Warren is raising concerns about AI shopping features and data sharing.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20260204121351/https://www.theverge.com/news/873476/senator-elizabeth-warren-google-gemini-ai-shopping-privacy

February 5, 2026 - 10:00am to 11:00am PST

You see it. We see it. ICE and CBP are out of control. Many people are exercising their right to say it's unacceptable. But what are the limitations around recording immigration agents? Is it true that ICE is using facial recognition technology? Are you unsure how to protect your privacy while protesting? EFF has called together an online town hall to discuss ways to stay safer and how the digital rights community can help address brutality against immigrants, observers, and all those involved in holding ICE accountable.

Join our panel featuring EFF's Executive Director Cindy Cohn, Senior Staff Attorney Saira Hussain, Security and Privacy Activist Thorin Klosowski, and Senior Staff Technologist William Budington.

Follow the link to RSVP and get the Twitch livestream link

The use of administrative subpoenas, which are not subject to judicial oversight, are used to demand a wealth of information from tech companies, including the owners of anonymous online accounts documenting ICE operations.

Hackers have targeted a spread of apps or sites that aim to track ICE activity, in one case even sending push notifications to users in an attempt to intimidate them.

The United Kingdom's data protection authority launched a formal investigation into X and its Irish subsidiary over reports that the Grok AI assistant was used to generate nonconsensual sexual images.

Do you use Signal for chatting securely with friends and loved ones? Us too! We endorse it wholeheartedly, and rely on it for nearly all our communication.

But the vibes are deteriorating here in the US, and we should have a communications contingency plan for if Signal goes down.

People familiar with Microsoft's plans say the company is moving to streamline or remove certain Copilot integrations across in-box apps like Notepad and Paint in 2026, after pushback from users.

Official documentation for Armbian OS and Armbian build framework

Here's a year-long programme to get yourself off Big Tech products, step-by-step.

Many here will already have done this, but please share with your friends and family who are still yet to take that journey.

Let's stop feeding the (data) beast! This movement requires huge numbers of people to do it, to be really effective, so all upvoting is appreciated 😀

TL;DR: As Mozilla moves to make Firefox an AI browser, people are looking at other options. Some people are rediscovering Waterfox, a browser that has been around for a decade from independent developer BrowserWorks. In this post, I interview the founder of Waterfox - Alex Kontos, and we discuss Waterfox’s history and look towards its future. We also talk about how Waterfox thinks about AI in the browser.

404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.

Bluesky's first transparency reports tackle moderation, regulatory compliance, account takedowns, and more. The number of government legal requests went up fivefold.

https://piefed.zip/c/privacy/p/1012003/email-custom-domains-addy-io-setup-question-regadring-addresses-privacy-in-migadu

I got the domain yesterday, everything is now working okay.

A few lessons learned

• DNS changes take a bit of time, update your TTL settings in your zone records to 1 hour instead of waiting 24 hours like me
• migadu is surprisingly easy to configure for the .xyz, got a few errors with the .eu but managed them by using the registrar NS instead of migadu's
• netim is a nice registrar. I thought my ticket was getting ignored, but when it got picked up the support person was very reactive

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42670639

There is a federal privacy law from the 1980s that give the cops a giant loophole to access your emails without a search warrant.

In this video, I’ll show you:

What law has that giant loophole
How this loophole works
How police and government agencies have exploited it
Why Congress hasn’t closed it
And most importantly — what you can do right now to protect your email privacy

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No real setting is discussed tho I presume that a savvy user could use pop3 and auto delete later (before the 180 day mark discussed in the video). Still an interesting video on the legal framework of searches around digital services.