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Your car knows your daily routine & every hospital visit. For some drivers, GM's OnStar was logging every three seconds. Then, brokers packaged it & insurers used it to set rates. Here's everything that gets collected & what to do about it: s.vp.net/ocyV1 #privacy #surveillance #autotelemetry

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Can a British regulator fine an American website for what it hosts? Ofcom tried with 4chan. Preston Byrne, 4chan's lawyer, joins Hide & Speak Saturday at 2pm ET. Tap the bell, set the reminder: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcTD... #FreeSpeech #DigitalRights

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Imagine every state passes a law like Utah's SB73. You can't get online without an ID. Sites that can't buy the vendor stack are gone. VPN use looks like probable cause. And kids still get through. That future is optional. Full conversation in the thread 👇

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

A subpoena for vp.net user logs gets one answer: there's nothing there. No connection logs, browsing history, or DNS queries stored, and Intel SGX hardware means it physically can't be. Hardware, not policy. vp.net #VPN #vpnet #privacy #DontTrustVerify #ZeroLogs

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Names, addresses and national ID numbers for 8.8 million people, in a country of about six million. Denmark's ID register breach should come up every time someone proposes a digital ID system. Thread 👇 #Privacy #DigitalID #DataBreach

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Protecting kids shouldn't mean collecting their faces. When a child tries a face-based age check, that photo goes to the site. Add a parent's ID and it's a database of children's pictures with home addresses. Full conversation in the thread 👇

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

1.3 million people were required to give an Arizona court their Social Security number. The court kept those records for up to 30 years. Now hackers have a copy. More in the next post. #Privacy #DataBreach #Arizona

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Age check laws don't stop at porn. They cover anything "deemed harmful to minors." History. Criticism of powerful industries. Whoever holds power writes the definition. Full conversation in the thread 👇

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Three law enforcement agencies in Racine County, Wisconsin have walked away from Flock in a matter of weeks. Caledonia's village board just voted unanimously to defund its cameras. Thread below. #Flock #ALPR #Surveillance

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Your city council approved plate readers for local police. That data may be sitting on federal servers, and the privacy review of the program is being kept from a US senator. Thread below. #Privacy #Surveillance #ALPR

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Getting carded at a bar is a glance at your license and a reset. Utah's age verification push checks your biometrics and logs it every single time. Adults reading lawful content shouldn't leave a permanent trail. Full conversation in the thread 👇 #AgeVerification #Privacy

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Residents in Milford, Michigan held weekly protests and gathered 600+ petition signatures. It worked. The village council voted 7-0 to remove its last 10 Flock license plate cameras. More in the thread. #DeFlock #ALPR #Privacy

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Spirit Airlines workers lost their jobs when the airline shut down. Now their emails, Teams messages and payroll records could end up training Google's AI. 121 members of Congress are pushing back. More below. #Privacy #WorkerRights #AI

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

No one should need a state-approved list to read the internet. Under Utah's SB73, websites can't verify where a visitor is, and a wrong guess costs $2,500. So they block the whole state instead. Full conversation in the thread 👇

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Flock Safety is losing 18 Percent of its staff. The same week, three local governments voted against its license plate cameras. Here's where. #ALPR #Surveillance #CivilLiberties

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

Heads up: today's Hide & Speak livestream with Brian Hofer of Secure Justice is postponed. No new date yet, but this one is getting rescheduled, not dropped. We'll share the new date as soon as we have it. #HideAndSpeak #Privacy #Surveillance

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

A no-logs policy is a line on a website that you can't verify. vp.net runs inside Intel SGX enclaves. When you connect, your device verifies the code running on the server. Don't Trust. Verify. vp.net - the ONLY verifiable zero-knowledge VPN #DontTrustVerify #vpnet #VPN #privacy

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

Pentagon personnel records on more than three million people were exposed for roughly nine months. Veterans, families and retirees are getting letters now. More in the thread. #DataBreach #Privacy #Veterans

