/06/2026

mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “# ICE ’s Plan to Let # Cops Around the Country Scan Faces to Verify # Immigration Status h...”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 08/06/2026

www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “GTA V cheat service Atlas Menu just got hacked exposing thousands of gamers as cheaters, Microsoft i...”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 04/06/2026

mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “# CISA flags two-year-old # Oracle flaw as actively exploited in attacks www. bleep...”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 02/06/2026

mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “# Microsoft under fire for threatening security researcher with criminal investigation https://...”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 01/06/2026

www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “GrapheneOS has announced the public release for it's speech synthesis service, which is open source ...”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 28/05/2026

mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Everyone is navigating # AI security in real time — even # Google https:// techcrunch.com/...”

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PrivacySafe @privacysafe.social · 26/05/2026

mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Designing # Firefox for the future https:// blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ne w-firefox-design/...”

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