California lawmakers are fast-tracking A.B. 1709—a sweeping bill that would ban anyone under 16 from using social media and force every user, regardless of age, to verify their identity before accessing social platforms.That means that under this bill, all Californians would be required to submit...

As seen on https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/geospoof-a-firefox-add-on-for-convenient-geolocation-privacy/36159

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46090636

How FB wiretapped millions with a VPN

We have just shared our Spring and Summer 2026 roadmaps, outlining our commitments for improvements and new features across the Proton ecosystem.

Here is a summary of planned updates:

Proton Mail

• Introduction of a category view to automatically sort emails by type
• Multi-inbox management, including sending and receiving Gmail messages within Proton Mail
• Improved mobile search with full email body indexing performed on-device

Proton Calendar

• Complete rewrite of the application
• Planned support for offline mode and a modernized user experience
• Proton as your default calendar on Android
• New foundation to support additional features

Proton VPN

• New WireGuard-based codebase to improve speed, stability, and anti-censorship capabilities
• Beta rollout planned for Windows and Android, followed by macOS, iOS, and Linux
• Updated Linux interface and support for Stealth protocol
• Connection preference exclusions planned for Windows

Proton Pass

• Introduction of folders for organizing passwords, notes, and aliases
• SSH agent support for simpler authentication in developer workflows
• Improved autofill with enhanced URL matching and iFrame support

Proton Drive

• Performance improvements have already been deployed for shared file downloads and uploads
• Additional speed improvements planned
• macOS document and folder synchronization
• SDK rollout across platforms
• Our Linux application will be worked on during this period too

Proton Docs and Sheets

• Ongoing usability and collaboration improvements
• Table of contents and other requested features for Docs
• Expanded functionality for Sheets
• Shared Drive for teams

Lumo AI

• Planned update with improved memory and customization options
• Desktop application in development, a central hub for Lumo
• Lumo API planned for organizational use

Everything we've released in the last year, including our new products and every new feature for our core services, has been possible because of your support.

As an independent, European alternative to Big Tech, we see building a private ecosystem of apps as a reclamation of our rights to privacy on the internet and a reminder that there's a better way to build tech: for people, not profit.

Your investment in our mission is what helps us make better products. Feedback is invaluable to our teams, so let us know on Discord, X, Bluesky, Facebook, LinkedIn, Threads, Telegram, Reddit, and UserVoice, or leave us a review in the App Store or Play Store.

Thank you for helping us build a more private internet, and we'll see you in the fall for our next roadmap updates.

Stay Safe,
Proton Team

Powerful forces are exploiting parents’ fears to strengthen their toxic business models. Here’s how we stop them.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260421201405/https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/meta-will-use-employee-tracking-software-to-help-train-ai-agents-report/

Initiative part of broader AI workforce overhaul

Meta says safeguards in place, data will not be used for performance reviews

Meta urges staff to use AI agents for daily tasks, plans 10% global layoffs

Experts warn employee surveillance raises privacy concerns

Archive link : https://archive.ph/TYcpI

This read is interesting and makes me wonder how can we fight back. I don't undrstand much of this but what i have figured out is that its based on tracking phone IMEI. Presumably OSs like GrapheneOS cannot spoof the IMEI because its used to route traffic to your phone isn't it? I know it can use a different MAC for different eifi connections, trace reducing the footprints you leave behind but i guess it can't do this for IMEI?

The Atlas of Surveillance is a database of surveillance #technologies deployed by #law enforcement in communities across the United States. This includes drones, body-worn cameras, automated license plate readers, facial recognition, and more.

Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

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Kinda creepy. I was about to migrate to Immich, fortunately I'm not in the US, so I don't get that update yet. It does seem like a lost battle, anyway :( Even if I migrate to a privacy-respecting FOSS solution, my friends, family, acquaintances and random people around me will not (well, some may). I will still be featured in their photos out of my control.

Presented to users as confidential and anonymous, data collected by smartphone apps are in reality sold on by traders in a vast global marketplace. The Data Broker Files investigation by a team of German journalists reveals a highly lucrative and unregulated system that is an infringment on our privacy and a clear and present danger.

Director

• Maximilian Zierer
• Florian Heinhold
• Rebecca Ciesielski

Country : Germany

Year : 2026

Source code and details: https://git.anarchists.space/nemesis/PixelCloak

Features:

• No permissions required
• Reduces effectiveness of reverse image search
• Randomizes filename
• Removes EXIF metadata
• Censors any detected faces — choose between black box or emoji overlay
• Emoji picker with 60+ emoji options for face censoring
• Written in Java

From the homepage:

εxodus analyzes Android applications in order to list the embedded trackers.

A tracker is a piece of software meant to collect data about you or your usages. So, εxodus reports tell you what are the ingredients of the cake.

εxodus does not decompile applications, its analysis method is legal.