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Knowledge should move freely. This week's clip puts that into practice: an off-grid mini data center running only open source AI, feeding a free research engine open to the public, with all the work kept open source in return. #OpenSource #OpenSourceAI Full conversation in the thread 👇

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bmail @bmail.bsky.social · 4h

Every email service caught lying about privacy said the same thing first: trust us. bmail publishes a cryptographic fingerprint of our live code & you can verify it matches our public repo. Don't trust us. Verity it yourself. Get your encrypted inbox for free at bmail.ag #bmail #DontTrustVerify

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 8h

The FBI confirmed a breach Friday after ShinyHunters claimed personnel files on nearly every agent: home addresses, Social Security numbers, emergency contacts. If the FBI can't protect that, think about who's holding your ID. Thread below. #Privacy #DataBreach #AgeVerification

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Two and a half years into a censorship lawsuit against Google, Meta and the Department of Defense, the DOJ is backing the platforms and arguing censorship is over because an executive order said so. Declaring a problem solved isn't the same as solving it. Full conversation in the thread 👇

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A federal judge just blocked Utah's rule that treated VPN users as Utahns no matter where their traffic appeared to come from. Using a privacy tool the way it's designed is not evasion. Thread below. #VPN #DigitalRights #Privacy

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Data brokers sell your address, phone number, and relatives' names to anyone with a credit card. You can get off most of them without paying a removal service. We listed every link. Thread below. #privacy #databrokers

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A Flock technician called 911 on a journalist for filming him on a public road. Three police cars pulled the reporter over. Flock's cameras run on the idea that nobody has privacy in public. Thread below. #Flock #ALPR #PressFreedom

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A no-logs policy is a sentence on a website. It can be edited. vp.net runs your traffic through secure enclaves that even we can't see into, and you can verify the code yourself anytime. The only VPN you don't have to trust. vp.net

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A House bill would let courts order VPNs with 100,000+ monthly US users to block sites labeled foreign piracy sites. The tool people use to get around a block becomes part of the block. Thread below. #DigitalRights #VPN #Censorship

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A bipartisan bill calls Flock cameras a Fourth Amendment problem, then lets states keep them for 10% of their federal highway money. Here's what it does and what it misses. 🧵 #Flock #ALPR #FourthAmendment

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's @fightforthefuture.org's Defend VPNs Day of Action. Age-verification laws create piles of government IDs, and 52 breaches on record have already spilled licenses or passports. VPNs are how people opt out. Defend VPNs & digital privacy! Sign: DefendVPNs.com Our take: s.vp.net/IHOsT

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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 21/09/2026

Authoritarian governments are always looking for more ways to control people. They do this via censorship and surveillance to control what we can say, what we learn, and how we act. VPNs allow us to circumvent both of these methods of control online. We need your help to defend these tools!

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Get deplatformed early and you learn fast: the courts and the government aren't coming to protect your speech. You build your own systems, you find the people building theirs, and you back each other up. #FreeSpeech #Deplatforming Full conversation in the thread 👇

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We should know everything about the government, and it shouldn't know anything about us. Right now it runs the other way. This week on Hide & Speak: what privacy is worth when it depends on the state behaving. Full conversation in the thread 👇

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

People tell ChatGPT things they'd never say out loud. Under Project Lily, OpenAI pays hundreds of contractors to read real prompts and rate the answers, and the people typing mostly don't know. #AIPrivacy #ChatGPT #Privacy Thread 👇

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Encryption exists so nobody can break in. A mandated backdoor asks companies to undo that on purpose. We took a clear position this week on Hide & Speak: absolutely not. Full conversation in the thread 👇

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Flock says its plate reader cameras are encrypted. Hackers took one down and found the key to the footage stored on the device. 27,321 clips from one camera. Here's what was inside. #Flock #ALPR #Surveillance

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Who can argue against protecting the children?" That's the point. The phrase ends the debate before anyone asks what the law does. Kids forced to identify themselves for everything aren't any safer. Full conversation in the thread 👇

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Flock Safety built a fake police department, Flock City PD, and used it to run AI searches on live cameras in Dunwoody, GA and Bryan, TX. The people in frame found out months later, from a records request. Thread below. #surveillance #privacy #ALPR

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Jacob from the Rise To Liberty podcast is on Hide & Speak today at 2pm ET to discuss the first anti-VPN law to pass in the US. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlBs... #VPN #AgeVerification #SB73 #RiseToLiberty

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SB73: Utah's Anti-VPN Law Explained ft. Rise To Liberty | Hide & Speak

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Whistleblowers and dissidents have real reasons to keep their location private. VPN bans treat that as a loophole. One violation leads to another violation. We got into how age checks turned into a fight over VPNs. Full conversation in the thread 👇

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Jacob from RiseToLiberty joins Hide & Speak tomorrow (Saturday) at 2pm ET to discuss the first anti-VPN law, age verification and how it's all really about control. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlBs...

