Are VPNs next on the UK's ban list? 🚫💻
First, it was age checks for websites. Now, UK MPs are turning their sights on VPNs.
Privacy
Your phone might soon block nudity by default 🔒
Imagine trying to open a photo on your own phone and getting blocked until you scan your ID. 🛑
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The End of True Sideloading
How Google Is Tightening Its Grip on Android
For years, sideloading — the ability to install apps outside of official app stores — has been one of Android’s defining features. It’s what set the platform apart from Apple’s closed ecosystem, giving users the freedom to choose where their software comes from and how they use their devices.
🔒 UK Reverses Course on Apple Cloud Encryption Demands
📢 Important update for tech, legal, and policy professionals
The UK government has paused its proposal to compel Apple to weaken encryption on its cloud storage services — a move that would have had sweeping implications for user privacy, global tech policy, and corporate data protection standards.
🚫 Apple had strongly resisted the demand, citing its commitment to end-to-end encryption and refusal to compromise user security.
🧠 AI, Personality Profiling, and the Rise of “Intellectual Leveling”
AI doesn’t need a questionnaire to know who you are
Large Language Models (LLMs) can now infer psychological traits like the Big Five—Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism—just from your conversation style. This subtle profiling enables the AI to adapt its responses to your personality, interests, and emotional tendencies.
It sounds convenient. But it’s deeply concerning.
👉 This personalization isn’t just tailoring your user experience—it’s shaping your thinking.
🚨 Is Outlook quietly turning into Microsoft’s data collection machine?
Microsoft’s new "Outlook for Windows" is no longer just an email client—it’s a data-collection engine
Microsoft’s new version of Outlook isn’t just an email client—it’s a data pipeline feeding insights to over 801 external partners. From your emails, location, and device data to even your credentials, Outlook could be tracking and sharing it—sometimes without your knowledge or consent.
🔐 Supreme Court Upholds Age Verification Law
What It Means for Free Speech, Privacy, and the Internet's Future
On June 27, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Texas’s HB 1181, mandating strict age verification (digital ID or biometric scans) for websites where over ⅓ of content is deemed "harmful to minors."
This ruling in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton could reshape the internet as we know it.
🔐 Encryption is not a loophole
It’s a lifeline
Right now, Congress is considering legislation that could effectively ban encrypted apps by forcing companies to build dangerous backdoors into private communications.
These proposals threaten the security of journalists, whistleblowers, business professionals, and everyday users who depend on end-to-end encryption to communicate safely and confidentially. 💼🛡️
EFF is sounding the alarm. And we all should be too.
🔦 FOSS Spotlight: Cryptomator
Vault Up Your Cloud Privacy
Tired of feeling like your cloud files are just floating out there, unprotected? Say hello to Cryptomator—your personal vault for keeping sensitive data safe in the cloud, without giving up open-source freedom.
🛡️ Cryptomator provides transparent client-side encryption for your cloud storage. Whether you're using Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive or another service, Cryptomator keeps your files encrypted and private—before they even leave your device.