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A mom in Illinois showed a school her mortgage and her bills. The school went with license plate reader data that put her car in Chicago for a couple of weeks, and kept denying her child enrollment. A camera's guess shouldn't outrank a family's proof. Full conversation in the thread 👇

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Local police license plate data is being pulled onto federal servers through a 1980s drug program called HIDTA, per a 404 Media investigation. Your council gets a vote on its own cameras. It doesn't get one on a federal database. More in the next post. #privacy #surveillance #ALPR

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pepper spray drones are going into schools, flown by operators at a company headquarters in Texas. The company, Campus Guardian Angel, already has contracts in multiple states. Kids deserve better than a remote-controlled weapon in the hallway. Full conversation in the thread 👇

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Our CMO Chris Miller, in @fightforthefuture.org's Defend VPNs Day of Action recap: "Lawmakers are treating privacy like a loophole to close." Continued below 👇

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A federal judge in Oklahoma ruled that one warrantless Flock license plate lookup broke the Fourth Amendment. The search returned 50+ records of a driver's movements over a month. She threw the evidence out. More in the next post. #Privacy #Flock #FourthAmendment

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Opposition to license plate readers now crosses party and ideological lines. Texas and Florida both made moves four days apart, and about three localities a day cut ties with Flock during August. Public pushback works. Keep showing up. Full conversation in the thread 👇

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

EU governments tried to make scanning of private messages permanent on Sept 29. Parliament's negotiators blocked it, saying scans must stay limited to people actually linked to abuse. Governments are expected back in November. Details below. #ChatControl #Privacy

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Police for a Georgia public school district ran about 375 Flock searches logged as "residency" or "verification." A kid's seat in a public school shouldn't depend on where a camera saw the family car. Full conversation in the thread 👇

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

At least 14 people in the U.S. are publicly known to have been wrongfully arrested after police trusted a bad facial recognition match. Most are Black. One spent six months in jail over a state she'd never visited. More below. #FacialRecognition #CivilLiberties #Surveillance

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Texas stopped paying for Flock license plate cameras. Flock's answer: keep the cameras, skip the bill for 90 days. Dallas keeps 300+ it was about to remove. Details in the next post. #Flock #ALPR #Texas

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

vp.net runs WireGuard in hardware enclaves that our own admins can't access, and you can verify it yourself with attestation. Other VPNs ask you to trust them. vp.net is the only VPN that lets you verify your privacy. Don't Trust. Verify.

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A database of everywhere your car has been for months. The reasons agencies gave for searching it include "lol," "idk," and "F this new search engine." Oversight that runs on the honor system doesn't protect anyone. Featuring Rin from @eff.org Full conversation in the thread 👇

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Take an inventory of modern life. Movement generates location records. Communication runs through cloud providers. Websites need registrars and hosting. Now lawful content needs ID. How free are you when participating means asking permission? #DigitalFreedom #Surveillance Full conversation below 👇

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Joel Feder did nothing wrong. Four squad cars still boxed him in outside a Kohl's in Plymouth, Minnesota, because a Flock camera matched his plate to a bad record. His city just voted to turn the cameras off. Details below. #Privacy #Surveillance #Flock

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Cutting off someone's ability to take card payments is a quiet way to punish them. No court, no explanation. This clip: a merchant account pulled, and a refusal to care. Customers can still pay by wire, check, Bitcoin or Monero. #Debanking #FinancialFreedom Full conversation in the thread 👇

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

No-logs polices are usually a promise written by a lawyer. Promises bend under court orders, acquisitions, and bad days at the office. We built our vp.net so there's nothing to bend, because your privacy shouldn't depend on anyone's good behavior, ours included. More below.

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New Mexico took Facebook to a jury and won. 43.9 million violations of the state's consumer protection law, including misleading claims about your ability to control your own data. More below. #Privacy #CambridgeAnalytica #Meta

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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

Your VPN promises not to spy on you. Ours physically can't, because privacy is too important to leave up to blind trust. vp.net #vpn #vpnet #VerifiedPrivacy #DontTrustVerify #ProofNotPromises

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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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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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