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Almost a decade after Cambridge Analytica broke, one state is taking Facebook to a jury over it. New Mexico's trial opened in Santa Fe on Sept 9, after 48 states signed away future claims in a child safety deal. More in the thread. #Privacy #CambridgeAnalytica #DataRights

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Your ISP can see all of your 11pm searches. Most VPNs move that view to their own servers & promise not to peek. vp.net keeps who you are & where you go separated by hardware & you can verify it. The ONLY verifiable zero-knowledge VPN: vp.net #VPN #privacy #DontTrustVerify #vpnet

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

An age check exists that ignores your ID and blacks out the screen if your face appears. It estimates age from hand movement, around 99% accurate. It's not the one being promoted. Full conversation in the thread 👇 #privacy #ageverification

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Encrypted data is being grabbed and filed away today, to be opened whenever a quantum computer can break it. The G7 says the time to prepare is now, not later. Thread below. #PostQuantum #PQE #PostQuantumCryptography #G7

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Australia's under-16 social media law hadn't taken effect yet when platforms messaged under-16 users to say see you at sixteen. No ID uploads. They already knew from keystrokes, syntax and contacts. Full conversation in the thread 👇 #privacy #ageverification

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Border Patrol analysts are combing through financial activity and passing drivers to local police, who stop them for something unrelated. Nobody flagged is suspected of a specific crime. Thread below. #FourthAmendment #Surveillance

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Grandparents who fled communist Russia, dead since the 1970s. The reflection: glad they didn't live to see the similarities between what they fled and where they fled to. Full conversation in the thread 👇 #privacy #civilliberties

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

South Korea now fines companies up to 10% of total revenue for a data breach. Not profit. Revenue. The old cap was 3% of sales. Thread below. #privacy #dataprivacy #surveillance

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The people drafting surveillance law get their technical education from the companies selling the technology. Some have admitted they don't understand it and are approving it regardless. Full conversation in the thread 👇 #privacy #surveillance

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ninety-plus cities cancelled Flock camera contracts last month, about three a day. Secure Justice has tracked 214 cities and counties since 2021. Best part: a lot of the people pulling the plug are police departments. Communities are winning this one. #surveillance #ALPR #privacy

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

School residency checks, background checks and noise complaints: what Flock is really being used for 🤦‍♂️ Rin Alajaji from @eff.org joins Hide & Speak today to discuss the many surprising uses of Flock Safety and ALPR tech. Live today at 4pm ET: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kppt...

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More ALPR Mission Creep with Rin Alajaji from EFF | Hide & Speak

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Consent only counts if you can say no. When your bank and your government move online and the only way in is "I agree," that choice is gone. "That's not consent, that's coercion." Full conversation in the thread 👇 #Privacy #GDPR #DigitalRights

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Our network just keeps on expanding! We are up to 38 locations in 22 countries now. All hardware enforced, all verifiably private. Get the only verifiable zero-knowledge VPN today at vp.net Full location list is in the comments!

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

California lawmakers voted unanimously to ban social media for everyone under 16. Enforcing it means age-checking every user in the state, adults included. Thread below. #AB1709 #Privacy #DigitalRights

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

ICE buys commercial data on the public in bulk. Now it has paid up to $14.5 million to have its own employees scrubbed out of it. Two officials called it inside surveillance. #privacy #surveillance #civilliberties

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Somebody typed "music" into a search box that reaches tens of thousands of cameras. Rin Alajaji from @eff.org read millions of Flock search logs. Saturday at 4pm ET. Set a reminder and watch here: www.youtube.com/live/Kppta1b... #Surveillance #DigitalRights

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

America's first anti VPN law is live. Utah SB73 says if your body is in Utah, you are legally in Utah, whatever IP your connection shows. The one company shielded from it owns Pornhub. Thread below. #privacy #ageverification #VPN

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Most People Get THIS Privacy Trivia Question WRONG! Would YOU? #privacy #surveillance #ALPR The last question in this series is one that stumps most people, did you get it right? Let us know in the comments. Link to full game show below.

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Brian Krebs found his own driver's license for sale on the dark web. Then his mother's, time stamped seconds apart, from the same Hertz counter last June. 153 million licenses in that listing. Thread below. #privacy #surveillance #digitalID

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Weirdest (un)targeted ad ever? Here what the contestants on our first Privacy Game Show had to say! Link to full show in comments. #privacy #surveillance #HideAndSpeak #targetedads #adtracking

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Florida revoked every license plate reader permit on its state highways. Thirty days to take them down, and the state removes anything still standing on October 1. This came from two years of people showing up to council meetings. #privacy #surveillance #ALPR

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

An $88 router sold on Amazon shipped with a root shell open to the internet, and its own firewall had a rule waving that traffic through. Two implants, neither documented before. Thread below.

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Going live at 3pm ET today with Mike Adams + Todd Pitner of Decentralize TV to discuss online censorship and surveillance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3u2...

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Deplatformed Before Alex Jones: Mike Adams and Todd Pitner of Decentralize.TV | Hide & Speak

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A Milwaukee officer allegedly searched his girlfriend's plate 124 times and no audit caught it. A private citizen did, by looking up his own plate. This is what happens when a company's internal policy is the only rule. #ALPR #Surveillance #Privacy

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Test your knowledge of privacy trivia and see how you stack up against the contestants on the first ever Hide & Speak Privacy Game Show. Watch the full version now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNRY... #privacy #trivia #HideAndSpeak

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Asheville residents packed a council meeting and got the city's Flock Safety contract terminated 5 to 2. Then the same council kept 137 Axon plate readers running on patrol cars. Both of those are true. Thread below. #surveillance #ALPR #privacy

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"Which piece of technology in your own do you trust the least?" From the Hide & Speak Privacy Game Show featuring Joel Valenzuela & Jonathan Westmoreland. Full round in the thread 👇

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

52 attorneys general signed away the right to sue Meta over children's data, and the same deal makes an age check mandatory for every user in those states within a year. Details in the next post. #privacy #ageverification #surveillance

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